Sentences with phrase «as a politician in»

some think he is a professor.In all honesty i just see Wenger as a politician in a coaches shoes... Most politicians lie with a straight face.they do things not really to better the country but to keep the population quiet and prevent decent (Ozil was bought to keep fans quiet after a failed summer in the market)..

Immediately after the Court's pronouncements, drummers and praise singers took over the party secretariat, singing and dancing as politicians in their large number rushed to the secretariat.

As politicians in Albany and Washington continue to debate gun control, the University of Rochester is taking the topic up itself.

So, as politicians in Brussels and Westminster observe the developments at next week's summit, what must they consider to ensure must Europe, and its member state governments, secures a strong technology and innovation mechanism fit to compete in the future?

This is a really good campaign and as a politician in another place has said, «yes we can».

The two men were filmed as they offered to use their positions as politicians in return for payments of thousands of pounds from a fictitious Chinese company.

Yet, like that other film, he chooses to focus not on the Chilean - born poet's early life, work or ascension to popularity among the country's liberals and intellects, but on his waning days as a politician in hiding from a changed government.

When I was a child, my father was fighting another dam as a politician in the region.

JY - In recent decades it has become quite clear that judicial elections can be ugly affairs with lots of negative campaigning - doesn't this hurt the judiciary's image - making people see them less as esteemed decision makers and more as politicians in robes?

The revelations sparked immediate backlash as politicians in Washington demanded Zuckerberg testify in front of Congress and calls to #DeleteFacebook started trending on social media sites like Twitter.

Neither has said anything in public recently about the Cambridge Analytica issue, even as politicians in the U.S. and U.K. demand answers.

This comes as politicians in at least 24 states have taken action to «defund» and block care at Planned Parenthood, many of them Southern and Gulf states where women face the threat of Zika.

Not exact matches

As a businessman and former politician, Rick Orman has seen downturns in the oil patch from many angles.

As politicians and businesses fight it out in court over aquifer rights, towns are drying up.

UK politicians watched on uneasily as May was pictured hand - in - hand with Trump in Washington, whose contentious travel ban and controversial remarks triggered huge protests in London and cities across the country.

«All of us in positions of power — politicians, parents, chief executives and educators — must see ourselves as part of history's bigger picture and ask, «What is my responsibility to the republic?»»

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

It also equips politicians, and then later normal citizens, with cameras that broadcast their every move as part of a radical experiment in transparency.

Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.»

«I was trying to explain, in response to a question about the election, that my limited understanding was that the President talked to a portion of America like an accessible person they could relate to, as he was NOT a politician.»

Although some have compared Macron's unexpected rise to that of U.S. President Donald Trump — inasmuch as both leaders identify as political outsiders, and advocate for some degree of nationalism — the politicians differ starkly in their policies.

Politicians in various provinces, as well as the United Kingdom and several U.S. states, have questioned the wisdom of granting tax rebates to video game makers.

Italy's president cancelled a dinner with the German opposition's chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck in Berlin on Wednesday after he described the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi and comic - turned - politician Beppe Grillo as «clowns».

Summary: Two brothers are pitted against one another in an Irish neighborhood, as one is a politician and the other a gangster.

Fernandez has consistently polled as Catalonia's «highest rated» politician in regional government surveys since he joined the chamber in 2012.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

Central banks in developed markets have been pulled into the political hot zone for the first time in decades, as politicians now scapegoat banks for domestic economic problems.

YouTube has become an invaluable tool for politicians as large European broadcasters invest in pooling video channels on the platform.

If they had, the number would likely have been far more modest than what politicians would claim, as a significant portion of the increase in payrolls would have happened even without the tax rebate.

In the coming year, Prompt Alert plans to set up a base in Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyistIn the coming year, Prompt Alert plans to set up a base in Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyistin Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyists.

He came in not as a politician.

Facebook is mulling a plan to sell its upcoming smart speakers internationally before launching them in the U.S., as American users and politicians have increased their focus on Facebook and user privacy, according to two people who have had discussions with the company about the devices.

Its NRA card was also highlighted in a New York Times opinion piece that called on the financial industry to exert its «leverage over the gun industry,» seeing as politicians — many of whom are funded by the NRA — continue to refrain from doing so.

And Klepper's proudly ignorant character style comes across as a slightly more genial, Midwestern Colbert, who will also participate in the adversarial in - character interview style that helped get Republican and Democratic politicians alike to avoid «The Colbert Report.»

Should he decide to run as a Democrat, which was the assumption PPP included in the question, he would have to make his way through a field likely to be loaded with leading Democratic politicians seeking to defeat Trump.

The eurozone's central bankers, as well as some of the less charitable politicians in the region's lending countries, say Spain must first request that money from the central bailout funds and agree to stringent conditions in return for support.

And the politicians in Washington who are working to curtail basic benefits such as health care and food stamps plainly won't consider the value of spending trillions on a new social - welfare scheme.

I was at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia last week, and it was very clear from my conversations with former DNC chairs, U.S. politicians, Bernie Sanders supporters, business executives, and even celebrities and athletes: a Clinton presidency will be viewed as positive for Canada-U.S. bilateral relations and a major step in the right direction for trade with Canada.

It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

As we saw in the United States last year, when legal debt limits are approached, politicians invariably vote to raise them.

As a result, economists argue politicians should be doing everything possible to ensure the private sector in this country is strong enough to support the economy when stimulus dollars disappear and central banks tighten monetary policy.

In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some politicians today still cite sayings of Jesus as evidence that he would approve of their neglect of the poor.

As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.

As a scholar of the life and teachings of Jesus, I am frustrated when I hear some «Christian» politicians hijack and, in fact, mutilate his teachings.

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

During her first 100 days as dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Sally Blount's calendar looked like the schedule of a politician in the heat of a race.

While politicians point to a lack of investment in technology and skills as root causes, a recent Bank of England research paper has a more novel suggestion: Smartphones.

«Uber's lack of security regarding its customer data was resulting in Uber employees being able to track high profile politicians, celebrities, and even personal acquaintances of Uber employees, including ex - boyfriends / girlfriends, and ex-spouses,» Uber's former forensic investigator Ward Spangenberg was quoted as saying under penalty of perjury in filings from a lawsuit is pursuing against the company.

She questioned whether a single revelation could have persuaded some voters not to vote for Trump, saying «there's been a huge erosion of trust» as media outlets had allowed themselves to «become discredited» by partisans and politicians seeking to engage in a battle of disinformation.

Employer - provided health insurance is so ingrained in the American workplace that people expect it to continue even as politicians thrash out the role of government in health care.