Sentences with phrase «political points»

It is about scoring political points on something that has no hope of actually making a difference in the real world.

I'd rather not look at it from a partisan political point of view because I'm not a politician.

She is then caught in the struggle over what to do, since it seems all factions are using her in order to make political points.

And it's all for political points that may soon be worth nothing because when you cater to a small select crowd, eventually everyone else wants you out.

He also denied that the effort was designed to score some sort of political point in his election.

A good and strong leader for a political party doesn't try to score political points with irrelevant cheap shots like that.

Surely a party that believes in fairness, equality and justice wouldn't make a petty political point by playing with my career?

That was the low - brow party political point made; now it was time to seize the moral high ground.

This is a matter of policy, not political point scoring.

Stop using any story - even the death of 20 children - to gain political points.

Let me stress again that I am not trying to score party political points here.

This should not, she says, be an opportunity for petty political point - scoring.

My request — my plea — to everyone involved in our political system is this: set scoring political points aside and focus on what is best for the nation as a whole.

And using a natural disaster that is costing lives as a chance to score a cheap, not particularly profound political point is just bad form across the board.

The Republican party is a few decades behind on that specific political point.

One of the most important economic and political points arising from climate change is uncertainty about how seriously future governments will respond to the problem.

It's just an alternative political point of view.

The governor claims his urgency on guns had nothing to do with scoring national political points.

Does he want political points for introducing a tough bill that can never go anywhere?

You claim the film is a vehicle to make a simplistic political point.

It's a fundamentally political point that the video just wishes away.

We ought to critically engage our neighbors and use these discussions to inform our affirming vote choice, but only in a constructive manner that seeks out truth, not cheap political points.

How best to take care of the least of these from an economic and political point of view I think is one of those areas.

I assume he was just trying to score political point with the accountability folks and public school parents since no useful results could have been provided.

I totally agree that a convention that is established quickly against a backdrop of narrow party political point scoring in the run - up to the election will be a disaster.

It isn't about scoring political points, it's about making sure that anyone responsible for not ensuring the safety of those families is held to account.

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

He's a politician (i.e. who the hell knows what governs his decisions, aside from political points)...

The Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, Anambra State Branch has berated politicians in the state for using the Uke adoration stampede incident as a tool for scoring cheap political points against opponents.

«To label all Muslims who promote and practice Sharia law as extremists is a dangerous precedent which will be strongly opposed by our community because the real reasons behind this new strategy are to score cheap political points on the back of the Muslim community.»

Perry failed to score political points when one of his supporters claim mormonism is cult.

The response of the Welsh Government to today's results has been honest, serious and long - sighted, in contrast to the short term, party - political points which Conservative UK Cabinet Ministers have sought to make today.

In spite of the facts, they chose political points over the health and safety of Ohioans, and in doing so they have harmed some of Ohio's most vulnerable citizens.

I'm talking about something more fundamental: YouCut is dishonest, the cynical act of a leadership that's put the scoring of short - term political points ahead of developing a coherent plan to govern.

But somehow, I doubt that it's going to make much difference, other than giving Republicans a way to score a few cheap political points at Democrats» expense.

You win political points by pushing an agenda that's a national agenda, and saying in New Jersey, in one of the most difficult, well - organized, union states — teachers» unions — you got to push this teacher incentive pay.

According to him, the move was hurriedly implemented to score cheap political points ahead of election 2016, but he's insisted it will create undue pressure on government's purse, as it already having problems in the payment of subsidies to the education sector.

Our NHS is too important to make cheap party political points about, so we once again call on the Tories and Plaid to stand up for patients rather than simply sitting back and shouting from the side - lines.»

«And, quite frankly, from a crass political point of view, we were in the making - friends business.

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

From a partisan political point of view, I don't actually care much about the false claims of» 97 % scientific consensus», since (as Dan has pointed out in the past) they don't actually work persuading people, and for a significant fraction of the population actually serve to turn people against it.

@HannoverFist It gives political points both ways, making corporate taxes permanent makes you look like you favor them over people.

That's not a party political point really — there's not an atom to choose between Balls, Miliband and Brown on the one hand and Osborne and Cameron on the other.

Behind Scalia's «originalism» and «textualism,» they claim, lies a conservative political point of view.

Beyond the issue of civil liberties lies a more prosaic political point: the possibility for a greater alliance between African - American Christians and white evangelicals.

Castro for his part clearly recognized the political gain in an alliance between liberation theology and Marxist revolution: «From a strictly political point of view» and I think I know something about politics» I believe that it is possible for Christians to be Marxists as well, and to work with Marxist Communists to transform the world.»

No, the pint is that he was being intentionally being misleading and dishonest in order to score political points pandering to people who are too stupid for their own good, and apparently getting stupider all the time