Sentences with phrase «political points about»

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.»

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

But any political point about the use of chemical warfare, isolationism or ineffective government leadership is lost when these zombies initiate World War Z.

Luckily, he's matched by a superior supporting cast of actors who deliver equally assured performances here, even when the people they're playing feel less organic than machined to make a political point about tolerance and hypocrisy: To name just a few, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Bill Camp, Ben Foster and the ubiquitous Timothée Chalamet are all on hand for some duration of the journey; Rosamund Pike, as a woman they meet named Rosalie Quaid, delivers a searing portrayal of trauma at its most physically excruciating and psychically disorienting.

Not exact matches

The French ideas about turning the euro zone into a virtual federal state, with its own finance minister, budget, and executive and legislative authorities will probably be among the key talking points in a reform program that is supposed to lead to a tightly integrated economic and political union.

He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and people from all across the political spectrum to talk with him and share their points of view about the issues raised by the Gizmodo story.

As Michael Calderone at Huffington Post has pointed out, however, Labott has expressed political opinions before on Twitter, including one case in which she said that President Obama was «whining about criticism» at the G - 20 summit meeting.

Many people point to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created to boost financial resilience in flood zones, but has been criticized from just about every political and technical vantage point as too often working to subsidize, instead of mitigate, vulnerability.

Harper's motto about actions speaking louder than words points up a fundamental truth about political rhetoric - there is often a low correlation between politicians» promises and their subsequent actions.

Harris pointed to the fact that the latest NFIB small business survey showed a spike in concern about political uncertainty.

We are quick to point out any wrongs all sides of the political spectrum, but this piece was specifically about Christy Clark return to the public stage and what she chooses to raise her voice about.

excerpt: «First of all, if you did not do so yesterday, please take the time to read Kevin Carmichael's look at the trip, and in particular how pack journalism narratives have formed, but he makes very relevant points about the political dynamics and the regional politics of India that the Canadian media is completely ignoring.»

It's no surprise that when asked about their confidence in the political state of small business, women responded, on average, a full point lower than men (women averaged a 7 out of 10 confidence level, while men averaged an 8).

Some pointed to disillusionment about Obama's interest in economic liberalism, and others suggested an increased awareness about the political strength of major corporations and rising wealth inequality.

The executives repeatedly appear to brag about their behind - the - scenes efforts to influence political outcomes in Mexico, Australia and Kenya, at one point teasing that they're beginning to work in China, too.

As you can see, conversations about medical ethics can get complex and circuitous very quickly (like many socio - political issues do)-- which is precisely the point that most of us miss.

Reihan Salam points us to a National Journa l article about how the Democrats have used the Ryan budget to their political advantage.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

And I am concerned that we are now more concerned about who to blame (e.g., political finger pointing) for the problems that we have than we are in solving those problems.

Yesterday I posted some thoughts about Byron Williams, a wannabe Right Wing revolutionary, pointing out that a false rhetorical urgency in political discourse is likely to contribute to the unbalanced thoughts of people like Williams.

It is considered a bit of a faux pas to point this out, but what we are talking about in part is a Democratic president, a largely Democratic professional administrative class in Washington, and an IRS whose workers belong to a union whose political action committee gave roughly 95 % of its political contributions last year to Democrats.

Today much of our debate about marriage comes from a similar hope to score political points.

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

In the light of that, it is an important point you made Reema about culprits and perpetrators possibly being institutions and political organizations that enforce certain schools - of - thought and practices.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

That is an interesting point CamDen1, about reconciling political beliefs with one's moral compass.

He had a point; and if we then ask about the «progress» from Grant to Nixon, we would have to acknowledge something like stasis in our political morality.

Western society, while still giving lip - service to religion, has evolved past the point where (for most people anyways) a satire or insult about jebus, the pope, or any other religious or political figure is reason enough to drawn down and start shooting.

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.

The second subtle point that Maritain makes about practical intellect begins again with the fact that ethical and political action are always about existents.

Canadians at one point in Ontario were thinking about having a Canadian Revolution, but, luckily, the British political leaders learned from their horrible failing in their treatment of Americans and they gave Canada a lot of political and economic rights — more than they gave the Americans, and they then gave us our own country.

You can read more about the trouble in translating this here, but the salient point is that the verse has become a rallying cry for the anti-Ahok political movement in Indonesia, who use it to justify not trusting the governor, who is a Christian.

I pointed out that I did not think Jesus was talking about a political entity or some kind of chaplaincy to the political establishment.

, could have simply made your point about the misuse and abuse of religious beliefs for political gain by focusing solely on the NPD Task Force and the political parties without disrespectfully addressing God.

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.»

Fairly distinct types of solution to the religio - political problem (Or fairly distinct types of civil religion) seem to correlate with the phases of religious evolution as I have described them.3 In primitive society neither politics nor religion is very well differentiated, so there is not much point in talking about the relationship between them.

If this last point seems vague and general, let us take my earlier remark about political boundary lines on a map as a concrete illustration.

Political commentators are right to point out voter concerns about immigration, economic distress caused by globalization, and the technocratic establishment....

The present volume is the outcome of the conviction that most of our talk about post-war reconstruction misses the point in that the treaties, political organizations, and economic arrangements, about which we speak and write so voluminously, are only surface phenomena.

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

When comedian / political commentator W. Kamau Bell set out to film an episode about off - the - grid living for his new CNN show «United Shades of America,» all signs pointed to Asheville.

Further, it's gotten to the point where any comment made in support of an argument made by the right is labeled racist, etc., as if someone in a political position one doesn't share can never be right about anything (a problem shared by both those on the left and right).

Under present conditions, the intense consciousness raising about the «rightness» of personal choices that worked so well in the early days of the women's movement will end up escalating the divisive finger - pointing that stands in the way of political reform.

I do «get» the point (made in previous blog post) that the concern is about the political involvement in the tomato paste question.

In her answer, Nestle points out that when we talk about food, entrenched financial and political interests are at stake:

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.

The Paxman - Brand interview, which went viral and triggered a debate about political apathy and voting, saw Paxman say to the actor: «If you can't be arsed to vote, why should we be arsed to listen to your political point of view?»

If I sound cynical about the redistricting process, I have a right: my first substantive political experience was working for a member of the Texas House of Representatives during a special session devoted to redrawing those precious political lines in 1992, during which at one point I quite literally walked into a smoke - filled room.

So now, even before Emma Benson, a field director for the conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity, knocks on a door, she has more than 700 data points about the person behind it, like magazine subscriptions, car ownership (make, model, year), propensity for voting, and likes and dislikes mined from Facebook and Twitter, from rock bands to baseball teams.

Dr. Nkpah said: «After a study of the approach, loud pronouncements and long delays adopted by the government on the globally celebrated implementation, the Ogoni people are not persuaded about the sincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government whose earlier promises were designed to score cheap political points.»