Sentences with phrase «score cheap political points on»
«To label all Muslims who promote and practice Sharia law as extremists is a dangerous precedent which will be strongly opposed by our community because the real reasons behind this new strategy are to score cheap political points on the back of the Muslim community.»
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You can look to the strangely shrivelled - up souls popping up across Twitter, intent on using the event to score cheap political points.
Dr. Nkpah said: «After a study of the approach, loud pronouncements and long delays adopted by the government on the globally celebrated implementation, the Ogoni people are not persuaded about the sincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government whose earlier promises were designed to score cheap political points.»
According to him, the move was hurriedly implemented to score cheap political points ahead of election 2016, but he's insisted it will create undue pressure on government's purse, as it already having problems in the payment of subsidies to the education sector.
«He is desperate to score a cheap political point and seek relevance for his dimming political career, he has to raise the false alarm and pin it on someone who does not even care if he exists.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, commenting on the controversial Moreland Commission on anti corruption, which is now under federal investigation, says his opponent is wrongly trying to score «cheap political points» by pressing the issue.
The website, 233prime, an initiative of Gabby Asare Otchere Darko's Danquah Institute and managed from their Labone office, on August 11 2016, posted images of the car, with the aim to wrongly accuse the brother of the President, who runs several businesses in and outside Ghana to score cheap political points, and accusing the first family of living an opulent lifestyle.
NB: Let it be however put on record that I am not opposed to FSHS, it is a laudable idea but if rushed the way it is being rushed to score cheap political points, disaster looms.
«Governor Cuomo's proposal can only be viewed as an attack on working people to score some cheap political points,» Donohue said.
According to the Dickson campaign body, Sylva's views on tax and taxation had exposed him as a power - hungry politician who peddled lies to score cheap political points.
There's plenty of room for argument over what to do about climate change, but cheap political point scoring of the «you didn't vote for the ETS so you don't want action on climate change» is not helpful.