Sentences with phrase «by elected politicians»

The need to make professional real estate a true profession needs to be recognized by our elected politicians, and moved forward by our elected politicians.

Our system of «Governance» is badly broken and needs a total overhaul and until that happens the Agent's seemingly bottomless pockets will be picked to support an every growing increasingly expensive bureaucracy and their voices will continue to fall on deaf ears much the same as they currently are by elected politicians at all levels of Government in Canada.

According to The Globe and Mail, it was «the first time that the unelected Conservative senators have used their near - majority to kill a bill passed by elected politicians.»

The public education system was transformed by the Progressives into a small set of large, industrial - type organizations governed by elected politicians.

In a statement, Biteback Managing Director Iain Dale said «as a publisher, I strongly support free speech, not least by our elected politicians, and we will therefore be vigorously defending this case.

As a publisher I strongly support free speech, not least by our elected politicians, and we will therefore be vigorously defending this case.

This is not true say the BMF who add that EU legislation, no matter who written by, would still have to be agreed by elected politicians (in this case MEPs and national governments).

«Our audiences - and the electorate - will make up their own minds about the different policies offered by elected politicians.»

Political decisions will be made in future by elected politicians in Westminster & Cardiff Bay and not unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

They say that decisions should be taken by elected politicians, not by unelected judges.

Not exact matches

Currently, the President - elect is an ongoing spat with the intelligence communities over claims by the FBI, Homeland Security, and others that Russia hacked the email of American politicians in a bid to meddle with the U.S. election.

Judging by the newly elected socialist politicians in Greece and France that eventuality is a lot closer than financial markets might think.

Despite claims by opposition Wildrose and PC politicians that they would repeal the tax if elected in 2019, a federal carbon tax dictated by Ottawa would likely be imposed in its absence.

And these followers make a large demographic of political votes in a country that loves to start wars and elect politicians who will be «guided by the hand of god»... excuse me as I am affected by these people... their practices cab affect me

My 20 yrs in Africa has revealed Americans who claim they care about 20,000 children dying every day from hunger and disease are guilty of the same useless rhetoric they criticize in politicians who are at least trying to stop unnecessary daily deaths in this country, by getting elected and passing moral laws.

So if the general population is at fault for having no choice but to elect yet another fraudulent and unrepresentative politician to some public office, then at least the prerequisites for running are faulty, the process absent of any oversight, the office free of any accountability, and the whole government essentially run by people who do not respect the law, to put it nicely.

A wise public official after observing politics in an American city for a number of years said that he would prefer having the city run by elected officials with all the dangers which that involves to administration by political experts; for the politicians often have a human kindness and mercy which the experts lack.

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

In considering how we might respond to our shared concerns, it is helpful to remember that our civil laws, for good or evil, are made by elected and non-elected politicians.

One might argue that politicians could get around this by hiding their intentions until they're elected, but that ignores that the only way they get voters is by expressing their ideology; they don't have anything else to make them likeable.

In more practical terms, it would be regarded as a scandal by large segments of the press and public, who hold the Queen in much higher esteem than elected politicians.

Real democracy could take # 200 billion (30 %) off the cost of running the UK by replacing our unproductive politicians and senior civil servants by a few elected co-ordinators with emergency powers only.

A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.

By the way, why do so many politicians - especially the young and ambitious - need to be reminded that civil rights are not some kind of bonus, granted to a «lobby» with an agenda, but a defi ning characteristic of the free society which they have been elected to serve?

For many years, he was THE go - to guy in Harlem — closely connected to African American elected officials and power brokers, and therefore much sought out by politicians both black and white.

Controversial politician George Galloway was elected in a surprise victory in the Bradford West by - election.

In two state races overshadowed by the presidential primaries, voters will elect replacements Tuesday for crooked politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

But another letter, signed by «elected officials from across Upstate New York» and supporting an increase to $ 15 upstate no later than 2021, includes signatures from several Westchester politicians, including two Yonkers city councilmembers.

«When politician after politician after politician elected by the voters falls to criminal charges, people lose faith.»

Its 100 members included both citizens and elected politicians: 66 were chosen randomly from the population of adult citizens to be broadly representative in terms of region, sex, age, class and work status, and 33 were nominated from the Oireachtas (Parliament) by the political parties in proportion to their parliamentary strength (and also included one representative of each of the four parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly that accepted the invitation to participate).

Skelos, who is the highest elected Republican to hold office in the state, is the latest Albany politician to face federal charges brought on by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and his office.

Silver has been one of the most consistently powerful politicians in New York state, but he is elected not by voters, but individual members of the Democratic conference.

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

The first two directly elected mayors of London were very unusual «showbiz» politicians, widely known by just their first names.

That is an awful lot of unelected politicians, outnumbering elected MPs by three to one.

Labour's most senior elected politicians are united by one thing: they are all men.

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox and the state's top elected Republican, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, oppose holding a constitutional convention, citing concerns the process will be dominated by liberal politicians.

They would cry out if an elected Aboriginal Nationalist politician was physically attacked by protestors outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

The politicians seem to forget they are elected by us the people of Britain and they should be working to try and improve the economy / life of the citizens.

«The agitation for sovereignty by the Igbos and the quit notice from Arewa youths will subside once equitocracy is adopted as this will ensure that elected politicians at all levels will do things that please everybody in their jurisdiction.»

Critics of the idea of a new convention often point to the expected cost to taxpayers — Benjamin said the cost of the»67 convention, if adjusted for inflation, would be $ 47 million in 2015 dollars — as well as the possibility that the cast of elected delegates would be dominated by the same politicians and special interests that dominate the Capitol during the course of regular business.

«So that discontent doesn't materialize into elected leaders because our elected leaders simply get there by a few people who happened to be satisfied, because their aunt works for a politician, or their uncle got an apartment or they themselves got a job.

By emphasizing citizen concerns rather than politicians interest, the Conversation breathed new life into the American tradition of town hall meetings, attracting 1,700 citizens, 64 elected officials, and 48 community leaders.

In voting down the idea of elected mayors so widely, and by turning their back on this week's police elections in such vast numbers, the people seem to have understood far better than the politicians how unattractive that patchwork is.

The list of witnesses was revealed by Silver defense attorneys in motions laying out what questions they want asked to weed out biased jurors, such as, «Do you have any opinions about politicians, elected officials, or anyone that works in politics — positive or negative?»

In the media, by grandstanding politicians and elected officials, but the silent majority of New Yorkers are not protesting in the streets, the silent majority of New Yorkers are not laying down and disrupting traffic, the silent majority of New Yorkers know New York is the safest big city in America today,» he added.

Khan complains that fewer and fewer people are having a say in the future of our country; that he has no wish to make light of the task for elected politicians to show that politicians are in tune with people's lives; that they get what issues concern us, and that they are able to do something about it, ending by pleading not to give political parties an excuse to ignore us, our family, friends and work colleagues.

In the months since his comment about Stewart - Cousins, Loeb has been excoriated by prominent black politicians and educators, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, former Bloomberg schools chancellor Dennis Walcott and many of the city's black elected officials.

Flanked by several local politicians and supporters in Utica Monday, Myers, who's a county legislator from Broome County, at the other end of the sprawling 22nd District, promised to be very visible in the Mohawk Valley, if she's elected to Congress.