Sentences with phrase «seen as a political tool»

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«He wouldn't believe in his political opinions; instead, he would see those opinions as convenient tools for gaining what he actually desires.»

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.

It remained unclear to what extent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — seen as the de facto ruler of the country — was using the probe as a political tool to increase his control over the kingdom, while he continues to pursue a radical economic reform program.

MySpace can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly if you're trying to reach younger voters who have moved away from the casual use of email, but most advice I've seen about using social network sites for political advocacy stresses the importance of moving MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

So the Wisconsin recall election was expensive, it involved campaigns heavily dependent on outside allies and grassroots help as they mixed and matched old and new forms of political communication, and it saw various internet tools used both to promote each candidate's message online, but also as integral to more back - end operations rarely visible from the outside.

Hence, its more natural that one would see more innovation by those who feel left out of the political system as that was a large part of the development of the machinery / tools of the modern conservative movement.

For more on keeping sites up to date, see the section on using websites as a political tool.

Does anyone else see a corrupt element to the fact that he is using the Attorney Generals office as his political election tool?

The grants, known as «member items,» are seen by many as pork - barrel spending, tools elected officials use to repay political supporters.

The 27 - year - old also criticized our distracting celebrity culture in general, explaining how she sees the massive fame of powerful people like Swift as an untapped tool in shining light on political issues.

Your own RSS and Twitter feeds can also be useful tools, as long as you are actively following news sources with different perspectives to avoid seeing a homogenous take on political issues.

Commander in Chief looks to be a unique gaming experience as well as a sort of education tool with Louis - Marie Rocques, lead designer at Eversim, the developer of Commander In Chief saying: «You can put your own political theories into action and see the domestic and international domino effect.

We see how Emory Douglas and Faith Ringgold embed their practice as a tool of actual struggle, encoding the political ideology of the Black Panther Party into graphic form for the Party newspaper from 1967 onwards.

The 1960s New Tapestry Movement saw fiber art as a tool of political or feminist expression; many women artists, such as Jagoda Buić and Olga de Amaral, followed by Annette Messager, dared to return to the craft and the decorative.

the theory of semiotics, text and image as political tools in the work of Jacob Riis, the FSA, «Have you Seen Their Faces», and «Let Us Now Praise Famous Men», captions and photographs in the picture magazine and weekly tabloid, Pat Ward Williams's handwritten retellings, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's photo essay parody, Bill Owen, Gay Block, and Clarissa Sligh's stories of suburbia and family, photographs that counter the voice of authority, posters by the Guerrilla Girls, installations by Carrie Mae Weems and Glenn Ligon, instructional text in the work of Erwin Wurm, Gillian Wearing, Tony Oursler, and the spoken word, pictures of words, appropriation and photomontage, Adbusters, The Billboard Liberation Front and cultural jamming, and more...

Cato was seen as something more than a tool for corporate billionaires to accomplish their political agenda of deregulation.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.