Sentences with phrase «basically political people»

«But this kind of thing, when you're promoting your own book and using your political list to send it out to basically political people, it's kind of a stretch,» he said, adding it's even more so being so close to the election.

Not exact matches

Imagine if Jesus was in our world right now and he headed right over to someone who cooperated with and benefitted from oppression, someone who had traded integrity for political power, someone we distrust, someone who we feel is dangerous, someone who stole from people in a socially acceptable and governmentally blessed way, someone who took the very religious or national identity that we cherished and basically stomped all over it for his own gain.

Not only do the vast majority of teens surveyed think Americans are divided, but they basically embrace the divide: Three in four «already have a party preference,» and only around 25 percent think they have «a lot in common» with people on the other side of the political aisle.

Similarly, it seems more accurate to say that it is a lack of compassion rather than political conservatism that would prompt a person to believe that blacks are basically less intelligent than whites, or that blacks have failed to achieve equality because they lack initiative, or that the poor remain poor because they are lazy.

I am pointing out the reality that in some Islamic countries the religious leaders are in the background pulling the strings while the political people are basically puppets mouthing what the religious leaders tell them.

Basically, political ads succeed when you shove enough of them down peoples» throats that they can't help but gag.

It's based around the idea of applying gaming concepts to political actions in social online spaces, basically rewarding people with points, prizes and recognition for taking action.

It's basically a theory that white people in western countries have more societal privileges than people of other ethnicities who come from the same political, social and economic class.

That a mere 17 per cent of people aged 18 to 24 agree that «most politicians are basically decent and honest» tells you all you need to know about political engagement.

... as well as obvious political realities (wealthy people have political clout, far more so than high - income people; because the retirees are included and in modern western democracies Baby Boomers are basically the dominant political class votes-wise);...

He reminded the Chiefs at the Nadowli Traditional Council of the relevance of party manifestos, saying «manifesto is basically a document that expresses the real intent of a political party seeking the mandate of the people.»

Basically, all the people that we probably think should be ejected from the political system, we have no way to do that even if we call an election.

People inevitably remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, which heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union — even though Tiananmen Square came first (just months earlier, in Jun - 1989), basically forcing an acceleration of China's rural - urban migration & its transition to a capitalist economy (thereby relegating communism to a mere system of political control).

So, basically, what we would like is to have work from the United States be seen in foreign places, and we hope that the people who work in the embassies, as well as the people who come to do business in the embassies, will simply get an understanding of what the United States stands for beyond its political realities.

Basically, it boiled to «lefties» exploiting people's innate fears about climate change «to achieve their political ends».

We are just as much concerned with inequities in Appalachia, for example, where white people are basically dumped on because of lack of economic and political clout and lack of having a voice to say «no.»

«One of the things I've learned about the political process is that it's basically about how much other people think you can raise.