Sentences with phrase «score political points for»

Pope Francis's historic first visit to the United States should not be an opportunity to score political points for any candidate, politician or party.

This is an essentially meaningless bill whose sole purpose is to score political points for its proponents, who have already wasted hours upon hours of taxpayer time and money pandering to the religious right with unnecessary initiatives and bills.

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President Donald Trump looks to score political points by lowering America's roughly $ 70 billion trade deficit with Japan, and sees expensive military equipment as a prime tool for doing so.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

PDP said it is improper for the occupant of the exalted office of the vice president to engage in smear campaign, making unsubstantiated statements to score cheap political points.

The government made it abundantly clear that they were more than happy for those on low incomes to be used as political footballs, in order to achieve nothing less than petty, childish point - scoring.

Does this mean an end for crime as a political point - scoring issue?

«This shows that political point scoring really is at the heart of Theresa May's decision making, and respect for human life and dignity have been left by the wayside.»

A spokesman for the Tories dismissed Mike Whitehead's announcement as «cynical, misleading and utterly calculating to try and score political points».

21.50 - Foreign secretary Philip Hammond praises Benn for «one of the truly great speeches made in this House,» before immediately attempting to score party political points against Labour.

«The time for petty point - scoring on climate change, from any political party, is surely past,» the Conservative MP said.

In a statement, he assailed «Mr. DiNapoli and his surrogates (for trying) to score political points by making irresponsible and erroneous accusations about my future investment strategies for the state pension fund.

With Donald Trump increasingly looking like the candidate for the Republican party, Assemblyman Francisco Moya said that the push by the Senate GOP was an effort to «score political points in an election year.»

He said: «Britain voted for change yesterday, but it also voted for a new politics, it did not vote for party political bickering, grandstanding and point - scoring.

«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.

It does appear, that the issue of poor B.E.C.E results, year after year only becomes topical for a short fashionable while, useful only for political point scoring.

«I take your point about the inherent fun of party political point scoring, especially if the party I adhere to has scored the point, but it is essentially trivial by nature and, if endlessly repeated, deeply dispiriting and, for the majority of the public who aren't blindly loyal party tribalists, ultimately alienating.»

«It's disgraceful for Sen. Reid to deny cancer patients... just because he wants to score some political points,» said Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise of Louisiana on the House floor Wednesday afternoon.

«It is appalling that the faculty union and for - hire political advocacy groups are knowingly misleading their members and the public to score cheap political points.»

On Friday night Sir Malcolm Rifkind was authorised to attack Gordon Brown for making political appointments in order to score party political points.

This should not, she says, be an opportunity for petty political point - scoring.

«Rather than scoring political points they should be reaching out to create a cross-party approach striking the right balance between effective security measures and the need to win the long - term battle for hearts and minds,» he said.

We have read a news story with a screaming headline: ACEP AGAINST SECOND KARPOWER published by the media, and after digesting the arguments put forward by the think - tank and noticing the half - truths therein, we firmly conclude, that ACEP is engaging in politics to score cheap political points for the NPP flagbearer, in this election.

National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) spokeswoman Joanna Burgos responded to Biden's comments saying, «It's incredibly tasteless and offensive for the vice president to stoop to this level just to score political points.

Trump chided Clinton for drawing Machado into the debate, saying the Democrat was desperate to score political points.

Community general secretary Roy Rickhuss said: «Now is not the time for self - indulgent political point scoring and internal wrangling.

A good and strong leader for a political party doesn't try to score political points with irrelevant cheap shots like that.

«What we need right now is for leaders to step up and work together, not hastily thrown together press releases drafted to score cheap political points — New Yorkers deserve better.»

With Congress preparing to debate climate legislation, environmentalists and their allies are spending millions on ad campaigns aimed at building public support for a cap - and - trade bill and scoring early political points.

Pushing a message as frothy as this one with points scored along political lines and with an almost complete lack of syrupy sentimentality to gum up the works, the film's inevitable box - office victory (penguins are more of a sure thing nowadays than Harry Potter) is cause for celebration, in no small part because Miller is one of the few directors who deserves the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.

Beatriz at Dinner Rated R for language and a scene of violence Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78 % Salma Hayek is a masseuse whose car breaks down at her client's home, where she is invited to a big dinner with the very Trump - like John Lithgow, a greedy real estate developer with a very differing political, ethical and moral point of view from her own.

In their rush to score cheap political points, both camps sidestep the reality that districts and charters are in a high - stakes competition for students.

[T] he punitive evaluation policies that New York state has adopted (and that many other states have adopted) due to the Race to the Top competition are... a dangerous gamble that might score political points but... will hinder what you and I and so many others want — better schools for our kids.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

The mayor worked for UTLA years ago — Fletcher was a member of the board that hired him in 1987 — and Villaraigosa's recent attacks on the union have struck many of his former colleagues as political opportunism, the desire to score points as independent of the union at its expense.

In addition, much of the political heat and public concern around issues like testing, Common Core, and the validity of standardized test scores are greatly diminished at this point — easy jumping - off points for reporters in the past.

Would you invest, if the president may try to cut the price for your product at any time, as a way to score 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.

Indeed we're more likely to establish good quality data if people accept it's actually going to be used for something, as opposed to just scoring points in a political shouting match which is more about justifying climate alarm than it is about informing policy.

Sen. CHUCK HAGEL: I thought it was a little disingenuous to try to score political points and go sign the treaty and - and never bring it before the Senate or even fight for it, or even push it on us.

Not that Jindal really cares — he is out to score political points against the Obama administration for its mishandling of the Gulf spill.

Gay rights activists knew that these Republicans were not on their side, but by getting them on the record struggling to explain their bigotry, this questioning likely reached moderates in favor of equality, while also helping to create a political environment in which Obama and Democrats were able to set themselves apart from the Republicans and reaffirm their support for equality, while also scoring political points with an influential constituency.