Sentences with phrase «political games rather»
The recent release of these two reports and the ongoing corruption trials of two legislative leaders have put the spotlight on New York's dire need for state action on ethics reform, yet as Bob Hardt wrote in a recent NY1 column on the issue, «Never aggressively pushing campaign finance reform or transparency, Governor Cuomo seems content to play the master of Albany's current political game rather than rewriting its rules.
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«Unfortunately, many of our elected officials seem intent on proposing legislation as a form of protest, or to win political points in a game of partisan ping pong, rather than listening to their constituents and coming up with ideas that would help to solve real problems for the people they serve,» he said.
The political arena is no longer portrayed as a place of compromise or pluralism, but rather a zero - sum game: «their» gain is «our» loss.
The former party leader said the Irish minister and the EU had «been playing a really rather poor political game over the Northern Ireland border».
«I hope they will rediscover that — rather than playing endless little games for short - term political advantage as they did at the time of the AV referendum.»
«If liberals in the Senate would rather play political games and force a government shutdown, instead of accepting a modest down payment on fiscal discipline and reform, I say, «Shut it down!»»
«Unfortunately, many of our elected officials seem intent on proposing legislation as a form of protest, or to win political points in a game of partisan ping pong, rather than listening to their constituents and coming up with ideas that would help to solve real problems for the people they serve,» Khojasteh said.
When asked about her experience, which has been used against her in previous runs for NYS Assembly and Mayor of Rochester, Barnhart says now is a time when life experience, rather than political experience is coming to the forefront, citing how women across the country with no political background are running for seats to change up the game.
It is easy to see why this is so, given the huge and outsized nature of benefits appropriated by political office holders, and why politics rather than governance became the only game in town.
Naomi Watts and Sean Penn star in Fair Game, the latest film about Iraq — and the third so far to have been scored by John Powell, though this one is largely to do with political rather than military matters.
The world of the books and game is a rather bleak one, with extreme liberal and conservative political beliefs polarizing the United States to the point of starting a second Civil War.
Some charter backers see an opportunity in New York's waning national influence to focus on the problems at home, and to build a bigger, fairer, less divided sector, with sustainable political ground game that can help charters notch incremental wins rather than just the dramatic victories they've come to expect.
This game feels rather timely and oddly appropriate in 2017, given our current socio - political climate.
Rather than being completely out - of - the - loop for 90 % of the game, Assassin's Creed II will instantly draw you in with its convoluted story of political struggle and intrigue between the various factions of renaissance - era Italy.
This is because Final Fantasy XII is more of a plot - driven «Game of Thrones» style political drama, rather than a character - driven teenage anime adventure that most Final Fantasy fans are comfortable with.
And that's not even getting into today's sorry excuse for a «media», which wear their political biases on their sleeve and will happily give scores based on how «moral» they think a game is rather than how good it actually is.
The Quebec analogy in this part is rather a comparative constitutional argument which is nevertheless important as it influences the political game potentially leading to a new international legal status.