Sentences with phrase «to gain political advantage»

In the debate, each side talks past the other, because each cares more about gaining a political advantage than a policy achievement.

President Donald Trump moved quickly Wednesday to gain political advantage in the wake of the New York terrorist attack, casting blame on Democrats for lax immigration laws and calling the criminal justice system's handling of suspects «a joke.»

The People's Forum - Ghana in the recent past has done some works to protect the sanctity of our State institutions such as The Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Statistical Service of Ghana (SSG) from the effect of the works of political speculators who sought to cast doubts on the efforts of our hard working professionals, only for the purpose of gaining political advantage.

He stated; «Let us look more at things that unite us than things that divide us... To gain political advantage over each other all the time, you fan these tribal sentiments all the time.

Many people have had a role in bringing the system to this point — the courts, special interests, incredibly wealthy individuals with their own agendas and candidates seeking to gain political advantage in the fierce competition that is presidential politics.

Anyone that uses God and religion to gain political advantage is not a true Christian.

That would mean that Obama is a false Christian and only went to church to gain political advantage, which would make him exceedingly wicked and a hypocrite of the worst sort.

Gerrymandering is the act of redefining borders between voting districts in order to gain a political advantage.

First, implying that former President John Dramani Mahama commissioned most major projects close to the 2016 elections to gain political advantage was absolutely unjust.

You are arguing that Labour should support a harmful and economically illiterate policy that we know is wrong in order to gain political advantage.

While Speaker Pelosi is doing herself & her party no favors in the way she is handling the CIA snafu, the GOP Reps trying to use the mess to gain political advantage are spending a lot of time pursuing a longshot political strategy.

«It is not only that politicians are making fun of scientific projects that sound outlandish or impractical, they are literally rejecting science in order to gain political advantage,» says Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, US.