"Political friction" refers to conflicts, disagreements, or tensions arising from differing views or competing interests among politicians or political parties. It is the clash of opinions, policies, or ideologies that often leads to discord and obstacles in the process of making decisions or implementing government actions.
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When it was leaked a year ago the Russians used Facebook's platform to distribute false information, thus
creating political friction in the 2016 election cycle, Facebook refused to tell over 87 million users that their information was sold to a British political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, back in 2015.
This is
causing political friction across Europe, and there is talk that the teams from inside Catalonia could be removed from the national league, leaving Espanyol, Barcelona and Girona in limbo.
The exchange between Jackson and Bill Thompson, who is black, underlined tensions between the African American and Latino communities uptown, which has long been a source
of political friction.
District officials have targeted dozens of schools that could potentially be closed to save money, but past efforts to close small, underperforming schools have met
with political friction that led the board to change course after months of work by staff.
«I therefore think that solar geoengineering is currently too risky to be utilized due to the
enormous political friction that it may cause,» says lead author Anthony Jones of the University of Exeter.
They don't want to see
the political frictions that we have seen develop in recent years as the result of the continued promotion of Buy - and - Hold for 36 years after we learned that there is precisely zero chance that it could ever produce good long - term results for even a single investor.
(Some of the least used are «horror,» «
political friction,» and «medical research,» she says.)
We would all earn «only» 6.5 percent real per year (the return that applies when valuations remain stable) and we would never again have to worry about massive unemployment and paying for huge economic stimulus programs and all
this political friction we are seeing today.
It remains to be seen whether
this political friction can generate any useful change.
Amid
this political friction, election commission officials finished the routine preparations for a national vote.