Sentences with phrase «soaring rhetoric about»

He was not charged with any wrongdoing and his name was not mentioned once during the last day of the nearly eight - week trial, but Cuomo nonetheless now finds himself with a dent in his longtime soaring rhetoric about how his administration brought a new level of cleanliness to a tarnished state government in Albany.

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«Governor Cuomo has long talked big about his soaring progressive rhetoric while delivering very little,» Saunders said.

She also deflated the soaring rhetoric of those who talk about NCLB as an historic shift because it has finally shone light on the kids left behind (though she also leads one to conclude that she might actually want stronger national tests than she outlined earlier):

I was once told, years ago, that I «couldn't build a small house» because the neighbors (who never came forth and were never named) would object; that in an area of 250K overpriced, oversized, lawyer foyer houses, my little house would «reduce property values»; this would be code for «we can't charge you enough for property taxes...» Forget that I owned the land, forget that we've been sold a line about «freedom» complete with soaring rhetoric and waving flags our whole lives, buy a piece of land and want to build something on it that isn't «code», isn't the «norm» and all of a sudden you're a hippy rebel whacko.

And that's all the Senator said about her — a jab at her article «s soaring rhetoric, minus any accusation of her being a Marxist - type.

Despite rhetoric about energy independence and climate stabilization, the fact is that vehicle sales, oil consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions are continuing to soar.

And while president Obama took the oval office last night to deliver a speech chock full of soaring rhetoric, many of the hard facts about the spill weren't covered.