Sentences with word «apolitical»

In a phone interview on Tuesday, he said the interagency working group assembled by the White House in 2009 to create the social cost measurement was «a damn impressive exercise at assembling a lot of firepower and done in a way that was about as apolitical as things can go in Washington.»

Buratai reassured that the Nigerian Army would remain apolitical in carrying out its duties to the nation.

Likewise, military hierarchy always emphasises apolitical stance of its troops in all the occasions.

His tactful way of remaining apolitical gets him discovered and lands him a job at the White House.

In order to get a feel for what regular non-political people thought of Governor Mike Pence's State of the State address I interviewed my wife, the Lovely Mrs. Shabazz, who is intelligent, but more importantly, the most apolitical person you will ever meet.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s essay on Frederick Douglass is very empowering, and at the end he says, «Even a lecture about something as seemingly apolitical as photography or art in the end must by definition be engaged within and through Douglass's state of being as a black man in a white society in which one's blackness signifies negation.»

you talk about how in college you saw Josef Albers's Interaction of Color as completely apolitical and found no value in it.

engages the reader with complex political questions about ethnic animosity in Rwanda and so many other issues relevant to North American readers... For one, it conveys the impossibility of remaining neutral within a climate of broad moral compromise — even for purportedly apolitical institutions like the Olympics.

Until 20 years ago, the creation of voting districts by the independent Boundary Commissions was a largely apolitical process, according to geographer Ron Johnston at the University of Bristol, UK.

Would that in effect be the nonpartisan, apolitical process that Cuomo is advocating in the first place?

The choice of a «correct» primary energy ratio is complicated and not apolitical.

It is a more lowbrow alternative to Uncensored, not shying away from apolitical local news and celebrity stories.

Led by lieutenant Eric Portman, the Nazis try to stir up sympathy amongst the Canadians, beginning with apolitical Quebeckian trapper Laurence Olivier.

Being fairly apolitical in those days, I really couldn't care less whether the guy was a Democrat or Republican, but I was thrilled to get to know one of the great quarterbacks from my childhood at our annual strategy meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Taken together, Simmons oeuvre reflects the shift that curator Thelma Golden both observed and underwent herself with her exhibitions Black Male in 1994 and Freestyle in 2001: the move from highly politicized issue - based art to more apolitical considerations of identity along side the artistic process.

The rule of law and apolitical law enforcement are under attack by a president who is a walking conflict of interest, with his un-divested businesses, nepotistic hiring, and unprecedented lack of transparency about personal finances.

This bill is one of the most apolitical, non-partisan pieces of legislation introduced in this current Parliament.

Stephen Nissenbaum's book «The Battle for Christmas» tells the story of this transformation of Christmas from an «unruly carnival season» to the quintessential, apolitical family holiday.

In a small Ontario town far away from the excitement, staff at the Spinrite Yarn Factory Outlet — a decidedly apolitical space — shared the industry's cause for celebration.

The CIOT's comments and recommendations on tax issues are made solely in order to achieve its aims: it is entirely apolitical in its work.

It's clear from the opening titles - dealing out a trite «terrorists or freedom fighters» simplification of Palestinian tactics - that this is going to be a determinedly apolitical movie, and that approach is followed slavishly through the entire runtime.

I never met a basically apolitical voter who could explain Cruz's agenda.

Undoubtedly, part of the explanation for the absence of a genuine statement of political philosophy by organic philosophers is the seemingly apolitical character of Whitehead's system.

In additional to having political conversations (where unavoidable) look for a common, apolitical ground.

«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.

The seemingly apolitical aspects of this work belie the deeply engaged process the artist takes on: redefining and reckoning with contemporary constructions of identity and access.

I have taken note of some readers asking me to stay apolitical in this age of Donald Trump.

Similarly to FPTP, all MPs are locally elected constituency MPs and they have a responsibility to represent all their constituents equally on apolitical issues.

His father, director Ivan Reitman (Stripes, Ghostbusters), made apolitical comedies that offered a common ground to viewers seeking escapism.

Those secure in their beliefs do not, as Mr Mnuchin did, seek to de-publish studies by apolitical civil servants.

«Do apolitical investors want corporations to disclose political contributions?

Since the birth of the Baha'i faith, it is noteworthy to observe that the followers of this religion have been strictly apolitical and honorable in their dispositions.

They can reach relatively apolitical swing voters whenever they choose.

According to one estimate, only 5 percent of the general public can be considered politically engaged beyond the level of voting, and thus termed «activist»; concomitantly, a solid 20 percent are resolutely apolitical.

None of this information is disclosed by the work itself, nor is it essential to the experience, but it does ground the work in Gonzalez - Torres's «identity» — refusing to become apolitical, impersonal, or blind to difference, and also refusing identity as a confine.

Though the Reformers were hardly apolitical, they knew that the Church has been given a public task that transcends politics.

The impulse toward apolitical ministry is understandable.

He even regrets the complicating influence of a Pascal who was much too apolitical and too Catholic for revolutionary purposes.

The schools watchdog's new head has called for the introduction of apolitical local education chiefs.

The episode pits a feeling of ownership that online grass - roots activistsmay have for content they create in support of a candidate against apolitical campaign's desire to keep strict control over the image it projectsto voters.

Far from empty - headed, though, Stardust is a deeply meaningful series of sweet - nothings, wholly apolitical even in a macho supporting character revealed as a cross-dresser and hair stylist; and by its end, it wins not in spite of being so exuberant in its indulgence of flamboyant clichés, but because it is.

They are largely apolitical genre filmmakers.