Sentences with phrase «political stasis»

Northern Ireland is gripped by political stasis.

Conference commends the resolve and solidarity demonstrated by members in Northern Ireland who are in an historic seventh consecutive year of industrial action in pursuit of pay and conditions fit for teaching and learning in the 21st century, despite political stasis and a deeply flawed teachers» negotiating machinery.

There is substantial political stasis in the coming years with little agreement on internal or external policies.

This movement has meant a turning toward political stasis and a certain ruthless acceptance of social inequities as eternally ordained by the Deity.

Not exact matches

He had a point; and if we then ask about the «progress» from Grant to Nixon, we would have to acknowledge something like stasis in our political morality.

I think added to that is the incapacity of the American domestic political system to address these problems: the inability to use the tax system to address budgetary concerns; to spend money on new infrastructure; and the stasis that results from the presidential electoral season.

But he should embrace it anyway; he should fight for it, ask House Democrats to vote for it, and urge President Obama to sign it because he understands that, in a democracy — especially at a time of deep political and ideological polarization — compromise is the only alternative to stasis.

In other words, Cuomo's political ambitions, bolstered by a Board of Regents dominated by union lackeys dead - set on stasis, weakened his resolve to affect meaningful change.

Set against a prevailing cultural and political headwind valuing tradition, certainty, and stasis, Altmejd's work is a physical manifestation of an ideology of growth, change, and perpetual movement.

«Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis.

We'd know something significant (and, given the political near - stasis on mitigation, very helpful) had happened.