Sentences with phrase «political land mines»

They'll look elsewhere to offset their revenue losses, and that assuredly means increases in property taxes, because of the political land mines surrounding income tax hikes, analysts said at the meeting.

Also, it avoids political land mines and recognizes that toxic loans are a substantial threat to homeowners nationwide — and to the national economy.

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FWG is, therefore, compelled to question the rationale and political appropriateness of an outgoing Minister of Lands and Natural Resources to issue a mining lease on 29th December, 2016, after his party had lost elections.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

When they learn that corrupt political kingpin Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds) is evicting farmers so he can sell their land to an evil coal mining operation, the boys and their comely cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) decide to fight back.

The author is a former member of the British armed forces, well qualified to describe the conditions in that small country where, during three decades in the 1970s, hostile political groups planted thousands of land mines that have victimized the native population to the present day.