Sentences with phrase «political weight around»

Melainie threw her legal / political weight around in a most abusive manner, using her new found powers, which no previous Commissioner had enjoyed, to bully into submission a gutless CREAcrat crowd with her threats of $ 10,000,000.

Obese people in the US are already throwing their political weight around.

DiNapoli, a Democrat, has used the pension fund to throw some political weight around when it comes to social causes — think of the Chevron lawsuit, which is being challenged by former ethics watchdog David Grandeau, and the plan to divest from firearm manufacturers.

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With ISIS continuing to fight, Russia and China throwing their weight around, and budget shortfalls becoming bigger and bigger problems, the Department of Defense will definitely need strong leadership in the form of a commander - in - chief and his political appointees in the months immediately following the inauguration next year.

Also, the North Korea talks should play our favourable for the dollar as it evaporates much of the political risk weight that has been hanging around the US Dollars neck like an anvil in recent months.

They might have a powerful impact if they all agreed on some specific issue and threw their weight around in the political arena.

Yet the artist is vigilant in his desire to respond to the world around him, and refuses to retreat into a formal world of mark, splatter, and structure (as so many painters of his generation did) in order to address the ever - present weight of the political.

Climate change itself isn't a scientific phenomonen, its a compendium of poisonous, authoritarian political idiocies taped to a loose stool of pseudo-science to give it a little extra weight when it's thrown around the room.