Sentence examples for politically lethal from inspiring English sources

This is politically lethal.

He highlights his politically lethal gaffes because another part of his platform is unwavering transparency.

For the most part, these are heavily Republican areas, where anything associated with Mr. Obama is politically lethal.

Such a course would be politically lethal for Mr. Mubarak at a time when Mr. Arafat's standing in the Arab world has soared.

Vouchers failed several times to make it through the Legislature — proving politically lethal for Kent Grusendorf, chairman of the House Public Education Committee, who strongly supported them — and eventually lost momentum.

For instance, she complained that the Democratic Leadership Council -- which helped catapult Mr. Clinton, a former chairman, onto the national stage -- treats progressives like "dinosaurs" and regards the party's traditional mishmash of constituencies as a politically lethal disease.

When A. Joseph Stack III flew his Piper Dakota into an Internal Revenue Service office building in Austin, Tex., in February, killing himself and an I.R.S. manager, it was the left that blew the linguistic whistle: If such a public, politically motivated act of lethal violence is not terrorism, they asked, just what is?

The white person who goes to see this is supposed to leave feeling like a viper sent off to repent; the middle class African-American is meant to go home regarding any embrace of prosperity as weak, self-negating and lethal, both politically and spiritually.

To critics, the secrecy has for years permitted Obama to conceal the damage in human lives inflicted by what he calls "targeted killing", insulating him politically from the consequences of lethal decisions that the president has decided can occur anywhere on earth for an indefinite duration.

Otherwise, for the first time since the Second World War, a major global trade initiative could falter, thereby giving antigrowth, politically destabilizing protectionist forces a lethal lease on life.

Removing eagles first was difficult: eagles are not easily captured and lethal removal was politically distasteful.