Sentences with phrase «political point really»

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It's really disturbing when people use Christ to try and prove political points!

It's really a recognition that at some point the political realm shouldn't enforce any theological restrictions on people.

The point is that no government, and no political party, can ever really represent Christian values.

In addition, Sen points out that political and civic participation can help citizens to deliberate together about «what they really need» and what individual and societal ends are trnly worth valuing.

And even if a blanket publication of Parliamentary tax returns shows that Conservative MPs are less able to claim that they are really all in together, Bryant warns his party off political point - scoring.

To me there are not really any independent organisations who are thinking about the future for the UK from a completely a political non-partisan, non-commercial point of view.

However, the point I'm making is that one could not really prove a theory in political science, but only refute it.

«This shows that political point scoring really is at the heart of Theresa May's decision making, and respect for human life and dignity have been left by the wayside.»

, but the really useful feature from a political communicator's point of view is the listing of every state - level politician's Facebook and / or Twitter feeds (man, I'd hate to be the poor bastard who has to keep THAT up to date).

The complaint heard on the doorstep which the BT campaign broadcast at least tried to represent — is that the electorate want clarity on the questions that really matter to them, not political point scoring and soundbites.

«Half the electorate is really not happy at this point with the president's leadership, and so that doesn't provide members of the House with much of a basis for thinking there will be coattails for them to ride on,» said James E. Campbell, a professor of political science at the State University at Buffalo.

The legal / constitutional / political point that really struck me though was the anti-democratic throw - away in para 8 «Many, within the churches and beyond, dispute the right of any government to redefine an ages - old social institution in the way proposed.».

None of this really matters beyond creating political talking points.

Isabel Oakeshott, the political editor of The Sunday Times who worked with Vicky Pryce to expose her taking of Chris Huhne's speeding points, has said she «really doesn't feel responsible for what has happened to her».

As my Australian political scientist colleague Rodney Smith pointed out to me, if the other candidates really want to stop Corbyn, they would do better to co-operate to game the preferential voting system to maximise the chances of one of them beating him on second preferences.

«We've moved from a political environment where that sort of thing was said quite regularly, to a point where we don't really know,» she says.

There are just enough historical and political details; the movie touches quickly on the fine points of British - French - Indian - settler conflicts, so that they can get on to the story we're really interested in, about the hero who wins the heart of the girl.

Andy, who is credited with authoring a Brookings white paper that helped inspire RTT, points out that «In the case of Race to the Top, while it wasn't a disaster, there were enough problems that some people favorably inclined... are now asking if the federal government, with all the political and substantive constraints upon it, can really run a reliable high - stakes competition.»

Is the Trump administration really undermining civil rights enforcement, or is this just another effort by the outgoing administration to score political points against its successor?

You might think Malloy did this because of the growing opposition to both in his state, but blogger Jonathan Pelto points out here that he did it not because he really believes there is a problem with the school reforms but because he is trying to assure his re-election this November and can read the political tea leaves.

Are you really willing to believe the political posturing and bureaucratic claims that, in essence, come down to obtaining one data point in order to meet the all - important 95 % Test Participation Rate required by the Every Student Succeeds Act and the federal U.S. Department of Education?

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off

Pressed flowers trapped within a lightbox enclosure, the size of an average cell (1.98 m2); a five - screen film of journeys around the prison's corridors, grounds and perimeter (Vanishing Point); a film and book (My Shadow's Reflection) comprising architectural images of the prison and pinhole camera images of the prisoners — blurred beyond recognition and speaking, Clark says, of how prisoners are not really seen in contemporary political discourse; and a longer 74 - minute film work (Oresteia), showing a form of psychodrama episode, based on the Greek tragedy, with prisoners playing — and responding to — the various characters, exploring notions of acceptable violence, catharsis and empathy.

The chance of overshooting the mark in political response to climate change is so remote at this point that we really don't have to participate in the nuts and bolts for quite a while.

And it is important to understand that scientists at this point had no experience either with FOIA nor with politically motivated challenges, or really with political motivations at all.

One of the points I have made before on various occasions is that fundamentally totalitarianism isn't really political — at least not in the sense that people mean the term «political.»

Not that Jindal really cares — he is out to score political points against the Obama administration for its mishandling of the Gulf spill.

Putting the political aspect aside, I would really like to hear the opinions of the RC regulars, both real scientists and the scientist wannabes (like me), on what date you would pick on a time line and say, «by this point we knew about the A in AGW and there was very little doubt, even if we had a lot of uncertainty about the amount of warming and interactions between various parts of the environment, and we should have started to take action to reduce our emissions».

When most Realtors (including «good» ones) aren't doing very well, it doesn't really matter (to them), economics trumps political theory every time, and that is my point... finally.