Sentences with phrase «about politicians who»

Is this mere, accident, thoughtless oversight, or does such casual disregard for careful argument say something deeper about politicians who seek to identify themselves by the climate issue?

I know some here will decry that I am not talking about the issues because I do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternative).

It is about politicians who push accountability, standards, and testing in order to win votes as much as or more than to improve the schools.

How dare any Christian spit vitriol like the Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell did about politicians who disagreed with his philosophy?

How do you feel about the politicians who are blocking Chik from establishing businesses because of the religious beliefs of the president of the company?

He writes about the politician who could be the catalyst for drug reform in Ireland.

Espaillat spokesman Ibrahim Khan defended the mailer, arguing that it is «reflective of the community's sentiments about a politician who made a backroom deal.»

«Bulworth» (1998) Warren Beatty directs and stars in this drama about a politician who decides to start speaking the truth and using rap music to get his point across.

Or you may hear about a politician who secretly helped a foreign adversary and say that's wrong (moral judgment) because the politician was disloyal to his country (moral reason).

Not exact matches

It's the question any voter concerned about the state of the economy should put to every politician who comes to his or her door.

Before there was «Veep» the show's creator Armando Iannucci made this foul - mouthed political comedy about not - too - bright politicians from Britain and the US who try to stop a war.

Facebook is mulling a plan to sell its upcoming smart speakers internationally before launching them in the U.S., as American users and politicians have increased their focus on Facebook and user privacy, according to two people who have had discussions with the company about the devices.

Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

Yet it is impossible to even guess with authority about where this headed because few before have seen a politician like Tsipras, who led his Syriza party to victory in January on a promise to undo all the austerity measures that had been implemented since Greece's profligacy caught up with it in 2010.

Sure, you can be smug about the fact that you're saving money and your friends aren't, but people who proclaim loudly that they never try to keep up with the Joneses sound a lot like a politician loudly denying that he posted that picture on Twitter.

When Singapore was part of Malaysia, Lee's belief in an egalitarian society had aroused the suspicions of Malay politicians who believed Lee spoke loftily about multiracialism even as he canvassed for Chinese votes.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

Even as his counterparts like Atlanta rapper Killer Mike — who has been very vocal about America's racist war on drugs and his own political beliefs — used their celebrity for fundraising, meetings with politicians, and self - penned articles; the rapper usually left politics to the side as he expanded his business and rose to the top of the corporate ladder.

«When you hear politicians who won't fix the broken system talk about expanding it, don't buy it,» LaPierre said in a pre-recorded video.

Stripping out lawyers, who have a disproportionately nasty habit of becoming politicians, the three most tax - dodging professions account for about half the votes among Greek MPs.

«As cryptocurrencies gain wider acceptance, their ability to undermine politicians increases,» said Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoin who is known as Bitcoin Jesus, for proselytizing about the digital currency in its early days.

You seem to be implying that before this trend started, politicians were wise policy architects who didn't care about votes.

The Trump Organization can not be placed into a blind trust, an arrangement used by many politicians to prevent them from knowing their financial interests; the Trump family is already aware of who their overseas partners are and could easily learn about any new ones.

I suspect that in India — as opposed to here in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it, as an eccentric but friendly gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.

While I would not place a bet on the outcome of the next election, Conservative politicians who brag about dancing a cakewalk back into government in 2019 should be reminded that it might not be that easy.

He was among about 50 Indian politicians, scholars and businessmen who attended a private midday meeting with Kerry and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker as they pitched a fresh start in a strained partnership with India's government.

But is there a person left in the United States who thinks that politicians care more about justice than about pandering for the next election?

They seem to be mostly about priest abusing little boys, Westboro Baptists saying God hates the families of fallen soldiers, politicians deciding that women now need two (not just one) unnecessary medical procedure before they can be allowed to make decisions about their bodies, and Christians telling couples who want to legally commit their lives to each other that they aren't allowed to do that.

And one may, without being unpleasant about it, note that the mainstream media and the scientific establishment who beat the drums for the necessity of killing embryos in order, they said, to find cures for all kinds of illnesses, along with politicians who agitated for multibillion - dollar referendums in California, Missouri, and New Jersey, were, not to put too fine a point on it, dead wrong.

I would like a politician who thinks it's crass to talk about faith in public.

For the sake of liberals who are (understandably) queasy about defending abortion on its merits, Democratic politicians like to pretend that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms (it doesn't), that it is a common source of pre-natal care (it's not), and that abortion represents only 3 percent of its services (the real number is unclear, but far higher — though again, it doesn't help our cause to inflate it to 94 percent).

My 20 yrs in Africa has revealed Americans who claim they care about 20,000 children dying every day from hunger and disease are guilty of the same useless rhetoric they criticize in politicians who are at least trying to stop unnecessary daily deaths in this country, by getting elected and passing moral laws.

Maybe you'll just get to help Chance drag local politicians who talk a big game about fixing education but can't be bothered to actually do anything about it.

The moderates, called «liberals» by their opponents, see the conservative resurgence as an ecclesiastical coup d'état, a great power grab engineered by ruthless church politicians who neither understood nor cared about the great watchword of the Baptist tradition: freedom.

At a time of huge government surpluses, universal shelter, like universal health care, is on the agenda of few politicians, who argue instead about how many billions of dollars to return to wealthy taxpayers..

• A scholar who recently returned from Germany writes: «Have you heard about the political crisis between Germany and Italy, resulting from a major German politician officially stating that the Italians have voted for two clowns?

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

As someone who is committed to increasing political participation and passionate about Christians engaging with what politicians actually say, rather than what we've heard them say, I believe it can be helpful when a politician chooses direct modes of communication rather than allowing their words to be mediated through the press.

Politicians and others who propose that there is much to be done about crime are either naive or dishonest.

It would be easier for politicians who are our allies to speak effectively about the issue, and they would find a more sympathetic audience.

Sadly, this happened to me at the Catholic chapel at West Point, where there was a handout about not voting for politicians who were pro-choice.

I suspect fear mongering to justify disproportionate retribution and agendas by those who don't have to risk life and limb but profit from war and politicians being puppets of that with measure to deceive the public to keep the public in line with their policy about war.

The ringleader of the Catholic doctrine posse, in Sullivan's view, is Denver's Archbishop Charles Chaput, one of «a handful of the most extreme bishops» who had «targeted Kerry in 2004 but [had] become marginalized in the bishops» conference ¯ losing key leadership elections — in part because of his extreme views about denying Communion to politicians.»

It is only the luckiest of politician who can put his ideas through without opposition — and here we are talking about theocratic laws — with all opposition deemed «racism»!!

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

There is no voting or show of hands, especially not by people who know next to nothing about the subject, like politicians and average Joe bloggers.

In his new book, «The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson,» Barton attempts to dispel the popular notion that Thomas Jefferson was a secular politician who pioneered the idea of strict church - state separation.

Not to belabor the point, but high - profile pastors and politicians who preach incessantly about «family values» would do well to observe their own rules.

While it is laughable grown adults still believe in make believe and fairy tales, at least this guy wasn't as big of an idiot as other politicians who openly talk about religion and their beliefs.