Sentences with phrase «political purposes rather»

more interest in hyping apocalyptic environmental scenarios to raise money for raw political purposes rather than working together to improve our environment for the benefit of all Americans.»

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«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»
The prime proponents of ID are the fine folk at the Discovery Inst / itute who openly admit that they purpose is NOT to teach what they think is true, but rather to use ID as a «wedge to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies» and to separate science from it's allegiance to «atheistic naturalism».
It is the ethical purpose of our republic and the republican virtue of our citizens, or rather the loss of them, that has haunted our recent political life.
Its political model, rather than being trivialized by questions of technique, would aim to grasp empirical structures and relations, portraying them in a new way for the purposes of political intelligibility, Its vision would reaffirm the integrity of the personal in political life.
He noted that the suspects should have been tried in the State rather than being transferred to the federal capital and expressed hope that the investigation and trial will not be hijacked for political purposes.
A member of a government reform group says it's OK if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo uses his campaign coffers to finance this week's trip to Israel if the visit is for political, rather than government purposes.
But in a blog on Dec. 1, 2015, Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, admitted that what had happened was not a significant substantive change, but rather a «rebranding for political purposes
Using comics for political or didactic purposes is not exactly a new idea, but it can result in some interesting work if the artists are careful to engage the issues rather than simply lecture to the reader.
The brief argues that the Court's invitation to overrule key First Amendment precedents would undermine, rather than advance, First Amendment values by granting corporations the power to use huge corporate treasury funds in electoral campaigns even though such funds were not accumulated for political purposes.
And then you have to put up with being a muscular, efficient organization with excellent transparency for audit purposes, qualified to support multidecade multinational projects on merit rather than political lobbying power or a reputation for credibility earned by individual heroics.
«My primary concern about your investigation is that its purpose seems to be to intimidate scientists rather than to learn from them, and to substitute congressional political review for scientific review,» Boehlert wrote.
Their conformity is intact, they never directly acknowledge the underlying political purpose of the AGW meme from inception so it's really more a case of dropping the burdens of forced servitude of being expected to be green activists rather then contrition for what the AGW movement truly represents.
Self - regulation for any profession should be banned, sooner rather than later, despite the fantasy that one's own profession is above reproach it never is and most people who practice common sense are aware of that.Too often self - regulation leads to unethical activity knowing that the self - regulating body will protect not only a member's misdeeds but their identity.Too often these bodies are used for personal gain or political purposes for members with vendettas against others in the same profession.
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