Sentences with phrase «as a politician once»

As a politician once said: Trust but verify!

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Things have looked grim for Donald Trump's future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician.

Throughout the cold war, and now into the newly instigated War on Terrorism, tens of thousands of Americans died - many multiples of the number of those killed on 9/11 - as the direct result of such Jewish / Israeli spying and treason, but not once as anyone ever suggested that the whole Jewish population of America should be held to account for the crimes of those few traitors or for the war - like behavior of the country of which many of them, including some of our politicians, hold second passports.

Britain does not enjoy his company, he has destroyed our democracy, our once centered BBC, rendered our politicians as corrupt, lied to the public on numerous occasions, denied the British public any say on the E.U, denied us the right to know anything of his secret mass immigration policy's, caused more racism and divide in different forms in communities, turned us into the most watched CCTV state in the world, not to mention the wars.

Perhaps the Occupy Movement will bring us to the point where we once again as a society decide we want to uphold the rule of law, not just for the petty crimes of the poor, but also the high crimes of the rich and their politician puppets like Blair.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

Only practicing Protestants (those who identify as Protestant, attend church at least once a month, and say their faith is very important to them) thought the Bible was especially needed this year: 86 percent said politicians would be more civil if they read their Bible regularly, up from 81 percent in 2015.

However, as has always been the case, politicians once elected rarely deliver on their promises.

His strict Scotch Presbyterian mother had wanted him to become a preacher, and as a Times man he had become one, his column being the podium from which he could spread his Calvinist view of life throughout the land, thrilling thousands with his sound logic and clarity, influencing students, educators, and politicians, sometimes infuriating such presidents as Eisenhower, who once asked, «Who the hell does Reston think he is, telling me how to run the country?»

«It is like once you get into politics, you throw discipline to the dogs, you are not under any law, you can do anything you want as a politician and it is that character that is going through... There are structures, party structures, legal structures but because you are in politics, the people who are actually activating the political system, they think that once I am in politics; I can push discipline and the law to the side and the policeman can not even do anything to me,» he lamented.

In «Explaining Judiciary Governance in Central and Eastern Europe» (forthcoming in Europe - Asia Studies) I show that, once the judicializing institutional design template is in place, CEE politicians do tinker with them at the margins in self - interested ways, as by packing the courts with loyalists.

Whatever James» personal reasons about what he wants to do in his career and life, I regret the possible implication that, once you start thinking as a politician, you might need to get out of Parliament.

Adonis was also popular with some Opposition politicians, in particular the then - Conservative Education Spokesman Michael Gove, who once declared, «We are on the same page as Andrew Adonis.»

Once it's installed, the organizers can send alerts to users or update the software with scripts that know how to take particular actions, such as automatically filling in feedback forms on a politician's website.

Once viewed as «cautious» politicians, both recently threw caution to the wind and lost, the prime minister with her snap general election and the first minister with her demand for a second referendum.

Hochul brings gender (though not ethnic) diversity to the ticket, and as a seasoned politician, she's unlikely to say or do anything too problematic on the trail, or once in office.

A number of budding politicians served in some capacity at Ridgewood Bushwick, including Assemblywoman Maritza Davila and Councilman Stephen Levin, who also once served as Lopez's chief of staff.

The medical doctor, once aspired to lead the NPP as its flagbearer, placing second to the late Prof. Albert Kwadwo Adu Boahen; Ghanaian academic, historian and politician in the lead up to the 1992 elections.

As politicians across the spectrum battle against their robotic tendencies, Defence Minister Anna Soubry has once again shown herself to be refreshingly devoid of CCHQ programming.

The former Smiths frontman - who once released a song called «The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get» - was ignored by most politicians as he vented his anger.

Politicians, well - known figures and family, filled Saint Patrick's Cathedral Tuesday afternoon at the funeral of John Timoney — who was known as a cop's cop and who once stood among...

Some of you Ghanaians can choose to settle for less, and allow the greedy and selfish politicians to find it convenient to take you for granted by allowing them to engage in such trivialities on election days, just to woo the «weaker minds» as President John Dramani Mahama reportedly once said.

There is a certain irony to this for the son of Mario Cuomo, who was once known as an all - political, take - no - prisoners, tough guy politician.

«Jack Martins is once again showing his true colors as a hypocritical machine career politician — hurling baseless allegations about something he is doing himself.

Meanwhile Labour deputy leader Tom Watson — who started blogging back in 2003 and was once seen as Westminster's most digitally savvy politician - was watching closely as Hancock made the audacious bid to steal his steal his mantle.

But the mayor said he has no regrets about criticizing Cuomo as a vengeful politician and an obstructionist to the city's agenda in Albany last week and Cuomo once again implied de Blasio doesn't understand government as the long - running feud between the two men continued.

«The agitation for sovereignty by the Igbos and the quit notice from Arewa youths will subside once equitocracy is adopted as this will ensure that elected politicians at all levels will do things that please everybody in their jurisdiction.»

