Sentences with phrase «politically difficult position»

At the time, it was unclear at the time if Deasy's initial recommendation to call for repeal of the trigger was genuine or if it was some kind of a ploy designed to put the Board members voting for the motion in the politically difficult position of opposing the parent trigger law in its entirety.

Carvalho's last - minute change of heart left de Blasio in an embarrassing and somewhat politically difficult position: He remains without a schools chancellor and the details of how he courted Carvalho — including the salary that was offered — have all been publicly revealed.

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The move puts the Supreme Court in the difficult position of having to decide whether to take the highly politically charged case in the middle of the presidential election.

Firstly that they see this as an opportunity to increase their majority at the expense of Labour and UKIP both of which are now in rather awkward positions and secondly that the current leadership has inherited a bit of an awkward position themselves in that they are committed to a process which is both diplomatically and politically potentially very difficult and dangerous and if it all goes horribly wrong they are really out on a limb so if they get a fresh mandate they can at least blame the voters.

Perhaps the most politically interesting aspect of this session was the exchanges on fisheries, The government knows it is in a difficult position over the transitional deal it has struck with the EU.