Sentence examples for hijacking the issue from inspiring English sources

Along the way, Republican conservatives have become profoundly disillusioned while accusing Democrats, who are themselves not entirely satisfied, of hijacking the issue.

"Jan Brewer and Joe Arpaio are hijacking the issue and damaging the Republican party brand," Mr. Bailey said, referring to Arizona's governor and the hard-line sheriff of Maricopa County.

The rhetorical skirmishing has become increasingly heated during that time, with pipeline opponents accusing State of pandering to industry while supporters charge anti-oil activists with hijacking the issue to further their cause.

Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, accused the Police Federation of attempting to hijack the issue.

Because over the last few years the coal industry has been trying to hijack the issue of energy poverty by telling the world that the only way the poorest nations can pull themselves out of poverty is by purchasing lots of their product.

Every week a copy of The New Yorker would arrive at our house on Long Island, wrapped in a brown wrapper upon which the (I thought) disingenuously modest label NEWSPAPER was printed, and I would hijack the issue before my dad came home from work in order to continue an education that was, then, more important to me than the one I was getting in school.

But amid attempts by the far-right to hijack the issue to drum up hostility towards refugees, the political mainstream has pushed back, cautioning that anti-Semitism pre-existed the recent migrant influx and has deep roots across the spectrum of society.

The PQ's response was to try to hijack the event, to force the Quebec issue on to the conference's discussions.

While Corcoran called Schmitt a "friend," he says he believes the lawmaker "hijacked the Ferguson issue for his own agenda".

The Pope's decision to speak about the abuse scandal so forcefully at the beginning of his trip may be an attempt to make sure his visit is not hijacked by the issue.

The deficit-financing bill will apply until 2015, such that future governments will not be hijacked by the issue as the DPJ has been.Some of his decisions confound those in Mr Noda's own party, who have seen his government's support rate plunge to 18%, according to the latest poll.