Sentences with phrase «term political points»

I'm talking about something more fundamental: YouCut is dishonest, the cynical act of a leadership that's put the scoring of short - term political points ahead of developing a coherent plan to govern.

When the opposition refused to cooperate Mr Huhne hit out, accusing them of putting «short - term political point - scorning ahead of the long - term interests of the planet».

Not exact matches

Asked what it does to monitor foreign propaganda or prevent the buying of illegal political ads, Facebook merely pointed out its terms of service, which require advertisers to comply with «all applicable laws and regulations.»

But with so many interests — and political careers — at stake, the risk that talks could fall through at any point remains a serious risk,» he warned, adding that such a scenario would have an impact of a 1.5 percent contraction on the U.K.'s long - term growth trend.

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

But the same point can be made in terms of economic and political systems.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

I don't deny that wrong decisions were made at probably all of the councils at some point, but of the councils that truly shaped Christianity, the seven ecumenical councils, while they are ridden with strife and political maneuvering as well as true Christian devotion and worship, I believe that most of what they decided in terms of doctrine is not wrong.

My main point is that now that Marxism has ceased to be a threat in terms of political and military power, its analysis is becoming more and more relevant.

My point is that the Labour blogosphere is too uncritical of the government on civil liberties - that, in your terms, it contributes to the «political culture and dominant political discourses» that are the driver of the problem, rather than contesting this culture and these discourses.

What Fallon is trying to do is point out, without actually saying it in terms, that the British political system is designed to ensure newcomer parties can't do well.

M5S approach to politics is not just innovative in terms of political participation, [2] but also from an ideological stand point.

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives one point ahead of the Liberal Democrats in terms of vote share, with Labour four points further adrift.

'» (Farley was a legendary New York political operative who served as Franklin Roosevelt's campaign manager in 1932 and 1936, and, more to the point, was postmaster general during FDR's first two terms.)

The big society and the post-bureaucratic age are ugly terms, but they point to liberal thinking: a political system that sees individuals and the relations between them as superior to the state.

Now that she's won statewide election by a 26 - point margin, and has no credible challengers on the horizon for next year, when she'll run for a full term, it's becoming clearer what she intends to do with the remarkable political opportunity she has been given.

Toolman - sympathetic to your point about term limits; but the main reason there is such a strong case for term limits nowadays is because the districts have been made so dafe for one party or another that it's very difficult for my preferred check and balance (aka «an election») on past - their - sell - by - date political hacks to work normally.

Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.

«Rather than scoring political points they should be reaching out to create a cross-party approach striking the right balance between effective security measures and the need to win the long - term battle for hearts and minds,» he said.

By this point in his political career, Bloomberg was an Independent, having made the switch in the middle of his second term as mayor.

«I'm sorry that it's gotten so political,» says Swackhamer, whose 3 - year term runs until next spring, at which point she hopes to be reappointed to a second term.

Headteachers were right to speak out, she said, because telling parents that school budgets race real - terms cuts is «not a political point, it's a fact».

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

This picks up the growth in debt, the misaligned short - term versus long - term incentives, crowd behavior, imitation, political agreement with booms, finger - pointing during busts, etc..

And so, Raad's astringent performance and sizable exhibition of works associated with the long - term project Scratching on Things I Could Disavow (2007 — ongoing) delve into the after - effects of violence in the Middle East that are not only political but also economic, such as the creation of a retirement fund for artists that blithely hops across the major fault line of the Arab — Israeli conflict, or the construction of new museum projects in the Gulf, or the movement of Raad's own work in relation to art - historical narratives in different places and times that exert various pressures on him, which at one point appear to drive the artist - as - performer insane.

This group exhibition takes the term «snowflake» as a starting point, a term used pejoratively by the political right to code dissent as whining, vulnerability as over-sensitivity and the right...

Perhaps unexpectedly, the primary concerns of Michael Dean's (b. 1977) Government do not include satire, contemporary politics or acerbic finger pointing and it is refreshing to encounter an exhibition with such a value - laden title that is concerned instead with the fundamental worth of the term rather than its party - political resonance.

At this point I feel that so many political terms have caused rifts in our social fabric, and I tend to look for a common language whenever I can.

What stuck with me is what Morris Ward, editor of Yaleclimatemediumforum.org, posing: «At some point,» he said, «the public at large has to step up to the plate in terms of scientific and policy literacy, in terms of commitment to education and strong and effective political leadership, and in terms of their own general self - improvement.»

The PNAS paper makes a key point: «These precipitation and temperature effects are statistically significant but have modest influence in terms of predictive power in a model with political, economic, and physical geographic predictors.

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near - term stability of global sea levels.

Yet, revealingly, «Tipping point» is not a scientific but a political term.

Long before the Internet, newspapers and magazines could often be defined in political terms, and many people would flock to those offering congenial points of view.

There is no validity in the «hockey stick» plot, «talking up» such predeterministic «experiments» is NOT an action of SCIENCE, but of Politics and I again point to the persistent attempts to cite «attitude» towards the «greenhouse platform» in terms of a «Political Siding», again to escape notice of the LACK of SCIENCE within the «greenhouse platform»... Your's, Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod (tm) From the PC of Peter K Anderson E-Mail: [email protected] http://hartlod.blogspot.com/

But the fact that the political right is engaged in denialist practices on a whole range of issues, is something which even the most «balanced» of mainstream media outlets like USA Today and the Washington Post are now pointing out, and so I'll use whichever term seems more appropriate from now on.

One of the points I have made before on various occasions is that fundamentally totalitarianism isn't really political — at least not in the sense that people mean the term «political.»

According to Bloomberg, it's because «mayors don't have the luxury of talking and not achieving,» which is actually true from a political point of view: their term is usually four years, and lack of results translates in lack of votes.

This is disappointing news: here at Treehugger, we've repeatedly driven the point home that the president has almost no control over the price of gas in the short - term — a cocktail of global demand, oil speculation, and political instability in volatile regions determines the price of gas more than anything else.

He was only pointing out that in the last 50 years we have not been able to summon the political will to put our nuclear waste in a proper long term facility.

Among the points of contention are that predictions of near - term production increases in Saudi Arabia are optimistic; that the study underemphasizes political and security challenges to extracting oil from Iraq and, crucially, that it fundamentally misrepresents the record of recent depletion estimates by failing to take into account that newer, horizontal wells do not deplete gradually over time:

Once again, the needs of injury victims are getting eroded for short - term political gain based on insurance industry talking - points.

Adding fuel to all of this political fire is an evolving media landscape that some brokers say is not exactly helping the situation — at least in terms of promoting a stable economic environment like the one that is supported by most of the key economic data points of the past year (i.e., inflation, employment and gross domestic product).