Sentences with phrase «political calculations»

The average full - time, corporate employee made $ 59,804 in salary or wages in 2011, according to an analysis by the Political Calculations web site.

The election result, an unexpected hung parliament, has changed the political calculations on what to expect next on legal policy.

However you do the political calculations, this unpopular outcome is inevitable.

These cruel political calculations are not based on science or fact or truth, but on cash and influence.

Let me give a list of reasons why I think people are frustrated, then explain how that affects their political calculations, and finally explain why they have mostly misdiagnosed the issues, and won't get what they want regardless of who is elected.

Johnson's own laudable efforts to pass civil rights legislation, as much driven by his own morality as by political calculations about winning higher office, waned after he felt that Martin Luther King and others didn't cater enough to his prodigious - yet - fragile ego.

But seven years later, it remains difficult to make detailed comparisons across states, as a potent mix of technical challenges, privacy concerns, and political calculations have kept the data relatively siloed.

The question is whether the political calculations that are necessary to end the electoral drought are largely tactical or have they entered into the DNA of the team that surrounds David Cameron?

What appears to have happened between Thursday and Friday is that political calculations once again trumped science for Cuomo.

But the political calculations go much deeper.

Do not underestimate the political calculations which Gordon Brown has taken on this.

«She's making her own political calculations.

Pretty interesting political calculations going on here with Cuomo's choice...

Now that the math behind providing renewable energy is well - known, industry representatives said Friday they have to turn their attention to political calculations.

The state has also witnessed one of Nigeria's most intriguing political calculations and jostling as characterised by Controversial primaries, defections of candidates, accusations and counter accusations, violence and many more.

President Trump's firing of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on Saturday is unlikely to significantly derail the ongoing investigation into de Blasio's fund - raising — or the political calculations of those considering running against the mayor in November — experts told the Daily News.

As elected officials â $ «- and politicians — attorney generals almost inevitably will make political calculations about cases.

But this is not about Adeleke; it's about the lessons to draw in political calculations that once a member of a political party, the collective good of that party, rather than the good of the self, should be the guiding principle.

Trump's firing of Bharara is unlikely to significantly derail the ongoing investigation into NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's fund - raising — or the political calculations of those considering running against the mayor in November, experts say.

Political calculations kept my own Assembly Woman Addie J. Russell, the Chairman of Woman's issues, from asking for Speaker Sheldon Silver's resignation before the last legislative session.

As Bill Lipton, director of the Working Families Party in New York, told us, «Everyone in New York knows Cuomo has a history of being very focused on short - term, political calculations.

However, you guys are doing a very wrong political calculations in my state at this time and you need to talk to whoever that is ready to listen, this is very wrong.

«Vice Presidential Prof Yemi Osibajo is from the Southwest, the APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is from the zone and the party controls five states out of six, so it will be suicidal for the PDP to neglect the region in its political calculations.

«His deeply offensive attacks on Jewish people, bankers and political opponents are deliberate political calculations to attempt to gain more votes in one area, than he thinks he will lose in another.

«Vice President Prof Yemi Osibajo is from the Southwest, the APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is from the zone and the party controls five states out of six, so it will be suicidal for the PDP to neglect the region in its political calculations.

There are layers of political calculations in all this, all legitimate.

At 37, Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke changed the political calculations of the then rustic Osun to bulldoze his way into the Government House having boxed his rival in the then Social Democratic Party, Oladosu Oladapo, into a political corner that later sent the then Ibadan - based legal practitioner into political oblivion.

In the political calculations, alignments and re-alignments of 2014 which brought back Aregbesola for a second term, Adeleke emerged a factor that was required to complete the rank of all former governors of the state to be on one side (that of Aregbesola) as against ambition of the then candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyiola Omisore.

What is certain is that Kenya's leaders will have to adjust to a new era in which northern Kenya and the lands beyond it are at the centre, and not the margins of political calculations.

After 8 good years as the Governor of Delta State, he had simply become a major influence in who got what in the Nigerian political calculations.

We need changes to delivery power to the people, not on the basis of party political calculations.

He does this for political reasons, and his political calculations finally prove to be right.

Hezekiah is not just wrong in his political calculations, as politics, too, can show.

«I would hope that with a more stable government in place it does remove some of the partisan and political calculations out of some of these major policy decisions.»

In December, allegations arose that the PCs might be basing funding decisions for hospital capital projects on inaccurate information about the condition of the facilities, and in some cases, on the basis of partisan political calculations.

But the years of fighting changed the place of the military in the Canadian public imagination — and Canadian political calculations.

Political Calculations offers a tool for finding the likelihood of a recession occurring in the U.S. within a future twelve month period based upon Wright's work.

As Jay Myers, president and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters told the paper, the stable government could» remove some of the partisan and political calculations out of some of these major policy decisions.»

By almost anyone's political calculation, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's increasingly problematic drive for the White House will be practically impossible to pull off in November unless he can carry Florida, the premier battleground state.

«The last thing I wanted to do was a crass political calculation,» he says.

Was the reaction to the NDP voters turning down a platform that had the feel of political calculation?

Renzi's political calculation is that the electorate will blame Five Star and the centre - right for the political and economic mess that is likely to result from a continued impasse.

Now, however, the reverse is occurring. Because of a narrow, perverse political calculation, Conservatives have decided that it is to their advantage for Canadians to be as worried about the economy as possible. And so they are actively playing up the risks. The call to Poloz was part of that strategy:  Things must be bad. Why, the Prime Minister even had to call the central bank governor!

Carrying 40 % of the vote on the first - ballot, it is understandable why the three would endorse the front - runner in terms of both personal political calculation and party unity.

The Pharisees asked Jesus about divorce not out of spiritual concern but because of political calculation.

This raises questions about how much of the president's recent charitable contributions can be chalked up to political calculation.

How is Begin's mixture of ethical grandeur, Jewish warmth, and hard political calculation to be transmitted in the absence of thorough Jewish education and normative commitment?

He should have seen that this was not just the result of chance or of simple political calculation.

The process of devolution that has occurred since the Scottish Referendum is one we would argue has ostensibly been a top down exercise based on political calculation.

«This is the man where political calculation meant he cycled to work but at the same time had a chauffeur - driven car coming behind.