Sentences with phrase «as pols»

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These can supplant older revelations, as in the case of the church's historically most controversial doctrine: Smith himself received God's sanctioning of pol - ygamy in 1831, but 49 years later, the church's President announced its recision.
6 For example, Edward Pols, Whitehead's Metaphysics (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967; cited as WM).
The LAC representatives, most of them older women, emerge from Venkatesh's account as hard - pressed, skilled, semi-corrupt infighters, who wielded influence, brokered deals and accepted payoffs in a manner that any seasoned pol could respect.
Similarly, Pols» notion of «fields» only exacerbates the problem of unification rather than solving it, as fields are most anomalous concepts, much more puzzling than persons (PS 18: 156 - 57).
However, if any pandering pol tries to use this as an excuse to «regulate» my 2nd amendment rights, which is just a first baby step to ultimately confiscating all guns in the US, then I will do everything in my power to get him out of office.
However, if any pandering pol tries to use one act by lunatic as an excuse to «regulate» my 2nd amendment rights, which is just a first baby step to ultimately confiscating all guns in the US, then I will do everything in my power to get him out of office.
The best lesson for both British parties to draw from Mr. Obama is the one Brooks noted when Obama abandoned his pledge to take public election financing: that as well as being an inspiring speechmaker he's also «a tough - minded Chicago pol (person of Polish descent) who would throw you under the truck for votes».
Extremely high incumbency rates in state races — 93 % in 2008 according to Money in State Politics — may diminish as voters turf out ineffective or scandal - drenched pols a little more often.
The local pol has said he will not primary whomever Cuomo picks as his running mate if he doesn't make the cut himself.
Wwithdrawing support from Arcuri and causing him to lose his seat would serve as a warning to other pols that they cross the WFP at their own risk, which just serves to make the WFP all the more powerful.
For - hire vehicles including app - based services such as Uber would also have to pay a surcharge — a proposal that got mixed reviews from Queens pols whose borough is home to the city's largest share of cabbies.
These career pols must really be scared... as Carl says, they feel the ground rumbling... the people are coming!
The MTA needs to shape up, as do misbehaving pols, and Gov. Cuomo, too, if he wants to avoid losing re-election.
Ideally, as we've written, we'd scrap the pork - barrel system, or at least ensure that no pol can channel public funds to themselves, their friends or relatives.
And they are both widely seen as top contenders for their respective parties» nominations in 2016, and so consequently need to differentiate themselves not just from each other but from every other like - minded pol in America.
He's clearly Bharara, who initiated the successful prosecutions of Silver and Skelos as well as of former Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), former Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous (R - Binghamton) and a long roster of other crooked pols.
Cuomo brought multiple civil suits against the Bronx pol, who lost the Sept. 14 Democratic primary to Gustavo Rivera, but did not bring criminal charges because, as I understand it, his office did not have jurisdiction to do so.
Law and Justice (pol: PiS) actually was within the law when enacting the law seen as unlawful.
There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.
The cocky pol is also open to the post of public advocate as a backup plan, said sources, who described the Queens Democrat as «desperate» to get back into politics.
Mr. Stringer was among the first city Democratic pols to start going after Mr. de Blasio, and as others have joined in, he's remained a loud voice thanks to his ability to turn out audits and run investigations.
After initially planning to testify in a Manhattan federal court trial in which he's accused of pocketing $ 22,000 in bribes, the Bronx pol changed his playbook on Friday by opting to remain mum, claiming he was wrongfully under the impression that he was required by law to take the witness stand as a defendant.
Guy Molinari, the former borough president and congressman, was knocked as a career pol when he ran unsuccessfully for district attorney, as was former - DA and now - Congressman Daniel Donovan, though he had served some time in the Manhattan DA's office before moving into the political world.
Pointing out the local pols who double as developers.
For pols, nothing succeeds like failure; former Governor George Pataki appointed Republican pal Al as Deputy Director of the Governor's Office for Small Cities.
