In this telling, the famously incorruptible Polio ended up granting the ultimate political favor.
With his wealth and age, winning political favor is vastly more important than defending economic realities.
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"To say it was a political favor is bull hockey, " said Valdosta, Ga.
Not every alternative will succeed or make a deep difference, especially not ones for which their only merit is political favor rather than technology progress.
This puts airlines in an impossible spot, one that seems to favor political correctness.
In the standoff between environmentalism and business, it shifts the political balance in favor of the latter.
Members of Congress must stop the cowardice around the issue and stop humoring the delusions of passionate folks stuck in the 1960s for political votes and favor.
The 2.2-percentage-point reprieve is the result of HHS's decision to base Medicare Advantage payments on the law rather than a political gimmick to favor traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
He also knows the odds are against him, given political dynamics that significantly favor the Democrats and Barack Obama.
Such a system would include the further deterioration of political representative institutions in favor of a stronger executive power.
In Citizens United, the court ruled that a federal law banning corporations from financing speech in favor of political candidates went too far.
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It appears that the end of conscription and the growing professionalization in the ranks has produced a political culture tending to favor conservatives.
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Obama consistently frames the issue as this is what he is for, while his political opponents are in favor of letting the poor starve, or those without health insurance die for lack of medical care.
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Himself a former party chief of Chongqing, like Mr. Bo, he is thought by many party insiders, political analysts and diplomats to favor harsher treatment.
London is full of Russian business people who had to jump on the next British Airways flight when they or their political patron fell out of favor with the state.
The problem is that any electoral strategy of this nature must rely on the election laws of the state when contemplating moves that work to the favor of one political party or the other.
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As already stated, many analysts have raised their concerns that recycled socialists have moved at an alarming pace to occupy high positions in the Justice Systems all over Latin America and together with the so-called "Human Rights" NGO's that only protect terrorists and criminals, will go after them with a vengeance when the political tide turns in their favor.
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It was simply because the Republicans decided to play politics with a completely unrelated issue, in terms of the extension of the payroll tax cut, to try to I guess curry favor with some political constituency or the other when there was no way to, in accordance with tradition and regulation, to adequately and properly review a pipeline that would cross an international border.
The assembly will determine the elimination of party plurality in favor of the almighty political leader.
Though reformers privately favor change, powerful political opponents are against them.
Racism in this country is a political and economic system of privileges which favor white people over black people.
Of the major political parties in India, most now favor free market policies.
Worse yet, it encouraged the military to set aside its judgment in favor of the president's political preferences.
Political analysts say the revelations could play in favor of Beppe Grillo, a popular former comedian who leads an antiestablishment party that rails against national elites.
As a result, it only seems rational that national union organizations, such as the AFL-CIO, SEIU and others, would follow the example of the International Association of Firefighters and swear off political contributions to federal-level politicos in favor of spending their money in support of state and local candidates.
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Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, says the parties are crafting strategies to curry favor with the public to gain a political advantage.
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There is no popular vote in our national politics, and further twisting the Electoral College to align with just one political party makes the vote even more skewed in favor of rural America.
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In another echo of past political battles, one of those who argued in favor of Proposition 8 was Kenneth Starr -- the special prosecutor who led the Whitewater investigation that led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
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And as it relates to the START treaty, you have the secretaries of state -- the last five for the last five -- the last five secretaries of state for Republican Presidents who have come out in favor of this, people across the political spectrum who believe this is simply the right thing to do.
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