Sentences with phrase «by some politicians because»

It is a spy thriller about a lawyer being smeared by politicians because they believe he has information that can implicate them in criminal matters — the murder of a politician who was opposing a privacy bill that is really a bill empowering mass surveillance.

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They were made heroes by the financial crisis and the Great Recession, if only because they tried to make a difference while politicians bickered and corporate titans hoarded cash.

Perhaps he proposed both initiatives because he was appalled by the behavior of D.C. politicians in the summer scuffle over the debt ceiling and because he believes the public sector right now is incapable of microfinancing in the service of jobs creation.

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.

Negotiating with politicians is regarded as a key skill for any chairman of RBS because of the stake owned by the Treasury, even though it is held through UK Financial Investments, a body that has a mandate to look after the shareholding at arm's length from the government.

By skipping a recent leaders» debate, Doug Ford learned nothing and that means the Black community is as endangered as before because the absent politician is poised to become the one with the most authority to impact their lives, Royson James writes.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

Since cryptocurrency is decentralized, one mustn't worry about its value depreciating because of politicians or failing international relations, nor do people have to stress over its value becoming inflated or manipulated by governments.

Despite the day's developments, there was deep skepticism in Washington that anything would change because of the long history of inaction by state and federal politicians after similar mass shootings.

The church must act, he insists, because then it will he taken seriously by the media and by politicians who believe that «perception is power.»

This is not because blacks are duped by liberal black politicians nor because blacks worship the Democratic Party.

That is because the voters that are up - for - grabs in our politics are not going to seek out speeches by politicians, or hour - long pieces of Planned Parenthood videos on YouTube.

They recruited and trained a group of secret assassins called sicarii — which means «dagger - men» because of the deadly, curved dagger they carried hidden in their cloaks — and killed Roman politicians and soldiers by slitting their throat, or stabbing through the back to pierce the heart.

Regular, everyday, non-believers are coming out of the closet in droves now because we're sick and tired of having this woo nonsense rammed down our throats, whether by politicians, the media, or the zealot down the street.

Funny that people respect a politician because he believes he was called by a mythical sky god.

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.»

They got the support of the secular politicians because freedom to propagate religion was considered by them as part of the freedom to propagate cultural and political ideas.

First, because there's money in it: the pink pound is now a substantial economic factor in these things, just as in London, at least, the pink vote has to be courted by politicians seeking election.

It's time for a second American revolution, this one to take back our country from the mealy mouthed politicians who would sell their mothers» should for a $ 1 or a vote and from corporate America; I say the latter because businesses have sold out all Americans by sending virtually all of their production to foreign lands.

and Romans — well Romans is automatically disqualified for me because it was written by that self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul (the politician — whose words are the most dangerous and untrustworthy of the NT — we have no reason to believe his words any more than those of Joseph Smith).

The ad was published in the specific context of the presidential campaign, in which a Catholic candidate for vice-president, Geraldine Ferraro, was being characterized by Cardinal John O'Connor of New York as a politician for whom Catholics could not vote because of her mildly prochoice position on abortion.

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

What do you think humans did because mass media, mass information, mass control of their life by media and politicians?

Crappy food is cheaper (because of corporate welfare, supported by conservative politicians) and more easily available in poor urban neighborhoods; therefore choices are being influenced by corporations.

The monarchy survives because the public see it as being a harmless thing led by a distinguished lady who has, lets face it, out performed most of the politicians she has seen come and go.

So despite the fact that it isn't necessarily a «bad» word, populism is seen as a bad thing because it's a stance usually adopted by politicians whose intentions are not aligned with the best interests of the populace.

He said such pastors should stop manipulating politicians by saying God has revealed to them and that they should allow the Lord to speak through the ballot adding that voting is a divine way that God appoints his leaders because God is democratic.

Both these books should be read by British politicians and civilian policy makers, because they demonstrate that conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan require more than just adequate military force.

