Sentences with phrase «political points against»

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

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?

Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.

21.50 - Foreign secretary Philip Hammond praises Benn for «one of the truly great speeches made in this House,» before immediately attempting to score party political points against Labour.

The report is perhaps the antics of mischief makers, who wish to score cheap political points against the Kano State governor, a statement by the president's spokesman, Femi Adesina disclosed.

The best explanation is it's trying to score crass political points against the NDP.

Not exact matches

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

The new combat against «the evil empire» - the most complete human slavery from Von Hayek's point of view - strengthens inevitably the power of attraction of Neo-liberalism as political current.

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.

He rightly cautions against the excessive politicizing of religion, which has reached the point where people choose their church on the basis of their social or political views.

It is a masterpiece of expressionistic Cubism and, as such, it is above all a personal outcry against the Franco - Nazi atrocity, the point being that always Picasso was a subjective, not a political, artist.

He also points out that, as Jerome Colburn observes, contradicting or challenging liberal commitments can evoke from liberals a tribal response, as anyone who has spoken out against political correctness in academia knows.

The important point in what Jesus says is that it condemns a political, military type of Messianic hope and repudiates as futile the Zealots» program of revolt against Rome.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

On another point, a longer list of places where local political factors mitigate strongly against support for a coalition would have to include Liverpool.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

Ultimately, the critics might turn out to be right or they might make valid points while trying to score against their opponents but I think it's indisputable that no diplomatic solution of any kind was ever going to command unanimous approval within US political discourse.

It is mentioned at one point that he spent his political career trying to improve the lot of the poor before he became obsessed with fighting against equal rights.

Although the point surrounding Trump could partially be talked of as a backlash against globalisation etc etc and that, it's undeniable at least that at least some portion of the working class electorate are inherently on the political right

Many people have made good points both for and against the stable futures of Pakistan and India, but increasingly the comments have moved away from political analysis and towards what could be considered to be xenophobia, which is a form of debate that Politics In Spires can not support.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children.

«If you want to be against those ten points, then you be against those ten points at your political risk,» Cuomo, said to applause.

Her political biography mentioned favorite points; her early condemnation and call for resignation by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, her efforts at toll reductions by the MTA on the Verazzano - Narrows Bridge, her lawsuit against the Port Authority over its tolls on bridges from Staten Island to New Jersey and especially her lawsuit against Mayor de Blasio seeking to prohibit the City's destruction of records related to the IDNYC program.

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.

In yet another sign allies of Senate Democrats will be using the 10 - point women's agenda this fall as a political bludgeon against Republican candidates, Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York are blasting GOP hopeful Rich Funke for comments made on the key abortion provision in the measure.

The political newcomer has made a point of reaching out to both labor and community action organizations as she faces off against well - known Republican Chris Jacobs.

«It is indeed a tragedy of immense proportion if the Senate President will close his eyes to these genocidal acts, and instead attempt to incite an armed rebel group against state actors, just to score cheap political points.

If Obama want to score political points, the democratic party lawyers should be filing suit against Arizona, not the Justic Department.

As political handicapper Stu Rothenberg has pointed out, Onorato is running against five decades of history in the Keystone State as the governorship has changed parties every eight years during that time.

In particular, political sources pointed to the proposed districts of Sens. Toby Stavisky (D - Whitestone) and Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who would have to run against each other if the boundaries are adopted.

Against the background of opinion polls pointing to a Labour landslide, in a week he transformed the political weather, forcing Brown to back down at the eleventh hour.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Feeling the political wind at his back after years of reversals, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer pointed to Tuesday's Democratic electoral victories and predicted a momentum shift against the GOP tax bill.

We have read a news story with a screaming headline: ACEP AGAINST SECOND KARPOWER published by the media, and after digesting the arguments put forward by the think - tank and noticing the half - truths therein, we firmly conclude, that ACEP is engaging in politics to score cheap political points for the NPP flagbearer, in this election.

«And if you want to be against those ten points, then you be against those ten points at your own political risk,» Cuomo said.

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

But in 2014, Gibson won by nearly 30 points in a race against Democrat Sean Eldridge, a political activist who is the wealthy husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.

«And if you want to be against those 10 points, you be against those 10 points at your political risk,» Cuomo warned.

Prosecutors, in their complaint against Ciminelli, point to his political contributions and claim they were used to buy him access and influence in Albany and ultimately win more state contracts.

«There is too great an interest, I think, in (the Cuomo administration) to make a headline, to score political points, to leverage people against one another in order to score a win instead of truly understanding the kind of change that needs to happen in order to grow the economy, keep New Yorkers here and make the state more affordable and improve everybody's quality of life,» Molinaro said.

Ossorio recalled that Sessions voted against reauthorizing VAWA, and pointed out Trump has embraced a conservative political think tank Heritage Foundation plan that calls for cuts to VAWA.

Even though those things don't need to be mutually exclusive — and without starting a huge political argument about what those things mean in the educational environment — I would simply point out that there is huge incentive to choose against quality in the name of reducing cost.

, «Grabbing the Bull By The Horns: Cuomo, Nutter and the Backlash Against Making Sh*t Up,» DFER executive director Joe Williams indirectly points to the odd political bedfellows who are pushing for much needed changes in education.

Though not the main theme of an excellent blog post, «Grabbing the Bull By The Horns: Cuomo, Nutter and the Backlash Against Making Sh*t Up,» DFER executive director Joe Williams indirectly points to the odd political bedfellows who are pushing for much needed changes in education.

«People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children,» said Humanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson.

Writing a political science thesis is not very difficult for many students, because even though like all other theses it involves extensive research, political science topics are relatively easy and there is a lot of room for argument for and against a particular topic, so in many cases writing such thesis comes down to simply finding solid arguments and proving your point of view.

Remember that everything you post on social media can be used for or against you: your political opinion, your favourite books and the frequency of baby animal videos are all points based on which your potential readers are going to judge you.

In our current political environment, rule - making often seems little more than a way to score points against the rule makers» rival party.

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

Taking «backfire effect» as a starting point — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans has interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand the political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

Taking as a starting point the «backfire effect» — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand changes in the international political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.