Sentences with phrase «by these bureaucrats with»

«You are all being royally screwed over,» Gekko said, «by these bureaucrats with steak lunches, their hunting trips and corporate jets and golden parachutes!»
Inspired by our increasingly technocratic society designed by bureaucrats with malevolent accounting software, van Lieshout has proffered this sardonic ultimate solution for neoliberal states and corporations looking to colonize our eco-future.»

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While Amazon squabbles with U.S. aviation bureaucrats, the Swiss postal service is already delivering packages to Alpine villages by UAV.
Today, with much of the discourse on drug addiction controlled by medical bureaucrats, it is common to speak of addiction as an «equal - opportunity disease» that can «strike anyone.»
«New Evangelisation» is one of those ideas that are in constant danger of being hijacked by bishops and diocesan bureaucrats as a way of carrying on with the same old things but disguising the fact with a shiny new gloss.
It was led by pastors, with academicians and church bureaucrats falling into line.
By questioning the theology produced by professional theologians Berger realizes that theological bureaucrats will hold any activity of «free enterprise,» such as his book, with suspicioBy questioning the theology produced by professional theologians Berger realizes that theological bureaucrats will hold any activity of «free enterprise,» such as his book, with suspicioby professional theologians Berger realizes that theological bureaucrats will hold any activity of «free enterprise,» such as his book, with suspicion.
It is at best rife with whim and caprice, and at worst tainted politically,» Liu said, charging the city's campaign system has been «adulterated by some out of control bureaucrats
Bishop and President Obama's plan threatens to deny treatment for seniors in Medicare by allowing bureaucrats interfere with their doctors.
The Conservative Party conference will be like Labour's - dominated by bureaucrats, lobbyists and PR spivs with large expense accounts.
The hearing, called by the Republican - controlled state Senate, was packed with angry mothers chiding bureaucrats, spokespeople from at least three branches of the Cuomo administration, a phalanx of television cameras and an activist in a bright blue wig and matching tight shorts calling himself SuperWaterMan.
Why will bureaucrats distributing the Regional Growth Fund spend an extra # 350m better than the businesses themselves, who could be left with the money by cutting their taxes?
The union and its parent, the American Federation of Teachers (headed by Mulgrew's UFT predecessor, Randi Weingarten), surely had the pull with the national Democratic Party to end - run the bureaucrats.
Traffic is heavy as bureaucrats with ID badges dangling from their necks stroll by during their lunch breaks.
And those betrayals are directly attributable to the rotten role played by the entire layer of middle class antiwar and civil rights leaders, along with black nationalists, Stalinists and trade union bureaucrats.
Now working as a government bureaucrat, his life consists of a repetitive loop — occasionally interrupted by visits to his aging hippie friend Jasper (Michael Caine, Inception)-- as he simply bides his time along with the rest of the population.
Today it seems weirdly prescient, what with the shadowy American bureaucrats getting rich by colluding with entrenched Russian power brokers who are doing whatever they can to stay on top.
He's described, by the bureaucrats at the lab, as an «asset»: an amphibious creature (Doug Jones) captured from the sea and cruelly tethered, with deep round eyes, a manlike (if scaly) physique and an uncanny talent for empathy.
With dark, dour subject matter forcing possible rewrite by the school bureaucrats, a former student who would rather see it unproduced than see it altered to blunt its impact, and a meddling father who insists his son focus on his future instead of folly, Ms. Sinclair is going to have a heck of a time keeping it, as well as her own reputation, intact to the end.
I wholly agree with the premise that high school needs to be rethought, and that the work is best done by educators and entrepreneurs in real schools and communities, not by politicos, bureaucrats, well - fed consultants, or us self - impressed think tank types.
PURE was founded by parents and teachers together during the last Chicago teachers» strike in 1987, to help parents and teachers speak with one voice about who was failing our children: not the greedy teachers or the lazy parents, but the politicians and bureaucrats whose neglect and poor management was forcing failure on our schools.
Public education advocates have fought so very hard to be heard, all the while being treated with gross disrespect by politicians and bureaucrats.
Common Core is the latest attempt to bribe states, with money taken from the American people, into adopting a curriculum developed by federal bureaucrats and education «experts.»
In an effort to save money, the bureaucrats sometimes suggest that certain schools are top - heavy with APs while they ignore the many schools that are alarmingly underserved by them.
How do we, as teachers and educational leaders, condone putting our students through an assessment process that has been designed to ensure that 70 percent of the students taking the test will not meet the predetermined cut - score that has been set by the test company in consultation with political leaders and educational bureaucrats who are predominantly out - of - touch with both classroom instructional practice and how children learn?
Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña's Renewal schools program, their signature school improvement plan, has been «stocked,» according to today's NY Post, with «bureaucrats who were ineffective and tainted by scandal in previous school jobs.»
