Sentences with phrase «same powerful interests»

Their convictions just days apart in separate corruption cases are a major repudiation to the business - as - usual politics in Albany, particularly because their schemes involved some of the same powerful interests.

«Eliot Spitzer has been our friend, standing up to the same powerful interests and backroom politicians supporting Stringer, fighting to get low - wage workers their back pay, fighting against fraudulent mortgage workers targeting our community, and investigating stop and frisk before anyone else,» according to Spitzer's spot.

Not exact matches

The rest of MAGAnomics is of the same vein: transfers of economic and political power from ordinary working families to the powerful interests that have backed Trump and his billionaire cabinet.

I agree with your premise that the internet is a powerful forum for uniting people with the same interest.

Astoria Democrat Jeremiah Frei - Pearson said he has fought powerful interests and gotten results for the residents of his neighborhood and plans to do the same if chosen by voters as the replacement for state Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) this fall.

In a three - hour interview with STAT, his first since the election, Bornstein seemed more interested in talking about about how insurance companies are too powerful, how walk - in clinics poorly serve patients, and how doctors aren't held in the same esteem as they used to be.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

You just can't expect a small device designed for media consumption to do the same job or generate the same interest as Apple's more powerful and popular product.

It was built on the same powerful engine as Killzone 3, and it enhances the familiar twin - stick FPS control scheme with touch pad functionality for interesting new gameplay possibilities.

The combination of the Runes actually being useful, the openness of the game's world, and the other heroes being on the same quest as you and changing from friend to foe as you get more powerful keeps the game interesting and unpredictable.

«I am interested in the social, even the propaganda, angle in painting; but I feel that the job of everyone in a creative field is to picture the whole scene... I am interested in creating a style that is much more powerful, that will take in the technical end and at the same time will say what I have to say.

We then see an upswing in temperatures around 1912, at roughly the same time as the powerful eruption of Novarupta in that same year — and here is where things get interesting, because immediately after that abrupt temp.

It will be interesting (and sad) to see when fossil fuels no longer have the value they do today (because of their unintended damage to the earth's climate), and when at the same time they turn out to be the cause of Texas» downfall as a wealthy and powerful state, i.e. when unrelenting water resource issues (and here and here) drive half the population away, and leave the state a shell of its once arrogant self.

It's surprising to me what a powerful an interest we have in our origins, surprising because we all have the same ultimate origin in fact (the African genesis of all people seems to be holding up), and surprising, too, because the sorts of things that concern us don't make any difference.

Interesting enough, the Helio X25 will reportedly going to offer same power consumption as the Helio X20, despite the fact it will be a more powerful chip.