Sentences with phrase «as more politicians»

The controversy grows over a proposed mosque near Ground Zero as more politicians enter the fray.

Not exact matches

The Raging Bull argument highlighted growth drivers such as the energy sector's expansion, US manufacturing competitiveness, the explosive penetration of IT mobility and a housing rebound, combined with some positive demographic shifts for baby boom echo savers and more fiscally responsible behavior out of politicians.»

Suggested new targets include such things as mandated biodiversity, worldwide employment equity, more female politicians, lower obesity and greater Internet access.

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.

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.

But the false alarm sparked outrage from local politicians, as it took more than half an hour to correct.

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.»

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

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.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

He has worked with Canadian politicians and policymakers of all political stripes to craft more effective public policy, including his most recent role as an outside economic adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

But if you're looking for more hints that The Rock is beginning to seriously consider a presidential run, his comments to Fallon about why people were looking to him as a possible candidate certainly sound like those of a politician.

European politicians will be watching the result with concern as it could prompt the euro zone's third - largest economy to take a more critical and oppositional stance to the European Union and the single currency.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

Yet politicians, lawyers and others quickly seized upon the California ruling as one that could have more repercussions for Uber and other similar companies.

When most politicians try this, as Finance Ministers often do to try to create the appearance of sophistication, it's usually just in nonsensical financial jargon that amounts to nothing more than bromides.

I expected more from Trudeau, but he has shown he is just as much a weasel as any other politician.

Things have looked grim for Donald Trump's future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician.

As any good politician understands, more kudos are garnered for fixing a crisis than for avoiding one.

I suspect that in India — as opposed to here in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it, as an eccentric but friendly gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.

Still, there were multiple moments that are worth pointing out — and worth remembering as politicians look for more opportunities to regulate Facebook and the tech industry moving forward.

Some Mexican politicians have also pushed a Plan C to eliminate as many tariffs as possible and become a «Latin Singapore» to encourage more trade with other countries.

We would broadly agree with the IMF's picture of a healthier global economy, though it is more difficult to envisage politicians using the current expansion to deliver reforms to address the problems such as poor productivity and low wage growth facing many parts of the world.

Politicians and central bankers will manage the crisis of 2016 - 2017 as they have most other crises (such as 1987, 1998, 2000, 2008) by increasing spending, addressing an excess debt problem with even more debt, and pumping more «funny money» into the global financial system.

And a politician always will have an incentive to avoid unpopular decisions such as making it more difficult to buy a home.

As a student of the Christian realist theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Obama is a far more pragmatic politician than his predecessor.

And as for, Sarah Palin, while I admit that she's not my favorite politician in the world, I might watch it, to «learn» a bit more about her, to see if my «assumptions» about her are correct, or wrong, or something else.

Russell Baker, writing in the New York Times (September 30, 1987), said, «Since 1952, the electorate has been treated by politicians less and less as an electorate and more and more as an audience.»

Perhaps just as interesting is that while evangelicals care less about a politician's infidelity today, most other groups are actually starting to care more.

I think it makes a little more sense to pay attention to this for the higher offices, such as the presidency, because it's hard to really learn about these big politicians that are so far from our everyday lives.

No one has done more to create a modern conservative agenda than Yuval Levin, and not every conservative politician is as obtuse as Cruz.

Nevertheless, as in the case of priests, artists and perhaps even true politicians, more is required from the physician than merely a paid service, namely his own person and his ethics, which is part of his work.

Britain does not enjoy his company, he has destroyed our democracy, our once centered BBC, rendered our politicians as corrupt, lied to the public on numerous occasions, denied the British public any say on the E.U, denied us the right to know anything of his secret mass immigration policy's, caused more racism and divide in different forms in communities, turned us into the most watched CCTV state in the world, not to mention the wars.

Additionally, he displays a more Christian view of the world and humanity than any Conservative / Republican in government these days, as he fights for the poor and not corporations, who some politicians believe are people.

It was often manifested as anticlerical, and indeed some politicians probably were more anticlerical than proanything.

Hundreds of people attended and even more stood at the gates waiting to get in — a 300 person limit had been placed on the gathering — as politicians, city officials, interfaith leaders and activists spoke from the steps telling Mayor Bloomberg why he should change his mind.

After all, he said «he repented», and now, he is just working in the community as politician, and he represents more power for the White Evangelical Church.

In a strong two - party system, politicians such as Pat Buchanan or Oliver North are more successful in generating news copy than in winning elections.

As someone who voted for one of the very few pro-life Democratic politicians left in my home state in the last election, I would love for there to be more openness among Democrats to the views of Evangelicals.

Politicians easily manipulate this, as discriminatory Christians dare not to elect an educated Atheist to office, even more than their fear of Islam comes their fear of Atheism.

Only practicing Protestants (those who identify as Protestant, attend church at least once a month, and say their faith is very important to them) thought the Bible was especially needed this year: 86 percent said politicians would be more civil if they read their Bible regularly, up from 81 percent in 2015.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

It was a book whose title was to prove more memorable than its content; during the two decades since its publication «blaming the victim» has remained on the lips of politicians and intellectuals as a codified rebuke to any suggestion that people are poor because of what they have done or not done rather than because of what has been done to them or not done for them.

However, by consistently seeking «to restrict immigration, renegotiate trade deals, and transgress our current foreign policy consensus,» as promised in his campaign, Trump has displayed «more integrity than many politicians.»

A nearly identical letter, delivered to Vice President Mike Pence by former senator Bob Dole, was signed by more than a dozen Chaldean, Assyrian, and Jewish leaders, as well as politicians and a retired US Army colonel.

As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 75,000 people have used the hashtag #PrayForOklahoma, including pop starlets, pastors and politicians, according to Topsy.com, a trend - monitoring site.

In a statement I heartily endorse, Scott says, «Much as I respect the efforts of economists and social scientists to explain the world and the intermittent efforts of politicians to change it, I trust artists and writers more.

Obama said that we must use people's power, for he knows more about how to use them as a politician's arms but knows less about how to power his people right way.

A Christian Conservative MP has urged Christians to pray for politicians who lose their jobs as the Prime... More

She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbandry.