Sentences with phrase «serving as a political statement»

Setting aside the near - impossibility of supreme courts contradicting themselves, laws which have been struck down may well remain in the statutes, unenforceable but serving as a political statement.

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Denying all reports of ethical or political misconduct, Bennett explained in a statement after stepping down, «I don't believe it would be fair to be distracted» to continue serving as commissioner amid the controversy.

«As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statemenAs the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statemenas a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.

During his Conservative Political Action Conference address today, the retired neurosurgeon will announce he will serve as national chairman of My Faith Votes, a nonpartisan organization focused on getting Christian Americans to the polls, according to a statement provided to POLITICO.

«Shareholders have the right to know if their investment dollars are being spent on political agendas that are not in the company's best interest,» DiNapoli, who serves as trustee of the $ 209 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, said in a statement.

«Today should serve as a wakeup call for the Senate Republicans that we need real ethics reforms and not just lip service and political posturing,» Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.»

The daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will serve as Pawlenty's senior political adviser with an instrumental role in Iowa, where she «helped lead her father... to victory in the Iowa caucuses as his national political director,» according to a written statement released the same day.

It seems this would have been better served as an intimate portrayal of these three aging men who were willing to die for their country than as a giant political anti-war statement and an accusation of how evil the government is.

Yollotl Alvarado recognized that the algorithms that guide our interaction with the internet are «political statements» that can «expose the forces at play in our access to information,» while Louise Gagliardi alerted us to the fact that our personal devices, rather than serving as a portal to new information, are in fact «individual mirrors.»