Sentences with phrase «political points on»

«Whipping up hate may captivate the public and score political points on social media, but it will not bring an end to the crisis.

There's a chance of that, certainly, but the strategists shouldn't let this sad news deter the leader of the opposition from scoring political points on a key issue affecting the country.

«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.»

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

To Petersan, tonight's episode is a chance to help prove her political point on a national stage, the same thing her business does locally every day.

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On stage, He couldn't help pointing out that the U.S. and Britain were struggling with isolationist political movements at home.

«We are at a point where [Trump] has a real shot at the presidency, despite having blown up a political party, undermined confidence in our electoral system, declared open season on journalists, and unleashed a river of racism and misogyny.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Nor, in light of the polling on this point, does it appear that they have any political incentive to do so.»

«We have now reached a point where European integration, in order to survive, needs a bold leap of political imagination,» ECB president Mario Draghi said on May 24.

According to Freeman, one AFC GM believes there are three things going on with Kaepernick: teams aren't interested in his skillset, while others disagree with his social and political views, the latter points blending into a common theme.

When I was a senior in college I attended an inspiring conference at West Point called the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs, which paired political science majors with cadets in the hopes of building future civilian - military relationships.

While their first meeting at the Florida resort was hailed as a «high point» in relations between the two leaders, this summit promises to be more challenging as the two men struggle with heavy political baggage on both sides.

Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the point when very few countries in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk of staging the Olympics.

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 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.

As political theorist Jacob Levy points out in a blog entry, the anti-gay-marriage camp has historically been not just aggressive in defence of its take on religious freedom, but viciously and hatefully so.)

One point often lost on critics of that outfit is that its main liability — entwinement with a far - flung political network — also accounts for its unique ability to mobilize new resources and partnerships behind different causes.

On Sept. 5 of this year, the Dow dropped 234 points amid a series of potentially volatile political events, including the debate over raising the debt ceiling, a possible government shutdown, and threats from Trump over trade policy with China.

Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said, «It's insane to me that something that works this well, that's been so bipartisan, is jeopardized to score political points.»

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.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was back on the hill, using his usual talking points; the contrast with a Chinese news app, facing its own political pressure, was striking.

(CQ: http://moneyline.cq.com and National Institute on Money in State Politics: http://www.followthemoney.org) In addition, FedEx scored just 42.9 out of 100 points in the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companies.

The negotiating teams on both sides deserve praise for getting things to this point, but it is up to their political masters to complete the job.

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).

Ford's messaging on his promised «audit» of Liberals» spending hits a low point in political rhetoric, even for him.

Points raised in the blog post include the following: - There are people and groups on both the left and right of the political spectrum who favour a Guaranteed Annual -LSB-...]

While many are willing to concede that they agree with the basic definition of feminism — «belief in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes» — debate soon moves on to the finer points of specific beliefs and campaigns.

It adds: «With respect to the existence and the political choices of the State of Israel, they must be seen from a point of view that is not in itself religious but based on general considerations of international law.»

Klein points out that out that there isn't even one panel on health care policy at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

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.

I'm a progressive Christian and liberal on 90 % of political issues including marriage equality and women's rights; however, I think that this should be seen as a tipping point for Christians everywhere.

But what are we to make of such a man, who hijacks an event focused on the suffering of a mostly forgotten group of people, sandbags his hosts, preens self - righteously, and deliberately provokes an ugly reaction to score political points?

Politics becomes a way of ensuring your interests, and your spiritual worldview can't be separated from your political point of view on the issues;

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

The point is that churches exceed their competence, undermine their credibility, skew their mission, and risk betraying the trust of their people when they turn themselves into political lobbies, promiscuously pronouncing and advocating on almost every policy issue in public dispute.

First of all, corruption pervades Greek society to the point that to purge it would destroy the social fabric: all political and social relations are premised on corruption.

On a scale of 1 to 10, Jones predicts that process theology will tally 6 points of compatibility with liberation theology's gospel and mission of economic, social, and political liberation for the wretched of the earth.

The reaction was stunning: more than 8,000 comments, 25,000 Facebook shares, 700 tweets and citations on political websites such as Talking Points Memo and the Washington Monthly.

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.

With so much air - time to fill, pundits and commentators on networks like Fox News and MSNBC spend hours hashing and re-hashing the day's political news to the point that the lines between opinion and objective reporting are blurred, if not unabashedly ignored.

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).

While decisive steps have been taken at several points in your history to place limits on the exercise of power, the nation's political institutions have been able to evolve with a remarkable degree of stability.

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.

When any religion, in this case islam, espouses ideas that are in direct conflict with the Constitution and openly work to impose an alien political / religious system called sharia on the United States, at some point the right to claim constitutional protection is lost.

The doctrine produces outward Christian activity - an informal code on what is «Christian» life - style (the agreed points of which are nevertheless being whittled down with each passing year), Christian activity in and out of church, and a Christian empire with organs of entertainment, education, and political influence - but it does not necessarily produce Christians who are, at the roots of their being, Christian.

Instead, we focus on talking points, one - line zingers that can be Tweeted, and scoring political points to increase donations.

It's really a recognition that at some point the political realm shouldn't enforce any theological restrictions on people.

The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad in any given political climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can influence public opinion.

Some do try to give representation to differing points of view on both scholarly and political issues, but this is rather rare.