Fidler, who will be term - limited out of office in 2013, has been mentioned as a potential candidate for Sen. Carl Kruger's seat, assuming the scandal - scarred pol doesn't make it to 2012.
January 22, 2007: In the roster of corrupt pols who serve the people on the Eastern Seaboard, few provide as many black laffs as the Asselin clan of Springfield, Massachusetts.
But residents of myriad other cities, particularly ones called post-industrial must surely suspect that given a similar scenario, rule of thug would replace rule of law just as quickly, the buses, water and food would be just as slow in coming, and pols would shovel the bull just as high as they have re New Orleans...
Reginald Bowman, President Citywide Council of Presidents of the New York City Housing Authority — the official leader of residents of the city's sprawling public housing system — blasted the pol's remarks as reminiscent of decapitated French Queen Marie Antoinette.
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This year, the list marching with him included Letitia James, the city's public advocate, as well as two Downtown pols — State Sen. Daniel Squadron and Councilmember Margaret Chin.
Disgraced pols Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will not get their corruption convictions overturned and should be sent straight to prison as they go through the appeal process, prosecutors with Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said Monday.
Goldberg, who has known Silver for 65 years, said he had previously paid referral fees to lawyers who sent business his way, but asked Silver if it was legal in this case because of the pol's status as speaker.
Voters are sure to be impressed by local pols taking a strong, unified position on contentious issues such as snow removal.
To have a NOP as a minority major - party) leader strikes establishment pols as a contradiction in terms, if not a stick in the eye.
Bharara's checks off every box as an attractive candidate throughout the region — as a slayer of corrupt pols on both sides of the aisle.
It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.
So, under the present system, when that pol - to - be comes a knockin» you might as well entice them with a bottle of fine Irish influence because they'll just use the money to treat friends and family to a night on the town.
When Boston elected Marty Walsh as its next mayor last evening, it looked like nothing particularly demographically new: Irish - Catholic pol beats other Irish - Catholic pol elected in a town with a tradition of electing Irish - Catholic pols.
But as one savvy pol pointed out, he could fatten his pension based on the highest salary in the last three of his four years there.
TWO pols (one retired... or something like that) from NYC telling Upstaters that we should be happy to drink toxic water — as long as SOMEBODY (mostly people from out - of - state) make some money off of fracking.
As long as the legislative «leaders» see that the ground campaign to win over the rank and file public isn't taking hold and that the only folks attending all the budget briefings and road shows are the same suits that fill the room whenever a statewide pol shows up in their communities, they will feel empowered to go it alone without the GovernoAs long as the legislative «leaders» see that the ground campaign to win over the rank and file public isn't taking hold and that the only folks attending all the budget briefings and road shows are the same suits that fill the room whenever a statewide pol shows up in their communities, they will feel empowered to go it alone without the Governoas the legislative «leaders» see that the ground campaign to win over the rank and file public isn't taking hold and that the only folks attending all the budget briefings and road shows are the same suits that fill the room whenever a statewide pol shows up in their communities, they will feel empowered to go it alone without the Governor.
Mayor Stephanie Miner and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on Monday called for more spending on central New York infrastructure, with both pols focusing on bridges as being in particular need of attention.
Shame on the Congressional Clown pols that are fiddling for personal gain and posturing as the nation and the financial markets wobbled through another week, uncertain that in the end the folks that represent the people will get it at least partially right.
State Sen. Malcolm Smith made a wire - wearing, undercover agent posing as a power - hungry developer an offer he thought he'd never refuse: Help rig the mayor's race in the pol's favor...
The letter describes the loss of the site's former nursing home as «a devastating blow to our constituents» and says the two pols «remain deeply concerned about a flawed city process that has paved the way for the closure, sale, and now potential conversion of this building into luxury condos.»
The African - American Central Brooklyn pol has built a reputation as an advocate for criminal justice reform.
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