Sentences with phrase «political efforts toward»

The funds will go from Thune's own re-election committee to the NRSC's coffers, where it will be turned directly into campaign ads and other political efforts toward hanging onto the Senate majority — which observers think may be threatened by the performance of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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Encyclical Logic Reading Douglas Farrow's interpretation of Benedict XVI's latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate («Charity & Unity,» October 2009), either he or the pope seems to be prompting Christians to aim their efforts toward the foolhardy task of encouraging the world to embrace an all - encompassing political authority so that the ends of God may come to fruition in the unity of all mankind.

These words are more than a lyrical garland tossed toward Saul's adherents in an effort to win them (although we do not suppose for a moment that David was unaware of the positive political implications of his public and phenomenally articulate grief).

The churches have been variously involved in the difficult births of fledgling civic republics in Russia and Eastern Europe, in controversial initiatives toward political cooperation among forming the just - launched racially inclusive democracy in South Africa, and in varied efforts to reassert the popular will in Asian nations.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

Former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi savored his first step toward a possible political comeback following a victory in a low - turnout congressional primary Tuesday that relied heavily on grass roots efforts in Queens and his home base of Glen Cove.

Much of that spending went toward consultants and public relations firms, which were attempting to boost the mayor's efforts to secure funding for a universal pre-kindergarten program in Albany in 2014, and toward the mayor's effort to set up a new nonprofit geared toward advancing his national political platform.

Christie had previously defended the efforts of the office, saying people would be naïve to think direct aides to a politician wouldn't be working toward political gain.

According to critics, such efforts wasted money that could have gone toward hiring teachers and reduced to rational analysis what should have been a complex political process.

General citizen apathy toward school spending and policy can be partially explained by the costs and effort required for active political participation.

There is no doubt that involving men in efforts toward gender equality has the potential to greatly enhance the impact and reach of this work, but whether it does so or not will depend on the play of political and cultural forces.

The pro bono consultants who went through the unions» published national, state, and local tax returns estimated based on their research, interviews, and sampling that roughly one third of the unions» efforts went toward political advocacy.

In doing so, they look to art historical lineages of abstraction and minimalism, retooling these earlier efforts toward more explicitly political ends.

In 1967, Beuys helped to establish the German Student Party in an effort to promote peaceful protest.37 Posed on the precipice of the great cultural upheaval of the 1968 student revolts — which called for the reform of educational institutions while taking a critical position toward the Vietnam War, the governing parties, and Germany's failure to confront its own past — Beuys's engagement with the German Student Party demonstrates his increasingly active engagement in the political sphere.

However, the effort to push toward such an energy revolution has been stymied for decades by a lack of political will and finger pointing.

The most contradictory outcome would be the imposition of an expensive cap and trade plan by a narrow political margin at a time when the added expense could intensify economic pressures in the United States, thus undercutting the appetite of Americans for any efforts toward carbon reductions.»

This admission would seem to run counter to Shell's political strategy, which has been to help fund the obfuscation of efforts toward climate policies.

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