Sentences with phrase «very political work»

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What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

You start to build up those data points and you can very accurately say «Well, I don't know this person's party political affiliation, but I do know they have a Barber and a Land Rover and a dog and they like shooting and work in merchant banking, therefore, they're likely to be a Tory.

A job that entails fundraising and strategizing for a political party is very different from a job that entails managing the vast federal bureaucracy to enact policy, or working with Congress to get bills passed.

No matter how many data points and geo - political analyses and expert opinions and astrological charts we have to work with, history shows we're not very good at predicting the future.

But the 5,000 - strong force's first operation in November was plagued by logistical problems, and it remains very much a work in progress despite political support from a variety of powers including Russia and China.

So blaming foreigners — for getting rich in the very same way that the United States has done ever since the North won the Civil War in 1865 — simply offers political cover for a status quo that is not working.

I guess I've started to see political, religious, economic, and social aspects of our world in very evolutionary terms - it works, but nature is cruel.

My Morman experience being married to an ex-mormon and working with their families is that they can be very liberal or very conservative in their political views which is interesting in itself.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

People get very very worked up about religious and political agendas.

Fundamentalists and certain political groups love simple responses and it has worked very well for them.

So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»

He explained: «At the core of our work is the children themselves who are very often, never the cause of violence - especially of a political nature but always the victims.»

Rieff convincingly argues that the very nature of humanitarian work in crisis areas is profoundly affected by larger political agendas.

This development has opened a Pandora's box of political dilemmas and — in the opinion of David Rieff — altered the very nature and integrity of humanitarian work.

I made a big batch and am bringing half it down to our county political office to support the very dedicated young people working 12 hr days there on the presidential campaign.

Instead of attacking the very real social and political pressures working against modern families, she turns individual women into both perpetrator and victim.

Within this context, it will be very much unbecoming for any politician seeking political power to abuse the system and introduce what will not work well for the country.

A fantasist libertarian - anarchist «free market» is a very silly baseline, but... and this is a very obvious point, and of course those political philosophers you mention must have dealt with it... but I don't see how equality can be a «baseline» either, not while we live in world where some people work hard and save their pennies, while others don't.

A similar approach with a very different mechanism would be to replace the check the box for political campaign funding on tax returns with a check the box for culture funding that would work in the same way.

The energy and commitment which both political and citizen members brought to their work on the Convention was very impressive.

Second, note that while Phillips comes from the technology / strategy side, Lee deals with people on the web — he's been a blogger himself and has great relations with the lefty political blogs (MyDD is pleased, while Aravosis just about blows a gasket over the guy), plus he has the sharp political experience of working with the DCCC in a very successful 2006 election cycle.

And the individual ads don't work very well, at least according to some experts I've read, since it seems that a political commercial needs to be seen many more times than a normal one to get noticed.

Looking ahead, these political staffers and their counterparts across the country seem likely to be taking up the Obama lessons in a big way in the coming years, at the very least because so many worked for, with or against his campaign in 2008.

Whether this will work remains to be seen, but it will probably depend partly on what the broadcasters say and do — but they have to be very careful not to be drawn into any party - political controversy themselves.

Campaign consultants are often accused of lagging behind their counterparts in the commercial marketing world and even the political issue advocacy world, but a major reason is that they HAVE to use methods that are known to work — when you have very little time to get your candidate elected, you're going to be biased toward tactics that you know you can trust.

Sweeney's efforts on behalf of Gingrich puts him at odds with most of the Republican establishment in New York, which is backing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, not to mention his former colleagues in the Pataki administration, who are very pro-Romney (Pataki's longtime political aide, Rob Cole, worked on Romney I in 2008 and is also on this campaign).

My friend Lucian Despoiu is a very smart guy: he's an entrepreneur and a digital political consultant, and he's worked on campaigns in more countries than I've even visited.

Thatcher I was Margaret Thatcher's political secretary, so my whole political formative years were working with her, so I'm a very strong Thatcherite, I'm a Eurosceptic, I'm a small - state tax - cutter.

The latter has a bit more poetry to it, but the former is slightly less restrictive (i.e., the latter one could be read to exclude political campaigns, which I'm very much happy to work for.

We are all very proud to be Democrats, members of the oldest political party in the country, and are working every day to turn Greene County blue.

While it easily could be forgotten and overlooked in City affairs primarily due to its very small size, Staten Island politicians have worked across party lines to promote Staten Island's interests and political profile.

Whether a deal like this could work in 2015 depends very much on arithmetic and political sentiment.

As Bill Lipton, director of the Working Families Party in New York, told us, «Everyone in New York knows Cuomo has a history of being very focused on short - term, political calculations.

Isn't this the very definition of a 421a tax subsidy: «New York State taxpayers have enough problems, like crumbling roads and bridges and soaring taxes, without having to subsidize Cuomo's political supporters who would rather be handed the work than learn to compete within the confines of public bidding law and an open market,» said Josh Reap, the government affairs director for Associated Builders & Contractors.

«The Legislature, assemblymembers, senators on both sides, both political stripes, they have very good working knowledge of what goes on in their district,» said Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, «and I think we should play a pivotal and critical role in making those decisions.»

«Bijoy has been with me from the very beginning and we couldn't have done as much as we have without his help... Bijoy has a keen political mind who clearly shares the same vision I do in working for the people.

Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketsiah went ahead and admonished that they should bear in mind that their office is a political one and very temporary but the police officer even if transferred would still remain a police officer and will continue to do his work till he retires or dies.

The political class Adam [Afriyie] has got a very compelling story in many ways, he's self - made, was brought up on a council estate in Peckham, a guy of colour, very successful businessman and in many ways... If you look at David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Ed Balls, they're all people who have essentially spent their entire working life in politics, almost all of them have been PPE or equivalent graduates from Oxford or Cambridge.

I know it's just «blogs» but these comings and goings on political campaigns are meaningless and not very interesting, except maybe for consultants looking for work.

With this in mind, the Gill Action Fund's political director, Bill Smith, who started his career working for Karl Rove, set about putting together a team that would be able to relate to the Senate Republicans and convince them that voting «yes» on the gay marriage bill — or, at the very least, letting it come out for a vote — would not be political suicide.

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.

«It is about working across parties, above the party political divide, in the national interest and not in the sectional and vested interest, in order to deal with a very difficult problem that's adding costs... He's come out with a very reasonable report.

«Chairman Bugri Naabu is a benevolent person who serves as a father for all by using his own resources to help the needy regardless of their political, religious or ethnic affiliation, and that is why we have vowed to work very hard to ensure his reelection.»

«For Airbnb, one of the largest hospitality companies on the planet, to go after «Big Hotels» while attempting to co-opt the very real struggles of the hard working women and men of the New York hospitality industry is the height of hypocrisy,» said Jason Ortiz, Political Director for the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council.

It's very hard to survive in Israel if you're not,» said Norman Adler, a Democratic political consultant who used to work with Cuomo's father.

«The politics of resentment are very potent right now, and Levy is an expert at playing them,» says Bob Master, the political director of the communications - workers union and a leader of the Working Families Party.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

On the other hand, I work in a country like China, where it is very hard yet for the political system to truly to take the gutsy changes they need to deal with something that's going to eat up their economy.

Indeed, his latest work, Spook Country — a high - style political techno - thriller out this month — actually takes place in the (very recent) past, February 2006.