Sentences with phrase «politics at its worst»
«Instead of seizing his Constitutional powers as Governor to solve New York's growing immigration problem, David Paterson is playing ethnic politics at its worst,» Paladino said in a press release.
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Murphy was furious calling it «politics at its worst.»
This is paranoid, Nixon - style politics at its worst.
In her speech, she called the Federal Marriage Amendment that failed the Senate last year to strictly define marriage as an act between a man and a woman «wedge politics at its worst.»
This represents Albany wedge politics at its worst.
«This deal to increase the NYPD headcount seems like politics at its worst, and is not in the best interest of the safety or long - term needs of our communities,» said Monifa Bandele, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform.
The author of the legislation, Republican Ted Morton, was noticeably upset as he called the vote «pathetic» and «politics at its worst.»
«It's politics at its worst.»
«If he really thought this was «politics at its worst,» you would think he could find the time to pick up the phone and call.
«The Cuomo administration's decision to reject permits for the Constitution Pipeline is another example of politics at its worst,» said Marty Durbin, executive director for market development, in a statement issued over the weekend.
What has irritated Murphy is how de Blasio is going about raising money, which he says is «politics at its worst.»
Westminster bubble politics at worst.
Two months ago, in an embarrassing display of politics at its worst, eight GOP members of the Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works purposely skipped McCarthy's hearing, further delaying a confirmation vote.
Not exact matches
And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «At a time when people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only get worse before they get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»
Like the rest of Europe, Italy has endemic problems: A north - south divide and economic divergence, corruption and bureaucracy as well as troubles with migration, anti-establishment politics and a political system that is sluggish at best, and chaotic at worst.
At worst, they would harm the economy, centralize more power in Washington — inspiring more lobbying — and entrench a cynical view of politics.
Also, the French believe that Frau Merkel played politics and an anti-French card by moving to halt electricity production at seven NUCLEAR POWER plants, thus making the French look bad as well as having the impact of driving up electricity prices.
You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.
Now let us have a cloose look at modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.
The history of the Church's engagement with politics and power is turbulent — at its worst, the state was used to execute those dubbed «heretics» and theology was employed to justify war.
not bad wrenn but if they are true Christians why would they take part in this world's politics at all?
It is interesting that the other major emerging force in Italian politics in recent years, the Five Star Movement (M5S), which took 32.6 percent of the vote in the recent elections, has so far been treated more kindly by both the Italian and the international media, being generally described as «antiestablishment,» «Euroskeptic,» or, at worst, «populist.»
In the brutal politics of a region where the withdrawal of American power has led to seven demons worse than the first, Chaldean Catholics are especially at risk because, as Father Bazi put it, they «can't play the game the way the others do» — they can't indulge in revenge killings because their faith forbids them to do so.
Also, generally when statements are made like this in politics, it's an underhanded shot at minority communities with higher percentages of single parent households, or else a message with religious undertones (ie divorce is bad).
The politics around Liverpool were bad at that time, and I've heard a few stories that he wanted to sign players and had them vetoed by the board.
It was not at all what I had envisioned when I pictured the delivery of my sons, however I believe it would have been far worse had our midwife Belinda not stepped in to fight for us amidst the chaos of doctors and hospital politics.
In Milk, Money and Madness, The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding, Naomi Baumslag and Dia Michels address the fact that an «intimate and self - affirming life experience that is responsible for the survival of our species has been reduced to «just one feeding option»» at best and «a confining form of servitude» at worst.
Our friends over at SalsaLabs have launched a new online advocacy how - to site called Advocacy Unleashed, which sounds a little like a bad movie sequel about a vengeful community organizer but is actually a very nice collection of articles about our favorite field, digital politics.
And while the globe faces a no less complex scenario than in 1974 the reaction is to shrug our collective shoulders at best and at worst talk down politics and write off politicians as venal and selfish.
Normal people dislike politics at the best of times, but many see debates on Brexit as a particularly bad variant of the «he said, she said» dynamic that they detest.
Yet the party goes into the latest set of elections with at best a questions mark hanging over the leader's head and at worst a questions over their relevance to modern politics.
One of the reasons I left the Lib Dems a decade ago was because of my growing dismay at the bad name their tactics give to politics.
While he says good things could result from the people calling for a convention, he's frightened about the «really bad things [that] could happen,» citing the conservative climate now prevalent in politics at both the state and national levels which has the potential to revert or even repeal existing protections, such as the Forever Wild provision.
It's the politics of fear at its worse.
A «classic Lib Dem fudge» is what the Mirror's Kevin Maguire called it on the Daily Politics, and one pro-Trident Labour MP tells me that the Lib Dems» proposed halfway solution is almost worse than «being against Trident altogether — at least that would give their argument logical sense».
«Democrats: Sunshine Summit speaker Dan Bongino is bad, too» via Danny McAuliffe of Florida Politics — The Florida Democratic Party criticized Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and Republican pol who has tried — and failed — to capture high - profile elected seats in Maryland and Florida and is scheduled to speak at the Orlando GOP conference this summer.
At that crucial juncture, state Sen. Schneiderman once again let politics get in the way of protecting the public from the worst type of criminals.»
Still, we always have Boris Johnson... who this week revealed the worst kept secret in politics — that he wishes to be the prime minister (or hold «supreme power», at least).
Following the override, Bloomberg called the council's actions «an example of election year politics at its very worst and political pandering at its most deadly.»
This generational disconnect is inevitable, in politics as in other spheres, but it affects the Labour Party worse than other parties because Labour was founded to represent a single class, and now it's arrived at a situation where the likes of Stephen Kinnock and Owen Smith, the children of peers and academics, have to dig up grandparents in the hope of connecting with that class they don't really understand.
Today's vote is an example of election year politics at its very worst and political pandering at its most deadly.
Examples of «fake news,» such as a report that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump's presidential campaign, are the equivalent of a bad cold in the body politic, says Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale University.
But the problem of declining bee health might actually be getting worse, largely because the factor of agricultural chemicals lies at the nexus of science, finance and politics.
«This really boils down to politics at its very worst and public officials who are more concerned about erecting some gleaming new research building than thinking about what's best for the general public,» Michael Guiffre, of a Texas A&M group that had lobbied for the facility, told the Post.
I have myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome and most of my blog posts are about this disease — advocacy, the politics at play, about bad research like PACE and good research like the End ME CFS Project, and interviewing doctors or advocates, fundraising, etc..
Its politics are iffy at best and almost offensively out of touch at worst.
The politics is messy at best, disastrous at worst.
It is my fortune — good or bad — to have become Secretary of Education at a time when the winds of politics and education have shifted decisively.
«The [2005 Bankruptcy Act] amendments represent the worst example of interest - group politics influencing law in the most negative way,» said Jason Kilborn, Professor of Law at John Marshall Law School.
I have myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome and most of my blog posts are about this disease — advocacy, the politics at play, about bad research like PACE and good research like the End ME CFS Project, and interviewing doctors or advocates, fundraising, etc..