Sentences with phrase «worst thing any political»

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There's no such thing as a bad time to quit Facebook, a website that takes 40 minutes per day of its average user's productive time in exchange for access to other people's badly composed baby photos and half - baked political opinions.

Political activity by corporations is not necessarily a bad thing.

And so it came to pass that Stephen Harper devoted his 39 - minute speech to the delegates to all the things he thinks he's done right, instead of to the events of May 2013, the second - worst month of his political life.

Put an objective observer (I know, there's no such thing) into a community and in a few weeks or months, depending on the complexity of that community, you will be able to describe their political (not a bad word) and social structure, you will uncover their norms and mores, their rules, very often unspoken or only spoken and not written.

That may be one of the worst things about this, is that some politicians from both sides are trying to use these people for their own political gain.

Death is the worst thing that can happen to a human being and if he were smart, he would realize dying for one's beliefs, whether religious, political, or for country, is crazy.

----- If you said No,,,, then you are saying Obama is a bad president,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, political thing,,,,,,,,,,,

My friend Drew said the only thing worse than watching the political debates is looking at Facebook after the debates.

Is this political evanescence that I so confidently predict for Francis's visit a bad thing?

You can't win them all, and as the late (and dearly missed) political scientist Peter Lawler liked to say, things are always simultaneously getting better and worse.

At night, a cloud of terrible sadness often enveloped him — then he would see only the bad things, the increasing violence in the countryside, the warring of the political authorities, the failure to get people to live by the Word, enemies to the left, enemies to the right, and his own unfaithfulness.

I figured I was safe since political dramas aren't typically my thing, and I couldn't possibly see Bradley Whitford (aka Josh Lyman) as anyone other than the bad guy in Billy Madison.

One of the things that has been so frustrating to me this political season was how bad Hillary was treated in the media.

Many political scientists would consider these to be downsides to some extent, although whether each implication is a good thing or a bad thing is to some extent a matter of opinion.

Nevertheless, the subsiding of political discourses on European identity is not necessarily a bad thing.

Of course there are sleazoids out there, and of course humans are very good at rationalizing actions whose results will be bad for the rest of us, but I honestly believe that the majority of people in the political world are acting out of a reasonably sincere desire to improve things.

The jam - packed field of contenders vying to be Connecticut's next governor has left some political observers wondering: Is too many candidates a bad thing?

The worst thing Labour could do now is assume it will return to government by the laws of political gravity.

The email says the WFP State Committee has endorsed every Bronx political candidate but it is unclear if that is a good or bad thing.

Mr Salmond, who is the SNP's spokesperson on foreign affairs, said that with Mr Johnson as foreign minister «everyone is going to have a giggle at our expense», but added that given recent political manouvering «perhaps that's not a bad thing».

However, a similar number - 53 per cent - think Cameron is «talking the economy down for political purposes and risks making things worse by damaging confidence».

«I can't think of many things worse in life than being a Republican member of the Assembly,» said Hunter College political science professor Ken Sherrill.

«This is the worst kind of thing that could happen,» said Tom De Luca, a professor of political science at Fordham University in New York City.

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 1, Episode 2: Jeb Bush prepares for the New Hampshire Primary and says Donald Trump will make things worse.

Excellent film, but I can't decide if Spielberg means it as a political cautionary tale or to prove that things could, in fact, actually be worse!

«I never thought things were going to be as bad as they are now,» Cooper said, commenting on the American political climate.

It's a call to action for those who have become so disconnected to what's going on in the world around them that idealists with defined political agendas have been able to effect great changes, many of them arguably making things worse, capitalizing on the ambivalence of the uncaring public and the ratings - driven media.

You could make a bigger political statement about the whole thing, but it feels like Baker was going for laughs and it leaves a bad taste.

Not that being political is a bad thing, but it can get pretty old when that is all that is done.

15) «The Dark Knight Rises» /» The Avengers» There seems to be a certain disproportionately noisy section of the internet that seem to think that picking between the hit superhero films of 2012 is like following a Glasgow football team or an American political party — you're either with Marvel or DC, and as such, you either like «The Avengers,» or «The Dark Knight Rises,» with the other automatically becoming the worst thing in the history of mankind.

Given the current political climate, that's hardly a bad thing.

Stories in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and many other newspapers, most written not by education reporters but by Washington - based political and legislative correspondents, reported Gates's assertions in an unquestioning, almost awestruck tone that made one thing clear: if high schools are bad enough for Bill Gates to declare them a disaster, then it must be so.

The worst thing I have witnessed in education in 2008 is the continuous action based on personal interests and advantages of many local and global economic and political players losing the main objective of «education as a fun activity,» and thus of encouraging and inspiring young children through play and simple but innovative teaching methods that foster critical thinking, teamwork, and the urge to learn more for the sake of learning and not for meeting set standards.

Worse yet, supporters of these programs knew full well, from the beginning, that these promises were ridiculous, but in hopes of scoring quick political wins, they were all too willing to say things that they knew to be false.

When bad things happen to good ideas in literacy education: Professional dilemmas, personal decisions, and political traps.

Things could gradually decline over the next few years (most likely), but even take a sharp turn for the worse... a lot depends on the political scene next year.

In 1988 and 1996, New York — based artist Hans Haacke developed projects in Graz concerning the problematic political situation in Austria, and since that time things have only gotten worse, with Jörg Haider and the reactionary FPÖ party's ascent to power last year.

Many scientists have said that things got markedly worse through two terms under President Bush, as strings of incidents showed how political appointees were involved in shaping government reports on everything from climate to condoms.

While I think that this tendency goes all the way to the top, I think the worst offenders have been ham - handed political appointees, who have made things much worse than they had to be.

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.

In the ongoing battle between climate scientists and skeptics there will be disproportionate carnage, because the climate scientists have so much more to lose... for climate science I fully expect things to get worse before they get better, simply because the most vocal, politically active climate scientists have shown no skill at operating in the political arena.»

Which, finally, brings us to Inhofe's hometown newspaper, The Oklahoman, named the «Worst Newspaper in America,» by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) for «conformance to the right - wing political views» of the paper's owners and its «alleged racist hiring practices» among other things.

Then again I see some things that appear to me to be getting worse - like our political system.

It is a bad thing when the science has become politicized, because the science is clearly not settled and the advocacy is political, not scientific.

Gay marriage, and some death penalty restrictions are at stake if things go badly, while restoring Supreme Court precedent controlling unlimited political funding could happen if things go well.

-LSB-...] Something mustn't be done on these unprovable guesses presented as facts, especially when the political «cure» clearly makes things worse!

The Etch a Sketch manufacturers are keeping their nose out of the political debate though, content to live out that tried and true adage, «there's no such thing as bad publicity.»

The co-editors contribute essays as well, offering our own reasons — personal, political, religious — for defending people who do even very bad things.

Facebook shares are still dropping after its worst one - day decline since 2012 yesterday, as data breaches affecting over 50 million uses makes things political and the social media giant loses some...

The worst aspect of political life that can be imposed on Aboriginal people [and Torres Strait Islanders] is that we must all speak with one voice and say exactly the same thing.