Sentences with phrase «political grudge»

At the Washington Post, Anne Hornaday noted, «Therein lies the touching subtext of «Battle of the Sexes,» which is almost remedial in its timeliness, given last year's political grudge match.

The Senate Republicans» chaotic late - night vote Friday to overhaul the tax system widened the country's partisan divisions Saturday - sparking a political grudge match that lawmakers vowed to carry into next year's midterm elections.

So, this seems to be a safer move: Focus on the Senate, which everyone agrees is desperate for improvement, as far as reform and ethics goes, while also preserving a relationship with the Democrat who is widely expected to be the next governor of New York — a guy whose team doesn't truck with disloyalty and is known to hold political grudges.

(CNN)-- Political grudges die hard - and in some cases not at all.

Not exact matches

For a few years, Stephen Harper viewed political strategy as something more than an elaborate system for the prosecution of grudges.

Thursday's indictment is the first criminal charge against Pigeon, who over decades of political activity has been accused of impropriety that he's always been able to blame on some grudge.

But the Culinary's political director told Bloomberg in August that members are «ready to learn where Senator Clinton is at today, and feel her out, without holding any grudges about what happened in 2008.»

But this is nothing compared with the indulgence of George Osborne, just because a dinner party friend has given him a newspaper to play out a vengeful grudge against Theresa May based far more on personal affront than political principle, like a toy catapult handed to a spiteful toddler.

In his remarks, Ibori, who called for unity among Urhobo leaders, particularly the political class, said he bore no grudges against anybody over his travails which led to his conviction in the UK.

While I can't say it's one of the best games I've played all year it's certainly going to find an appreciative audience who love its theme and political bickering, provided of course that said audience is not made up of people who hold grudges because New Angeles has the potential to break up more families than Monopoly.