Since 1994 when the species was delisted from the US Endangered Species Act, the conservation efforts by the US government on behalf of the Gray Whale have been a carefully orchestrated symphony of spin with senior bureaucrats becoming the Spin Doctors.
English also found her confidence boosted by the knowledge that other artists had been involved in making the decision, rather than the distant, grey - suited bureaucrats more readily associated with public funding.
== carpooling (by state, by city, by company) == bicycle commuters seeking safe «parking» == scheduled drop off points for e-waste == e-address for companies willing to collect used cooking oil == inventory of recycling regulations, by zip code == e-address of every environmental oversight bureaucrat == e-address of every congress critter... along with their voting record on applicable legislation == list current incentives of various utilities to turn in old applicances by consumers buying, newer more efficent applicances
The EU - funded CREATING project (Concepts to reduce environmental impact and attain optimal transport performance by inland navigation — bureaucrats probably ran out of fund when time came to find a «G» word to finish the clever acronym) along with BP have been working on creating cleaner ships for inland navigation.
$ 29 Billion of grants and funding is awarded annually, in the US alone, by warmist bureaucrats to those «scientists» who tow the man - made warning narrative, prefacing their study with an anthropogenic conclusion.
The term itself suggests policies devised and dictated by Washington, DC politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists and pressure groups — many of whom have no real knowledge of or hands - on experience with energy, economics, science, technology, business or job creation.
It is fraud - like, with the root cause being attempts by bureaucrat - scientists to meet the political and propaganda agendas of government elites - agendas that have been blatantly obvious over recent years.
So a few iconoclasts in the group had started to flirt with marketplace solutions: give people a chance to turn a profit by being smarter than the next person, they reasoned, and they would achieve things that no command - and - control bureaucrat would ever suggest.
Sin is understood to be the best thing to tax, but taxing it is generally seen as impractical, due to sin being generally underground (driven there by laws, with taxes thus reduced to excises on alcohol and tobacco)... However, taxing Carbon is easy, even when Carbon use is regarded as sinful, because there is no chance of anyone covering it up in a big way... All that had to be done was to put a handle on it, on Carbon use as sinful, that bureaucrats could use, scientific proof, formulae, models, and all that, and surround them with minders, Environmental PR minders.
With the help of federal bureaucrats willing to violate the cardinal rule of bureaucracy — by surrendering regulatory power to the marketplace — emissions trading would become one of the most spectacular success stories in the history of the green movement.
Of course, I am even more convinced today than I was (after reviewing IPCC SPM 2007) 3 years ago (especially after all the recent revelations of shenanigans and «junk science» by the scientists and bureaucrats involved with IPCC) a) that humans are not destroying our planet with CO2 emissions and b) that we do not have the ability to make changes in our climate by reducing these emissions.
Rather than being a project dreamed up by bureaucrats seeking to get people into «the system» as quickly as possible, and earn generous salaries along the way, Sean's Outpost is a grassroots operation borne out of compassion and experience interacting with real people, and stretches every dollar (or rather, every bitcent) far more than most people can hope to achieve.
The Budget sittings of Senate Estimates are on again this week with senior bureaucrats filing into the various committee rooms of the Senate to be grilled by Opposition and minor party Senators, desperate to find some additional details, figures, omissions or politically sensitive procedural issues in order to maintain the Budget rage for as long as possible.
The data we collect and provide on millions of homes is the product of Realtor labour and I am furious that data is given away by bureaucrats for free to hundreds of other entities with no remuneration.
Visions of farmers driving their fully functioning manure spreaders spewing waste far and wide across their fields comes to mind, with the ORE bureaucrats being the farmers / drivers, the untreated flying - for - a-short-spurt «fertilizer» (the by - products of cud - chewing mindless eat - almost - anything grazers) being amateur registrants and the fields being the hopeful but ignorant consumers upon which the fertilizer falls willy - nilly depending upon which way the wind is blowing.
from spending the time, money, and most important, sustained effort re proper education requirements (real estate university status, if wannabe's have proper pre-existing pre-qualifying credentials in their possession) just to be part - timers on - the - side who will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public by commission - hungry sales recruiters I know one thing for sure though; the fat cat ORE bureaucrats who live off of the never - ending stream of fees paid by the amateur try - out artists will not agree with the truth of the matter, because they only look out for themselves, no matter what their latest pronouncements to the contrary might suggest.
I know; I worked within an Ontario Ministry of Housing mandated arm's - length - agency run by bureaucrats, and I did not fit in with the culture of «We know what is best for the peons out there.»
The peons dues / taxes pay for the governance by the bureaucrats, ostensibly for the peons, but realistically to support the government model with their own bureaucratic positions in mind.
Pending failures with not - much - money contributing to life support for those in - house bureaucrats who would not risk financially what their never - ending supply of newbie real - estate - marketing - ads - sucking supporters risk... until they can risk no more... and fall by the wayside... predictably.
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