Sentences with phrase «shoring up political»

Such statements are primarily targeted at shoring up political support and secondarily at painting President Obama as being soft on China.

Why would a private firm work pro bono to shore up a political initiative like the growth council?

The rules are different, because Iran is nothing like a democracy (and for other reasons), but the motivation for this religious attack is to shore up political support, not to practice Islam.

Fayose said the visit to Taraba and planned visit to Benue, Zamfara, Yobe and Rivers states, are to shore up his political image and not to show concerns over the killings and other forms of violence in those areas.

In the days since actor and progressive activist Cynthia Nixon indicated she might want to run against Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary for New York governor, Cuomo has made a number of public appearances and taken several steps to shore up his political base.

The vote will force members of Congress to go on the record on Planned Parenthood, however, which could help lawmakers shore up their political bases, Pitney said.

Not exact matches

As the pious above chant of the God begotten of Light, the unfaithful faithful call out in ragged whispers their own stories of Inquisitions, of lost political battles at important councils of faith, of unjust executions in the name of the Christ and of excommunications to shore up power.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

My faith was being used as a way to shore up Southern honor culture, mobilize voters for political allies, and market products to a gullible audience.

Yesterday's plant tour and shoring up of political support is part of a string of broader meat industry's attempts to rehabilitate BPI's maligned reputation.

The Ashanti Region is the traditional stronghold of the New Patriotic Party but political analysts and pollsters have indicated that the infrastructural and developmental projects instituted in the region by President Mahama is most likely a factor that was going to shore up the fortunes of the NDC in the upcoming elections.

Gibson, meanwhile, is working to shore up support among independent voters and Democrats by appealing to the «healthy pragmatism» that he sees as the prevailing political instinct in the district.

Bay Ridge Democrats said they viewed Mr. Treyger's endorsement of Ms. Harris as an effort to shore up support in his district, which has a larger proportion of African - Americans, and to extend the influence of Mr. Colton's political operation.

About 27 committee members attended the meeting as Morse shored up his hometown political support as some Albany County and Cohoes Democrats called for him to resign following Times Union articles detailing information about domestic violence allegations involving Morse that date back decades.

Cuomo has taken steps over the past year to move to the political left and shore up support, particularly with unions and minorities.

Christine Quinn made a move to shore up her own political future yesterday when she urged New Yorkers to support a change in New York's term - limit rules.

Instead and pressingly, even with wild up and downs, flaws and all, the 2017 Whitney Biennial is the best of its kind in some time for the multiple ways it reveals how — selected as it is, without overdetermined political and aesthetic dogma, and curators remaining open to the exigencies of pleasure and the mysterious ways that art mutates but doesn't play catch - up — a show of artists simply at work, whether making expressionistic paintings, idiosyncratic functional constructions, casting the further shores of socially activist conceptualism, or documenting collapsing ecosystems or family dynamics — that artists are always addressing and channeling issues of the day.

The idea of returning home tells the various stories during the Apartheid struggle of men who had left their family homes in search of labor, migrating to the mines or cities, or even political exiles who had taken a pact to leave the shores of South Africa as a means to take up arms against a brutalist regime.

Good Weather has positioned pieces of a boat dock on the shore as platforms and partitions with an exhibition that considers the gallery's relationship with this geological edge and is caught up in the physiological effects from the current emotional deluge to the political crisis that we find ourselves in, with work by Joshua Abelow, Lauren Cherry and Max Springer, Guy Church, Alika Cooper, Jenny Gagalka, Hanna Hur, Ian Jones, Matthew Kerkhof, James Payne, Jerry Phillips, Alexandros Lindsay, Caitlin MacBride, Martha Mysko, Daniel John Roberts, Rebecca Fin Simonetti, Mateo Tannatt, Wesley Taylor, Ezra Tessler, and John Zane Zappas.

Losing sight of the importance of what was happening visually in front of them led to various ideas (philosophical, spiritual, political) which were needed to shore up the lack of visual content and meaning (it's still happening).

It's about shoring - up political power in a «changing world», not necessarily to sustain influence over it as much as over domestic politics.