By the special grace of God I used to be a politician, I'm one of the people that people in the National Assembly will not accept and because there is an urgent need for us to take Nigeria out of recession and Post can contribute huge amounts of money to the National coffers that will be distribute among the tasks of government and most importantly, Post can render what we call financial inclusion service, that's getting the people in rural areas, farmers, artisans who don't have access to normal bank services because Post offices are scattered all over the rural places.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

What we conclude is that several of the government established around the world aren't Republics they are democracies or pseudo-democracies, and i say pseudo-democracies because the majority (the poor) are which choose the politicians, and several of the liberties, rights, taxes, and others aspects of the society are controlled by this «people» or fraction of it and many of these policies aren't directed for the common benefit but they are for the majority benefit, so the democracy at the end is converted into Ochlocracy.

It doesn't feature on the «scorecard» of spending commitments because the amount is relatively low, but it promises to bump local politicians» income by exempting them from having to pay income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs) on their costs getting to the local authority.

He believes that the «disenfranchised, disillusioned, despondent underclass» is not being represented by the political system, so nobody should vote for today's politicians because it would amount to tacit complicity.

At present, the most democratic constitution bill ever drafted is being held hostage by self - serving politicians in the clearest possible demonstration of a fundamental principle of constitution - making — namely, that politicians should neither be tasked with drafting nor ratifying constitutions because of the risk that they will act against the public interest.

Not because he is now — and has been for the past several years — hounded by plausible challengers at an age when most politicians are busy buffing the stones on the sides of buildings that bear their names; not because he continues to contend with suspicions that he is on the cusp of retirement.

However suggestions that this happens at the national level are questionable because a national politician would want to increase turnout in those districts that are managed by people of the same party.

Mettler shows how Republican politicians, along with increasing numbers of Democratic accomplices, have expanded the submerged state because it gives the appearance of privatisation and governmental spending restraint, when in reality it represents vast outlays by government in subsidy payments and lost tax revenues.

«We oppose the constitutional convention because the process would be dominated by elitists - lawyers from the bar association, current politicians or their family members — leaving everyday New Yorkers behind.

Npp government is making the trust for politicians erode before the good people of Ghana as the days go by, because we politicians who promised during our campaigns to serve the ordinary people after winning elections ride on the neck of the poor people who pushed us there.

They are doing that because it is obvious to the rest of the world (if not to Republican politicians who've been bought by Big Oil) that this is the practical way to go, and they are playing the long game.

Any government politician that wants to dictate to the news media without answering the tough questions for the voters they're completely corrupt because any politician who has ever lead by dictation has been corrupt.

But the disgraced politician asked for an extension on his surrender date by one week, to June 8, because he «needs a short time to put his affairs in order,» according to court records.

We have an opportunity for a new start in the relationship between Wales and the Uk Government here at Westminster because I think it's true to say that many people in Wales have been disheartened by the level of acrimony between politicians in Wales and Westminster and perhaps even across this aisle.

Every Voice, a 501 (c) 4 group based in Washington, said it is endorsing Teachout «because New Yorkers and our country deserve more politicians in Washington who'll stand up to big money special interests to level the playing field and make our elections truly of, by, and for the people,» according to a statement from its president, David Donnelly.

Johnson and other city politicians deserve their problems because they are making it worse by cozying up to the governor against what they view as a weakened, lame - duck mayor.

It's no use convincing the politician only for them to be told by their aides that your idea is insane because it's totally impracticable or unaffordable.

And when there's no expectation that judges and coroners will be politicised, most will keep their affiliations hidden, and so the politicians won't be picking who would be most supported by their parties because they won't know.

We can't allow our judges to be persecuted by a vengeful state and intolerant and immature politicians because «Oga is not happy»!!!

The Tribunal made its announcement — declaring that politicians and the public can be and are routinely spied upon — only because Caroline Lucas MP, my fellow Green Party member, and I, made a legal complaint because it appeared that all electronic communications data sent in or coming through the UK, was being monitored by security services.

Alongside that troop of northerners yet to appear, we were told this would be an opportunity for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband to promote more women — the PM because he's pledged to get a third of government posts filled by female politicians by 2015 (and the number of women in cabinet fell last time), the Labour leader because, well, he's got loads of good ones.