Sentences with phrase «political appeasement»

They have been driven by a ratchet effect thanks to political appeasement.

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This seems to be the statute of limitations in the commentariat on radical moral relativism and its «real world» political offspring — appeasement strategies, moral equivalence theories, «root cause» analyses of terrorism, nonsense about «violence begetting violence,» and self - loathing anti-Americanism of the most vulgar sort.

Political analyst Daniel Berman argues, for example, that the relevant parallel between Munich and Crimea is not about appeasement as such but the failure to set clear red lines.

An early voice to raise the alarm about the emerging threat of Nazi Germany, she was an outspoken critic of appeasement, telling the House in 1933 that the NSDAP were «inflicting cruelties and crushing disabilities on large numbers of law - abiding peaceful German citizens, whose only offence is that they belong to a particular race or religion or profess certain political beliefs.»

Smart argues that historians have disagreed over Chamberlain's appeasement policy but largely agreed on a narration of his life - member of a powerful political family (son of Joseph Chamberlain and half - brother of Austen Chamberlain), inheritor of a tradition of civic radicalism, a successful minister of health, and a powerful Chancellor of the Exchequer.

It is however important because of its ramifications.There are many political issues with no apparent relationship to people «s everyday lives which then turn round and bite them.The policy of appeasement in the thirties is one example, another is a failure to develop technical education in Britain comparable to Germany.Neither policy brought people out on the street, each has had a pervasive effect on people «s lives.

«It's a very clear choice - between what the British people want and appeasement of Brussels by the political class.»

This multitude of ballot lines distorts the political process, shifting the focus away from character, qualifications and principle to sheer line - grubbing and appeasement of party bosses.

The report asks that any future reform of inspections should be «defined by what is right for pupils in a given school, not by centrally determined criteria chosen because they are easy to measure, nor by benchmarks or a focus for short - term political or media appeasement.

The contradictory signals by the ruling Congress's Rahul Gandhi visiting the Sringeri Mutt and Siddaramaiah openly indulging in divisive appeasement politics, are also being tested,» claims the report, which adds that upcoming election is also a trial for the new political alignment that is taking shape at the national level: «If Congress fails to take entire opposition along in Karnataka, it will be a question mark on the ability of the party to lead at the national level.»