Sentences with phrase «apolitical in»

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

He further reiterated assurances that the Nigerian Army would continue to remain professional and apolitical in the discharge of its responsibilities.

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

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.

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Raised in an apolitical family, Rempel says it was those speeches — one completely uninspiring, the other galvanizing — that set her on the path to Parliament Hill.

Corporations prefer to be seen as apolitical creatures — governments change, and customers come in all stripes — but at this highly polarized and media - socialized moment, it's become mighty hard not to upset at least a few people.

Delta attempted to paint the move as an apolitical one and an attempt to stay above the fray in the gun debate, which has been reignited after this month's shooting at a high school in Florida.

Most fundamentally, the temper of the times has turned against technical expertise in favour of populist passion and the Fed is the quintessential enduring apolitical institution.

Moreover, Oakey would have us believe that unions exist in some sort of vacuum, in which negotiating contracts is an apolitical process.

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

Today this apolitical avant - garde has found its ventriloquist and prophet in Marshall McLuhan, an author who admittedly lacks any analytical categories for the understanding of social processes, but whose confused books serve as a quarry of undigested observations for the media industry.

For the prospect that in future, with the aid of the media, anyone can become a producer, would remain apolitical and limited were this productive effort to find an outlet in individual tinkering.

From the Cabaret Voltaire to Andy Warhol's Factory, from the silent film comedians to the Beatles, from the first comic - strip artists to the present managers of the Underground, the apolitical have made much more radical progress in dealing with the media than any grouping of the Left.

In your mind, if someone is apolitical, are they democrat or republican?

Not the posture of value - detachment and apolitical objectivism but the articulation of one's social location, interpretive strategies and theoretical frameworks are appropriate in such a rhetorical paradigm of theological studies.

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.

Such a political program has been opposed by those evangelicals of the Reformed tradition, because «for all of its political relevance and all of its political language, it is in the end an apolitical strategy rejecting power, and thus rejecting politics as well.

And Mexico continues to have a widespread appreciation for the transcendental, but this appreciation is largely apolitical; it remains, in a peculiar way, the domain of the church.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

Those candidates may give wonderful speeches, but in the absence of institutions that can speak directly to the apolitical, the voters won't hear them.

According to its apolitical Web site, Zeb «Brad» Long, a former missionary to Taiwan, became its executive director in 1990, and the group hopes to establish a permanent center in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

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.

The results of several surveys indicate that charismatics and Pentecostals are not as apolitical, otherworld, bent on «speaking in tongues, the «hard - driving engines fueling the global spread of Christianity that is usually the stereotype.

Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies on the century - old phenomena.

Such apolitical stance will create an unacceptable dualism between the spiritual and the material aspects of life, implying that there is another Lord who is in charge of the political sphere than God, our Creator and Redeemer.

Certainly professors in the humanities, like professors in the sciences, retain, as they must, a belief in the possibility of apolitical knowledge and in some moral values (for instance, the wrongness of cheating or the rightness of hard work).

It prides itself from being apolitical — and there is something to be said about withstanding the political pressures especially in many ill - governed countries — and that allure explains its surprising resilience despite the odious lack of transparency and the general heavy - handedness.

Although the idea for new apolitical movement is novel in the UK, it is not uncommon on the continent, particularly in the new democracies of central and east Europe, where «traditional parties» constantly compete against ephemeral movements of local notables.

Olney though contends Goldsmith has overegged his role in the «apolitical» anti-Heathrow movement: «For him to say «the only way we can stop Heathrow is to appoint me as MP» is actually ignoring a great deal of work done by thousands of other people over the decades.

In any case what is apolitical Party?

The move to cut these programs is about symbolic grievances and perceived bias and a result that gets these agencies funded in a manner that causes these agencies to be more apolitical or to try to be more balanced on a liberal - conservative perspective would be considered a win by the partisans on the right.

Perhaps, far from being apolitical, demands across the political spectrum to empower the 99 % with real democracy are republican in spirit, as are pragmatic efforts to share control of our wealth and workplaces.

Afropolitan discourse is selective in its politics, rather than being apolitical, as it is often charged.

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

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

In March, Governor David Paterson, a Democrat, said an «apolitical» method would be used to pick a new supplier after state and federal authorities began probing whether Aqueduct Entertainment Group had won the lucrative contract to assist one of Paterson's political allies, the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a former congressman.

It's easy to laugh at things like this, but this point demonstrates two of the fundamental problems Scottish Labour faces: that its problems are political but are perceived in the «apolitical» language of «organisation» and that the membership can place no trust in the leadership for salvation.

I am apolitical, but I know people in all the parties; some good, some bad, some indifferent.

However, the attorney general said: «I have always made decisions in the public interest, in the interests of justice and absolutely independently out of apolitical interest.

«This is a tremendous leap for me, because I went being completely apolitical, to neck deep in the political end of the pool,» he said.

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.

That all five board members voted in favor of the appointment may speak to town supervisor Greg Helsmoortel's influence to an apolitical approach to town government.

He has endorsed both Republicans and Democrats in House and Senate races across the country this cycle, with an apolitical litmus test that depends on whether they fought for either his own city's interests or for the mayor's own pet causes, such as gun restrictions or education reform.

The troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army will continue to remain apolitical and non-partisan in the discharge of their constitutional roles.

The installation of the statues was a highly political act, when they were erected, which is my point: Not the installation was apolitical, but it was in the past, that's what I mean by «historical».

Cuomo put on a good show — asking and answering his own hypotheticals, shouting to emphasize his seriousness — in claiming that he's doing the apolitical thing by handing the cases off to an independent counsel, retired state judge Judith Kaye.

Its founders were determined to be independent of the Rochester City School District and apolitical, with a focus on helping students in city schools become successful adults.

He pledged that the EU would continue to support the robust training of stakeholders, a strong collation and transmission system, internal party democracy, promotion of women participation, securing an apolitical role for the security forces with the main political actors giving their commitment to minimum guarantees ahead of the elections and more transparency in the funding of the political parties and political campaigns.

Sandman discusses the process used in determining which hospitals were chosen and the apolitical nature of the commission.

He was supported in his endeavor by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former mayors Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch, who said Donovan would provide a fair, apolitical counterbalance to the Democrat - run state government.