Sentences with phrase «political sway»

The reason in this case is that state bar associations, which hold immense political sway, usually oppose shared parenting legislation.

Joseph McCarthy of course appears as himself, and it's astounding that he held such political sway for any amount of time, considering both his appearance and demeanour.

CU Boulder scientist Larry Benson said the new study shows that Chaco Canyon — believed by some archeologists to have been populated by several thousand people around A.D. 1100 and to have held political sway over an area twice the size of Ohio — had soils that were too salty for the effective growth of corn and beans.

«Political sway is a big problem for wildlife agencies,» says Lance Fisher, a professional fisherman and fishing guide based in Portland, Ore. «You would find better ecological balance if the experts at these agencies were left alone to do their jobs, but that's not how it goes down.»

In exchange, Silver used his political sway to benefit Glenwood with legislative favors, prosecutors said.

The third is that Christians, including evangelicals, hold incredible political sway in America.

Eisenhower knew the value of patience, and that coalitions and political sway were necessary to accomplishing the mission.

Not exact matches

He's a titan in the corporate world and he has significant sway in the political arena, too.

While Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Tuesday in the wake of his company's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the forum - based site had discovered and banned nearly a thousand accounts run by the same Russian trolls that were accused of attempting to sway political opinions on Facebook through politically charged advertising, fake news, and other posts.

Because Cambridge Analytica had ties to the Trump campaign prior to the 2016 election, some suspect that data may have been harnessed to sway voters via targeted political messaging.

With British officials raiding the offices of embattled political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee before congress, and GDPR set to go into effect next month, no story holds greater sway in techland.

Two gangs, the Black Panthers — not the better - known political organization of the same name — and the Young Lords, seemed to hold sway at the school.

Preserving the euro has been enough to sway support for Greek rescues in the past, but political conditions could have changed.

Sadly most Americans are unable or unwilling to grasp the fairly basic numbers stated above and thus are easily swayed by the political sophistry purveyed by «Earlyretired».

Even though algorithms decide so much of a citizen's life — what ads a person sees, what political messages they hear, what kinds of loans they can get, how they fair in the criminal justice system — these things are all under the sway of algorithms, and most consumers don't feel empowered to push back because they don't know the math.

Democrats will push back, but Republicans and allies of the president who agree with Trump's view that the Trump - Russia investigation is a political «witch hunt» are unlikely to be swayed by the Democrats» insistence that this memo is a politicized and cherry - picked reading of the available intelligence.

The political firm, which consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.

These fake accounts, known as bots, can help sway advertising audiences and reshape political debates.

The progress of algorithms has gone so far that Facebook and Google are now accused of creating filter bubbles that can effect public opinion, rapidly change political landscapes and sway elections.

Despite the sway of political uncertainty for the biotechnology industry at the moment, these thr...

Conflicting statements from the Trump administration have made owning biotech stocks feel like a roller - coaster ride in recent weeks, but there are a few stocks I'd happily buy and hold despite the sway of political uncertainty.

Just look at most of the GOP presidential candidates in the U.S., each invoking their Christian faith as part of their political platform in the hope of swaying conservative Christian voters.

Isn't the entire goal of a political campaign to sway the minds of impressionable voters towards your way of thinking?

She is also one of the worlds most wealthiest institutions and has sway with the kings and nations of the earth in the political arena.

His reasoning seems to be that such a large community should have enough power to sway political tides — if these leaders and pastors would just guide their congregations toward a kind of political activism.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Cook addressed the trend, in which websites fabricate stories and headlines in an effort to draw large amounts of Internet traffic and sway political opinions.

While it maybe be true that large pools of institutional money are better at buying political favors, influencing scientific research, and swaying foreign governments, it has always been known and is frequently demonstrated that individuals always do better at loving and caring for other individuals, tend to be wiser stewards of money, and view their giving and service toward others as a means of actually helping them, rather than a means to gain political power or popular prestige.

The coercions of political correctness sway him not at all, and the sentimentality that urges us to respect the will and creativity of individuals, especially children, is altogether ousted.

If Evangelicals are looking for more authentic personal testimonies regarding the faith of political candidates, what part of Romney's stated belief in Joseph Smith's revelation in the forests of Pennsylvania would sway the vote of an Evangelical who adheres to a uniquely inspired Bible?

As women gained equal rights and were able to enter parliaments and decision - making bodies in equal numbers with men, their influence would be able to sway societies away from war and toward nonviolent political means of solving disputes.

Furthermore, he violated the consti.tution by speaking about political issues and trying to inadvertently sway the vote away from Obama, for which once the IRS are done he could very well have cost his cult of bigots their tax - exempt status.

Weber knew that during his own lifetime, his severe intellectualism did not hold sway in public affairs, and he warned of the growing desire for prophecy and political commitment among young students.

The other was the necessity to keep the law of the covenant within such remnants of the state as might remain and under any political regime that might temporarily hold sway.

Many of those responsible for shaping these policies are tough - minded neoconservatives who share with political philosopher Leo Strauss a cynical view of religion as unfit for elites, but useful in swaying the masses.

Protestantism, as he insists all along, «ruined» the integral march of Catholic civilization by introducing socially disintegrative ideas into the habits of European life, weakening the otherwise powerful sway of a unified religious political power.

There have been unnumbered political barbecues, where the eloquence peculiar to that region has been developed, and where vast audiences have been moved by its power, as the trees beneath which they were gathered have been swayed by the winds.

Those who see it as a sport issue are already on his side, those who see it as a political issue can't be swayed.

Dictating the pace and pattern of political policy was Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region who held sway in Kaduna as leader of the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, the party that with its allies formed the largest bloc in the federal parliament.

Is there any law which prohibits foreigners (non-US citizens) from spending billions of dollars to sway U.S. elections by deliberately placing attack ads against certain political parties?

Cuomo noted that his office has gone after some very powerful people who have contributed political cash to him, using this as proof that he can't be swayed from acting in the best interest of the «people of New York State» just because someone throw some money in his direction.

According to West, the former is the result of heavy - handed state policy which gives undue sway to particular groups in society over individuals, while the latter, at its worst, represents a form of «political straightjacketing».

«It's time we have leadership in Albany who is focused on the people, not their party, who is focused on leading, not just fundraising, and who doesn't just sway with whichever way the political winds blow.»

Long a center of African - American political power, the district is now majority Latino, but the black Mr. Rangel held off two furious challenges from a Latino lawmaker and could sway the race in 2016 if he endorses Mr. Wright.

Political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica is facing questions over whether it used the personal data of millions of Facebook users to sway the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election and the UK Brexit referendum.

Pastor, the greatest disservice to a country and God is when cunning intellectuals like you use your talents acquired by the funding of ordinary people to lead them astray and take advantage of their hopelessness by preaching utopia, and taking advantage of their reverence to sway their votes for your preferred political party and system.

He added that he would not be swayed by the drowning antics of some political traders on the state.

Through deft political maneuvering, Cuomo and a group of activists, advocates and political donors were able to sway the Republican - controlled Senate to allow for a vote on the issue while getting some Republicans to vote for the measure.

Yet the president does not completely understand his role as a principal, Republicans say, and his political operation does not have enough sway with him to make him fully grasp that he is the leader of the Republican Party.

Political parties, in league with tech firms, target voters in a few marginal seats to sway national results.

She has produced many exclusive reports - revealing, for example, that a prominent Staten Island attorney was behind several misleading Facebook pages designed to sway political races in the borough.