Sentences with phrase «score political points of»

And Rep. Brian Higgins, D - Buffalo, said: «The message of this order around the world is that we have sacrificed our values to score political points of dubious value.»

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Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said, «It's insane to me that something that works this well, that's been so bipartisan, is jeopardized to score political points.»

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Denis Coderre accuses Conservatives of trying to score «cheap political points» during election campaign with criticism of planned St. Lawrence sewage dump

But what are we to make of such a man, who hijacks an event focused on the suffering of a mostly forgotten group of people, sandbags his hosts, preens self - righteously, and deliberately provokes an ugly reaction to score political points?

Today much of our debate about marriage comes from a similar hope to score political points.

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.

Extremism and ignorance exist in all religions, Ramesy is just a pathetic example of «Christian» extremism and who is trying to score some political points.

Then pundits take to the airwaves to criticize the exploitation of such painful memories to score cheap political points.

Perry failed to score political points when one of his supporters claim mormonism is cult.

Unlike the kind of social commentary that Hollywood still churns out — in which everything would turn out better if only conservatives weren't so busy oppressing homosexuals or women or maybe unionized employees — it isn't interested in easy sociological answers or cheap political point - scoring.

It is about scoring political points on something that has no hope of actually making a difference in the real world.

Amid the flurry of claims and counter-claims over an old power plant, The Australian Financial Review weighs up the arguments, leaving aside the political point - scoring.

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.»

I'm talking about something more fundamental: YouCut is dishonest, the cynical act of a leadership that's put the scoring of short - term political points ahead of developing a coherent plan to govern.

Theresa May was accused of allowing someone to die «to score a political point» today, after a starving asylum seeker was deported to Nigeria despite fears he might not survive the flight.

And even if a blanket publication of Parliamentary tax returns shows that Conservative MPs are less able to claim that they are really all in together, Bryant warns his party off political point - scoring.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) hit back today over media reports on Ministry of Defence (MoD) bonuses and accused the Conservatives of misrepresenting civilian defence staff to score political points.

«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.»

The President's visit to the Ablekuma North constituency has been met with a lot of controversy, as the leading opposition saw the gesture as an opportunity to score political points and relevance.

The report is perhaps the antics of mischief makers, who wish to score cheap political points against the Kano State governor, a statement by the president's spokesman, Femi Adesina disclosed.

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.»

Ultimately, the critics might turn out to be right or they might make valid points while trying to score against their opponents but I think it's indisputable that no diplomatic solution of any kind was ever going to command unanimous approval within US political discourse.

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.

This piece found that while neither Corbyn or Cameron came out of the encounter particularly well, the prime minster used what should be a very serious issue to score political points.

However, I think it's safe to say that Bruce Blakeman was undoubtedly the most aggressive of the participants, rarely passing up the opportunity to attack his opponents to score some political points.

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.

Chakrabarti has repeatedly topped lists of the most successful and influential Asian women in the UK, but little hesitation is given to smearing this woman's reputation to score political points.

«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.»

Members of the public interviewed by the Hansard Society were not impressed with what they saw: 67 % of respondents said that there was «too much party political point - scoring instead of answering the question» and 47 % thought PMQs «is too noisy and aggressive».

Looking «tough» on immigration simply must not descend to the low of allowing people to die to score a political point.»

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.

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.

«As sheriff, part of my job is enforcing our constitution and the law, regardless of what cheap political points Albany politicians are looking to score,» Howard, a Republican, said in a statement.

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.»

I totally agree that a convention that is established quickly against a backdrop of narrow party political point scoring in the run - up to the election will be a disaster.

«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.

I caught up with Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, D - Cohoes, Albany County, who defended the introduction of the tax, even if it appears to be a political point to score.

This is a matter of policy, not political point scoring.

Laah, who is the only member of the senate elected on the platform of the PDP in North West Zone described the project as a deliberate attempt by Governor Nasir El - Rufai to score curious political point.

He also denied that the effort was designed to score some sort of political point in his election.

Some are doing it to undermine and weaken [the minority] leadership; some to score political points; and others because of ideology.

«And usually towards the end of the class they would swap papers and then they would sort of score jolly points off each other making political points.

There's a chance of that, certainly, but the strategists shouldn't let this sad news deter the leader of the opposition from scoring political points on a key issue affecting the country.

And just last night, in a House of Commons debate on the European Budget, we saw Europe turned into a political football as political opportunists sought to score a political point.

The Iddrisu family is extremely scandalized by the inexorable attempts by some political entrepreneurs to score despicable political points with the sudden death of Alhaji Bature Iddrisu by launching unwarranted scathing attacks on former President John Dramani Mahama.

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.

The number saying «there was too much party political point - scoring instead of answering the question» was down from 67 % to 45 %

«It is indeed a tragedy of immense proportion if the Senate President will close his eyes to these genocidal acts, and instead attempt to incite an armed rebel group against state actors, just to score cheap political points.