Sentences with phrase «first most politicians»

First most politicians are practicing Christians of one type or another.

Not exact matches

Elizabeth May's recent embrace of Blair Wilson, a rejected and controversial Liberal MP from the Lower Mainland, as the party's first Member of Parliament should remind us that the most important quality of any politician is judgement.

The politicians that scream the most about cutting the fat from the lean are the first to vote for Congressional pay hikes.

The bottom line: Wagering on a man nicknamed Big Lub in a footrace might not seem like a wise move, but Roosevelt's struggles — one of America's most vigorous, active presidents was winless in his first 525 races — show that conventional wisdom means very little in a race among oversized foam representations of long - dead politicians.

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years...

«Most politicians who have to deal with the systems would be the first ones who say they want to get rid of it.»

Having worked in a number of think tanks down the years, I always found that backbenchers were the least interested in our work, while we were on first name terms with the most senior politicians - people who recognised the power of (new) ideas.

Mr. Skelos is hardly the first powerful politician to make the pilgrimage to Brooklyn's kosher soup kitchens, but he is the most notable Republican to do so in recent years, demonstrating a new reality that a swath of heavily Democratic Brooklyn and Queens is ready to vote for candidates who belong to the same party as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

Niou first appeared on the podcast in January, which gives her the most appearance of any politicians, and ties her with Matt Hamilton of the Times Union, Don Levy of the Siena Research Institute and Bill Hammond of the Empire Center.

It's not the first time Miliband, who is never the most exciting of politicians, even when challenging for the leadership, has taken the safe route.

What drives him from the first time he is asked to do some work for Brown is his love and admiration for this most unlovable of politicians.

The 45 - year - old is the first black or minority ethnic person to be London Mayor and one of the most senior elected Labour politicians outside Westminster.

Briefly, on Oct. 6 during the candidates» first major voter forums in the town of Bedford, Killian took her own crack at Latimer's use of money, briefly targeting him and other longtime politicians for using campaign funds for what she characterizes as frivolous expenses like food and gas; expenses of which there are dozens of in Latimer's most recent disclosure.

First, the politicians don't know who is most qualified.

Few politicians campaign on changing it and most argue they still vote independent of donations (which has been shown to be false), see first footnote.

First and most obviously is the argument that after the expenses scandal, and new questions being asked about politicians» pay, it's highly doubtful whether the public would approve of their tax revenues going towards political parties, especially in the amounts needed to make an impact.

She might not have always brought harmony where there was discord or hope in every place where there was despair, as she promised on her first day in Downing Street, but, unlike most politicians, she didn't regard winning elections as a tenth of what mattered.

Her first TV ad said that «most politicians think voters aren't smart.»

New York City's most prominent Latino leaders, activists, politicians and members of the Latino communities gathered at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social work today at the first Summit on Latinos (SOL): «Shaping the Future of New York City», where -LSB-...]

Silver, 70, is from Manhattan and has been one of the state's most powerful politicians since he was first elected speaker in 1994.

He was elected for the first time in 2010 as the MP for Rochester and Strood and has gained a reputation as one of Westminster's most rebellious politicians.

I know they are mere suggestions but it's more than most politicians have done in their first term (s).

Philippa Whitford, who joins 55 other SNP MPs in Westminster, the vast majority of them first - timers, was interviewed by the Guardian when she first announced her candidacy and made a prescient comment: «What strikes me is that, if we pull it off, this is going to be the most non-political group of politicians Westminster has seen for a long time.

«It's the first MCU film about a politician, so it should be the most political one.

«If the new SAT succeeds, it will be the first time America is able to systematically shape the views, beliefs and ideologies of hundreds of thousands of Chinese students every year, not through a popular television show or a politician's speaking tour, but through what the Chinese care about most — exams,» she wrote.

The book's introduction notes that the 20 % of the Canadian workforce that belongs to public - sector unions (which also includes police officers, firefighters, the armed forces and the politicians who make these rules in the first place) «have quietly negotiated the most lucrative compensation packages in history.»

If you read it you will notice that the task force study it to be turned in a year after this proposed bill takes effect (Oct. 1st, 2013, the study to be completed by 2014) but here's an idea for the genius politician who is doing this — how about you do the study first and then take actions based upon that before coming to the final conclusion (that arcade light - gun games are turning our kids into blood - thirsty killers) and passing a law that will most certainly harm small businesses in its wake.

However, the artist was forced to sell most of his collection due to the acrimonious divorce and custody battle with his first wife, the Italian porn star and politician Ilona Staller.

To borrow outrageously from a famous story, «The Most Dangerous Game,» here's a Modest Proposal: Establish a six - month open season each year in which anti - wolf / anti-environmental politicians and ranchers (hereinafter referred to as «game») would be turned loose in a yet - to - be-determined tract of public land with just their seasonally - correct clothing, a knife, a first aid kit and one packet of military rations.

First of all most scientists do not know deeply about the underlying functioning of science and second politicians have been using it for economic manipulation hurting nature balance.

First and foremost, I think we need to address emissions in our province in a way which makes the most out of the resources we can convince our politicians to allocate to the problem.

Most politicians, policy - makers, and analysts hailed the Kyoto Protocol as a vital first step toward slowing greenhouse warming.

What areas concern Danes the most, and where do they want Danish politicians to focus first?

But Dr. Beckmann was the first to bring this hokum to my attention, and he had it tagged from the beginning as one of Mencken's «endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary» being exploited by the politicians «to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety).»

As The World Toilet Queue project points out, politicians from across the globe will gather in Washington DC on 23 April 2010, at the first ever High - Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water to discuss what they need to do to fulfill some of the most basic rights of the world's citizens - access to a safe toilet and clean water.

* The first Jewish Cabinet member in a North American government * The first Jewish lawyer to be nominated to the US Supreme Court * The most successful Jewish politician in American history * US Senator * Attorney General, February 25 to September 17, 1861; * Secretary of War, September 17, 1861, to March 23, 1862; * Secretary of State, March 18, 1862, until the end of the Civil War.

First, most politicians have no real incentive to provide proper oversight because to criticize the abusive interpretation of the letter of the law would be to open themselves to accusations of being soft on terrorism without being able to point to specific instances where the Courts and Executive Branch have vastly expanded on the plain meaning of the law.

The video ads — which were directed at specific audience segments on Facebook — pushed themes of Clinton's corruption, her supposed failing health, and referred to her as «the most corrupt politician of our time» while suggesting she «might be the first president to go to jail.»

Like I said I know not all of them are corrupt, but lets face it most of the politcian we see were lawyers first and we all know if your a high ranking politician you have sold your soul to the devil at least once.