Sentences with phrase «political points when»

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

You know, this was something that came up originally as a means to make a political point when there were substantive discussions around Senate reform a long, long time ago.

Not exact matches

For anyone who wants to be in charge of people in business (or in the political spectrum), when you dictate you point fingers, you command, and you ignore feedback.

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.

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.

«We'd prefer to just be helping people get from point A to point B, but when the company starts to succeed, in a city, or in a country, or around the world, you start to get brought into more and more of these political debates.»

The point is that when individuals from opposite sides of the political spectrum come to a similar conclusion, then chances are that conclusion contains an element of truth.

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).

As people are always pointing out, Christians have persecuted Christians a lot through history, especially when political or dynastic or commercial interests were involved.

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.

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.

Critics of regulation are quick to point out the evils of Lysenkoism, that era in Russian history when biological research was brought to a virtual standstill by political control.

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

Cardinal Wyszynski was the archetype of moral leader and societal focal point at a time when the nation had no legitimate political leader.

His main point: it looks like interest - group politics, and thus gives license for bad liberal and statist - Republican tax policy incentives when the political winds shift.

When all 3 are collapsed, it's all political and action and as you point out: life & death seriousness.

No, Jesus, when pressed to use his authority to make a political point said simply, «Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.»

Political factors, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Richard E. Morgan have pointed out, made it difficult to change course even when it became clear that something was amiss.

When theologians affirm that every quest for a genuine and lasting polis is identical with the development of «personhood» in community they should be aware that — at least from a Marxist or revolutionary political point of view — they are serving as ideological spokesmen for a modern Western or bourgeois conception of politics and society.

The Declaration of Independence points to the sovereignty of God over the collective political society itself when it refers in its opening lines to «the laws of nature and of nature's God» that stand above and judge the laws of men.

We know that we should acknowledge America's dark history of slavery — but when we're trying to make a political point?

Lest you think this is too far - fetched, let me point out that when the drive to become is unchallenged it becomes in the political arena a right - wing fascism which is bound to have master race manifestations.

When asked pointed questions on Piers Morgan he gave the best political answer ever and squirmed out of the question.

Without it, we will find it much harder, even impossible, to discern when reasonable compromise in the political arena risks transmuting into a profoundly unwise compromise of our proclamation of Christ and, to take the case in point, of the virtue of purity.

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.

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

The first week of November 2011 has been a tipping point; the moment when it belatedly dawned on pundits and politicians alike that the euro crisis at heart is political — and that if it's politics versus the markets, then politics is losing hands down for now.

Jonah makes the excellent point that conservatives (and libertarians) dominated the «net in its earliest days, and I'll back him up on that — when I was helping to assemble the list of websites for a targeted political search engine back in 1999, progressive / lib sites were grossly outnumbered, and there was no real lefty counterpart to the Free Republic (a then - vibrant online community) or to Drudge.

The fact that a mainstream actor might use the death of Osama Bin Laden to draw a critical comparison between US and Russian foreign policies indicates how much the United States is still a major reference point when Russians seek to define their international political identity.

If I remember correctly, Spitzer made a particular point of insisting his administration would be blind to political affiliation when hiring, and his appointments office came under fire for not moving quickly enough to suit rank - and - file Democrats in cleaning house of Pataki - era appointees.

As National Journal's Alex Treadway pointed out earlier in the day, though, political professionals will be reluctant to embrace online ads as a tool until the online advertising world finds ways to make it easier for consultants to place ads, particularly when they're dealing with many different sites.

At any similar transition point in the past, it's resulted in political revolutions, upheavals, and world wars - times when you need diplomats more than ever.

One could certainly make the point that in this environment, with a thirsty U.S. Attorney who is willing to investigate what has always been considered «business as usual» in New York State, everyone needs to be extra special careful about navigating and recognizing the boundaries when it comes to political fundraising which (rightly or wrongly) exist for a reason.

Commercial marketers usually have a wealth of data to work with, from demographics to credit history to homeownership, but when he started working in politics, Ghani was struck by the fact that political campaigns are trying to build voter models based on a handful of data points.

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is asked about his ties to several controversial nonprofit groups that were set up to promote his political agenda, he often points to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

«While some of our members have differed in the past on some of the specific issues in the New NY Agenda, the Executive Committee unanimously takes this position because we understand and accept Andrew's point that this is a pivotal moment in the history of this state, similar to the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when leaders in the labor, civic, business and political arena must put aside their individual agendas for the good of the entire state.»

When the political blogosphere was first becoming prominent a few years back, one of its attractions was that most bloggers were non-traditional voices who brought up topics and points - of - view that weren't being discussed in the mainstream media.

When asked how the next president should use the internet, she said that there's no point in collecting political capital if you're not going to spend it.

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.

When it comes to saving these steelworks, we should try and be bigger than making political points.»

Ditching Brown gave Labour a popularity boost of around four percentage points, but political parties rarely think strategically when choosing replacement leaders.

I am absolutely astounded that Woolas (who seems to be among the most reactionary ministers - unless it's just what every minister becomes when they get the migration brief) thinks applicants should gain points by joining political parties.

When they seemed to be making political mistakes, I had also pointed out the danger.

If the proposal to mandate season shutdowns starting next year were truly meant to cripple Indian Point, it would represent the boldest assertion of political muscle by Cuomo in the service of that goal at least since his first year as governor, when his aides reportedly informed Entergy that the administration intended to work toward the plant's closure.

When I pointed this out to Kelly Myers she took the political opportunity to call me «confused.»

«And I don't think it would be right to point a finger at any one person, when you know so many people had it, and it was such a political topic.

County Executive George Latimer has always made a point to highlight his political history of working with Republicans in a bipartisan manner, whether it was giving committee chairmanships to Republicans when he served as chairman of the BOL, or getting Republican support for his bills while in the State Senate.

A perceived turning point was when Blair controversially allied himself with US President George W. Bush in supporting the Iraq War, which caused him to lose much of his political support.

Now that she's won statewide election by a 26 - point margin, and has no credible challengers on the horizon for next year, when she'll run for a full term, it's becoming clearer what she intends to do with the remarkable political opportunity she has been given.

He looks a little sheepish when confronted with his clear - cut politics, having just declared NationBuilder's unique selling point as being «impartiality», in contrast to the partisan political consultancies doing relatively similar work: