Sentences with phrase «side of a political battle»

Never again wanting to be at the losing side of a political battle they created the movie industry's lobbying arm, MPAA.

«1900» (Olive)-- Gerard Depardieu and Robert De Niro play childhood friends — a peasant and the scion of a vast country estate, respectively — who become bitter enemies on opposite side of the political battle in Bernardo Bertolucci's sprawling epic.

Not exact matches

Measure 9, however, engulfed the entire state in a bitter and brutal political battle that galvanized both sides, divided communities, unleashed anti-LGBT harassment and acts of violence, and finally ended with the measure falling to defeat, 56.5 percent to 43.5 percent.

With access to the strategists and opinion - makers on both sides of the political divide, The Battle for Britain goes straight to the heart of the great debate, providing an incisive, authoritative and occasionally trenchant guide to the most dramatic constitutional question of our times.

«It's become a proxy political battle because it tends to be people on the conservative side of the spectrum who don't want the hospital and they also are looking to use this in a way that politically damages Brindisi,» Perry said.

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

Something the public loves to hate in its political cabals battling to run the country from the thick of Westminster's guerrilla territories, and something our war - painted politicos on all sides perennially condemn as an obstruction to policy - building, while sharpening their poison darts in the undergrowth.

Meanwhile, Mr. Smith might be best known for his zoot suits complete with suspenders and pinstripes, picking strange political battles like a press conference denouncing the rapper Dwayne «Lil Wayne» Carter, and his somewhat surprising decision to seek City Hall's top job on the other side of the partisan aisle without actually changing his voter registration.

«There aren't any of the political heavy weights that you find in this battle on the pro side, at least that I know of so far,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which is remaining neutral in the con - con debate

Amidst a mounting legal battle between the city of Rye and Westchester County over proposed capital improvements to Playland, many county lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have continued to assert the county's authority over the park's future.

When the veterans of World War I, on both sides of the political divide, returned from the front in 1918 and 1919, they came back as battle - hardened soldiers.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Corruption and a rigged political system are battle cries of both sides in a debate over whether New Yorkers should vote this fall to rewrite the state constitution.

Yesterday, the specter of children with cancer being turned away from NIH's door became a political talking point for both sides in the shutdown battle, with Democrats and Republicans accusing the other of ignoring the plight of the sick.

Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

In one of the responses to today's announcement, the Heartland Institute President argues that «Republicans in the House and Senate are right to oppose EPA's new global warming rules,» and «Voters will do well to remember who was on their side during the coming political battles.»