Sentences with phrase «when political leaders»

When political leaders assert that cryptocurrency must be regulated due to money laundering concerns, what they really mean is «We're largely powerless to prevent fiat currency laundering so we're going to focus our efforts on cryptocurrency instead».

When political leaders look at the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions to curb global warming, they ask the question: How much of a cut is politically feasible?

But when political leaders like Senator Inhofe deny the problem of climate change, they do not make the problem disappear — instead, they compound it by blocking constructive solutions.

But when political leaders push policies that have no track record of success and are obviously senseless — Noguero mocked the whole notion of school closures as a solution to education failure by asking, «If we had too much crime in a neighborhood would we shut down the police department?»

When political leaders do talk about education globally, it's often in a zero - sum way — if China is up, then the United States is down.

In just the past few weeks, two examples emerged to demonstrate the harmful consequences when political leaders overplay their hand and provoke harsh The wrong kind of praise creates self - defeating behavior.

When political leaders make no effort to ensure that their «facts» will bear scrutiny, we can only conclude that they take an arrogant view of the public.

But a number of key issues related to the U.N. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries — also known as REDD — are still leading to acrimony and may get table and remain unresolved when political leaders arrive in Copenhagen next week to finalize a general framework.

We believe democracy is best served when our political leaders compete for financial support.

When our political leaders want to create a market despite these conditions they turn to the role of competition, an argument so pathetically overestimated its proponents sound like mad infants banging their heads again a wall.

History tells us that when a political leader has to mention this particular term, the society is already divided to a significant degree.

Not exact matches

Usually, when you're doing this, political leaders are thinking, What problem are you solving for me?»

That bleak irony was hammered home earlier this month when John Boehner, a former leader in the political party that formally initiated the War on Drugs, joined the advisory board of a marijuana firm.

For example, when political newcomer David Brat successfully challenged House Republican majority leader Eric Cantor to represent Virginia in the U.S. Congress, it came as a surprise only to those reporters who didn't bother to go to Virginia and talk to «actual humans,» as Rutenberg observes (echoing an earlier analysis by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi).

Political theorists, rhetoricians and historians have grappled with this exact problem since the rise of the «demagogue» in Athens in 429 B.C., when Pericles» death created a vacuum for «unofficial» leaders of the people to rise to power.

But in Canada, I can think of one high - profile endorsement of a federal political leader, when Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman backed Stephen Harper over his Middle East policy in 2006.

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In an era when there is a $ 200 billion infrastructure gap just for Canadian municipalities but political leaders at all levels are convinced the public wants balanced budgets, where will the dollars come from?

When announcing the creation of his political advocacy group, Zuckerberg wrote a Washington Post op - ed, saying that technology leaders must band together to «advocate a bipartisan policy agenda to build the knowledge economy the United States needs to ensure more jobs, innovation and investment.»

Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on oil tankers.

China's political leaders — and many Chinese citizens — bristle when being «preached to» by foreigners.

When considering political leaders, it seems redundant to talk about egos.

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

Edmonton - Gold Bar Liberal MLA Bettie Hewes became the first woman to lead a major political party when she served as interim leader of the Official Opposition in 1994.

when religious leaders enter the political arena that is when they should have started taxing them.

The bible also mentions that, after False Religion is exterminated, the world leaders will focus there attention to Gods true worshipers, but when that happens, God will protect his people and will exterminate the world political poweres and the wicked people.

No one wants to acknowledge that our leaders have feet of clay, but it seems that when our political or religious goals are at stake, we're not just oblivious.

The very fact that many people believed shortly after events occurred, especially when they could have so easily been disproven by the religious leaders and political leaders of the time, only strengthens my faith.

When the mass insecurities fostered by a society in rapid transition reinforce the feeling of vulnerability derived from personal autonomy, people tend to «escape from freedom»; they lose their anxiety but also their freedom by overidentifying with some authoritarian ideology, leader, or system, political or religious.

The political climate was so volatile at the time of Christ's birth that the primary ruler demanded that masses of young children and babies be executed when a prophecy suggested that a new «leader» had been born, that he feared threatened his authority.

Cardinal Wyszynski was the archetype of moral leader and societal focal point at a time when the nation had no legitimate political leader.

As a result, when electoral politics enlarged the political community of India by bringing the groups other than the middle class into it, it produced popular leaders more inclined to the unrenewed traditions.

Just war theory was expounded so that political leaders can discern when and how war can serve the greater end of peace; it is not a formula but a framework for judgment.

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

Though the editors did not consider themselves pacifists, they expressed disappointment in November when Wilson, now dubbed «The Lost Leader,» «so completely surrendered to political exigency» that he went «over to the camp of the militarists» (November 18, 1915).

In other words, evangelical leaders were willing to speak about the issue when it was unpopular to many conservatives (this is another reason why Christians should not be seen as a wing of any political party; they must speak prophetically as needed on issues).

The American Values Network, a group of political activists and pastors, sparked a debate when it recently released a video challenging some conservative and Republican leaders» professed admiration for Rand, an atheist who saw selfishness as a virtue and celebrated unfettered capitalism.

When you pray for your political leaders, pray that they would see these things and lead our countries in gospel - oriented directions.

But there was a time when many evangelical and conservative Christian men spoke loudly and clearly against sexual exploitation by a political leader.

Likewise, since 1950, when the Dalai Lama became the official political leader of Tibet, he has become a household name around the world.

In a day when religious prophets and secular high priests often proclaim that political problems would quickly be swept aside if leaders trusted more to their common humanity, Mr. Lippmann shockingly asserts that modern - day seers and saints have remarkably little to offer by way of practical advice and specific guidance.

When Francis was an archbishop in Buenos Aires, Argentine political leaders reviled him publicly as «the leader of the opposition.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

When Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed an open letter to George W. Bush in May 2006, he invoked Judgment Day, the day when the deeds of all political leaders will be examiWhen Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed an open letter to George W. Bush in May 2006, he invoked Judgment Day, the day when the deeds of all political leaders will be examiwhen the deeds of all political leaders will be examined.

The shift from a Christian frame to Machiavelli's comes when Holloway defines a wicked political leader as one «without principle,» and then proceeds to argue that Trump can not be such a leader, as he appears to have a strong, consistent interest in amassing power.

I found the speech to be very moving.I also liked what the president said about Billy Graham.There was a time when this country seemed more at peace within.Billy Graham seemed to command respect from most quarters, and he had the role of a patriarchal leader, in his own way.I'm sure he has political views, but I have never heard him say things that are polarizing, unlike too many ministers today.This country needs another Billy Graham, who will stand for the gospel, and his convictions; but who doesn't major in alienating others.

Under some political leaders, when a violent catastrophe happens, the rallying cry is, «Let's go kill them all!»

What the Pope and leaders of the Church like Cardinal Ratzinger or Cardinal Lustiger of Paris have in mind when they speak of a new evangelization are realities of this kind: a common healing of memories, reconciliation, and mutual help among European peoples» and certainly not some dark conspiracy aimed at wielding political power or influence.

To maintain domination some American officials seem willing to bribe the leaders of foreign governments, to seduce their military officers from national loyalties, to make whole nations dependent on our low - cost food, to spy out the deepest political secrets, and to treat other nations like American provinces that we may invade when they become too independent.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.