Sentences with phrase «political hit on»

Her announcement comes just a week after Joseph Percoco, a longtime adviser and friend of Cuomo, was convicted in a major corruption case that landed a political hit on Cuomo and his administration.

(there is a strong chance it will never happen, but we are taking a big political hit on it).

Will these sell outs try to put political hits on the pro-lifers in order to gain favor with Christine Quinn?

He doesn't clean up corruption he aids and abets it and does political hits on a radio show for Paterson who should be in jail but like Steve Rattner Cuomo doesn't send rich and connected folk to jail and Dave's dad is too connected.

The attacks are political hits on the science.

Not exact matches

The latest political scandal to hit Brazil is likely to put an end to President Michel Temer's term before the end of 2018, an analyst told CNBC on Monday.

European markets dropped to two week lows on Thursday as mounting political uncertainty in the U.S. hits risk sentiment.

Superman — who doesn't have to worry about hitting his head on a glass ceiling when he takes that single bound — carries no such political freight.

Gold hit a three - month peak on Wednesday as the political risk of European elections and worries over President Donald Trump's policies stoked safe - haven demand.

The fact that Canada might be included on the initial hit list had become a political sore spot for the administration, as U.S. critics of the move ridiculed it by zeroing on the idea of national - security tariffs against a peaceful next - door neighbour and defence ally.

The Globe and Mail, in a front page article entitled «Consider This» argued that the political «parties should commit to holding the line on EI premium increases» [1] They argued that EI premium rates are going up by 15 cents per $ 100 of insurable earnings for every future year and that this is a significant hit on incomes and pocketbooks.

Despite the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision to hit all other Canadian producers with countervailing duties of 19.88 per cent starting this year, many industry insiders and political leaders are hopeful Atlantic Canadian companies can be exempted from tariffs on softwood lumber exports to the United States.

In a Sunday appearance on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Schiff slammed the Nunes memo as a «political hit job» on the FBI and said the president's decision to release the memo could potentially be part of an obstruction of justice case.

Ford's messaging on his promised «audit» of Liberals» spending hits a low point in political rhetoric, even for him.

Political and religious satire, like that of Bill Maher, would never work unless he were actually hitting on legitimate criticisms.

Jude Law's political, edgy take on the holy father of the Roman Catholic Church — HBO's miniseries The Young Pope — was a critical hit.

VEEP hits back at Bawumia: We'll teach him the economics he doesn't know Bawumia launches scathing attack on NDC's economic records Bawumia threw figures around for political effect — Economist

She was talking in the context of political targeting, since reaching someone on a cellphone is far more immediate and even intimate than hitting them via a desktop or laptop.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) hit back today over media reports on Ministry of Defence (MoD) bonuses and accused the Conservatives of misrepresenting civilian defence staff to score political points.

She imagined fellow tweeters at home, «yelling at the screen and drowning their political anxieties with whatever liquor comes to hand», and hit on the idea of providing a venue where all these armchair hecklers could yell together.

She was talking in the context of political targeting, since reaching someone on a cellphone is far more immediate and even intimate than hitting them via a...

The last time I recall a vampire - themed political hit was September 2008 when the New York Post put a photo - shopped shot of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with blood - dripping fangs on its cover to illustrate a story about then - Gov.

Labour has hit back at the Conservative land - grab on its political territory on Monday by presenting its own ideas on cooperative structures.

As the SMC was preparing to hand over political power to an elected government after a Constituent Assembly had drafted the Third Republican Constitution, the country was hit by another military uprising on May 5, 1979 which was swiftly quelled by the authorities.

Organizing - technology provider NationBuilder got hit by a «Distributed Denial of Service» attack on Monday, which they believe was intended to hurt one of their political clients right before Tuesday's primary elections.

Big buys on other political sites, of course (Drudge is always a hit on the Right), but don't forget the physical world, like buying large display ads in the Capitol South and Union Station Metro stations.

