Sentences with phrase «political move by»

A surprise political move by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, who fired his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa, has played havoc on the US dollar / bond note parallel exchange rate, as well as on Bitcoin price in the country.

Opponents claim it is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few years.

As I noted here, opponents claim the bill is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few years.

The annual TFSA contribution limit was ripped from ten grand a year to just $ 5,500 in a crass political move by the new regime in Ottawa.

It was a highly political move by one of the other senior people, and everyone involved ended up being affected negatively by their involvement.

But if it's a political move by Cuomo, it's an unusual - looking one.

Following his arraignment, Ortt dismissed the charges as a political move by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D).

I am a gay man, and I can see right through this political move by Obama.

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When I moved back to Toronto, I met Nouman through CanLeads [a political training organization founded by Ahmad].

There's growing pressure for the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to enact rules requiring disclosure of political spending by publicly - traded corporations, although it has yet to move on the issue.

Lawmakers from both political parties were outraged by the move, which has the potential to put America's triple - A credit rating in jeopardy.

In a move worthy of Michael Corleone of The Godfather movie fame, the 32 - year old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, consolidated his power, over the weekend, by trotting a tried - and - true method of vanquishing political rivals in a monarchy: charge them with corruption.

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.

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And by acting in accordance with recommendations from a commission that's supposed to be bipartisan, Trump's move looks more technocratic than political.

Perceptive Conservatives know this move toward openness will have to be legitimately addressed and this wave of political trouble can't be turned back with endless and groundless claims that their tormenter - in - chief Tom Mulcair could have ended Quebec corruption by blowing the whistle on the mayor of Laval 17 years ago.

The moves announced Tuesday are the latest in a series of efforts to restore public trust after 87 million people had their data taken without their consent by Cambridge Analytica, a British political firm with ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

They think that the U.S. president is looking to score political points with his base, but that he won't want to upset the stock market record highs and the faster economic growth by putting up too many trade barriers, a move that probably would spook businesses and investors.

This move by @realDonaldTrump confirms what we have all known for weeks — that his decision to release the #NunesMemo was a blatantly political move made without concern for national security.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

We think the speculation about a potential future tightening of monetary policy by the ECB — whether in the form of a tapering of bond purchases or a rise in interest rates — has moved too far ahead of the economic and political realities within the eurozone.

By moving beyond legal reasoning to resolving questions of moral and political values, the Court loses the characteristics of impartiality and independence from politics that are fundamental to its legitimacy.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

Now that the Republican and Democratic Conventions are over with, we can move on to the actual debate portion of the election, which means that your Facebook feed is about to get stormed by a barrage of thoughtful, reasonable, measured political opinions that will never be inflammatory hyperbole packed to the brim with dubious facts.

(This is organizationally verified by United Methodist agencies» maintaining membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [RCRC], a political lobby that defends and advances all abortion rights, and that opposes all moral arguments, political moves, and legal decisions against abortion.

The political moves made in the past two decades have been prompted by the interests of transnational corporations and those who profit from their gains.

If we continue to move from a national economy to a global one, then we must either develop much stronger concentrations of international political power or else accept a world governed by naked economic power.

At this time, when the people are moved by a strong urge for social equality and economic and political justice, there is a great need for a country - wide agency to look after their religious needs and to guide them to an understanding of the principles of Islam.

By equating religious beliefs with political platforms, Jerry Falwell and others have moved from apocalypticism to politics.

«When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...» But the Declaration then quickly moves, in the very same sentence, to the question of by what right or by what authority such a change is to be made.

The book moves back to the judge's childhood and youth, marked by his dead mother's absence; his father's stroke, damaged speaking ability, and death; his courtship; and his professional advancement built on his father's political connections, while moving forward to encompass his wife's stroke and subsequent decline and his effort to sustain his self - sufficient mode of existence while mourning her death.

A court empowered to judge a statute's constitutionality by that court's own inference of the animus of the statute's sponsors is a court set free from any limitations on its power» its power, on the one hand, to strike down any law enacted with the political aid of believers, and its power, on the other hand, to move directly against churches and denominations that display a perceived animus in their teaching toward certain behavior.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

It is not unfair to claim that all of continental European Jewish history is viewed by David Vital as an unfolding tragedy moving inevitably, like some Greek drama, toward genocide, with only Zionism, among the many political movements to find support among the Jews, having the prescience to foresee, however dimly, the catastrophe ahead.

But whereas this economistic idealism once fueled the move to this global economy, today the economistic system is sustained chiefly by the economic and political power of those who benefit from it.

Whether or not the amendments are made official, its a significant move for the LGBT community, which has never had its cause officially supported by either of the major political parties...

After military rule and civil war yielded to a democratically elected government — headed by a Christian president — in 1999, the ruling Muslim political class in the north moved to consolidate its hold on the region.

Welby praised the «utterly inspiring» work of HRC who aim to revive Hebron's Old City by renovating old buildings and encouraging Palestinians to move into the area, despite the high level of political tensions.

Faced by an almost incomprehensible amount of material always contained in the most complex linguistic, political, and social contexts, the history of religions has moved ahead in the attempt to mark out its own responsibilities and contributions.

My review of a book that reports the story of a man who died in 1940 does not in any way purport to compromise what, in 1965, Blessed Paul VI set down in Nostra Aetate, especially no. 4: «In her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.»

The experimentation with social, political and economic structures necessitated by the move into historical existence has produced prolonged sufferings in spite of the best intentions.

«Thus would political atheism suspend the kind attraction of heaven upon us, and let out the storm of guilty passion and, by one disastrous move from stem to stern, make a clear breach over us, sweeping away what patriots and Christians and heaven have done to render us happy.»

There have been unnumbered political barbecues, where the eloquence peculiar to that region has been developed, and where vast audiences have been moved by its power, as the trees beneath which they were gathered have been swayed by the winds.

Explaining further, he pointed out that by 1963, «our then President Nkrumah, left of centre politician, moved the country into a one - party state with a lot of intolerance; he built a whole prison just 22 miles of Accra for detention of political opponents».

So the net political effect might be «negative», (i.e. on the whole a mainstream left - wing journalist might move the nation further right), just as the net moral effect of gang leader donating to an orphanage would probably not offset the overall harm to their community done by them.

His signature diplomatic moves — granting asylum to the NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden, bailing out Ukraine's economy, and now releasing his perceived arch enemy — are well thought - out strategic decisions guided by political prowess and self - confidence.

Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, who is none too pleased about being tossed the political hot potato on Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s future by the state Democratic Party, told me today there is «no certainty» the Bronx Dems will move to oust the controversial lawmaker.

Falkland Islanders are accustomed to political rhetoric emanating from Buenos Aires, but recent moves by the current Argentine Government are conspiring to make every day life difficult for Islanders.

Waiting for Corbyn to make his next move — or indeed for greater clarity in the political and economic climate — could see them overtaken by events.

Critical scholars can not ignore such voices for they underline the necessity of moving beyond interpretations that view the politics of building peace as driven by a Manichean split between liberal and illiberal political epistemologies.