Sentences with phrase «political point through»

Rather, both are interested in making a profound political point through an attention - grabbing allegory.

Not exact matches

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

But with so many interests — and political careers — at stake, the risk that talks could fall through at any point remains a serious risk,» he warned, adding that such a scenario would have an impact of a 1.5 percent contraction on the U.K.'s long - term growth trend.

As people are always pointing out, Christians have persecuted Christians a lot through history, especially when political or dynastic or commercial interests were involved.

It would be easy for a campus ministry group to wink and nod toward their evangelical ancestors, pointing to a doctrinal statement that doesn't exactly say the right things but doesn't contradict them either, while buying political protection and cultural shelter through equivocation and virtue signaling.

It is a new kind of Erastianism: the church being slowly but surely co-opted as a means of social control, subordinated to the whims of the political lobbyists as they press their commitments to creating a society of Psychological Men, Women, and all points in between through the law courts.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

Hegel tended always to make the individual a mere passing - point, a moment, in the cosmic process, and to insist on the individual's gaining his concrete ethical significance through being identified with the social, religious, and political institutions of his time.

The outrage in Arizona has sparked another cycle of mutual recriminations between liberals and conservatives that points up what seems to be a growing chasm running through our political culture.

Not through force, not by proselytizing, but first by finding more ways to give love, as Jeremy pointed out; then through individual, meaningful lifestyle changes and political involvement.

They point with scorn to the weaknesses of nineteenth - century political democracy, now become painfully apparent through long experimentation.

While one political side routinely points to massive, European - style budget cuts (known as Austerity) as the answer to our fiscal problems, others have argued that the best way to stimulate the economy is through a balanced approach which includes both cuts and revenue increases.

Regional integration through tying the Horn of Africa to Ethiopia via electricity connections will be financially lucrative, if Addis can get the devilish technical aspects of the mission right; it would also shift the regional political point of gravity to Ethiopia for years to come.

In particular, immigrant arrivals to Europe through Lampedusa, an Italian island and one of the closest points from the African mainland, triggered a range of public and political discussions.

Batra, a controversial appointee of Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, at one point asked if there was a problem with political campaigns that «launder» money through 501 (c) 4 groups, a line of questioning that was cut off by JCOPE Chairwoman Janet DiFiore, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Donations through LLCs have increased over the years, and Democrats were quick to point out their legislation would not bar the entities from political giving.

As with Google campaigns, political advertisers generally focus on measuring a banner ad run's «click - through» rate, but banners also convey branding and messaging points whether they're clicked or not.

Case in point: While the 2002 McCain - Feingold law was supposed to put an end to the influence of big money in politics, eager donors turned to independent expenditures financed through Super PACs as a way to conduct unlimited political advertising.

Indeed, countless commentators have pointed out that the Tories» proposed cut in inheritance tax (IHT) drives a cart and horses through their claim to be a «progressive» political party.

The coming elections is also going to be the same based on the presence of our security agencies at all flash point areas to ensure that our citizens are able to go through their political dispensation without fear or anticipation of any violence».

Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Liberal Democrats on top by one point over the Conservatives based on an average of the very latest polling, but the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats tied on the Polling Tracker.

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives one point ahead of the Liberal Democrats in terms of vote share, with Labour four points further adrift.

He pointed out that Donahue got his job through political clout, since he's a relative of the late Bronx state Sen. Guy Velella.

Rocky Point attorney Jennifer Maertz will try to accomplish through a primary what she couldn't do through political conventions, namely gain the Democratic Party's nomination in this year's special State Assembly election.

Through those records and interviews with government and political party officials, Newsday confirmed that at least 102 county political figures had a total of at least 141 relatives working in public jobs at some point since the end of 2014.

The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives on 34 per cent, four points ahead of the Liberal Democrats on 30 per cent, with Labour on 27 per cent.

This behind - the - scenes curation reinforces our political points of view through online «echo chambers» that affirm, instead of challenge, what we already believe to be true.

