Sentences with phrase «political gain»

An unsuspecting electorate's personal information was exploited for political gain on behalf of a deeply divisive public figure, observers say.

They should not be trying to «fix» the constitutional arrangements of this parliament to get short term political gain disguised as either providing for stability and / or enhancing democracy.

Despite these setbacks and legal uncertainties, labour groups were determined to make legal and political gains in the 20th century.

Anyone who tries to make political gain from a national tragedy needs to apologize.

We will not be used as a tool for your personal political gain.

This is a welcome development and i hope its not used to score cheap political gains.

Participants will learn how to manipulate an $ 11 billion state university system for maximum political gain.

All this is another measure of the exploitation of natural sciences for political gain.

Yet once again, instead of facing reality, our colleagues would rather spin the road paving funding issue for their own short - term political gain.

, could have simply made your point about the misuse and abuse of religious beliefs for political gain by focusing solely on the NPD Task Force and the political parties without disrespectfully addressing God.

How we mischievously play the masses against leaders who expose corruption in their governments, justifies President Kufour's assertion.I say so because of how the Npp made political gains from from President Mahama's decision to prosecute his officials found to have involved themselves in corrupt practice.

President Muhammadu Buhari today warned those he described as political opportunists against making political gains out of kidnap issues and other security matters.

«My colleagues are choosing to side with the Comptroller because he has a «D' after his name, rather than the County Executive who has an «R.» The result will be borrowing that costs taxpayers $ 900,000 more, all for political gain at the expense of everyday people's pocketbooks,» said Minority Leader John J. Mills, R - Orchard Park.

Trudeau has chosen short - term political gain over making life easier for those who follow him.

The simple answer is that he wants to be considered as standing up against vested interest groups as he did with the newspapers, unlike David Cameron who has stood up for the press barons for party political gain.

There is nothing wrong with Atheism, it certainly is more honest than those who use religion for political gain while ignoring the central values of the religion they profess to follow.

No they promote it for more political gains.

Once again, the needs of injury victims are getting eroded for short - term political gain based on insurance industry talking - points.

Bush used is faith as a weapon / tool for political gain not an devitional inspirational instrument of God.

Even though most polls have shown little fluctuation in abortion attitudes, some pundits have argued that the recent political gains made by the Democratic party will lead to a bright future for people who support legal abortion.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke on Tuesday about the plan and criticized politicians he claims are using the issue for political gain ahead of mid-term elections in November.

«What makes their ranting more pathetic is that they do not offer credible alternatives,» he said, adding, President Mahama would not sacrifice the long term interest of the nation for short term partisan political gains.»

«History will harshly judge those who put their personal political gain above taking a stand for justice at this critical juncture for our nation.

Akande cautioned that «those who wish to harvest political gains out of the health of the President are mistaken.

«It seems this is a campaign which is designed more for political gain rather than actually looking into the issue at hand, which is the Warwickshire fire services review.

The president said the security agencies would not hesitate to deal with those seeking political gains from the abduction.

«The troubling reporting on the ease with which Cambridge Analytica was able to exploit Facebook's default privacy settings for profit and political gain throws into question not only the prudence and desirability of Facebook's business practices and the dangers of monetizing consumers» private information, but also raises serious concerns about the role Facebook played in facilitating and permitting the covert collection and misuse of consumer information,» Wyden writes.

But critics have suggested that government's decision to open the factory without the needed raw material to run it could only mean that it was done for political gain going into elections in November.

The use of the tragedy for political gain clearly lacks human decency, but it also lacks reason.

As a wise man recently wrote elsewhere, Pedro:»... you and a few of your buddies in the legislature (present and past) have set back minority political gains by at least 25 years.

What has befallen us is too terrible and saddening for anyone to trivialize for selfish political gain.

I'm sorry Pastor Evans but I think those «Christians» who abuse what Jesus stood for and his teachings to shove them down the throats of others and / or use them for political gain who do Jesus quite the disservice.

It's a bad tactic meant to earn short - term political gains among bigots.

Since when did taking the Lord's name in vain for financial & political gain count as a «mission from God»?

Next is the simple question, and that is if Obama had Bin Laden sitting in a freezer for a couple years and then decided to thaw him out for political gain why do so now when doing so right before the next Presidental election would have ensured his re-election?

He is an elitist that finds political gain in bowing to Islam, plain and simple.

Since 1973 the movement that she agrees to call «pro-life» has made dramatic political gains, as the 1984 presidential campaign underscores.

Many questioned the very idea of bringing up a candidate's sexuality: as Greenwald puts it, «the same political movement that impeached Bill Clinton and which has made a living exploiting issues of private morality for political gain insisted that Rogers had reached a new and despicable low in politics even by reporting this.»

There's room here for Labour to secure a major political gain by making radical promises on social house building, but it has to be prepared to make the case for borrowing to fund long - term development first.

Let us shun violence and refuse to be used for short - term political gain which can only cause our country pain and grief... We have been neighbours, we are brothers, we are sisters... Kenya belongs to all of us.»

According to Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola University, «American attempts to tailor district lines for political gain stretch back to the country's very origin.»

Politicians are among the least trusted professions (even bankers fare better), which allowed some insiders to exploit this sentiment for significant political gains across large sections of the electorate.

Hein was and remains a wimp and a liar and all the while a perennial smiler — who hides behind the facade of daily press releases which overall amount to very little — and certainly nothing along the lines of political courage on the entire topic, which he predictably just tries endlessly to milk for pesonal political gain.

Nick Clegg has launched an unexpected broadside at the banks as he tries to secure concrete political gains in the wake of the tuition fees vote.

The eurosceptic party has made considerable political gains by stoking fears about the extent of Romanian and Bulgarian immigration into the UK after movement controls end.