Sentences with phrase «petty politics»

They want to punish her for daring to stand up against petty politics and intimidation — for standing up for women.

Although Theymos can't take all the blame for the petty politics of the Bitcoin community, he has certainly contributed his fair share to obstruction to the discussion.

«While petty politics continue to prevent progress, no concerted international action can be taken by the IWC to conserve the world's endangered whale populations.»

We must use Copenhagen to rise above the petty politics of climate change, to instead recognize it as a clearly moral issue, with a clear choice between what is right and what is morally wrong.

-LSB-...] What a tragedy it would be to let petty politics needlessly stamp out opportunity for some kids.

And let's be clear: when I say «petty politics», I mostly mean (as the Wall Street Journal reports) the outright lies of the National Education Association (H / T Jay Greene): -LSB-...]

But almost as persistent as the district's low test scores and high dropout rates were the number of school superintendents — eight in seven years — who promised change and failed to deliver, swallowed up by petty politics and power struggles.

In a note to the citizens of Cleveland and the schoolchildren and administration of the district, he asked that his death be used by Clevelanders to rid themselves of «petty politics, racial politics, greed, hate, and corruption.»

The authors seem to believe that board members spending «little time on district business... might not be an altogether bad thing: limited time on district business could mean less opportunity to micromanage or engage in petty politics.»

by Isaac Asimov Mystery: Petty politics and murder in this still - timely 1958 tale of an assistant professor in a chemistry department, penned when Azimov was a chemistry professor himself.

Dreamed up by early 20th Century reformers as an ideal paternalistic, technocratic administrator for New York and New Jersey's shipping terminals, the Bridgegate trial revealed to the nation that the entity has in fact long served as a nest of the kind of patronage and petty politics its creators hoped to stamp out.

RYE BROOK — Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino accused the Cuomo administration of «petty politics» after, he says, a gubernatorial aide gave away a front - row seat he had been promised for Barack Obama's speech near the Tappan Zee Bridge.

He is a smart, creative, energetic person who will keep the interests of all citizens in mind during budget time, with decisions centered on equity, fairness, data, and facts — not rhetoric and petty politics.

Governing takes a back seat to petty politics.

As Charles Peguy, 1873 - 1914, had told us, «Every great enterprise starts off with enthusiasm for an exalted aim and ends up bogged down in petty politics.»

ALBANY — For more than two years before his indictment on Tuesday, State Senator Tom Libous of Binghamton has insisted accusations that he traded influence for a plum job for his son were nothing more than petty politics.

Breslin said the purpose was to get the minority and majority leaders to «rise above petty politics and get together» to determine things like seating, committee assignments and resource allocations.

Warren said she wouldn't address Cuddy's comments which the administration characterized as petty politics.

It's the type of petty politics that people in our community simply don't care about.

We're not blind to petty politics.

Hein said his would - be coalition would «come together and do what the American people long for from their elected officials: stop the petty politics and get things done.»

«The Assembly showed admirable leadership this session by including speed safety camera expansion in their one - house budget, but petty politics and obstructionism led by a single state senator means that family members and victims of traffic violence will have to continue their fight during the legislative session,» a press release by Transportation Alternatives stated.

«It's unconscionable that Westchester residents, who already pay the highest property taxes in the nation, will be further burdened by Astorino's petty politics.

So, while the Chairman plays petty politics, I'm busy in Albany delivering real results for the people of Western New York.

The chairman is saying, «Enough with your ego and your petty politics and I don't care what you're title is and what your position is.

It makes it look like he's the one who cares about what is important, while others are just playing petty politics and arguing over semantics.

I wouldnt want my kids to stay home for Eid and not for Diwali... But we Hindus do nt care about such petty politics.

The religion that man created (dying on crosses and other such hokus pokus) perverts His greatness with our petty politics and vanity.

A new generation is focused on the world, not on borders, and not on the parochial and the tired debates of petty politics.

He prefers commuter trains to private cars, and he considers petty politics to be the bane of business.

In an era of petty politics and cabinet ministers who put their principles second to their allegiances, Flaherty drew strength — even joy — from doing what he felt was right.

Not exact matches

The quarterly elections eliminate petty office politics — no one bothers brown - nosing the boss, because the boss may well change in a month or two.

Some Rust Belt cities such as Detroit and Youngstown, Ohio, are held back from growing due to «petty, insular» politics and suspicions about the arrival of outsiders who might disrupt the status quo, researchers suggest.

In his speeches, Gibbs, a pastor until he became disillusioned with church politics, evokes his teenage years of drugs, petty crime, and a family environment in which his father repeatedly threatened to kill himself.

The problem is not Christ, it is that SO MANY Christians prefer Old Testament hellfire and damnation BS to justify their own petty prejudices and conservative politics.

«If there is any fixed star in our const.itutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.»

Yea, nothing worse than petty church politics - aren't we supposed to be th example of unity and loving each other?

This is his glory, in an age which has exalted research above the encounters of life, and which has obscured God by the massive horrors of politics as well as by the petty sentimentalities of religion.

«Encourage people to embrace the adventure and not get bogged down in politics or petty jealousies.

The pathology of this collapse is obvious: the politics of the ring, which are based on petty feuds and revenge: the failure of Madison Square Garden to put money back into the sport that did so much to make its reputation; the lack of a commanding figure to lead the game out of the wilderness, to bring a semblance of organization and thought to it, in brief to revive public interest.

Turning down the invite seems petty, and it shifts the focus away from the honor that's been bestowed on the team to one player's personal politics.»

One of these was a Florentine humanist for whom the Roman republic's class - driven political strife was central to its success while the other, a soldier married into the pre-Independence colonial elite, could not think of «the rapid succession of revolutions» in such «petty» republics without «horror and disgust», and so was glad that the «science of politics» had received the «great improvement» which enabled it to go beyond the tools available in antiquity [1].

It was so totally dispiriting: everything I'd come to abhor about the politics with which I'd grown up: insular, petty, polarised.»

Petty tribalism is damaging progressive politics.

Tribalism is a strong feature of all politics, the populous northern regions remaining detached and remote, while politics in the south is fractiously divided between a myriad of petty sultanates.

«If I receive a written apology from the leader and if this statement, this ridiculous, petty, student politics list is retracted, that would help.

We know that the next few years are too important for point - scoring and petty party politics to bring the budget process into disrepute.

British politics in 2013 will be about important issues, but relatively petty ones.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

Denise Jewell Gee isn't surprised by the battle over $ 25,000 between Nik Wallenda and the City of Niagara Falls, where «things can tend to get caught up in the petty business of politics as usual.»