Sentences with phrase «political alliances»

The biggest economic crisis since the 1930s is generating new political alliances.

They have seen daughters as a burden and as only having value for breeding purposes or in higher circles for forging political alliances.

In the debate over national testing, traditional political alliances have dissolved, leaving a mix of liberals and conservatives on both sides.

The game takes place in the not to distant future, where the world has split into two dominating political alliances.

There is also an option of starting political alliances through marriage.

Oddly, or perhaps not, they mostly share the same political alliances.

Sometimes posting political alliances or sympathy towards a social group can lead to negative consequences.

He's just mad that the Catholic - Evangelical political alliance between ultra-conservatives is not as strong these days in the US.

The new political chemistry The new page in Kogi politics is opening new political alliances with old wounds still aching.

«Energy regulators must follow the law and act on the best available science, and not pick winners and losers based on political alliances.

These preachers, representing traditions that had previously played little active part in national elections, entered the political arena not just with a general message for Christians to be politically involved but with a specific agenda of policies and preferences and formed political alliances to further the cause of these preferences.

A new DNA study suggests that these women, whose striking skulls have been unearthed from nearby grave sites, were high - ranking «treaty brides» from Romania and Bulgaria, married off to cement political alliances.

For most of human history, the institution was used to manage resources, unite families, and amass wealth; few would consider making a social or political alliance based on something as precarious as romantic love.»

The reason is that trade is a powerful social adhesive that creates political alliances.

It is just here, rather than in some alleged desire for political alliances, that one finds the motive for Fr.

Italy's two populist parties have shown they can find common ground in the first test of a possible political alliance.»

Coupled with this deliberate neutrality toward all parties in a conflict has been the ideal of humanitarian work as an act of charity and compassion extended toward all victims, independent of larger political alliances and agendas (the international organization that Rieff considers the model of this approach is Médecins Sans Frontières).

When petitioning the UN Security Council to delay the ICC trial, [ix] Kenyatta, Ruto and Kalonzo Musyoka formed what came to be described as the «KKK» political alliance after the three ethnic groups the candidates are understood to represent (the Kikuyu, Kalenjin and Kamba, respectively).

Looking at Egypt's domestic political alliances, as the elections of 28 November draw close, the article places the military council's tacit promotion of Islamist politics in historical perspective:

«By their actions unelected EU policymakers undermine the transatlantic political alliance and the «special relationship» between America and the UK, which has been the bedroom of transatlantic security since 1945.»

Wayne Barrett has delved deeply into the topic of Sharpton and his tangled political alliances, too.

Political alliances aside, this is a County Legislator.

Since 2011, as the British economy has slumped, this energetic but largely unnoticed political alliance, somewhere between a lobby group and a proper movement, has begun to show its strength.

But Cuomo, who has close political alliances with construction - trade unions, has been pushing for more of them than ever — at a time when taxpayers can least afford them.

The contest created odd political alliances and divisions.

By providing a comprehensive examination of the Lords between 1999 and 2012, Russell demonstrates how changing modes of appointment, shifting political alliances, and greater diversity of personnel have had considerable and far - reaching effects on Westminster politics.

The ban stemmed from a perception, which is now outdated, that prosecutors don't need political alliances to get re-elected, he said.

Unlike, Gonzalez, I don't think this one race will imperil future black - Hispanic political alliances.

The newly single Henry surprises his countrymen by restoring his daughters to the royal succession, forging an unexpected political alliance, and manipulating events to marry an attractive, mature, and recent widow (Joely Richardson).

She possesses no ethical scruples, no obvious political alliances, and no life outside of her job.

The next year, Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law, the culmination of years of grassroots efforts helped by non-traditional political alliances.

Likewise, some participants asked, would framing school integration primarily around socioeconomic status unite the interests of working - class people of color who supported Hillary Clinton and working - class, white Trump supporters, thereby scrambling existing political alliances?

It has always been a project of an uneasy, left - right political alliance: moderate Democrats who feel traditional urban districts are failing poor, minority kids, and conservatives who emphasize the idea that free markets can be counted on more than government and unions to produce results.

The warming world will shift huge populations and potentially redraw political alliances around the globe, driving environmentalists into the hands of anti-immigrant groups.

The second task is for baby boomer parents and their millennial children to form a natural political alliance going forward.»

The fight over Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would suspend the state's landmark global warming law, has spawned some unusual political alliances.

The other forms of renewable energy have no chance against the unholy political alliance of the utilities, wind industry and environmentalists.

Roberts cites an observation by labour historian Jan Kainer: «Women's labour organizing contributed significantly to the building and sustaining of rank - and - file participation, developing new democratic structures such as women's caucuses, organizing the unorganized, and forging political alliances with non-labour groups.»

Nyunt and Plowe are also forging political alliances.

Waves of coal and nuclear plant retirements in recent years have sparked a nationwide debate over the value of baseload power, dividing conservatives and breeding new political alliances.

The populist leaders rely not so much on political alliances, other influential people or the political institutions but rather on elections and plebiscites.

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have formed a «political alliance of necessity» to deliver their model of Brexit in a move that has unnerved some fellow Conservatives.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he cemented a political alliance between African Americans and the Democratic Party that continues to this day.

«This abrupt action so early in the Trump administration puts the world on notice that all of America's traditional economic and political alliances are now open to reassessment and renegotiation,» said Eswar Prasad, trade policy professor at Cornell University.

The political alliance between religious progressives and nonbelievers makes orthodox believers suspect that progressives are not «really» religious, while the political alliance between orthodox believers and Republicans on economic issues makes progressives suspect the same of the orthodox.