Sentences with phrase «political difficulties»

There are other practical and often political difficulties in this complex area of law enforcement and criminal justice action.

Any government, federal or provincial, with a deficit is in serious political difficulty.

«We have real political difficulties,» he is reported to have told his opposite number, «real difficulties, more than you might realise».

The election of Hollande provided political difficulties for centre - right leaders across Europe as the debate moved onto growth rather than austerity.

The statement said that Mr Wallis» relationship with the Met was not revealed to the prime minister because it would have complicated his own political difficulties with Andy Coulson — Mr Wallis» senior at the News of the World.

However, it concedes the government is unlikely to do this because of Labour's «current political difficulties».

But political difficulties continue in the UN Security Council where prudence, feasibility, self - interest and alliances still rule.

The Lib Dems are still in deep political difficulty.

«We concluded with a conversation about how the acknowledgment of those living with special needs across the world is growing and it is one of the areas that in the United Nations and, from his perspective, in the Arab world has transcended some of their other political difficulties and some of the other controversial topics that obviously and rightfully consume their attention,» Molinaro said.

In the longer term, Corbyn faces multiple political difficulties within his own party.

This Tory sees a more likely political difficulty arising from Corbyn's defeat and victory for Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper being misinterpreted as a triumph for Labour moderation when, in this cabinet member's opinion, Burnham and Cooper are actually «running left».

He points out that the nuclear program had already encountered delays and had met fierce opposition from regional governments unwilling to host new plants, so creating political difficulties for the Berlusconi administration.

Filmed (with great political difficulty and necessitating much censorship) in China, it was an ambitious, large - scale production overseen by Raffaella de Laurentiis and directed by the Canadian Daryl Duke; but when it was finally released the film was met with almost universal critical disdain and proved to be a box office disaster.

While human medicine in the United States has struggled with religious and political difficulties regarding research into this promising field, veterinary medical advancements have continued.

The ethical and political difficulties deepen when we get to the other kind of geoengineering scheme reviewed in the NRC report, «albedo modification» — formerly known as solar radiation management — schemes to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

But while the options are on the table, progress has been slow, held up by the inevitable political difficulties in attempting to implement the world's first global carbon market for a certain sector.

Yahoo!'s guitar - playing Asia - Pacific GC Stephen Man tells Elizabeth Broomhall about the challenge of keeping up with his high - octane and acquisitive new CEO and the socio - political difficulties of working in certain markets

The first serious political difficulty for the current government rose from the student mobilisation against rising tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance.

Whatever you may think about our current political difficulties, those of us who have served in Congress can tell you: This is nothing new.

At the height of Weiner's political difficulties in June 2011, 25 % of voters wanted Weiner to run for mayor.

Clinton acknowledged the political difficulties of making debt forgiveness an official policy, but concluded, «It's going to be very hard to return to full employment unless we solve the mortgage crisis.»

Some media outlets had branded China's expansion in Africa as «neo-colonialism», adding to political difficulties for Chinese businesses, it said.

Galupo also writes that: Right now, Romney boosters like Levin are chortling over the political difficulty Obama faces as a consequence of having paid for new spending rather than finance it through deficits.

To read Orthodox texts without much interaction with actual Orthodox believers and their churches, schisms and political difficulties can lead to an unrealistic view of Orthodox life.

The merger in 1963 led to numerous economical and political difficulties and also racial tensions amongst Malay and Chinese communities, so the Malaysian PM voluntarily decided to expel Singapore from the united state.

And despite the political difficulties that have travelled through the generations, the citizens of Guinea - Bissau also still hold fast to the hope of a continuation of security and many more peaceful transitions of power.

Based on his experience at the IMF, he commented on the remarkable depth of some of the fiscal squeeze cases discussed in the conference, given the political difficulty of cutting expenditure by more than 1 per cent of GDP per year.

No one should underestimate the political difficulties that local leaders in the Sheffield City Region have overcome to form a combined authority and agree an initial devolution deal, nor the progress that has been on the ground in recent years.

I appreciate the political difficulty in having a higher basic rate of income tax, though, and the way this confuses the message.

Moreover he was constantly preoccupied by his domestic economic and political difficulties.

«Despite the political difficulties they have traveled through generations, the citizens of Guinea Bissau also still hold fast to the hope of a continuation of security and continuation of many more peaceful transitions of power.»

But they also hinted at the political difficulties facing such an ambitious project, not the least of which is a potential price tag of $ 13.9 billion, although the study also found that the changes would save the city $ 1.4 billion annually.

«He buried the announcement on a Friday afternoon,» said McMahon, «which is basically a way to ensure it gets as little media coverage as possible and which is probably testimony to the political difficulty of this.»

So, before conference, when Ed Miliband was faced with the political need to act on energy costs, party sources suggest a windfall tax was discussed but discarded in large part because of the political difficulties of imposing a new tax policy on the shadow chancellor.

However, the political difficulty of privatising the post offices can not be an excuse for the inept way in which they are run today.

«Given the political difficulties in some places around anything related to climate change, the long timeframe of the projected changes, the relative uncertainty about the exact extent of changes, and the natural tendency of most elected officials to focus on challenges likely to arise during their term of office, changing land use decisions to respond specifically to projected climate change is difficult at best,» the authors say.

The Risks of Secession «One inventor hesitates to apply for a patent until our political difficulties are settled; because, should the Southern states secede from the Northern and middle states, his rights would not be respected in but about half the States, and thus his patent would be worth only half price.

Knowledge of the historical context is essential to fully understanding how shocks from diminished Nile flooding acted to trigger revolts and constrain Ptolemaic war making, say the researchers, explaining that the shocks from poor Nile flooding would have occurred against a background of multiple socioeconomic and political difficulties that would have compounded the impacts of Nile variability.

Tired of arguments without facts to back them up and feeling «I've had enough fighting with pins, I want a sledgehammer,» Marx evades his political difficulties at home and, though funds are almost nonexistent, moves to Paris with his wife, Jenny, and their young child.

Often what they complained was restricted wasn't actually prohibited... but might cause some political difficulties or raise some public issues.»

The political difficulties of implementing actual policies that reflect value - added evidence are noted.

Much of the discussion has centered on the political difficulties of reforming the schools by dealing with the problem of the most ineffective teachers.

Advocates of new universal programs need to acknowledge the political difficulties posed by the large costs of such programs...»

The Board believes that the use of tax effort in determining the state share of each district's adequacy gap should be eliminated, but realizes that political difficulty and fiscal infeasibility of making this happen could imperil, or bring to an end, the pursuit of the larger goal of implementation of a well - funded formula.

Pocan hit all the usual notes about the complexity of the system, how tinkering can create unintended consequences, how any change may have winners and losers, and the political difficulties of that, and made generally discouraging noises about the difficulty of real positive change.

I'm wondering if the delay has partly been because of political difficulties, as various MPs have realised that some of their schools could lose out and have made representations to the Minister.

In these almost 90 years including a world war, several stock market crashes and other economic and political difficulties, the Dow Jones index climbed from about 30 % to 10,170 %.