Faso, a veteran politician who once served as New York State Assembly minority leader raised $ 908,176 during the same reporting period, bringing the total amount of contributions to his campaign to $ 2,285,383.

Alan Johnson is once again the most popular of those politicians on the tracker who are currently being suggested as potential leadership candidates, with a rating of minus 7.

This weekend, Boris Johnson, who once strove to present himself as a liberal politician when needing to seduce Londoners, struck an altogether more Tebbit - like pose as he positioned himself to run as a «real Brexit» Tory leader.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

BY FRANK GRANDEL President of Clarkstown Taxpayers What an utter disgrace once again by Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack at last week's Clarkstown Town Board meeting, taking the position as he so often does that a career politician's job is a «noble profession.»

As with much of the recent (and long overdue) media and political attention to the government's «hostile environment», people who can be deemed «illegal» are once again dehumanised even by politicians opposing government policy.

«Dr. Yemi Oke is a well - known politician and a card - carrying member of the PDP in Ogun State where he once served as the Legal Adviser and a member of the Ogun State State Executive Committee (Exco) of the PDP (See the Certified True Copy (CTC) of The Punch newspaper of 4th January, 2011 under the headline «PDP returns Bankole's opponents in Ogun» marked «Annexure I»).

If you've had any exposure to this show at all, you'll know by now that Kevin Spacey essentially owned Netflix for a brief period back in February (though Corey Stoll threatens to steal the limelight more than once, but more on that later) in his role as leading man Frank Underwood, the politician passed over for Secretary of State who decides to take his revenge on those who betrayed him — and hell hath no fury like a politician scorned.

And special mention must go to Colm Meaney as a lecherous politician whose drunken malapropisms provide the biggest laugh, and Stephen Rea, who pops up briefly as a name - dropping cabbie unashamed to wheel out the old «I had that James Joyce in the back of my cab once» routine.

The journalists (a true who's who of character actors that includes: Bob Odenkirk, Pat Healy, Carrie Coon, David Cross, and the fantastic Tracy Letts) all knew their responsibilities, as Graham and Bradlee balance the backlash that will arrive on the doors of politicians they once had close friendships with.

Murdoch formerly owned the British newspaper News of the World, which imploded once it was revealed that reporters hacked into the cell phones of the family of a murdered child, as well as the cell phones of the royal family, politicians and celebrities.

In front of a display listing all the musicians, sports stars and politicians who once lived here, Comrie urges me to take pictures of the lists, as if to embed into my head the enduring positive legacy emanating from the rooms in which we stand.

Our boutique hostel was once a brothel used by politicians as written in the book «My Brother Jack», we can show you its unique history, the secret escape door where ministers and politicians were ushered out through during police raids over 100 years ago.

Once let loose in an open world gamers can be trusted to be about as morally reliable as your average politician, and so the developers clearly decided not to let that actually get in the way of the story they wanted to tell.

This is a peer reviewed paper by respected scientists who are saying that aerosol forcing means that the majority of the warming caused by existing co2 emission has effectively been masked thus far, and that as aerosols remain in the atmosphere for far shorter a duration of time than co2, we will have already most likely crossed the 2 degree threshold that the G8 politicians have been discussing this week once the cooling effect of aerosols dissipate.

Expect more skyrocketing electricity prices, blackouts and load - shedding as Australia's virtue - signalling, climate theory - obsessed politicians continue their jihad against what was Australia's once proud boast — cheap, reliable, efficient baseload power.

Once carbon pricing gets implemented, it will be under the control of bureaucrats and politicians like in the EU and US EPA and Australia's Climate Change Authority http://climatechangeauthority.gov.au/ It will become a huge boondogle and extremely difficult to unwind, as we are finding in Australia.

American politicians who really care about climate change — I'm assuming this includes our president, as well as a majority in Congress — should skip the summits and instead ask themselves why the oil and gas prices that started rising a couple of years ago (creating a boom in alternative - energy research) have once again dropped to an artificial low.

Once the legalese and diplomatic jargon was translated, the new normal — which every business and politician needs to accept — was declared unequivocally that business - as - usual can not and will not go on.

«Glass is arriving just as the courts, politicians, privacy advocates, regulators, law enforcement and tech companies are once again arguing over the boundaries of technology in every walk of life,» David Streitfeld writes.

As discussed below under the subject of Staffing, watch out, for example, for the law firm that baits the client in the selection process with a well - known rainmaker (like a former politician or judge who is now a law firm partner) then switches, once the client signs up, to lawyers the client has never met.

Once you've established an online persona, it becomes difficult, if not impossible to change because, as many an angry teen or amorous politician has discovered, the internet is forever.

Thanks to social media, people who once seemed out of reach, such as celebrities and politicians, now pop up in our feeds daily, posting pictures of their personal lives and engaging with those they serve and entertain.