John McArdle, who served as spokesman for Joe Bruno when the then - Senate majority leader was the target of Spitzer's botched political hit job, made the connection during his appearance on the «Insiders» segment of last night's CapTon.

The PM hit back that the Labour leader was jumping on a «political bandwagon», having failed to call for Mrs Miller's resignation himself.

In an attempt to put a smiley face on its tarnished image, Wal - Mart hires heavy - hitting public relations firm Edelman, which sets about using tactics derived from political races to reverse public perceptions of the giant retailer.

Brandon West, a budget analyst for the NYC Council, was abruptly fired after he spoke out publicly in favor of the statewide constitutional convention on Capital Tonight — and friends say he was the victim of a political hit job.

On immigration, the PM's team feels it's hit the political jackpot.

Fisher hit the stage just moments before The Smashing Pumpkins (a US band partial to their own political statements) saying «the New Labour government backs our British bands and applauds the role this festival has in putting them on the map».

A firm favourite with Westminster insiders and political obsessives across the country, The Thick of It's first cinema outing hits screens on April 17th.

On last night's World Tonight I claimed that the loss of boundary reviews was the single worst political event to hit the Tories since 1992 and Black Wednesday *.

(CNN)- Dueling ads over Obamacare will hit the airwaves this week, as a conservative group raises questions about the rollout of the president's sweeping health care reform, while a group on the other end of the political spectrum unveils a new TV spot seeking to defend the comprehensive program.

Broadening his themes on the failure of the existing political establishment, Mr Farage said the current regime had proved itself «unfit» during the floods crisis which hit Britain.

The former Treasury minister's career hit the rocks in 2012 after she was charged with defending a fuel duty u-turn on Newsnight — and she ended up being mauled by Jeremy Paxman in one of the most disastrous political interviews ever seen on TV.

Among those hit with subpoenas from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. are Emma Wolfe, the mayor's director of intergovernmental affairs, Ross Offinger, his top fund - raiser, and BerlinRosen, the consulting firm that works on the mayor's political campaigns.

«This is a pathetic attempt at another political hit job on the police department by the de Blasio administration and it clearly missed their mark.»

But on Monday, as it became clear that the boundary reorganisation was dead, the influential Tory activist and commentator Tim Montgomerie said what had happened was the «single worst political event to hit the Tories since 1992 and black Wednesday».

Cox was commenting on state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's Exxon probe, which he slammed as a political hit job.

But many of those big hits have been landed on his own Party - or at least the half of it that backed Blair (and Miliband's brother) Part of the art of political reinvention is «conceding and moving on».

He hit up Carolina Fest, a large political street festival which took place on Monday.

On Thursday, Cuomo channeled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — and not his more diplomatic father, the former Gov. Mario Cuomo — to accuse school lobbyists and their union clients of a political game, fraud, waste and abuse — hitting «fraud» harder than any governor before dared.

Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within U.S. Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards on Saturday after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate access to 50 million users» data starting in 2014.

Since losing his seat in the 2015 election the former political heavyweight became an unexpected hit on Strictly Come Dancing aappearing in Comic Relief's Red Nose Day.

(CNN)-- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is putting some political muscle behind Scott Murphy, a New York Democrat fighting for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's former House seat, by funding a new radio ad that hit Empire State airwaves on Monday.

She also called the attacks on Donovan akin to a political «hit and run,» highlighting a car accident a Schneiderman aide was in over the summer with Schneiderman in the car.

He accepts the bribe of a ten - million dollar insurance policy from an industry political operative (Sorvino), sets up a hit on his life and goes off to offend various political interest groups, from Jews to African - Americans, by committing not adultery, but the worst sin of all in politics: subjecting the already - committed to a dose of unfettered, unfiltered honesty.

Redford directed based on a script by Lem Dobbs (The Limey, Haywire) and the trailer makes it look like a pastiche of classic Redford political thriller hits All the President's Men, and Three Days of the Condor.