Sentences with phrase «prove political points»

It's really disturbing when people use Christ to try and prove political points!

To Petersan, tonight's episode is a chance to help prove her political point on a national stage, the same thing her business does locally every day.

Thus, some political operators will almost certainly try to artificially insert complications in the football transfer process between the UK and Europe in order to prove a political point.

I think this is being done by the administration to prove a political point,» she added.

Baraje, who spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, on the sidelines of the graduation of pupils of Baraje Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ilorin, said Adeboye's visit to Buhari also proved a political point.

something of which Kristol knows not... false pretext for war... callous disregard for war victims... convenient lies to prove any political point... perhaps only Bernie Madoff has led a more delusional existence...

But the problems can not be addressed if they are defined by trying to meet inappropriate benchmarks that were developed as much to prove a political point as to enlighten public understanding about the nature of our educational challenges.

Not exact matches

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

However, the point I'm making is that one could not really prove a theory in political science, but only refute it.

Amid delays that were based, in part, on political point - scoring, the system lasted only five years before the Welsh Assembly Government moved forward with a referendum to get rid of the LCO system and devolve further powers in one go — evidence, perhaps, that a system which requires the agreement of both devolved and central governments on policy changes might prove detrimental to effective governance.

Afterward, Sen. Jeff Klein, the IDC leader, said the point of his members» separate budget resolution was to prove that they are serious about governing, not to make «political points.»

The annulment proved controversial amongst political and business figures, who pointed out the three - and - a-half-year gap since the near - collapse of RBS, and the coincidence of the referral taking place during a political argument over bonus payments to the current head of the bank.

Uncharacteristically silent since the results started trickling in in the early hours of Monday morning, Grillo has not yet commented publicly on what for his movement could prove a huge blow — even if some observers pointed out that, for a political formation fighting its first European elections, a showing of more than 20 % and placing second was nothing to sniff at.

Hoyt's political career often proved tumultuous, as his Assembly seat on several occasions became the focal point of competing factions of the local Democratic Party.

De Blasio was by that point deeply enmeshed in the New York political scene, and it surely crossed Cuomo's mind that de Blasio might prove helpful should he decide to run for office in New York, or nationally.

Afterward, IDC leader, Senator Jeff Klein said the point of his members» separate budget resolution was to prove that they are serious about governing, and not to make «political points».

Cutting through political talking points to focus on facts and firsthand accounts, «Under the Gun» is an essential primer on the rise of gun violence in the U.S. With this follow - up to the food - industry takedown «Fed Up,» director Stephanie Soechtig again proves her knack for crafting advocacy docs that resonate.

Bloomberg and Klein «proved the important point that it is possible to change big and bulky school bureaucracies,» says Jeffrey Henig, professor of political science and education at Columbia.

«To prove that poverty doesn't matter,» she writes in the Times essay, «political leaders point to schools that have achieved stunning results in only a few years despite the poverty around them.»

Writing a political science thesis is not very difficult for many students, because even though like all other theses it involves extensive research, political science topics are relatively easy and there is a lot of room for argument for and against a particular topic, so in many cases writing such thesis comes down to simply finding solid arguments and proving your point of view.

One would think we're good on political parody at this point, but Liz Magic Laser proves otherwise.

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near - term stability of global sea levels.

As to your suggestion that I re-do the «study», I find the whole point of the study to be political in nature, trying to prove a scientific point by some kind of opinion poll and then bragging all over the press that your opinions are right because you claim to have lots & lots of people on your side.

And why business doesn't allow clueless «auditors» (those untrained in financial matters) to muck about their internal financial documentation in order to «prove» some political point.