Sentence examples for cynical deployment from inspiring English sources
In 1991, Clarence Thomas's cynical deployment of American racial history and reference to "high-tech lynching" stopped his (white) political antagonists in their tracks.
For the second year in a row, a young American whistleblower alarmed at the unfettered and at times cynical deployment of power by the world's foremost superpower has been voted the Guardian's person of the year.
The Flint incident was particularly notable because a recurring feature of Trump's outreach to black voters has been the cynical deployment of black clergy to parrot his argument that the Democratic Party has taken African-Americans for granted.
The Democratic campaign against Bork in 1987, then, wasn't anything new; it merely resumed a dynamic that had been temporarily obscured — one as old as the republic and a perfectly fair, if often cynical, deployment of the Senate's power to advise and consent.
While the cable decries "the Russian and Iranian governments' cynical and destabilizing deployment of significant military power to bolster the Assad regime," the cable calls for the United States to protect and empower "the moderate Syrian opposition," seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
Shouldn't some thought be given as to how, in the future, we might better protect our politics from such partisan, cynical and lazy deployments of this device: a device that by definition reduces the most complex and technical questions to a crude "yes" or "no"?
Second, the deployment of a deeply cynical logical fallacy by the court of appeal in the case of J (Iran) [2006], which forms a convenient basis for refusing an asylum claim in most LGBT cases.
"Father", he said mashing his still-forming gums, "isn't the political deployment of children to guard against reasonable cynicism itself a deeply cynical move?" And you know what?
Haidt's account of reason is a bit too simple — his whole book, after all, is a deployment of reason to advance learning — and his advice sounds cynical.
But deployment was different.
