Sentences with phrase «political opponents of»

It is perhaps not so surprising to hear that facts, logic, and knowledge can be bent to accord with a person's subjective worldview; after all, we accuse our political opponents of this kind of «motivated reasoning» all the time.

«Founder Marshall Saunders espouses respect and love for political opponents of a carbon fee, and repeated engagement.»

1983: Anatoly Koryagin — A psychiatrist in the Soviet Union, Dr. Koryagin made public the fact that political opponents of the Soviet government were being falsely diagnosed as having psychiatric disorders, hospitalized in special institutions, and treated with strong and potentially dangerous medications.

But the ad campaign has drawn criticism from political opponents of Gov. Cuomo, who have questioned its effectiveness.

The attention of the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been drawn to reports of alleged acts of violence and vandalism being perpetrated allegedly against some political opponents of the NPP in the aftermath of the announcements of the results of the 2016 election.

The most worrying development is the harassment of political opponents of the President of state governors.

He said the fight against corruption has been taken to a whole new level by his government and accused his political opponents of playing propaganda with the issue.

City attorney John Sickinger argued that the comments of Denno and the two other ex-councilors, Pat Hogan and Kathleen Joy, should be discounted because they are «political opponents of the current city administration.»

But it is telling that most political opponents of military action - which at the moment is basically Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership and the broader Stop the War movement - do not seem to be making these points.

Emphasizing their many political and policy differences, the two aspiring political opponents of Governor Cuomo attacked a variety of Cuomo's actions and his opaque political methods.

The first prisoners were political opponents of the regime.

Moreover, the Court's own case law shows that it is impossible to disempower political opponents of abortion without going on to disempower them politically on other issues as well.

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Deep state is weaponizing staff security clearances against Trump: Sean Bigley

Political opponents of President Donald Trump have «weaponized» the security - clearance process against him in an undemocratic «power grab,» stalling his nominations and systematically impeding White House operations,...

Accusing political opponents of pedophilia, Clinton said, comes «right out of the Russian playbook.»

And he accused his political opponents of fostering and exploiting groundless fears.

We don't know whether the officials targeted in the «anti-corruption» campaigns were really unusually corrupt, lascivious, or treacherous — or whether they were just political opponents of Xi.

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

A political opponent of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen wants Facebook to hand over information that might help him fight legal claims against him by the government.

The earlier GOP memo implied that the FISA applications concealed that researcher Christopher Steele was working for a political opponent of Trump when he assembled the infamous «Steele dossier,» one of the sources cited in the DOJ's FISA request.

It is also unclear, how the state will benefits from Mr. Cudjoe's membership of the business delegation, as he has acted more than political opponent of the Mahama government, than a business oriented individual.

Oakeshott, a stalwart of the party's social democratic left wing and a vocal critic of the Tory - Lib Dem coalition's economic policies, had long been a political opponent of Nick Clegg.

Ms. Cucco, a Bay Ridge resident, enjoyed the support of Mr. Brook - Krasny, Bay Ridge Councilman Vincent Gentile and former Coney Island Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. — a longtime political opponent of Mr. Treyger's mentor, Assemblyman William Colton.

Not exact matches

He was accused of being absent during turmoil in the firm, just as his political opponents now notice his time spent away from Canada.

BELARUS: The EU has long had difficult relations with Belarus, one of Moscow's closest allies, and has sanctions in place because of human - rights abuses and treatment of political opponents.

For instance, intelligence agencies may go after political opponents to maintain or increase the level of influence they enjoy with the government.

Ironically, this last piece of legislation could be his political undoing as opponents of another of his technocratic initiatives, the Harmonized Sales Tax, have succeeded in mobilizing bipartisan dissent.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country's president, has been turning Turkey into an Islamist - tinged autocracy, purging the military and other state institutions of perceived internal enemies and jailing thousands of journalists, professors, civil society leaders, and political opponents.

But firing Mueller or issuing pardons «would be certain to ignite the kind of political firestorm that we haven't seen since the Saturday Night Massacre,» he said, and Trump's political opponents would undoubtedly paint it as obstruction of justice.

Inside the committee room, Morneau had been subjected to yet another round of rankling questions about his small - business tax proposals from Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative finance critic whose rare knack for getting under the skin of his political adversaries reminds me of the way Claude Lemieux used to drive his NHL opponents to rash retaliations.

One of the more vocal opponents in Italy's political scene has been Beppe Grillo, the shaggy - haired comic that heads the anti-establishment 5 - Star Movement.

To guard against potential threats to his power, he maintains a large force of secret police who watch his political opponents, tap many telephones, and even investigate all students applying for admission to a university.

Simply put, as part of a desperate attempt to keep America out of recession and himself out of the ranks of unemployed Americans, Obama has torn a page from the questionable Keynesian play book and just asked his political opponents for permission to toss the mother of all Hail Mary passes.

Facebook is becoming our main news source, and it's serving us up a steady diet of exactly what we already believe, and what will make us angriest at our political opponents.

Trump, however, went on to fire several political shots toward his opponents, including his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, who previously turned down an invitation to speak at the Jamboree in protest of the Boy Scouts» policy of disallowing gay members and leaders from joining its ranks in 2013.

SNL is having a resurgence of popularity as people tune in to try to get some laughs out of our latest national political news, but even Trump's biggest opponents won't want to watch if the show's not funny.

The part of Captain Alberta is one Lougheed and Klein both used to great effect, marginalizing their more conciliatory political opponents.

MOSCOW — A decision by Facebook to block a page used to rally Russian opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin has engulfed the world's largest social networking site in political controversy and raised accusations that it censors content on behalf of the authorities here.

In this election Adrian Dix and his campaign hit lots of precise if small notes that a political journalist like myself might keep track of and tally, but overall the New Democrats apparently neither summoned enough fear of their opponents nor struck the themes or meme - like policy ideas that summoned enough inspiration.

Xi's career trajectory has involved a steady ascent through the ranks of the party, ambitious global - facing infrastructure projects, and ruthless crackdowns on political opponents and dissidents.

After seeing the absolute weirdest political commercial of this campaign season — Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios» attack on his primary opponent's record on guns — you will have questions.

During elections, all political parties try to «produce» numbers that show their proposed policies are better than the proposed policies of their opponents.

Even for the mayor of New York, which has its fair share of mega-wealthy corporations, declining to court Amazon would have been political malpractice, giving easy fodder to one's opponents.

Meanwhile, the second part of an undercover investigation conducted by the UK's Channel 4 aired today in which Cambridge Analytica executives were caught on tape bragging about bribing and entrapping politicians using hired sex workers to compromise its clients» political opponents.

Unlike several of his Democratic opponents, Sen. Madaleno is not a political outsider.

His passion for our province and social democratic politics is a refreshing reminder of a level of respect that used to exist among political opponents and adversaries in our province.

Even her political opponent, United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, agreed, arguing that a «market failure» justified the use of putting taxpayer money into the project.

As the 2008 campaign continues to unfold, the political parties and their leaders will continue to place an emphasis on their economic policies and credentials, while, at the same time, working to downplay and discredit the plans of their opponents.

In other words, what this statistic shows is that Bill 6 was desperately needed, and that the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act courageously passed by the Alberta Legislature on Dec. 10, 2015, by the government of Premier Rachel Notley in the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

Has accused NDP leader Thomas Mulcair of wanting to destroy Alberta's economy and has criticized his opponent Ms. Crockatt for political columns she penned in the Calgary Herald.

Whether or not these groups accept credit for all the consequences of «changing the economic face of Canada» their opponents on the political left and centre can learn many lessons from how effective the political right machine has become in Canada.