Opponents of drilling in the coastal plain point to the very vehicle in which Congress is trying to open it up — through the special budget reconciliation process that requires just 51 votes in the Senate — as evidence that through traditional channels they still do not have the political will to drill in the Arctic refuge.

Cutting through political talking points to focus on facts and firsthand accounts, «Under the Gun» is an essential primer on the rise of gun violence in the U.S. With this follow - up to the food - industry takedown «Fed Up,» director Stephanie Soechtig again proves her knack for crafting advocacy docs that resonate.

The scene in Shaun of the Dead in which Pegg's character walked to the shops through a zombie apocalypse without noticing anything amiss made a similar point, but it's intriguing to see Pegg and Wright underpin a whole film with a socio - political statement.

Paradoxically, as Van Heuckelom points out, by portraying a cinematic road trip through the continent of post-Berlin Wall Europe, Baier displaces Switzerland from the centre of attention, while simultaneously trying to save it from its political isolation.

At some point, every young man and woman will have to deal with abstract concepts, think through political issues, and even engage in cocktail conversation involving Chaucer or genetics.

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

Other political issues that feature in this year's show include the conflict in Gaza, which is the focal point of one of Nashashibi's films, while Andrea Büttner addresses the rise of fascism in the 1940s through the words of the French philosopher Simone Weil.

Where the artist's previous work pointed to the instability of capitalism and often included photographs taken by the artist at political protests, the works in the current exhibition refer to the rise of the Bauhaus and Deutscher Werkbund and their imminent destruction through the Nazi regime.

Both works investigate the body through adornment and masking of forms, pointing to historical, political, and social contexts as it relates to sex, gender, power, pleasure, and beauty.

Similar to Alfred Le Petit's and Jules Eugène Lenepveu's caricatures of Émile Zola where the writer defecates while writing texts, the point where scatology becomes political is signified through the creation of a parallel relationship made between political stances and the artist's practice.

Along with headliners Walid Raad and Khalid Rabah, standout contributions were Rabih Mroue's controversial political play How Nancy Wished that Everything Was an April Fool's Joke (2007), originally banned in Lebanon and then later allowed to take the stage after public protest, and Sharif Waked's video satire about what clothing to wear through a checkpoint, Chic Points (2003).

The selected artists have used the body as a point of reference for expressing political and aesthetic issues; pushing the boundaries of artistic expression through their individual use of media.

Each year, the Marathon topic breaks through disciplinary boundaries to identify discursive movements, as well as the parallels and points of encounter between the empirical, the political and the imagined.

A true original, with a distinct and glorious aesthetic and multiple points of reference both political and literary, Chetwynd needs to be experienced through her live performance works to be properly understood.

Corruption, political oppression, gendered violence and homophobia are things that African artists like Ousmane Sembene or Zanele Muholi have talked about through their work in the past, sometimes to the point of said work being banned due to controversy in their respective countries.

For each Study Session, an artist, writer, or cultural worker selects a work of art on view in the Whitney's galleries as a departure point for thinking through an urgent question in our contemporary political landscape.

The focal point of Argote's exhibition, «La Venganza del Amor», is presented in form of an immersive film installation and sculpture that seeks to link continents and cultures through personal connections and shared histories and investigates barriers to kinship and integration such as globalization and political ideologies.

The exhibition delineates points of convergence in their work, in particular their focus on social and political issues through a reliance on conjuring an often entertainingly ambiguous narrative framework.

Through an extensive display of ephemera, including letters to Hugh Hefner and private collectors, glossy magazine advertisements, personal musings and sketches, My American Dream appears as a kind of bellwether for the art world's symbiotic relationship with consumerism, corporate sponsorship (a relic of another economy), and the market — political and ethical concerns that could not have been expressed in the sculptural objects she had made up until that point.

Fortunately most science isn't as politically charged as climate science, otherwise the starting point for many of Dr. Curry's ideas to succeed would first require the step of establishing diversity through political affirmative action for faculty hires, not feasible within a reasonable timeframe, if at all.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»