Sentences with phrase «political sideshow»
«Michael is fully prepared to cooperate... but he doesn't want to be dragged in to the political sideshow that sometimes these congressional hearings become.»
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But it should be a respectful opportunity for millions of Americans to hear the message of an important moral leader concerned about the «common good» of all Americans, without it being played out in the media as a divisive political sideshow.
Instead they go to the UN and try to formally secure a spot as a nation even though they have none just for some political sideshow to try and force a peace.
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He pushed back strongly against fresh Republican criticism of the administration's handling of last year's deadly Benghazi attacks, calling it a political «sideshow.»
It is the price Wilson pays for regulating religion to a corny sideshow of Kendrick's socio - political life.
As long as they can avoid the example of the Lib Dems, Labour and Conservative conferences - respectively a sideshow, a freakshow and a shitshow — they'll emerge from conference season the fittest of the political parties.
The issue, he told the BBC's Mark D'Arcy, was whether the House of Commons is at the centre of the nation's political life or that it becomes a «sideshow».
But the two coalition parties almost see the Queen's speech as a sideshow to the chief political task of rebuilding an economy over the next year that they say was more damaged than they realised when they took office.
While critics insisted «The Donald» was merely a chaotic sideshow, Trump was dominating the 24 - hour news cycle with a master plan of political incorrectness.
It concentrates on the war itself, not on any political or social sideshows.
And while American politics have surely become a sideshow before, the 2016 presidential race is firmly in the running to be the most surreal political spectacle in memory.
It is quite true that the scientific debate is presently just a sideshow and the real deadlock is in the political arena.
To this extent, the «hide the decline» debacle is a bit of a sideshow, although it was incredibly significant in drawing political attention to the problems with peer review, especially in relation to the hockey team.....