Sentences with phrase «political adversaries»

So they often perceive us primarily as political adversaries or allies, rather than people primarily motivated by beliefs.

Regarded by political adversaries as a strongman of northern Manhattan, Mr. Espaillat is criticized for operating in the mold of bullheaded machine politicians.

Inspired by a 1943 book by David Mitrany, A Working Peace System, political scientists developed the concept of «functionalism,» the idea that a lasting peace can be achieved if political adversaries learn to cooperate on a functional, rather than a political, project.

Sometimes, her testimony seemed to aid the defense, like when she smiled as she identified Percoco in court and when she agreed that Percoco would protect Cuomo from political adversaries and hecklers at events.

The author declares, «Political adversaries who use terms like Nazi, fascist, anti «Semite, nativist, homophobe, bigot, xenophobe, and extremist have started a fight and should be accommodated.»

Biya invites his most renowned political adversaries to dine with him at the presidential palace, he pays opposition parties to present candidates for presidential elections and he plays ministers against each other (see Fanny Pigeaud 2011).

Asked by a reporter his thoughts of Mr. Seward, McCarthy said he respected Seward's ability to work with former political adversaries and he saw similar characteristics in Katko.

Last week, occasional political adversaries Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio met for a relationship - mending dinner at Midtown's Casa Lever, and while accounts of the evening have varied, the joint statement from their aides suggested it was a bust in at least one aspect.

From the bigger perspective of the overall city budget, Minority Leader Willie Pabon praised Stewart for making progress despite inheriting a massive deficit and a council with more than a few political adversaries.

He continued: «There will be calls for a «government - of national unity», to get political adversaries round a table working - together rather than pointing fingers at each other.

Finally, we have a man of great moral principle who sought to do the right thing, but was blocked by corrupt and jealous political adversaries.

Rather, accountability that centers on testing is doomed because it has many political adversaries but no enduring political constituency.

The democrats want to use the issue of global warming (still an unproven science) to redistribute wealth from their historic political adversaries to their present political co-conspirators.

Thus Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, far from being the cockamamie «Stars Wars» scheme it was promptly dubbed by political adversaries and journalists stuck in the conventional thinking of the era, was the technological expression of the president's moral conviction that nuclear weapons were a grave danger that ought to be taken off - the - board in international public life.

Inside the committee room, Morneau had been subjected to yet another round of rankling questions about his small - business tax proposals from Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative finance critic whose rare knack for getting under the skin of his political adversaries reminds me of the way Claude Lemieux used to drive his NHL opponents to rash retaliations.

The situation is that the politicians give folks what they want, the promise to deliver your political adversaries head on a platter.

It is noteworthy that Herr Hitler's speech at the rally was not marked by the usual anti-Semitic diatribes or, for that matter, by threats against his political adversaries.

While Haney, and some of Brooks» political adversaries, may not like the move Wicks doubts it will cost Warren many votes.

Nigel Porter, the only Lib Dem on the local authority, claimed a line had been crossed after one of his political adversaries pointed out how outnumbered he was.

Fourth, it never hurts to have luck in terms of your political adversaries.

Cuomo over the years has been known for taking a combative approach with his political adversaries.

But the long, lurid criminal complaint unsealed more than a year ago, along with a steady stream of pretrial court filings, has already provided considerable fodder for the media, watchdogs, and Cuomo's political adversaries.

In recent weeks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's relationship with the press has seemed particularly fractious — but at least he does not block any reporters, political adversaries, or anyone else (even bots!)

If a political adversary had done that, one would not have been disturbed.

«Those comments are entirely untrue but not surprising given that they are coming from his political adversaries,» said Tinari, blaming «sour grapes from those who have opposed his championing of Conservative Party principles.»

He also empowered a political adversary of the mayor, city Comptroller Scott Stringer, by emphasizing his authority to audit the city's homeless shelter system.

These Republicans support their own «extreme» political adversaries, in order to help defeat those sane centrists of the Democratic Party.

DeWITT, N.Y. — A heated exchange between Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and a political adversary led to her throwing a phone and threatening to press charges, according to the foe's version of events.

Every single person that he nominated from the south - west and elsewhere as minister was rejected and, instead, the slots were filled by his political adversaries and / or their nominees.

They are stuck in the classic Prisoner's Dilemma situation where if they both trusted their political adversaries the outcome would be best for all but, because they do not, the outcome for both is not destined to be optimum.

Oppenheimer's earlier history of associations with communist sympathizers and support of left - wing causes — common stances among intellectuals during the 1930s — provided ammunition to his political adversaries.

The movie contains shocking discourse, but it's about our shocking discourse, and the shocking things some cultural / political adversaries might have in common.

All the while the new M (Ralph Fiennes) takes on political adversaries to keep the British secret service alive.

Mayer believes that the Koch brothers and a small number of allied plutocrats have essentially hijacked American democracy, using their money not just to compete with their political adversaries, but to drown them out.

But the kind of criticism our friend from Colorado makes is one all too common to attempts to discredit the proclamations of one's political adversaries.

«I think that the concern that's raised by the whole interaction... is that they appeared to be drawing the court into a political battle and painting the court as a political adversary in a way that would encroach on the independence of the judiciary were the court to be seen in that particular light,» she says.