Sentences with phrase «using political weighting»

It underlines both the potential risk from not using political weighting, and the difficult choices that companies that do use it face — some of that difference will be false recall, but I suspect much of it is a sample that too Labour.

Sheldon Silver had a big incentive for using his political weight as Assembly speaker to funnel asbestos victims to the Weitz & Luxenberg law firm — he got a one - third cut of their legal fees just for making the referrals.

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Unfortunately there are many scientists who use their scientific authority to lend weight to their views on political or moral questions.

Sure, she has no official power over them but her political weight could be used.

While NYCLASS is undertaking a lobbying campaign to sway reticent council members, the moneyed political group was expecting the mayor to use his weight to press for a ban immediately.

DiNapoli, a Democrat, has used the pension fund to throw some political weight around when it comes to social causes — think of the Chevron lawsuit, which is being challenged by former ethics watchdog David Grandeau, and the plan to divest from firearm manufacturers.

«Fear of being labelled «racist» has paralysed the entire political class — leaving the way clear for Labour ideologues to use mass immigration to remake British identity, all but collapsing public services under the weight of numbers and driving down wages to undercut British workers... whereas Labour concealed what it was doing to dupe its core vote, the Tories have concealed what they are not doing in order to dupe their core vote» — Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail

Yoruba socio political organisation, Afenifere, has thrown its weight behind Prof. Wole Soyinka's call for the use of hunters and vigilante groups to tackle the menace of herdsmen in Ogun State, in collaboration with the other security outfits.

As a result, the views of the American middle class now hold less political weight than they used to.

Political challenges and other education priorities have also led to slower progress toward implementing additional evaluation policies, particularly the use of student growth measures based on state assessments in evaluating teachers.59 60 States have responded to public backlash by decreasing the weighting of value - added scores or other student growth measures in teacher evaluation ratings.

While portraiture has illustrated political and social circumstances throughout history, the artists in this exhibition try to transform portraiture into a genre that can hold its own weight amongst the innovations of the contemporary art world by using Neel's portraiture as inspiration means to address the complexities of personal identity.

From the massive room - sized installation» Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world... Build therefore your own world» (2017), to the delicate wall pieces of the Dream Map series (2016), the exhibition examined the complicated relationship between transcendentalism, slavery, and American history, conveying deft political insight through the use of historically weighted references and materials.

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I've noticed that members of the legal community tend to not have much to say, or for that matter even undertake to suggest an abuse may have taken place, when a legal decision may be seen as having very heavy political overtones — as evidenced by the truth having become so weighted down as to be tethered, thus clearing the way for the facts to be like blank cheques to be used as unscrupulous currency, by those who can simply choose to control the outcome.

Melainie threw her legal / political weight around in a most abusive manner, using her new found powers, which no previous Commissioner had enjoyed, to bully into submission a gutless CREAcrat crowd with her threats of $ 10,000,000.