Sentences with phrase «political machinations»

«I would be less concerned and I am less concerned with the internal political machinations of who has political power and I'm more interested in social change, Brian, and I'm more interested in passing the Women's Equality Act,» Cuomo said.

«What I found was, he engaged in his own sense of strategies, his own political machinations, and what we've often seen is, if someone disagrees with him openly, some kind of revenge or vendetta follows,» de Blasio said of Cuomo.

An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.

As reported by Josh Greenman of the Daily News, Winters thinks that the standards have been «centralized», and thus, implicitly, are subject to political machinations by traditionalists.

The story takes place, as mentioned, in Elizabethan England and follows the intrigue and political machinations surrounding the succession of Elizabeth I. However, parallel to this, is the story of the birth of modern theatre.

Mr. Cuomo said the suggestion that he was trying to damage the Working Families Party was «really tortured analysis,» adding, «I am less concerned with the internal political machinations of who has political power, and I'm more interested in social change.»

To know this would require considerable knowledge of climate science, as well as political machinations of the people and involve massive work parsing through decades of emails and files.

Along the way he'll get pulled into political machinations and some otherworldly prophecies concerning demons, goddesses, and possessed kings.

«The more people talk about Tish, they're not so much talking about her qualifications but what it would mean for all the other political machinations for downstate,» Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, told POLITICO.

Maggie Thatcher and other political machinations may have altered its decline, but its been on an inexorable decline since peaking.

Letitia James, the New York City public advocate, declared her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for attorney general on Wednesday, ending a week filled with rumors and political machinations about whether she would be appointed to the office or run for it, and with which party's backing.

Total War: Rome II ™ will sink players into the dangerous political machinations of Rome's senate, while asking them to struggle with family dilemmas and question the loyalty of «friends» and allies.

I recently read that no group of hunters and gatherers or pastoralists has ever willingly transitioned to settled life, because it makes them easier to control and tax [1], and there is a vivid description of the violence and political machinations required to... [more]

Full of historical figures, Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and the corruptible Borgia, the reader is treated to a novel that fully immerses them in this time period; the sights, sounds and full political machinations.

Edwards, a professor at Catholic University and a Senior Fellow of the Heritage Foundation, has written a spirited history of the nuts «and «bolts political machinations that dragged American politics to the right.

Large, close - knit, extended Catholic families all have LGBT members, and will always place the welfare of their family members over the crass political machinations of the over-politicized bishops.

Both candidates taking part in the second round of the election should steadfastly refuse to participate in any such political machination and stand in defense of the popular will of Liberians.

Whatever way we cut it the current political machinations across the pond are everything British politics is not.

The insular political machinations of Albany rarely interest anyone beyond journalists, political operatives, lobbyists, good government groups, and the occasional close watchers of the political scene, usually former members of one of the aforementioned cabals.

Here, one might suspect political machinations.

ALBANY — It was perhaps the biggest understatement of what has been a chaotic eight days in New York government, a swirl of political machinations precipitated by the resignation of Eric T. Schneiderman, the disgraced former attorney general accused of assaulting four romantic partners.

Sharply written by Aaron Sorkin, the new drama from NBC adroitly mixes political machinations with personal peccadilloes and keeps the action in both areas moving smartly.

The late Philip Seymour Hoffman really stands out just by not standing out at all; as generous as ever, he murmurs political machinations in the background with a calculated grin before letting out a weary sigh.

They passed over all three of her previous features as their submission, and as always, they had plenty of viable possibilities this year, including Santiago Mitre's The Summit, an absorbing drama of North and South American political machinations.

But whenever the movie, which is all too often, veers into backroom political machination mode, especially in the scenes involving LBJ or with George Wallace (Tim Roth), the movie's molten core cools and it loses its intimacy.

THE VATICAN PASSED ON STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV / Scott Free / Showtime TEAM: Paul Attanasio (w, ep), Ridley Scott (d, ep), David Zucker (ep) LOGLINE: A provocative contemporary genre thriller about spirituality, power and politics set against the modern - day political machinations within the Catholic church.

A taut dialectical drama that examined Argentina's slippery political machinations through a university student election, the 2011 film adopted a dispassionate style akin to documentary.

Indeed, self - confident Common Core advocates have not been inclined to acknowledge missteps or problems and are instead more disposed to double down on clumsy political machinations, attempts to impugn skeptics, and an insistence that everything is working out just as they intended.

The fictional love story examines the human impact of covert political machinations.

I can only guess that that would be the result of general disgust at the overt political machinations of Copenhagen, the failure of doomsday to arrive on schedule, and possibly some reaction to climategate.

Political machinations further reduce the country's attractiveness as a tourist destination.

Boasting a majority - black cast donning some gorgeous Afrofuturistic get - ups, as well as a complex plot rife with political machinations and betrayal, Black Panther promises to have an epic scope that remains unrivaled in comic book films.

But what has taken place since is no return to sanity, as political machinations have produced a cosmetic makeover called «PASS ID» that has revived the push for a national identification card.

In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

will sink players into the dangerous political machinations of Rome's senate, while asking them to struggle with family dilemmas and question the loyalty of «friends» and allies.

I recently read that no group of hunters and gatherers or pastoralists has ever willingly transitioned to settled life, because it makes them easier to control and tax [1], and there is a vivid description of the violence and political machinations required to assert governance on others during creation of the Zulu kingdom in South Africa in Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus» book The Creation of Inequality [2].

But I would be less concerned, and I am less concerned with the internal political machinations of who has political power, and I'm more interested in social change.»

His plan is equally clichéd: turn the Cold War between United States and the Soviet Union into a real one through political machinations, causing all - out nuclear devastation (His theory that mutants will survive as they are «children of the atom» sounds like something that should be tested before putting it into action).

In addition, as I've already suggested, the book is less about American men in general than about a particular class of men buffeted by the economic and political machinations of even more powerful males who lack an adequate social conscience.

It wasn't just her arch-sounding speeches to Wall Street executives or the exposure of political machinations but also the brutal stripping of so many staffers» privacy.

Some Ukrainian Catholic and Kyivan Patriarchate leaders see nothing in the Russian Orthodox Church but corruption and political machinations.

I've studied the formation of Christianity for over a decade, the political machinations among the early sects that led to the summons to Nicea by Constantine I, I have read about the brutal (and typical) Roman suppresion of any and all who did not fall into line with the «New» religion.

Regardless of the political machinations, some legislators were openly eager for raises.

A Facebook post says the campaign hopes to «shine a light on the political machinations of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the Obama era Justice Dept.»

«What I found,» de Blasio told NY1, «was he engaged in his own sense of strategies, his own political machinations and what we've often seen is if someone disagrees with him openly, some kind of revenge or vendetta follows.»

«He engaged in his own sense of strategies, his own political machinations, and what we've often seen is, if someone disagrees with him openly, some kind of revenge or vendetta follows,» de Blasio told Errol Louis.