Sentences with phrase «political jockeying»

Here is the point where natural law establishes its central place in mediating between society and community, between political jockeying in the secular space and religious commitments in the domestic sphere, between debate in the public square and prayer around the family hearth.

Raises in Albany have been the subject of political jockeying before.

Still, the lead - up to the meeting has been rife with speculation over the behind - the - scene political jockeying.

There were also increasing signs this weekend of divisions within government, not only over whether Hazel Blears should have been singled out for blame but over political jockeying by those ministers who believe they have come out of the affair unscathed.

While mayoral control is locked in intense political jockeying and electoral reforms are mostly dead on arrival due to opposition from the Republican - controlled state Senate, the de Blasio administration is somewhat optimistic about getting at least some of what it wants on the other three items: design - build, M / WBE contracting, and speed cameras.

But at night, the city comes alive with people who are tired of political jockeying and just want to be wild and free without making a federal case out of it.

Political jockeying is happening at a stunning pace.

Over the last week, the political jockeying within McGreevey's party was intense...

The political jockeying in New York state is well underway, as special interests vie for part of an approximately $ 5 billion budget windfall, courtesy of settlements with the banking industry earlier this year.

With just a week left until the vote, some expect the political jockeying to escalate, especially with some candidates» waging court battles for a spot on the ballot.

For all the political jockeying, women's advocacy groups said the succession debate should remain focused on the heart of the attorney general's role: its core legal responsibilities.

Parents are tired of your meaningless turf wars and refusal to put your political jockeying aside to do the right thing for kids.

First against a social backdrop of enfranchisement and hope and later against one of disenfranchisement and despair, landscape painters like EDWARD MITCHELL BANNISTER and William Harper created moody, Barbizon School — like scenes, bereft of the political jockeying and white - on - black violence that characterized African American lives at the end of the century.

Although Pierre Trudeau opposed its inclusion, the political jockeying required to sell the Charter to all its political stakeholders, caused the inclusion of section 33 — the notwithstanding clause.