Sentences with phrase «by powerful politicians»

The proposed Classical Charter model is affiliated with the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan and is being pushed by powerful politicians around the state.

Not exact matches

The hectoring of three global giants in the world's largest manufacturing industry by the most powerful politician sent shudders through head offices from Japan to Detroit to Ontario.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

We've heard these images alluded to many thousands of times during the course of our lifetimes by politicians, supported by the press and other powerful elites.

Many of these career - minded politicians, determined to stick with their man as a way of rising through the ranks rapidly, have been frustrated by Miliband's disinterest in creating a powerful faction.

Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements.

Meanwhile Justice Moro — so far largely seen as an impartial individual heading up a serious and comprehensive operation exposing corruption practices of mainstream politicians and powerful business figures — had made a critical move when he decided to make public the contents of a series of tapped phone calls intercepted by the police while investigating Lula.

Much is made by Eurosceptics that Brussels is more powerful than our Westminster Parliament, something borne out by your statement in your interview with Sharon Bowles: «She has far more impact on our legislation than your average Westminster politician.»

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

Kim's statement goes on to say, «Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

For the record, while the politically powerful Nehru - Gandhi family has shown that concession was not a bad venture as some may think, the incommodious confusion of political party action with family matters by some particularly petty politicians, in my view, runs against the grain of human values.

A lawmaker who was one of New York's most powerful politicians has been convicted by a federal jury of charges that he used the power of his office to earn $ 5 million illegally.

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Leaders of the Kings County Democratic Party — the organization former Assemblyman Vito Lopez kept under his thumb for seven years until deposed by scandal — today lamented the once - powerful politician's death this morning.

The two trials laid bare many of the secrets the commission might have uncovered — with testimony about the vast, almost unilateral power exercised by legislative leaders, the way powerful real estate interests dole out campaign contributions, legal referrals and jobs to line politicians» pockets and maintain access, and how money is hidden by evading disclosure laws and funneling it through relatives, law firms and title fees.

Sheldon Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements at Silver's bribery trial in federal court in Manhattan.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» he said.

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.

NEW YORK — Real estate giant Glenwood Management was fined $ 200,000 by a state ethics commission for its role in the federal corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once two of New York's most powerful politicians.

«Since I first called for his resignation in 2012, when it was discovered that he had used taxpayer dollars to silence victims of sexual harassment, the pattern of misbehavior exhibited by this all - too - powerful politician had become increasingly clear.

The government's key witness in the corruption retrial of Sheldon Silver used Hebrew code to tell the then - Assembly speaker in 2014 that he had been visited by FBI agents who were poking around the powerful politician's finances, it was revealed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.

«We look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» Mr. Kim said.

The details of what, if anything, Litwin hopes to gain by currying favor with the state's most powerful politicians have always been vague.

The race to represent the 24th Congressional District has been marked largely by negative campaign ads, character attacks and a variety of powerful politicians coming to central New York.

But when it comes to doing his civic duty by serving on a jury, Heastie, now one of the most powerful politicians in the state, has been less than accountable, according to court records.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful New York politicians over the past two decades, will vacate his post by Monday, said Democrats, who last night appointed a Rochester legislator as an interim replacement until Feb. 10.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» Kim said.

The notorious pair collected over $ 100 million in fees by pretending to approach powerful politicians like President G.W. Bush (Brent Mendenhall) and Speaker of the House Tom DeLay (Spencer Garrett) on their behalf of their gullible clients.

I believe that politicians have been bought off by an overly powerful gun lobby and they're selling us out.

«For parents concerned about the harm being caused by this increasing focus on testing, «opting out» is a powerful option — a kind of civil disobedience in response to a testing regime imposed by politicians, many of whom haven't spent any significant time in a public school classroom.»

With his most powerful prose yet, Lee shows us that war damages people far beyond any other kind of abuse life offers and that persons damaged by the losses, violence and displacement of war will go to great lengths to work out either retribution or salvation... If I could, I would make the book required reading for politicians, diplomats, world leaders and arms dealers, though many of them would possibly not get the message.

The train sweeps one way and the next, wild deer grazing beside the tracks that follow a route dictated by politicians and powerful landowners as much as by civil engineers.

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

On this Halloween eve, it is truly frightening to grasp the extent to which America's politicians, policies, laws, regulations, energy, economy, jobs, and future are controlled by a cabal of stealthy billionaires — who receive billions from state and federal government agencies, and use those riches to become even wealthier, more powerful, and more in control of our lives, livelihoods, living standards, and liberties.

Merely by choosing to buy this, you are immediately and directly investing in the renewable energy industry, and sending a powerful and undeniable message to those who matter, the people who actually generate electricity, not environmentalists or politicians who may have different agenda.

Any politicians who tried to protect the weak from the powerful or the natural world from industrial destruction were punished by the corporate media or the markets.

Despite the fact that Molina and Rowland's theory had wide support in the scientific community, a handful of skeptics, their voices greatly amplified by the public relations machines of powerful corporations and politicians sympathetic to them, succeeded in delaying imposition of controls on CFCs for many years.

«Quoting the Bible, the politician went on to say that «no man or men, however powerful, can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it» and that «a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel will be beset by natural disasters.»

Her powerful and courageous voice pointedly criticized American politicians for being so easily swayed by money than by the people who voted them into office.

Solomon condensed and coalesced the scientific opinions of the swelling ranks of academic heretics into three arguments: man - made global warming was a crock; unscrupulous politicians and NGOs were getting powerful and rich by perpetuating the myth; and, if the nonsense continued, the Western World would be a much poorer place.