Sentences with phrase «political bargain»

One reason is that countries can submit proposals to list animals which do not live within their borders, and species have been used as political bargaining chips.

On those, a purely political bargain must be struck.

But the commission's budget shuffle fell foul of political bargaining over the whole 2011 E.U. budget.

As such arrangements were continually challenged, the subsidy greased the wheels for political bargaining over revenue distribution.

While the band was definitely in danger of being detained as political bargaining chips, you know damn well that those verbal threats of execution by the «high ranking members» were nothing more than just that.

And when pushed, each has a different story about the thinking behind this most ineffectual, cynical - looking political bargain.

And no new climate - science legislation will be needed... No grand bipartisan political bargain will be necessary... No long, drawn out, costly lobbying efforts called for... No new worldwide campaigns to support climate change... in the future, insurance costs will be based on real climate science.

Loopholes are weak rules that undermine reduction targets, usually resulting from political bargaining.

How much this political bargain costs me in terms of my private power, which is now constituted as my «natural right,» runs the gamut from the maximalism of Thomas Hobbes to the minimalism of Robert Nozick.

«It reduces science and engineering advice to, at best, a peripheral policy concern, and, at worst, a political bargaining chip.»

Sociologists, political scientists, and economists argue that state - building has alwaysbeen an untidy, often violent process in which repeated elite confrontations eventually lead to political bargains.

The people of New York can be proud that they came together and sent a clear message to our elected leaders that they will not tolerate the use of the LGBT civil rights as a political bargaining chip.

As Gary's fate becomes a political bargaining chip between these different sides and factions, Demange lays out the absolute clusterfuck of betrayal and suspicion that characterized the Irish struggle.

Even worse are high schools, where teachers and students have struck a political bargain that exchanges passing grades for passive seat - seating.

Having lost in the media and the political bargaining, New Jersey schools turned to the courts.

This ploy is simply part of the political bargaining that is designed to separate schools from any budget problem.

Reminds me of the Mancur Olson thought along the lines that political bargains of the past are the burden of the future.

For now, Euna Lee and Laura Ling's freedom is a political bargaining chip.

Planned Parenthood Texas Votes will make sure that every single elected official in Texas hears one message loud and clear: The rights of women aren't negotiable and our health care isn't a political bargaining chip.