Sentences with phrase «score political points with»

Fuchs has rejected allegations that the government is trying to score political points with the new policies ahead of next year's general elections.

Cuomo says it will benefit millions of struggling workers, but critics question if he's looking to score political points with unions after years of strained relations.

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

«Unfortunately, Cuomo seemed more interested in using the Women's Equality Agenda to score political points with the public than he was in passing actual legislation to deliver needed changes,» Hawkins remarked.

They think that the U.S. president is looking to score political points with his base, but that he won't want to upset the stock market record highs and the faster economic growth by putting up too many trade barriers, a move that probably would spook businesses and investors.

I assume he was just trying to score political point with the accountability folks and public school parents since no useful results could have been provided.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«We should be building bridges with the PCC and it is shameful that certain councillors are risking damaging the positive relationship we have with her just to score cheap political points.

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».

With its tongue in its cheek, it shamelessly politicizes the obvious in attempting to reframe and shift liability in the White Paper to a political opponent to score cheap political and electioneering points.

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.»

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.

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.

Mitt Romney, along with GOP pundits, are blatantly twising his position to score cheap political points.

Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.

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.

There will be others, and across all parties and none who appreciate the gravity of this particular Inquiry and who appreciate that political point scoring palls into insignificance with the serious charge that a British Government colluded with torturers.

Hatch: «This hearing should not be used to score cheap political points, but I am afraid with all due respect Mr. Chairman that that's what we are going to see here today.

The erstwhile Goodluck Jonathan government, aiming to score cheap political points, established 12 mushroom universities with a seed fund of N1 billion each.

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.

Unfortunately, with midterm elections fast approaching, lawmakers appear more concerned with scoring political points and toeing the party line than with the give and take of writing complicated policy.

«School staff will treat this political point scoring with contempt.

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.

In other words, the current board is sharply divided along ideological lines, with members too often focused on scoring political points and talking as though they're channeling either UTLA leadership or the most rigid of reformers, rather than thinking independently to come up with rational ideas that advance the cause of sound education.

The e-mails were private communications between scientists that were illegally taken, illegally distributed, severely misrepresented (by McIntyre especially, especially with respect to «hide the decline»), and used to score political points and attack the credibility of well - respected scientists.

We can and should hope that BC's two mainstream parties begin to take global warming seriously, and that this rational approach (instead of parties merely trying to score cheap political points) in dealing with one of the most daunting challenges faced by us all spreads to other jurisdictions.

(And by that I mean we make the best decisions we can with the data in a peaceful efficient and objective manor, rather than turning it into a political point scoring contest.

And yet all three GOP presidential candidates are trying to score cheap political points with positions far outside of the mainstream that would ban safe, legal abortion.