Sentences with phrase «by our senior politicians»

«It would need to be cross-party and chaired by a senior politician, on Privy Council terms.

You do not often hear it spoken of by our senior politicians these days; never mind our head of state.

Every interview by a senior politician should be met by the question «what did he mean by that?»

Throughout all my years of reporting politics I have rarely encountered such a blatant hint by a senior politician from an opposition party that he wants a job in government - and all the signs are that Gordon Brown is warming to the idea of Vince Cable as Chancellor of the Exchequer in a government of national unity.

Not exact matches

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

The politician, Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat, was implicated in a scandal as a result of those leaked documents, which referred to shell companies set up by him and two other senior politicians in his administration.

Two years later it was kicked out of Malaysia because of racial tension — the city state was mainly ethnic Chinese, the peninsula dominated by Malays — and the antagonism of many senior politicians in Kuala Lumpur toward Lee, whom they considered headstrong and unpredictable.

The efforts of Martin Schulz and other senior SPD politicians to gain an advantage over their political competitors by leading a hardline anti-Trump campaign do not appear to have had any significant effect on the SPD's standing in the polls.

Around 2012, according to the indictment released on Friday, Mr. Manafort and his colleague Rick Gates «secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United States.»

The ceremony in Westminster Hall was held to mark the first anniversary of the attack and was attended by politicians, senior police officers and people involved in the incident.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things that, as it were, «off the political table» and will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?»

«Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things that, as it were, «off the political table» and will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?»

But the absence of visits by senior Australian politicians has been of increasing concern to the Australian business community in the world's second - largest economy — with business hoping in vain for a breakthrough in the political tension between the two countries.

Politicians backing «presentation over substance» have been handed the blame for the recession by a senior business figure.

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.

Politicians and senior civil servants have proved their inability to run countries by allowing the credit crunch.

Not a startling revelation, but it does pose some questions as to how young politicians integrate into a system traditionally dominated by more senior generations, and cope with being in the public eye in an increasingly volatile political environment.

Karen DeWitt, a public radio correspondent, asked the Democratic politician what the state «could do differently» amid a wave of allegations of sexual harassment and assault against prominent men in media and politics — including a former senior official appointed by Cuomo.

They have since U-turned on both the timing and the scale of the austerity measures; Cable claims he was persuaded of the case for deep and early cuts, «not by other politicians, but by talking to the most senior officials in the government and the central bank [who said] that we had to act».

Attention on contact between the parties» senior figures began this summer with the revelation by shadow chancellor Ed Balls that he has been in frequent contact by text with Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable, a former SDP politician, who has spent the summer undermining Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.

David Miliband's resignation from parliament is being greeted with dismay by Labour politicians in Westminster, as they confront the prospect of Ed Miliband becoming the senior Miliband brother in the Commons.

In a speech to a group of political reformers, Mr Clegg will seek to curry favour by saying the links between senior politicians and News International is an example of the country's «broken establishment» and that he is convinced that this played a part in the financial crisis.

Donald Trump was today branded a «nightmare» by senior Lib Dem politician Norman Lamb, as rival MPs...

I've heard some senior regional figures suggest they can do it by following politicians on Twitter — words that should chill anyone who believes in healthy politics.

Donald Trump was today branded a «nightmare» by senior Lib Dem politician Norman Lamb, as rival MPs also expressed their fears about the Republican presidential frontrunner.

Feigned indignation that her critics were being judgemental about people from Islington, accompanied by the hollow observation that she was born on a council estate, was a naive move for a senior politician.

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

It is very desirable that these issues are addressed by statute, before the courts are dragged into Parliamentary proceedings in a way which would further damage relations between politicians and the senior judiciary.

[101] Brown was accused by senior opposition politicians, including Conservative leader David Cameron, and Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats of failing to provide proper support for soldiers and their families.

«The problem with Boris Johnson's statement is not that he's arguing with other politicians only, he's directly being contradicted by a very senior, respected public servant who's got nothing to do with politics,» Cable said.

The Burke quote is frequently used by Conservative politicians but it is unusual for David Cameron's senior Ministers to dismiss «the centre ground» -

Most of its senior positions are, like the other parties, held by career politicians, not grafters.

Senior Labour politicians joined the calls for a fresh investigation into the claims of phone - hacking by the paper.

But senior US politicians are calling for investigation of the evidence, which consisted only of requests by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to search Ivins» property over the past year.

Yes, this is a major challenge, and NET will strive to lever in DfE or other public / private funding, by presenting a compelling case to business, politicians and senior DfE advisers.

In December 2008, the service took delivery of a fleet of armoured BMW 760Li models for use by senior dignitaries and visiting politicians.

The officer ranks are much more politically responsive to the prevailing winds, because promotion for senior officers is controlled by... politicians.

Although Lawson and his Global Warming Policy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate change.

Simon Johnson — The Telegraph — February 22, 2013 Landowners «# 1 billion wind farm boom» Scotland's wealthiest private landowners are on course to earn around # 1 billion in rental fees from wind farm companies, according to a book published yesterday by a senior Tory politician.

The briefing «Ending the affair between polluters and politicians» exposes the massive lobby effort mounted by fossil fuel companies and heavy industry which has managed to convince senior politicians of the disingenuous idea that «green» legislation can not be allowed in times of economic crisis.

Patrick J. Michaels is senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute and author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media.

The «Green Foundations» collectively have staffs of thousands, their senior officials are paid EXTREMELY well (by the standards of the average worker), they travel all over the world attending conferences, staying at the finest hotels, eating in the finest restaurants, and drinking the finest wines, their collective budget is multiple billions, they contribute millions to progressive politicians, they lobby furiously, yet they make nothing and sell nothing.

The repeated calls for a period of calm by all senior British politicians make this scenario unlikely.

The replacement of the Lord Chancellor's role by the JAC was overdue in democratic terms (it is unthinkable that an active politician like Chris Grayling or Jack Straw could make senior judicial appointments); may, in this case, have led to the appointment of the best candidate for a difficult job at a difficult time; but may have impeded the process of creating a more diverse judiciary in the absence of any statutory injunction to take into account strategic development of the judiciary.

On 8 October 2009 the Derbyshire police force issued a statement denying assertions by senior Tory politicians at their Party Conference that they had «refused to release photographs on the grounds of the human rights of the offenders».

Managerial jobs with a shipping line in Liverpool and for Dunlop were followed by a stint as managing director of the Royal Academy of Music, before Maddams found his way into the law, as partnership secretary at City firm Beachcroft Wansbroughs [now DAC Beachcroft], where the senior partner was David Hunt, Conservative politician now Lord Hunt of Wirral.

Hours later, at around 11 p.m. local time, a senior politician announced that Facebook «auditors and legal counsel» had just been ordered to leave the Cambridge Analytica offices by British officials.

Payne's book in a nutshell: 1) politicians and most senior officials operate with the belief that there is a dependable «rational» basis for successful deterrence in which «rational» US opponents will respond prudently and cautiously to US nuclear deterrence threats; 2) the re-evaluation of nuclear strategy in expert circles since the Cold War exposes the deep flaws of Cold War thinking in general and the concept of «rational» deterrence in particular (partly because strategy was dangerously influenced by ideas about rationality from economics).

Members of its senior team were recentlyfilmed by Channel 4 News offering touse honey traps and bribery to discredit politicians.

A speech writer is hired by politicians or executives, and senior - level officers to prepare speeches, lectures, or presentations for them.