Sentences with phrase «political equivalent of»

He looked prepared, confident and convincing — and one reason for that is that he used the political equivalent of a trial tech or hot - seat operator to take charge of the clicker.

That further critique and rational discussion might be dismissed by the political equivalent of name - calling is closer to tragic than comic.

Point by point these articles by Dana Priest and William Arkin reveal what is to me a sad tale of madness, of a nation suffering from the political equivalent of some auto - immune disease where the response to invasion is unregulated growth and self destruction.

Perhaps they had some political equivalent of Gore and Hansen, raising the fear that all this Pythogorean mucking about with numbers was going to cause the end of the world — probably through earthquakes and volcanos.

They see themselves as investors in an entrepreneurial venture looking to control the political equivalent of emerging business sectors.

Think of these as the political equivalent of business start - ups: self - created micronations where anyone could be president of his own domain, setting up his own political and economic rules.

For a running mate, her team picked the political equivalent of a packet of mayonnaise: flavorless and inoffensive, but not something anybody ever asked for.

It was the political equivalent of pouring gasoline on a raging fire.

They combined for an afternoon to produce the political equivalent of a Christmas truce on the western front in the first world war.

The political equivalent of more common face - savers such as «You didn't dump me, I dumped you» or «You can't fire me; I quit.»

The Democratic candidate for convicted crook Sheldon Silver's former Assembly seat has been so invisible in the lower Manhattan district that observers and critics are wondering if she's in the political equivalent of the witness - protection program.

It is the political equivalent of «I have a rock with these characteristics.

At the Conservative Party conference, Liam Fox is the political equivalent of the Duchess of Stranraer.

It's dressed up the standard managerial language, but this is the political equivalent of homeopathy.

Frankly, this is the political equivalent of gaslighting.

Balls playing football is the political equivalent of Miley Cyrus twerking.

In particular, he failed to clarify who is the political equivalent of Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of the series who is played in the films by Jennifer Lawrence...

After all, 27 other nations, determined to keep together the political union in which they have invested so much, will just have received the political equivalent of two fingers.

I vaguely had a project in mind, to try to write some sort of political equivalent of Freakonomics... Something about the law of unintended consequences in political decision - making, and how some problems, especially social ones, just get dumped, almost by default, in certain places.

If this is the case, then the Respect Party candidate in Bradford West is a the political equivalent of Rambo.

«John Prescott is costing the taxpayer over # 2 million a year despite being handed the political equivalent of a P45 and losing his job.

In this light Labour's decison not to mount a highly aggressive counter-attack on the Tory narrative on the deficit is the political equivalent of placing a loaded revolver in your mouth.

It the political equivalent of walking into a packed room, knotting a rope and then hanging yourself.

One reason is the received wisdom that just as Brown dragged his party's poll ratings down, so Ed Miliband will do the same, whereas, in contrast, Cameron is, so the line goes, the political equivalent of Viagra.

For the South - South and South East representatives, could it be a case of mindless spite, the political equivalent of cutting your nose to spite your face?

Jacobs versus Ryan would have been the political equivalent of a heavyweight fight.

They need to be fired and despatched to the political equivalent of the knackers yard.

Others merely see an attempt to buy Labour some time amidst the Falkirk maelstrom — the political equivalent of Stuart Broad fiddling with his boot during that last day at Trent Bridge.

Though the political equivalent of the Biblical wide and merry that leads to perdition, the civil Igbo face appears cool with, if not outright complicit in, Kanu's excesses.

Call it the political equivalent of the biblical transfiguration!

Nor do we want to live in the political equivalent of the New York Stock Exchange where every dimension of civic life has a selling price.

I remember listening to Michael Savage a few years ago, thinking that he has mastered the art of providing his listeners with the political equivalent of pornography.

Not exact matches

About a year ago, China's new political leadership launched a ferocious crackdown on social media, arresting influential bloggers with millions of followers on weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

If you are absolutely convinced a fetus is truly the full moral equivalent of an extant human baby, then any political or ideological qualms you have about helping out with things like birth control and child care, or including se - x education in school classrooms.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

«There is no political shotgun marriage equivalent of the old days.»

«Some people have suggested it's going to be the equivalent of a political Gallagher concert,» Meier told Liz this afternoon.

A much smaller number number of us will invest big chunks of our online selves on the equivalent of profile pages, but I suspect that this will still represent a sizeable and disproportionately political (and hence valuable) audience.

[6] It presents itself as an English equivalent to the Scottish National Party, [7] though the Scottish National Party is generally considered to be a centre - left party, whereas the English Democrats are on the right of the political spectrum.

Only the EU Emissions Trading System and the carbon price floor were opposed by a clear majority of voters from across the political spectrum, though even then it is highly doubtful that very much political capital can be gained by abolishing measures equivalent to an annual average cost of # 13 per household, (see pie chart graph).

To them, being a member of the governing body of Britain's third - largest political party is the equivalent of scaling Everest.»

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

The political class Adam [Afriyie] has got a very compelling story in many ways, he's self - made, was brought up on a council estate in Peckham, a guy of colour, very successful businessman and in many ways... If you look at David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Ed Balls, they're all people who have essentially spent their entire working life in politics, almost all of them have been PPE or equivalent graduates from Oxford or Cambridge.

Mr Osborne was at the centre of a political row last night after claiming that leaked Treasury figures showed a # 14.8 bn rise in expected revenues in 2011/12 - the equivalent of a 3p rise in the income tax rate - which could not be explained by a predicted economic recovery.

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The military equivalent of funding political parties was constituency building with generous disbursement of public funds and patronage to traditional and religious rulers; civil society; academics; military men and the business sector in the attempt to buy the legitimacy their governments lacked.

The equivalents of these candidates in the NY - 22 would be Claudia Tenney taking the role of Donald Trump (as being opposed by the political establishment, and viewed by many as a political outsider for this reason).

David Cameron has no equivalent of the Policy or Strategy Boards that ensured that MPs rather than advisers «owned» the big political calls.

Some barriers still remain that will require political action — there is no equivalent to the American tenure system in Germany, which is a harsh limitation for the independence of young scientists, and the need for a further round of scientific qualification after the Ph.D., the so called habilitation, does not really stimulate didactic enthusiasm.