Is it not true that power politics is the main cause of opportunism which enhances corruption and political misrule? |
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Regrettably, though, there seem to be at least a few examples of the cheapest, most craven opportunism. |
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Cynics argue that sports people and associations are guilty of opportunism during this time of crisis. |
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His strategy is rooted not only in calculated opportunism, but also in a rock-hard philosophy of how the game must be played today. |
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Leninism defined correct party policy against the ideological enemies of dogmatism, revisionism, and opportunism. |
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They have also attacked the professor personally by impugning his motives and accusing him of opportunism. |
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It is his opponents who, for reasons of opportunism, prejudice and perhaps sheer ignorance, continue to make the running. |
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But the wiles he shows, the cunningness he exhibits and opportunism that he cashes on made him a hit. |
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Taylor assumed that piecework incentives would discourage opportunism because workers would be motivated to maximize their earnings. |
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Opponents say his change of heart over health, education and immigration policies looks like opportunism. |
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The Liberal Party has always been a mix of idealism, pragmatism, opportunism and low cunning. |
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Ostensibly, Becky is a figure of feminine fierceness, and perhaps her streak of opportunism is a positive element of her character. |
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For some the right to a fair trial is trumped by rubber-necking, political opportunism and puerile attention seeking. |
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And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they scapegoat the unborn children of non-national parents. |
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First, the techniques of self-help may create scope for opportunism on the part of secured as against unsecured creditors. |
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I've never seen such an egregious act of political opportunism or shameless trafficking in human misery. |
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Deadly forms of opportunism are still perennial in the journalistic and political climates that dominate official Washington. |
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Regardless of the opportunism, the Stones are still the greatest rock show on earth. |
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Partly that is a result of rancor and opportunism, but it also inheres in a pre-emptive engagement. |
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But at least one protester said revelations that others were paid makes the whole demonstration smack of political opportunism. |
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Others accused him of carpet-bagging opportunism and considered him something of a fake. |
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This unbridled opportunism is closely bound up with their own political past. |
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She sees him as idiosyncratic, traditionalist, and with a gift for combining political shrewdness with a sense of self-promotion and opportunism. |
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Our task, however, is to analyse the role of company law in providing mandatory rules to control company opportunism. |
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This is the time for Labour backbenchers to put political integrity before government opportunism. |
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Once the act of stop hitting is learned, the timing and opportunism which makes it so successful may be acquired in the combat. |
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By contrast, antifascism did make for a left politics at home-compromised by the opportunism and kitschiness of the popular front, but productive nonetheless. |
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This exercise tells us nothing about their ability to improve the lot of the subsistence farmer and everything about their lack of corporate integrity and cynical opportunism. |
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But the daughter now lectures the Mayo voters as if she had a God-given right to their support within the sacred scriptures of Fianna Fail opportunism. |
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He fought against dishonesty and corruption, opportunism and cowardice. |
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Was it altruism or opportunism, though, that brought the industry together in London this month to exchange views on the issue? |
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When far-sightedness crumples into ordinary opportunism, Ms Merkel disappoints. |
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There is, for example, his hyper-hyperbolism and opportunism standing in the way. |
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Arts organizations often use anniversaries as an excuse for self-flattery and financial opportunism. |
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Such opportunism, says one true believer disdainfully, is only for Trotskyists. |
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All they want to do is make vituperative and splenetic remarks about it and indulge in nothing more than crass political opportunism. |
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The conflation of bourgeois third parties with genuine labor parties has been a source of opportunism before and since. |
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These questions address different aspects of confidence relating to the size of bribes, the possibility of additional requests, and the likeliness of opportunism. |
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It appears that switching parties is the worst form of opportunism. |
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It was rugger, an amateur game played by muddy schoolboys and beery men for pleasure and not for commercial opportunism. |
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Its leaders prevented in its time entry into the Socialist Party, covering their fundamental opportunism with a sterile intransigence. |
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Inverdale said he believed that Miller's intervention was political opportunism. |
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To continue the past practice of running for executive office, now that this has been revealed as defective, would be opportunism. |
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There is much evidence of cynical opportunism by governments that have used the threat of terrorism to introduce new punitive laws. |
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While more people are now talking about Somalia, there is little action to stop the violence and opportunism. |
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Voters smell out opportunism from a long way off and don't like it. |
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To promote and protect their interest, they used coercion, bribery and nepotism as state policy and created a culture of opportunism, deceit, duplicity, loot and plunder. |
