Sentences with phrase «public grandstanding»

Intellectual mediocrity is no barrier to public grandstanding.

The whole point of the meeting is to cut through the public grandstanding.

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There are also a number of grandstanding moves he'd make to get publicity (e.g., ordaining an openly gay man to the priesthood in a very public PR blitz only to defrock the guy a few months later because Spong was so concerned about ordaining a gay candidate that he didn't bother to go through the necessary discernment process — this PR move really impacted some very qualified homosexual candidates who were all painted with the same brush.)

Swaying the court of public opinion, and grandstanding for any advantage prior to trial, is a hallmark of any good lawyerly «competitor».

Everything would be grandstanding for the public.

M is told she is not allowed to operate in the shadows anymore and is forced to go in front of a public inquiry, with a convincingly grandstanding MP.

«This decision should bring an end to the politicking and grandstanding and allow us all to focus on what matters most: continuing to improve the quality of education we offer New York City's public school children,» Mayor Bloomberg said.

De Blasio, who as public advocate frequently criticized then - mayor Michael Bloomberg, warned that voters would be skeptical of politicians grandstanding in furtherance of their mayoral ambitions.

The Seneca Nation, in response to the Niagara Falls casino threat by the governor, accused Cuomo of grandstanding in public instead of negotiating with Seneca leaders to address the problem.

Tory Sir Alan Duncan calls on Labour MP to resign as public accounts committee chair for «inappropriate grandstanding»

«It could lead to the worse type of grandstanding,» he told ScienceInsider, «with scientists making their case in public for why NSF should have funded their research.

And in a case of friendly fire, de Blasio's law department suggested James, his progressive ally and successor as city public advocate, was grandstanding.

At this point in the evening, following the City Councilman's removal from the floor, there were only a few remaining people on the public comment list and all manner of inappropriate grandstanding had occurred.

But if they're serious about being the party that treats public education as a cornerstone of democracy, they need to do more than grandstand about the consequences they helped bring about.

How can public education advocates cut through the noise of grandstanding politicians and bad research and lead in transforming the teaching profession?

MacGillivray described the enthusiasm this parade of Show vehicles has come to generate among buyers and the general public: «We bring grandstands in for the SEMA Cruise, and they fill in 20 minutes.

Return airfares, checked baggage, 3 nights accommodation & Valley View Grandstand package including 3 days event entry, allocated seating and access to the shaded grandstand, 2 nights of Race & Rock, big screen viewing, 3 days Pit Paddock entry & free public Grandstand package including 3 days event entry, allocated seating and access to the shaded grandstand, 2 nights of Race & Rock, big screen viewing, 3 days Pit Paddock entry & free public grandstand, 2 nights of Race & Rock, big screen viewing, 3 days Pit Paddock entry & free public transport.

Says Charlie Godet Thomas: «In Cloud Study, I hope to evade what I see as the traditional hallmarks of public sculpture: for an imposing quality to be substituted by quietness, heroism by the everyday, stillness by function, sternness by humour, and vulnerability in the place of grandstanding.»

This looks like grandstanding to me, another game he is playing: trying perhaps to keep in the public eye in a more responsible way than he has done recently.

WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement after Senate Democrats boycotted the Environment and Public Works Committee's vote on Scott Pruitt's nomination to lead the EPA: «The EPW Democrats should stop their political grandstanding and do their job.

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Thus it would seem that the public (at least in Britain) would tolerate so much grandstanding from politicians and public organisations, but not so much the intrusion into daily life that they demanded was necessary.

Keeping the reviews anonymous means that the reviewers neither need to pull punches if the paper is bad (but the author is famous) nor grandstand for the public audience that will eventually see the review.

Political grandstanding prevails over public good and public health in imbalanced House field hearing on water protections in Appalachia

With politicians interrogating public servants for their own political ends and using the opportunity for some grandstanding of their own, the pressure on bureaucrats to maintain their a-political positions is intense.