But in the zero-sum game that New York politics often is, nothing may be done for one group without others demanding for their own, too.
When the financial crisis began this fall, Ms. Gelinas, of the Manhattan Institute, was stunned that the mayor still signed a contract granting District Council 37's workers 4percentt raises for two consecutive years, at a cost of $370 million, without demanding support for cost-saving pension reforms.
The Democratic Unionists are likely to vote with the Tories, though not without demanding goodies for Northern Ireland in return.
As long as the United States funds Honduran security forces without demanding justice for those threatened, tortured and killed, we have blood on our hands.
In a Guardian op-ed laying out their rationale, the bill's sponsors said, "As long as the United States funds Honduran security forces without demanding justice for those threatened, tortured, and killed, we have blood on our hands.
"Many churches hold poor interpretations of Scripture that imply the victim is somehow at fault for dressing or acting a certain way 'immodestly,' that speaking up about abuse is 'gossip' or 'slander,' and that forgiveness is moving on without demanding justice for the victims," Easter told HuffPost.
The departing president, Demetris Christofias, a Communist who has called himself the "red sheep of Europe," has been criticized here for agreeing to the bailout of Greece without demanding special assistance for the Cyprus banks.
The board of Sirius XM Radio did not breach its duty to shareholders by allowing a takeover by Liberty Media without demanding a premium for the stock, a Delaware judge ruled.
