Sentences with phrase «political thicket»

Alternatively, they could have put the money into various water projects around the country, but that would be a political thicket, Lubell says.

Although Dolan has waded deep into the political thicket in recent months, most notably clashing with the Obama administration over a contraception coverage mandate (wearing his hat as president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops).

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If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature (Olive, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge as frontier entrepreneurs in a war of wills, is dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations, designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

It's dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations (including a not - so - veiled allegory for the McCarthy witch - hunts in Hollywood), designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

For another, any targeted attempt to engineer population decline is going to run into an unholy thicket of moral and political resistance.