Sentences with phrase «political points off»

ALBANY — A day after attacking Donald Trump on national TV, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman moved to score political points off a pending case involving the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

There must be some political points off for that.

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Dali Yang, a Chinese - born political scientist at the University of Chicago, points out that supporting off - line retail helps preserve domestic jobs, which pleases employment - conscious Chinese government officials.

Kinder Morgan's announcement set off a furor of finger - pointing and political posturing.

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.

At that point people chose to have fewer children, and population leveled off without any political action.

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.

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.

The McCain version isn't bad for a political ad — it's put together well from a technical point of view (though with the sound off, you'd think it was an Obama spot), and its message was striking enough to attract plenty of attention.

Steve Castleton made a great point in our «Getting Your Online Campaign off the Ground» session at the Art of Political Campaigning last week — think of visitors to your website as impulse buyers and design accordingly.

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.

The big loser was traditional political rhetoric — every time candidates veered off into talking points, I started to drift off myself, but when they spoke as they would in a normal conversation, I would tend to perk up and listen.

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

As questions continue over the stipend arrangement in the state Senate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday pointed not to Senate Republicans or the Independent Democratic Conference, but Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a political rival who signed off on the checks for seven lawmakers.

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.

«And usually towards the end of the class they would swap papers and then they would sort of score jolly points off each other making political points.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The gloves came off Wednesday night between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his Republican challenger, Rob Astorino, in a free - for - all that featured finger - pointing and charges of lying and political corruption.

The piece pointed out that Cuomo frequently calls political reporters to chat, but strictly off the record.

The pressures may be rising to the point where an adroit political retreat will be in the offing.

We won't spoil things, except to say that the choices made are truly striking, simultaneously reaffirming the series» commitment to timely political point - making while providing an off - key but oddly satisfying sense of closure.

In addition, much of the political heat and public concern around issues like testing, Common Core, and the validity of standardized test scores are greatly diminished at this point — easy jumping - off points for reporters in the past.

My main reason for blogging is not to develop a business, make political points, or earn money off of book reviews, advertising, or anything else, but to give something back.

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

Points of View: Our writers on what's happening in the artworld and beyond: J.J. Charlesworth on whether artworld boycotts are turning biennials into a political battleground; Maria Lind on the case for quality rather than quantity; Sam Jacob on the cult of normality; Jonathan T.D. Neil on art's greater good; Andrew Berardini on how LA is witnessing an evolution in collective thinking; Mike Watson on an aesthetics of emergency in Naples and Rome; Mark Sladen on the «alphabet soup» of Jean - Michel Wicker; Jonathan Grossmalerman on the premiere of The Grossmalerman Show; Louise Darblay on off - space La Salle de Bains, Lyons, France.

With COP16 kicking off in Cancún, Mexico at the end of the month, UNEP is hoping to get people jazzed up about all the different ways of combatting climate change — considering, that all signs point to little progress on the political front this year,

Instead we'd be far better off working to find those points — be they cultural, technological or political — where we can have the most effect, and then apply as much pressure as possible to bring about the change we need.

The IPCC has backed off talk of tipping points and irreversible climate change, though I get the impression that may be a political calculation — in line with Lacis's peeve that «likely» and «most likely» are weasel constructions for appearance's sake.

Proposed by Bitcoin Core's developers, SegWit's main goal is to send transactions off - chain and onto second layers like the Lightning Network or sidechains, but it has already drawn a lot of criticism over its use of a 1:4 ratio, which some miners pointed out as a political decision that will bind bitcoin's trajectory for years regardless of technical factors.