Sentences with phrase «representatives is the closest to the people»

If you look at the way the federal government is chosen you see that the House of Representatives is the closest to the people, each seat being elected directly by the people every two years.

Not exact matches

The House of Representatives was supposed to be closer to the people and, therefore, more emotional.

«We know that during primaries, the amount of people that come out are more representative of the demographics of the city of New York than we get on runoffs, which tend to be whiter, older and richer, and we wan na make sure that the people that represent us are elected by our population as close as possible,» Reynoso said.

This would make representatives less partisan than is common today, because they would have to be elected by groups closer to a random sample of the people in a given area.

All right, perhaps the Mail's online audience is not representative of the entire country, but I do think they're probably close to embodying what the reasonable other person from Middle England thinks, and in this case what they seem to think is frankly bloody terrifying.

Dealing with a legal matter is stressful enough for the average person Making time to come down to the office, or find the closest fax machine is another hurdle an intake representative needs to clear before retaining any new client.

We can work with immediate family members and representatives to close the account of a deceased person where appropriate...» (The three passages cited above can be found by using the following key words in Google searches: «yahoo not - transferable», «yahoo terms of service 24 January 2014» and «google deceased user».)

Handing down its judgment this week, the High Court said the central question was whether rule 17 of the Coroners Rules 1984 empowers the coroner to exclude properly interested persons and their legal representatives from part of an inquest and to receive and later take into account closed material received in their absence.

It could be because of our insistence on the American Dream and the ideal of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps or the aversion many people have to the support systems we already have in place or the tax implications a UBI system would have (more on that later), but the closest we've gotten is Richard Nixon's guaranteed annual income proposal in the 1970s, which was still a means - tested program, and which was passed in the House of Representatives but killed in the Senate.

After coaching sales representatives on how to close when I was a sales manager, and now as a recruiter, I have come to one conclusion: not all people know how to closea medical sales call or a job interview appropriately.

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We are now coming on close to 2 years down the track of the new arrangements and there exist limited mechanisms for representative engagement of Indigenous peoples.

This is why our efforts to close the gap, and build momentum for constitutional recognition, must always be informed by the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their community - controlled, representative organisations.

Persistent and unwavering effort from COAG, in genuine partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representative and peak organisations, is needed to Close the Gap.

COAG is committed to working in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to achieve the Closing the Gap reforms... Australia - wide consultations have been undertaken on the establishment of a national representative body to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a voice in national affairs... It is anticipated that it will be the primary mechanism for engaging on national Indigenous policy issues.

With nearly 200,000 Australians supporting action to close the gap, it is clear that the Australian public demand that government, in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representatives, build on the close the gap platform to meet this challenge.