make capital out of in a sentence
Examples
- Opposition politicians and independent newspapers have accused the governing Social Democracy Party _ prominent in the wedding plans _ of making capital out of the occasion before local and general elections.
- By focusing on the pension ( as he had hoped ) the opposition failed to make capital out of one of de Valera's most dramatic and potentially humiliating mis-judgments, his first failed attempt to abolish the office of governor-general.
- Her opponents and critics called her the " weeping widow ", saying she got herself nominated a Senator and made head of her husband's party after his death by making capital out of his death, going around to different villages and weeping over their children.
- "He has an opportunity to make capital out of the verdict . . . . I could see him saying things that resonate with the majority view _ in this case, that O . J . was guilty, and he got off _ and that he wants to make sure the problems in the LAPD and the L . A . district attorney's office aren't going to be problems in San Francisco ."