Sentences with phrase «apolitical civil»

Isn't there something a bit odd about a Euro Commissioner (apolitical civil servant, and all that) supporting an internal political campaign to influence a vote in the British Parliament?

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

Not exact matches

In that speech he endorsed black nationalism as his political philosophy, thereby separating himself not only from the civil rights movement but, more important, from Muhammad, who had defined the Nation as strictly religious and apolitical.

And yet I was nonetheless somewhat taken aback at how blithely apolitical most of 2017's dramatic movies were (as opposed to such documentaries as the climate change treatises «Chasing Coral» and «An Inconvenient Sequel,» or John Ridley's voluminous and evenhanded «Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992,» which chronicled civil unrest in Los Angeles leading up to the Rodney King verdict).

In this episode, award - winning writer / director Jeff Nichols talks about bringing a highly charged true story to the screen and finding the personal connection to Richard and Mildred Loving — apolitical people at the center of the landmark 1967 civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate laws prohibiting interracial marriage.