Sentences with phrase «for powerful politicians»

Not every scientist or professor is a public figure, but a scientist who writes celebrity columns for The Huffington Post and The Guardian, and appears in campaign commercials for powerful politicians, and stars in a big - budget James Cameron telly series with Matt Damon and Jessica Alba, and writes a book not about science per se but about an epic global struggle for truth and justice with him as the embattled hero can hardly claim he wants to be left alone with his Bunsen burners.

For powerful politicians and the big businesses they court, getting around New York's campaign donation limits is easy.

Not exact matches

Yet his flight led to the removal and subsequent sentencing to life imprisonment for corruption of Chongqing's leader, Bo Xilai, formerly one of China's most powerful politicians.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

«The majority of our country supports change, and 92 % of Americans support universal background checks, but unfortunately powerful lobbyists for gun manufacturers have some politicians scared to do what they know is right.»

Powerful regional and caste - based politicians were no longer content to broker votes for an upperclass elite within the Congress, and wanted their own share of state power; during the Eighties many hitherto imperceptible political assertions became louder, turning into what V. S. Naipaul in a book published in 1990 termed «a million mutinies now.»

Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements.

For some of us it can be very enjoyable to see politicians (and writers) champion the poor and denounce the powerful.

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.

Prosecutors say the 74 - year - old Silver earned $ 4 million illegally in fees for his work on behalf of a cancer researcher and real estate developers who stood to benefit from his clout as one of the three most powerful politicians in New York state government.

Prosecutors had accused Silver, for two decades one of the most powerful politicians in New York, of abusing his office for years.

For the record, while the politically powerful Nehru - Gandhi family has shown that concession was not a bad venture as some may think, the incommodious confusion of political party action with family matters by some particularly petty politicians, in my view, runs against the grain of human values.

This «None of the above» option, the books title, Edwards foresees could be a «powerful trigger» for politicians to take heed of young voters interests with greater sincerity.

Silver, who was one of the most powerful politicians in New York for two decades, was also required to repay $ 5.18 million and will be fined an additional $ 1.75 million.

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Leaders of the Kings County Democratic Party — the organization former Assemblyman Vito Lopez kept under his thumb for seven years until deposed by scandal — today lamented the once - powerful politician's death this morning.

A longtime friend of state Sen. Dean Skelos testified at the former majority leader's corruption trial Thursday that he couldn't fire the powerful politician's son for not showing up to the cushy job he'd arranged because he feared he'd «have a problem in Albany.»

Silver, 74, is on trial for the second time in three years on charges that he sold his office as one of the three most powerful politicians in the state — along with the Senate majority leader and governor — in exchange for $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks.

Sheldon Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements at Silver's bribery trial in federal court in Manhattan.

For politicians like Lancman, 2017 will prove how powerful the party is — or how far it's fallen.

Arlo Devlin - Brown, a veteran federal prosecutor in Manhattan who led a string of prominent Wall Street cases and more recently oversaw the prosecutions of two of New York's most powerful state politicians, is departing for the private sector.

«It was a sudden and highly politicized end to (Bharara's) seemingly apolitical tenure, which was noted for prosecutions of powerful politicians of both parties,» though he had his critics who accused him both of overreach and, at times, an unwillingness to be forceful enough.

Anthony Bonomo, a longtime friend of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and head of a medical malpractice firm, testified at the lawmaker's corruption trial that he couldn't fire the powerful politician's son, Adam, for not showing up to the cushy job he'd arranged because he feared he'd «have a problem in Albany.»

Many powerful and well - known politicians and organizations received money from Mosey for Surrogate.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once considered one of the state's most powerful politicians, was convicted Monday of charges that he traded favors in exchange for $ 5 million and then lied about it.

NEW YORK — Real estate giant Glenwood Management was fined $ 200,000 by a state ethics commission for its role in the federal corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once two of New York's most powerful politicians.

«Since I first called for his resignation in 2012, when it was discovered that he had used taxpayer dollars to silence victims of sexual harassment, the pattern of misbehavior exhibited by this all - too - powerful politician had become increasingly clear.

F ree, critical press and media arevital for our country and an essential part of holding the powerful, including politicians, to account.

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who bent state government to his will for more than 20 years as one of New York's most powerful and canny politicians, was arrested Thursday on charges of taking nearly $ 4 million in payoffs and kickbacks.

Meaningful job creation programs, increasing the minimum wage, strong support for affordable housing, and an overhaul of the way elections are run in New York State are desperately needed, but Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos, two of the three most powerful politicians in Albany, have refused to respond to the needs of low - income New Yorkers and their communities.

Politicians give lip service to tax reform because we talk about it, but they will not produce any substantial reform because it works for them, it is doing just what they want it to do - redistributing wealth from the silent mass in the middle to the publicly noisy poor and the privately powerful rich.

In a state mired with political corruption and known for its shady backdoor deals, the sudden leftward shift of one of the New York's most powerful and shameless politician hides the continuation of the business agenda that lies underneath all of Cuomo's progressive rhetoric.

Eight months from now, the Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP PC, the Labour candidate for London Mayor, could be the party's most powerful politician in Britain.

Mr. Silver, a Democrat who represented lower Manhattan for decades and was once one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was convicted in November 2015 of honest - services fraud, extortion and...

Cuomo said it was a very tough vote for politicians - because powerful gun advocacy groups opposed it.

If unions and their Democratic allies prevail in the recall — just over a year after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to curb collective bargaining rights for most public workers — it would send a powerful warning to other politicians who might try to limit union rights.

NEW YORK, NY (08/18/2012)(readMedia)-- Meaningful job creation programs, increasing the minimum wage, strong support for affordable housing, and an overhaul of the way elections are run in New York State are desperately needed, but Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos, two of the three most powerful politicians in Albany, have refused to respond to the needs of low - income New Yorkers and their communities.

NEW YORK — Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful New York politicians for two decades, will stand powerless Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom before a judge who could effectively send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Milano said he also would like to see term limits for elected officials in Congress, calling politicians «the most powerful executives in our country.»

But they emerged from a five - hour, closed - door meeting saying there was no consensus on who would succeed Silver, one of the most powerful politicians in New York for the past two decades.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing the case before the once - powerful politician endures a second trial on corruption charges.

In an effort to placate the powerful politician, Klein told the firm's accounting department to deliver Silver's checks to the speaker's secretary at the firm, but they just «sat in a drawer» waiting for Silver to pick them up, he testified.

ALBANY — For the second time this year, criminal charges against one of Albany's most powerful politicians appear to involve Leonard Litwin's Glenwood Management.

Preet Bharara had a seemingly apolitical tenure, noted for prosecutions of powerful politicians from both parties.

Mr. Smith warned the crowd that the accusations are part of a plot to eliminate a powerful black outer borough politician and target his district for real estate development and racial displacement.

«There were a few advocates who fought tirelessly for universal pre-k, spending most of this year passing out flyers, making phone calls, attending press conferences, talking to our friends and converting friends and supporters — demonstrating the sort of grassroots activism that proves too powerful for politicians to ignore.

«Star Chamber» can also, rarely, be used in its original meaning, for instance when a politician uses parliamentary privilege to examine and then exculpate or condemn a powerful organisation or person.

I was at the funeral for Vito Lopez, for many years one of New York's most powerful politicians.

Though Niagara County's most powerful politician said he no longer harbors «passion» for the job and wants to spend more time with his family, his departure exactly coincides with a widening probe that sources say stems from the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan.

More than 100 years later, attorneys for another powerful Manhattan politician, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, argued that his client's reaping millions of dollars in legal fees from entities with matters before state government was simply business as usual in Albany.