Sentence examples for politically friendly from inspiring English sources

The problem with Bush's faith-based initiative was that it was like everything else Bush did, utterly corrupted by an amoral fixer (Karl Rove) for whom everything was about political advantage – in the case of faith-based initiatives, thinly disguised payola for politically friendly evangelical groups.

They described the visit as being both "politically friendly and economically promising".

While some of the countries were politically friendly with or sympathetic to Iraq, the biggest motivation was usually money, according to Duelfer's report to the CIA.

These include Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, and BP Amoco, as well as the politically friendly Hong Kong tycoons, Li Kandhing and Lee Shau-kee.

Any excoriation of Johansson will come not from the company but from the public — especially in countries less politically friendly with Israel, who may label her insensitive or irresponsible.

Mr. Obama chose a politically friendly corner of Republican-leaning North Carolina to promote the resurgence of American manufacturing, one of the central messages of a State of the Union speech that also included initiatives on education and energy.

He was also considered politically savvy, friendly with the first President George Bush and able to move easily in the Catholic-dominated power circles of Boston.

Gap has worked hard to cultivate its politically correct, environmentally friendly image around the globe by joining the US Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program.

"The attractiveness for a country like the U.S. is that we're right next door, politically stable and friendly to private enterprise," said Peter Tertzakian, chief energy economist at ARC Financial, a Calgary investment firm.

In interviews, Catholic leaders, scholars and lay people praised the friendly, politically moderate tone that Archbishop Dolan set in his first year, while noting that he had not yet had to make the kind of tough financial and organizational choices that his predecessor, Cardinal Edward M. Egan, did.

Should we be giving them military assistance, or just humanitarian assistance and training?Humanitarian assistance we ought to give both because it is the right thing to do but also because it is politically smart when friendly countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey are having such a hard time with the millions of refugees inside their countries.