Sentences with phrase «turned opportunists»

Ajayi lamented that sincerity of purpose and integrity were not enough to sway votes as many of the delegates turned opportunists and abandoned party's interest in electing the candidate.

We should better ensure that a new agenda will be pursued whereby every member will have the opportunity to vote in the primary so that it will be more representative of the thinking of party members which ordinarily it supposed to be than when you have a handful of people who turned opportunists overnight and could not see any objective than maximising their returns.»

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For the prophets, then, God becomes the great improvisor and opportunist seeking at every turn to elicit his purpose from every situation: if not by the hand of Sennacherib, then by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

And just last night, in a House of Commons debate on the European Budget, we saw Europe turned into a political football as political opportunists sought to score a political point.

This sort of opportunists can not be allowed to distort debate, or turn it into a pretext for a barely - disguised agenda of displacement and dispossession of some citizens.

Turns out when you stand up for what you believe you are principled when I do it I am an opportunist, careerist, Blairite or even a Zionist plotter.

Some were belittled as «opportunists» and forced to turn over their jobs to returning male soldiers.

People are opportunist assholes, horny animals, and driven to turn every personal tragedy into politics and profit — so how is Buscemi different?

Van Heflin is superb as the sour Horatio Alger, a former golden boy turned brutal opportunist willing to do anything to get what he's sure is due him, and he shifts from one pose to another to charm and cajole those around him with cold - blooded focus.

Instead, Spielberg used the tools he'd honed over the years — a Hitchcockian feel for tension, a keen understanding of actors, and an eye for bold images — to tell the story of Oskar Schindler, an opportunist - turned - hero.

Jake Gyllenhaal has been on quite a hot streak in the past few years, knocking out one great performance after another, but he certainly turns in his greatest transformation here as the gaunt, vampiric opportunist Louis Bloom.

In turn, this can help to accelerate return on investment in technology and ensure that modern learning facilities do not become easy targets for opportunist cybercriminals.

Anyone who can turn on a dime that fast is either a rash opportunist or a flibbertigibbet — neither is good and he along with his charter schools should be avoided at all costs.

Worse, change for the sake of profit - seeking opportunists who, privately, can not believe that we would ever consider turning our profession over to them, is not only not a good policy, it is a positively permanently deleterious policy.

Part of those interests include propagating the myth of the omnipresent malingering opportunist looking to turn minor injuries into an early retirement package.