Sentences with phrase «political power play»

George Pataki's underlings seemed more interested in political power plays than rebuilding.

And now, attuned to the sound of political power plays at last, he warned that sometime in the next 10 months Parish and Rooney would come forward with a lease from Liberty Bell and demand a license to run at Clark's track.

The script feels cobbled together, with a number of episodes (such as one taking place in a theater) giving «insight» into political power plays at the expense of propelling the plot forward.

A U.N. investigation would investigate details like who is to blame, how to make it stop, what market forces or ideologies or political power plays contribute to it, etc... but political questions don't get much easier than this.

«It's raw political power playing out across the state,» Horner said.

It amounts to an old - school political power play by a veteran politician intent on leveraging every advantage of incumbency — even as public polls have him far ahead of Ms. Nixon.

Sookie Stackhouse and her supernatural cohorts have a disturbing new political power play to deal with in Season 5 — a growing war between the Vampire Authority and «vampire fundamentalists» — and the outcome could decide the fate of human existence.

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the series is partly based on Shakespeare's «Macbeth» and «Richard III,» because there are so many political power plays in each episode that it has the Bard's fingerprints all over it.

But how exactly does the Christian community live in this election season as a signpost of the kingdom rather than a pawn in a political power play?

That we win culture wars with carefully constructed arguments and political power plays, or that we win hearts with humility, truth, and love?

This is a political power play and you prefer that.

Politics come to play and even Wengers signing of a new contract, that is political power play... Wenger wants to stay and he has been offered a contract so ask yourselves why he didn't sign the 1st day it was offered if he is doing so bad?

A whopping 84 % of registered voters report that, from what they have heard, the situation is nothing more than a political power play.

But Senate Democrats are calling it a political power play, saying the additional seat could help keep Republicans in control of the Senate at the expense of Democrats.

The members of the caucus have been at odds with the counties in the wake of a political power play earlier this year involving the city Board of Elections.

Is it a political power play for control of water?

Vanquish is set in a desperate future, one that centers around exponential population growth, a demand for resources, and a political power play from Russia that lands you in the heart of the action aboard an orbiting space station.

He then embarks on an epic adventure rife with warfare, political power plays, and numerous possibilities held within parallel timelines.