Sentences with phrase «political intransigence»

America is in danger of experiencing a lost decade since the financial crisis, given its debt and political intransigence.

He's now 76 years old and still focused on purging the parasite - driven illness from the two countries, Ethiopia and Chad, where transmission persists — a task to which he's bringing both a mastery of public health and a lifetime's worth of understanding political intransigence and apathy.

Not exact matches

Deliberately, I have emphasised the intellectual as well as the political force of neoliberalism, in other words, its energy and its theoretical intransigence, its dynamism that at the moment is not exhausted.

This kind of politics assumes an intransigence on the part of your political opponents, and it is useful to remember that this is not always the case.

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was a monumental achievement in 2001 — and the union's greatest political defeat in the modern era — but in subsequent years it was NCLB that found itself being transformed, and ultimately eviscerated, by powerful political blowback from unions and the intransigence of the districts.

Of course, it's a dynamic and you aren't responsible if others choose intransigence; but perhaps there might be something more effective than calling people «warmists» and turning a blind eye to labeling like «groveling, terrified coward,» and putting up obviously political and partisan guest posts w / o editorial comment.

Calling for a carbon tax on polluters could, feasibly, even become a political winner (the Yale study also finds astonishingly high support for regulating CO2 as a pollutant), as anger percolates at the GOP's intransigence to raising taxes even on the wealthy and corporations.

However, the inescapable truth of the matter is clear: Political cowardice has played a key part in Parliament's intransigence, and the only way the issue was going to get back on the policy agenda was for another case to reach the Supreme Court.