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The press would blow the whistle on this naked opportunism, and the flip-flop police would beat him senseless. |
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So those seeking to turn their opportunism into actual political power should beware their own hubris. |
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It is driven by political necessity, and racial opportunism. |
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Jeremy tells an epic tale of money, greed, opportunism and blind chance. |
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We should not make cheap heroes of people in opposition by accident or opportunism, but we should seek out the fact and substance in all opinions expressed. |
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Their major claimed benefits may overplay the importance of sharing knowledge and expertise and underplay issues such as social conflict, cultural difference and opportunism. |
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This is not mere opportunism, but a malignant metastasis that not only finds white supremacism an acceptable impulse but one fully consonant with its drive to power. |
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What a pappyshow has been their so-called co-operation on fighting crime, created as a direct result of citizens' pressure and political opportunism! |
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Furthermore, an intelligent opportunism in the choice of problems addressed is a useful, perhaps essential, characteristic for an innovative initiative. |
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Adopting a strategic opportunism approach to conducting Strategy business. |
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I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism. |
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This is not opportunism, but common sense. |
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And this fundamental difference between the advocates of support committees and the partisans of workers' and strike committees is as old as opportunism. |
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The astonishing thing about such opportunism is that it is so bald-faced. |
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Given their sophistication, adaptability and opportunism, transnational crime organizations will likely continue to pose a threat to Canada's national security. |
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In a skillful combination of populism, messianism and opportunism, President Saakashvili has, for them, the perfect profile of South American dictators. |
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The Poland family members have stated that they do not want their son's death to be the cause of any wavering will or political opportunism concerning the worthiness of the mission in Afghanistan. |
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Somalia's frail Transitional Federal Government has struggled ineffectually to contain a complex insurgency that conflates religious extremism, political and financial opportunism, and clan interests. |
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Without a certain deference to the beyond, human virtue would almost always degenerate into self-serving and short-sighted opportunism, would fall prey to vanity and egoistic isolation, to nothingness. |
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And all of them have failed because of the true conservatism, not latent but powerful, of those who, through opportunism and lack of concretion, cheat the voters. |
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Conversely, he has been criticised by figures on both the left and right, and has been accused of political opportunism and elitism. |
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Although a program of reason and moderation, normalism is not a program of compromise or opportunism. |
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It really concerns me that in this place from time to time we tend to take advantage of the political opportunism to maybe joust on points not realizing that the families of our military are also listening to the debate. |
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A big handicap for unification of our efforts is also the notorious « communistic multi-party system » and opportunism, growing as a result of this. |
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The political strategy of not allowing oneself to be nailed down may, however, be successful where it credibly focuses on the positive aspects of flexibility, openness and pragmatism rather than on opportunism. |
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With a steady hand, you calmly steered our monetary policy on a successful course on the basis of the ECB Statute, building up confidence without being swayed by short-term populism, opportunism and carping. |
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Yes, the shadow of neoliberal corporate opportunism is lurking – with a glad eye fixed suggestively on our national assets, in this case our water, but this wasn't really what brought me to the demonstration. |
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Members can call me a cynic, but I think it is political opportunism over on that side and I am really sorry to say that it will probably not help my producers who need it in a desperate way. |
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There have been some truly disgusting displays of opportunism out there. |
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What his friends call pragmatism, his foes deem opportunism. |
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He is an elected politician, opportunism is what politicians do. |
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It is my hope in today's debate, along with colleagues on this side of the House, to show that now is not the time for that sort of self-serving opportunism. |
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Organised crime can lead one to participate in supporting a terrorist cell and providing it with arms or intelligence out of simple opportunism, without this necessarily demonstrating any sharing of Islamist ideology. |
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Species of Peromyscus have been characterized as granivores with omnivorous tendencies that reflect opportunism in feeding habits. |
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In a way, therefore, I think we should pay our respects to Mr Djindjic and the way he acted, although his motives may well have been inspired by opportunism. |
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Furthermore, some of them have become managers less by choice than by opportunism, and often show little concern for developing their competencies. |
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Is it not really just a flag that we wave out of opportunism? |
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Gardiner portrayed Salisbury as guilty of nothing more than opportunism. |
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As we examine agriculturism, it is very difficult to separate what actually is myth from what is pure political opportunism or even genuine social concern. |
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Gordon Brown's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism and widening the goalposts for his team just as the match kicks off. |
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