Sentences with phrase «apparatchiks in»

What the Bush administration fought was the issuance by progressive apparatchiks in the bureaucracy of political statements dressed up as science.

A few apparatchiks in party headquarters (some may enjoy the control freaky power) are unhappy but outside the Westminster village, people simply do not care.

During a forceful speech in parliament this afternoon, the former Liberal Democrat leader said he had been told there was «one un-elected political apparatchik in Number 10» who had attended a grammar school and has «persuaded the prime minister that therefore it's a good idea».

Not exact matches

These bitter realities don't show up in the footnotes of those glowing, sanitized profit statements or in the rosy accounts spewed by apparatchik economists about the «benefits of global capital flows.»

He was the rare apparatchik whose name wasn't only known but reviled by members of the public, thanks to his involvement in crafting the National Energy Program, imposing price caps and taxes on oil.

However, comparing his performance in the 2012 election where he stood on the NPP ticket, it showed that Akufo Addo may not be as popular as his apparatchiks would make the country believ; he only added 188,630 additional votes.

A major speech on the issue yesterday was preceded by heavy briefing that the Labour leader would be taking a more aggressive position in 2017 and that party apparatchiks would «let Corbyn be Corbyn».

It's such a shame that «communication» in Ghana's political governance has been so reduced to shouting matches among party apparatchiks that the strategic use of communication for nation - building has not been appropriately prioritized and fully utilized.

In response, Farage told LBC Radio: «It just amazes me that those ghastly little apparatchiks that work in Downing Street put out statements like thiIn response, Farage told LBC Radio: «It just amazes me that those ghastly little apparatchiks that work in Downing Street put out statements like thiin Downing Street put out statements like this.

Don't get me wrong, I am onside with you on a lot of this, I think VAT is a terrible tax in the first place, that richer people should be taxed harder, there should be more and bigger wealth taxes and so on — so don't rule me out as a party apparatchik.

In party guidance there are references to gaining support from non party figures, however when you do this you risk the wrath of rule book waving apparatchiks who remember when such a person opposed them in the pasIn party guidance there are references to gaining support from non party figures, however when you do this you risk the wrath of rule book waving apparatchiks who remember when such a person opposed them in the pasin the past?

Pataki, a career politician, went on to tar Weprin repeatedly as a «career politician,» a phrase that's been bandied about quite a bit by the Turner campaign in its bid to contrast the a longtime cable TV executive with Weprin, an assemblyman and lifelong Queens Democratic Party apparatchik whose father was the Assembly speaker.

Vance has impaneled a grand jury to weigh whether the mayor and / or his top political apparatchiks conspired in 2014 to circumvent state campaign contribution s during de Blasio's failed bid to flip control of the GOP - run State Senate.

Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators who act without limitations.

At issue in Vance's investigation is whether the mayor or his apparatchiks sought to circumvent state campaign contribution caps by directing their political allies to write checks to upstate Democratic county committees, which do face the same donation ceilings.

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No matter how these few patriotic guys are drowned in the ocean of party foot soldiers and party apparatchiks things will get better some day.

Candidates (and committee apparatchiks assisting them) can begin circulating petitions in the first week of March.

In Lower Manhattan, Sheldon Silver's apparatchiks lost control of his old Assembly seat in September to Working Families Party - backed candidate Yuh - Line NioIn Lower Manhattan, Sheldon Silver's apparatchiks lost control of his old Assembly seat in September to Working Families Party - backed candidate Yuh - Line Nioin September to Working Families Party - backed candidate Yuh - Line Niou.

Armando Iannucci plays funny business with accents in his mordantly funny new film The Death of Stalin, as Russian Communist party apparatchiks are exhumed by a slew of British and American character actors who all retain their natural accents.

In charge of this creature is a buttoned - up apparatchik and all - round sexist, racist creep called Strickland (a somewhat familiar role for Michael Shannon), and a sensitive scientist, Dr Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg).

Williams» role in the tapestry is that of labor organizer James Conway O'Donnell, a feisty incorruptible force in the Prohibition era who morphs into a sinister apparatchik for enigmatic forces in the movie's 1969 «present.»

Because it «works» in «business», Michael Gove and his DfE apparatchiks felt PRP should be rolled out for all teachers as well, back in 2014, suggesting that it would reward the best teachers, encourage teacher recruitment and retention.

He exposes Chinese society in layers from the bottom upward: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; to the twenty grades of Party apparatchiks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.

Jan Verwoert: «What makes the Sculpture Projects exciting is that it seeks to prove the continued relevance of a genre that, by and large, we have come to associate with awkward art in pointless places commissioned by city council apparatchiks.

[Response: Changes in vegetation as a response to warming as seen by satellites over the same areas are obviously caused by former - USSR apparatchiks painting the ground green.]

The professionalisation of politics has seen a sharp decline in membership of the mainstream parties and the rise of a «political class» of career politicians, staffers, spin doctors and apparatchiks.

When Climagesterium apparatchiks talk about «natural» factors causing climate change it is always in a negative dismissive tone:

Most, gifted with the slightest grip on the basics of economics, pick up on the fact that producers of widgets (and the like) are driven by the prospect of profits (a motive lost on Labor / Green apparatchiks), which, in turn depend upon input costs.

The government apparatchiks, sorry bureaucrats, who b*tch slapped the IPCC for admitting the models were so far off, must have simply missed Section 12.5.5 in the WG1 Report.

The decision by EPA's chief — to ignore science and declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant anyway — suggests that the EPA chief is simply an «agent of the apparatus» commonly called «apparatchik» in the old USSR.

«Ignorant, imperious, and remiss» describes the Communist apparatchiks of Russia in the time of Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actionIn no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actionin rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actionin poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.