Sentences with phrase «actually run the government»

The power doled out by Mr. Kowalski, and the rewards he lavished on his constituency, led some Opposition politicians to claim that he was actually running the government, with the Premier only as a figurehead.

Not exact matches

When you force government run charity, it actually hinders the poor instead of helping them, in many cases.

Conservatives think that a large federal government with expensive programs becomes a burden on society that actually can't be sustained and creates worse conditions in the long run.

Even if you somehow eliminate elected officials, someone is still going to actually be running the government.

«As the governor became more and more steeped in his quest for power and headlines and not actually getting things done for the state, and the more you saw in the Percoco trial how state government is actually run, when you see all that — it just built up.»

As for cost - cutting, far from falling, the administration or running costs of UK civil departments actually rose by about two - fifths in constant - price terms over the three decades from 1980 to 2010 — a performance not very different from the trajectory of administration costs of English local government over the same period.

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

NJ Gov. Chris Christie called the DOMA decision «just another example of judicial supremacy rather than having a government run by the people we actually vote for.»

«I think a major challenge is the way and manner in which our democracy and the political system works within a presidential system, wherein we really do not have the kind of culture, temperament and attitude to actually run a presidential system of government.

The Rockland County government in 2012 actually accomplished running out of other peoples» money.

It also suggests that the Chinese government's long - running efforts to tame the Yellow River with levees, dikes and drainage ditches actually made periodic flooding much worse, setting the stage for a catastrophic flood circa A.D. 14 - 17, which likely killed millions and triggered the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty.

Perhaps the key insight in Capitalism and Freedom was that government concern about schools and the schooling of its population could be separated from the issue of who actually runs the schools.

These are worthy ideas, but difficult or impossible to implement and manage by a level of government that does not actually, and should not, run schools.

The federal government has a legitimate interest in ensuring that its investment in for - profit schools through loan programs is paying off and that the schools actually help students in the long run.

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!

Under heavy political pressure from the Obama administration and other governments, the UN ran with the theory, despite the lack of any observable evidence to suggest the deep ocean is actually eating the UN's predicted global warming.

A story in Alternet yesterday exposes the media offices of something called the «Revolutionary Forces of Syria» is actually run by westerners based in Turkey and paid for by the British government.

But most of those are at the level of policy: actually running a large organization is pretty similar whether business, military, or government bureaucracy.

Advicenow did not disclose that cmoptions.org is actually a site run by a government department.

It's not enough, apparently, to move our leadership, our government, the people who are running this country to actually do anything.»

Governments appreciate this is a new technology that can actually enable them to run their financial systems more efficiently and at a cheaper cost.

This occurred at the expense of policy development that could have actually informed governments as how to better run the majority of Indigenous programs.

Average interest rates actually tend to run a little lower with government - backed mortgages.