Sentences with phrase «political opponents questioned»

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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.

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.

The rather unexpected rise of the euro sceptic and national - conservative alternatives for Germany, namely the (AfD) might be a serious opponent to the CDU / CSU on the political right, challenging the CDU / CSU not to abandon all of its socially - conservative positions and questioning its recent rapprochement towards the centre - left.

The question is whether when Balls unleashes hell it will be, like Maximus, an organised and destructive force that overwhelms his opponents in political battle or whether it'll just be a poorly executed cha cha cha that has viewers watching through their fingers.

«Anyone can make a mistake about who they appear on a platform with, we are not always responsible for what our political opponents say but if you do it time after time after time it is right to question your judgement.»

As previous academics in this series have pointed out, wise negotiators will try to discern their opponents» priorities and what pressures create them; and the Celtic fringe presents complicated political questions with deep historical roots.

Upon realising that the vote meant that he would not be questioned on the budget, Johnson referred to his political opponents as «great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies».

In the press conference after his one - man show, Grimm blasted his Democratic opponent, who recently made headlines when he apparently had trouble answering a question from NY1 political reporter Courtney Gross on the Trans - Pacific Partnership international trade agreement.

The scrap that he faces with his official political opponents is over the smaller order question of whether there should be a referendum.

But lord chief justice Lord Bingham said: «The democratic process is liable to be subverted if, on a question of moral and political judgment, opponents of the act achieve through the courts what they could not achieve in parliament.»

«We believe that we can challenge our political opponents without always questioning their integrity.

With respect to the question of Indian independence, they were political opponents.

Fellow Ghanaians, let me conclude by saying how outraged I am by the defamatory comments from my political opponents, some of whose patriotism can be so easily questioned, that the sovereignty of this country has been sold by my government and myself.

«Let me state how outraged I am by the defamatory comments from my political opponents, some of whose patriotism can be easily questioned that the sovereignty of this country has been sold by my government and myself.»

She answered questions about what kind of cabinet secretaries she'd pick, and she employed a tactic used previously by many a front - runner candidate: deflect political attacks from opponents who are running behind.

But I think that happens on all political platforms», adding «if it becomes consistent over days, then people have the right to question whether you are addressing the issues or you are just attacking the person of your opponents and that's where the problem is».

After years of questions from political opponents, Lord Ashcroft admitted on Monday he does not pay tax on his earning made outside of Britain.

Fowler made the remark in reaction to a question over insinuations that VAIDS may have been introduced to target political opponents, the same way anti corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is being perceived of late.

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

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

We have written before about the many different ways that Environmentalists have tried to diminish their opponents by questioning their psychology and moral character, and by trying to locate a conspiracy — in every way, in fact, other than through careful, honest, political argument.

3) Question: Why is the mayor of my town secretly putting bumper stickers on my car that support my political opponent?