political capital

There's a constant battle between agencies over how much political capital to expend on international issues against domestic interests.

There's no doubt that Obama is intensely charismatic and that it provides him with unusual political capital.

Mr Obama has often said he favours reform, but no one knows how much political capital he will invest in its pursuit.

We must deprive them of every bit of their political capital and continue to do so until not one jot is left to them.

I get that it might be tempting to hitch this issue to climate change, which has so much political capital.

Mr Bush also has precious little political capital left, even with his own side, and certainly not enough to relaunch his presidency.

But there is no doubt that Palin earned lucrative move again as the political capital, from the 2012 election seems a step closer.

It has blown wads of political capital, but it is still better positioned to manage the "rise of the rest" than its rivals.

How do we revive that same kind of urgency and feeling these things have to be done even if it involves expenditure of political capital?

Bill Clinton got nothing at all after putting all his marbles [political capital] into the health care basket [reform proposal].

The rueful if inevitable step of a country running low on political capital will not be mistaken as a positive beginning.

Now, with the economic prospects clouded by the euro crisis and his political capital at a high, Mr Tusk is at last talking tough.

Mr Singh's recent statements indicate that he is finally prepared to use his personal political capital to end the violence.

"I do not believe that Chinese leaders are willing to expend major political capital on this issue, " Mr.

In politics, however, sunk costs are often seen as political capital or as an investment of reputation and status.

If he is to build on the promise of his first 100 days, he must spend his political capital cautiously.

His solid mandate and strengthened majorities in Congress equip him with huge political capital.

The opposition parties are all making political capital out of the disagreements within the government.

The consummate politician scrutinises every event for possible political capital, and the sending of the Christmas card is no exception.

Sponsors also could earn valuable political capital with Chinese officials for having stuck by the Beijing games through the protests.

On major decisions they had to seek Clinton's approval, but they couldn't ask him to spend significant political capital on foreign affairs.

Owing to objective restrictions, Wang's character and political capital, the power of leading Beiyang was greatly lessened.

Thus far the president has been investing all his political capital in health reform.

Bush's bank of political capital was busted, and Obama wasn't about to take ownership of the toxic assets.

His financial wealth and political capital have allowed him to maintain his status of power-broker.

But she will also benefit from the considerable political capital invested by President Karzai.

It also underpinned his determination to spend the political capital that had been earned in the 2004 election on Social Security reform.

Few presidents have come to power with as much political capital.

After the government's austerity programme and its schools-reform policy, no cause has as much political capital invested in it.

He has spent a great deal of political capital getting his health bill through Congress.

But the Democrats pronounced the idea dead on arrival, and the president lacks the political capital to override their objections.

KEVIN RUDD, Australia's prime minister, has much political capital riding on his promise to tackle climate change.

A government runs out of political capital long before it runs out of things to tax.

He now wants to use that political capital to create a new system of international financial regulation, led by a reformed and enlarged IMF.

But after the huge decisions he has already taken his stock of money, troops and political capital is severely depleted.

Meanwhile, as America's political capital in Asia is rising, that same political capital is being squandered in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Let us hope the leaders will not waste the precious good will and political capital on senseless issues like the exchange rate.

Moreover Mr Bush is rapidly running out of political capital.

But TD-S has had so much political capital invested in it that the Chinese government could not give up on it.

Top al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama Bin Laden, preferred it to the country's political capital, Kabul.

Questions will be asked about whether it really makes sense to invest much political capital in regional trade liberalization.

Greece's government must wisely spend what scant political capital it may have.

Mr. Rattner made the comments during the recording of "Political Capital with Al Hunt, " which airs this weekend.

Ozawa has the potential to suspected breaches of the "political capital regulation Dhamma" crime was court.

The opposition parties are making political capital out of the government's problems.

Since taking office, Obama has expended energy and political capital in pursuit of strong ties with Southeast Asia.

To achieve that, the danger is that the new government will err on the side of timidity and squander its political capital.

The elder Wu pushed his son to prepare for public office by studying law and used his political capital to advance his son's career.

After hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans that summer, Bush's political capital was gone.

And if I were you, I'd make some political capital from the refusal to buy club for the board.

The question is what they do with the political capital gained thereby.

In the process, the Chinese may well be buying invaluable political capital in Brussels as well.

What matters most now is how Obama uses the political capital that health care's passage has earned him.

Mr Bush has been unusually resistant to investing political capital in this particular problem.

The coalition government may not want to spend political capital drumming up support for this particular example of globalisation.

But the worry is that the political capital expended on this quite basic task means other priorities get sidelined.

Mr Mestrallet is backed by Mr Breton, who has invested much political capital in the merger.

Whatever political capital he can spare from cutting spending will be largely used to introduce market-based reforms to Britain's schools.

Indeed, after her spectacular victory, Ms Yingluck has amassed her own political capital, regardless of big brother.

It takes tremendous political capital, which Arnold had.

And by the time Mr. Obama realizes that he needs to change course, his political capital may be gone.

Mr Rudd has little political capital to spare on a fight over mining.

This defeat will lead to the spread of terrorism while weakening American political capital.

Time and political capital are expended pursuing trade policies irrelevant to most American companies.

The US has, in Barack Obama, a president with vast political capital.

They say he is seeking to building political capital by bloodying the South with attacks such as the torpedoing of the warship in March.

That is too complicated to put on a bumper sticker, but Mr Obama still has the political capital to attempt it.

So long as this level of political capital is invested in the euro, monetary union is highly likely to survive.

And she has accumulated yet more political capital.

But he will need all the political capital he has mustered.

Bin laden's death since can become Obama's political capital, it can also become laden "heir" political capital.

I don't think that the government has enough political capital to actually counter that vision.

People close to Mr Ban say he is frustrated by the reluctance of politicians to stake political capital in next month's Copenhagen meeting;

for Obama, this is a presidential campaign in the next year, "win hearts and minds of the huge political capital" ;

"Profited from political capital accumulated by others" (Michael Mandelbaum)

New and old elites battled over the relative value of cultural and political capital

The Logic of Distinction: Political Capital and Literature in Classical Times

For Obama, this is a President who in next year's presidential pen can win the hearts of the election "rich political capital" ;

his limited stock of political capital