Sentences with phrase «what scores political points»

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He said he did not want to turn what was happening at the Tata works into a political point - scoring battle.

But what are we to make of such a man, who hijacks an event focused on the suffering of a mostly forgotten group of people, sandbags his hosts, preens self - righteously, and deliberately provokes an ugly reaction to score political points?

Others tried to score political points: «took O 2 years to do what B couldn't do in 7,» or «THAT»S a «mission accomplished.

This piece found that while neither Corbyn or Cameron came out of the encounter particularly well, the prime minster used what should be a very serious issue to score political points.

Members of the public interviewed by the Hansard Society were not impressed with what they saw: 67 % of respondents said that there was «too much party political point - scoring instead of answering the question» and 47 % thought PMQs «is too noisy and aggressive».

«As sheriff, part of my job is enforcing our constitution and the law, regardless of what cheap political points Albany politicians are looking to score,» Howard, a Republican, said in a statement.

What we have is some outrageous politically - motivated FALSE CHARGES HERE - not meant to improve any race relations at all - just to score cheap political points.

What NY needs is an AG who can do more then just continue to hit Wall Street to score political points.

«What we need right now is for leaders to step up and work together, not hastily thrown together press releases drafted to score cheap political points — New Yorkers deserve better.»

Hatch: «This hearing should not be used to score cheap political points, but I am afraid with all due respect Mr. Chairman that that's what we are going to see here today.

[T] he punitive evaluation policies that New York state has adopted (and that many other states have adopted) due to the Race to the Top competition are... a dangerous gamble that might score political points but... will hinder what you and I and so many others want — better schools for our kids.

There's plenty of room for argument over what to do about climate change, but cheap political point scoring of the «you didn't vote for the ETS so you don't want action on climate change» is not helpful.