Sentences with phrase «with political motives»

That certainly doesn't seem like an overly biased attempt to whip up a baseless investigation with political motives.

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If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

Maybe, if you pad your numbers with all the Christians killed by other Christians in the name of ridding the faith of «heretics», or «witches»; or the Christian soldiers who were killed for mostly political and economic motives during the Crusades, then you might be getting close.

All we can do is to hope that Mugabe comes with a sincere purpose and not with political agenda and selfish motives.

It is not negotiating at gun point, with a group with questionable motives, fired by hideous political conspiracies.

Already sceptical, with good reason, of central government's motives and with access to small arms, the potential for existing social banditry to acquire a political mileage is obvious.

«I can assure each of you, I will not let myself be a punching bag for people with ill intentions or political motives.

With the secretary of state office becoming an open seat, Iowa needs a proven leader who will promote participation in the election process while ensuring safeguards to prevent voter fraud and serve the business community without political motives.

The plan thus fights the political pressures with the only force that might be more powerful: the profit motive.

The government's exact motives are unclear, but most scientists see it as one more power grab, following replacement of many judicial and military officials with political appointees in the past year.

Its ambition is admirable: It wants to be an adult thriller like its director's justly famous «Three Days of the Condor,» with political and psychological reverberations, on real - world topics, with a reasonable cause - effect dynamic at play, clear motives, action plausible and not overdone, free of computer effects, full of recognizable, compellingly flawed characters, yet taut and gripping to an astonishing end.

Susanne is instantly fascinated and an odd kind of courtship begins between the impressionable but headstrong young woman and the older man with an ulterior motive, one that inevitably draws her into the political intrigue of citizens fleeing the East for the West and the espionage by agents no better than mercenary thugs attempting to staunch the flow.

Lubienski, for one is skeptical of «self - proclaimed experts on the topic of education» like Murdoch who «aren't accountable to the public» and who have a profit motive coupled with a political agenda of widespread privatization.

After a slightly slow start during which Buckley introduces his characters, provides them with motive and generally lays the groundwork, Boomsday develops into a mischievously farcical tangled - web of generational warfare and political backstabbing, set against the background of the failing Social Security system and the general collapse of the American economy.

I appreciate the motive to entertain and satirize but perhaps you, in generosity to your frazzled readership who simply do not know how they are going to live their daily lives with less politics until the next inauguration (and probably again after the honeymoon is over), please — start a political blog and refrain from contaminating your wonderful dog blog.

Siopis explores the intermingling of madness and political motive evident in transcripts of interviews with Tsafendas.

Whatever you think of this particular effort, it has become ever clearer that climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate findings.

I perhaps don't think it the worst thing in the world if some of those throwing stones are mindless zealots with nothing but political agendas for a motive.

Throw in a handful of ideological baggage from across the political spectrum, season with ulterior motives, and simmer for 20 years.

Maybe in a time of great political uncertainty, with a presidential election in four months and very asymmetrical political support for CAGW, plus even a possibility that a skeptic may grab the ultimate reigns, then maybe getting to the policy table isn't the only motive.

And of course the «consensus» among economists that all was well also coincided perfectly with all kinds of motives both financial (the banks were cleaning up) and political (both fat cat Republicans and Democratic Party constituencies wanted subprime mortgages to roll on).

His motive is political, not at all to do with the science.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)