Sentences with phrase «control over politicians»

Otherwise, the public will completely shut down federal support for science, if the public still has any control over politicians -LRB-?).

But even that demonstrator — who brought out an effigy of Obama with texts declaring him a liar and murderer — was fundamentally critiquing large corporations and their control over politicians when he declared in a sign that «TTIP and CETA is social murder dictated by the US.»

Not exact matches

A Canadian subsidiary of Equifax Inc. is lobbying Ontario politicians to pump the brakes on a government bill — proposed after the massive data breach at the Atlanta - based company last year — that could provide consumers stronger controls over information held by it and other credit - reporting agencies.

Teen survivors of the Florida high school shootings, their parents and other victims took the politician to task over gun control.

And politicians, recognizing that America has so many mindless zombies willing to believe that a higher power guides everything from who they marry to what they eat for breakfast, use this game of mind control to sway these gullible voters over to their cause.

In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians control over the curriculum, over the admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment of teachers.

While Australian politicians will rightly point out they have no control over the market — just like they did during the iron ore wars — that is unlikely to placate the Chinese.

But some Socialist politicians tried to go further, with draconian and far - reaching powers giving the state considerably more control over the press.

But Bristol, the council, the mayor, have no control over how the city can grow because those areas are outside the council's administrative boundaries and squarely in the hands of other politicians and officers.

It was about power - how he wields the influence of his newspapers, how politicians jump to his command, and how he uses that power over them to control public policy issues himself.

He put the state's borrowing practices into perspective, explained how politicians have repeatedly devised new ways to borrow more money and outlined a proposal that would give the voters more direct control over borrowing money.

The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money,

«David... believed in constant political campaigning as the daily style of politics and in exerting control - freak discipline over his colleagues, with steady injunctions about the use of set policy lines and slogans on all public occasions, of the kind which has given a talking clock style to many politicians.»

Throughout his early career as a real estate developer in New York City, Republican 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump routinely gave large campaign contributions to politicians who held sway over his projects and he worked with mob - controlled companies and unions to build them.

Bishop and other GOP legislators expressed no such concerns, of course, when Tea Party activists shouted down politicians during town hall meetings over Obamacare, or showed up armed at rallies to protest gun control.

To date, Cohen has helped control his candidate's message while maintaining his poll lead over more experienced Republican politicians.

Politicians often get to know the LDs as well as the Members themselves, because of the control the LD has over the schedule and hence the Member.

She wants local communities to have control over spending decisions — not career politicians like John Faso, who sat in Albany for 16 years while property taxes skyrocketed 43 %.»

Duffy, a former police chief, is a very popular politician known statewide for following in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's footsteps by pushing for mayoral control over the Rochester school system.

Those who believe News International is ultimately a criminal organization, the sort of multi-billion pound empire that exists in a James Bond film, see these meetings as proof of the pernicious control that Rupert Murdoch seeks to exercise over British politicians of every party.

It gives the electorate more control over those slippery politicians it elects.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Louis - Dreyfus won an Emmy Award this year for playing the bumbling politician who finds herself in over her head and in constant «damage control» mode after being elected to a powerless position.

Over the course of three sprawling acts, Gravity Rush 2 serves up dimensional rifts, nefarious councils, ancient lost cities, robot mind control, relativistic time shenanigans, meddling gods, armies of battle mecha, corrupt politicians, evil superheroes, flying cyborg soldiers, trans - dimensional apocalypse demons and something called «Panther Mode.»

When experts or politicians said that Common Core would not lead to a surrender of local control over curriculum, Heather and Erin knew better.

The film outlines how, since the 1970s, corporations and politicians have increasingly gained power over the «real world» by creating a «fake world» that they can easily stabilize and control.

The survey also found that, regardless of religion, many people would use mind control to help politicians see eye to eye rather than force someone to fall in love with them or use super speed to generate an unlimited supply of free energy over breaking every record at the Olympics.

We're dismayed over the fact that the Global Warming fiasco has become politically popular and expedient to those left - wing politicians and power - brokers whose sole aim is to literally tax everything with a carbon footprint and give them control over all life, hidden within their PC guileful pretence to save the planet.

It is a powerful convergence of interests among a very large number of elites, including politicians who want to make it seem as though they're saving the world, environmentalists who want to raise money and get control over very large issues like our entire energy policy, media, for sensationalism, Universities and professors for grants... It is a kind of nasty combination of extreme political ideology and a religious cult all rolled into one, and it's taken over way too much of our thought process and way too much of our priorities.

Actually, there is a growing body of opinion that global warming is a fraud perpetrated by liberal politicians and their scientific acolytes who want more control over our lives.

Coal - port expansion is the fifth most carbon - intensive project currently planned in the world, bigger than anything else over which American politicians have control.

Politicians battled over social issues and allowed the economy to spiral out of control while a series of events were pushing food prices higher and higher.

They aren't stupid and realise it is just a scam for the benefit of get - rich - quick cowboys and for politicians to take more in taxes and to gain more control over their lives (just like all the ridiculous regulations that rule their lives).

The fact that this policy has even seen the light of day in a free market, democratic country attests to the politician's desire for sheer control over the masses.

In an increasingly familiar trope, he argued that the climate change movement has become popularized because it gives politicians an excuse to exert more control over society.

Courts and politicians and bureaucrats and people who call themselves scientists, are now using 300 year predictions of doom to justify presposterous plans to control global climate change and plan the future of mankind, and to impose their coercive schemes over all of our lives and properties.

This is tantamount to proof that what the warmers incorrectly refer to as the science of global warming, is really a political movement, controlled by politicians, who prefer to remain in the shadows but are not afraid to step into the daylight if things get out of control and take over.

And, by the way, if «Stupid» is meant to mean those politicians using Global Warming as a tool to gain greater control over people, well, I'm not so sure it's stupid from their position at all.

a.) Government control over research funds, and b.) Discovery of the art of mind control by politicians.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

Such as turning over control of our energy supply to government regulators led by politicians.

The idea, however, that increasing shareholders» control over this aspect of the relationship between their company and its senior employees will serve some wider social good is illusory, notwithstanding politicians» declarations to the contrary.

Unlike laws allowing legislatures to override court rules or giving politicians more control over judicial selection, recusal rules govern the ethics of judges, and they are only necessary in states in which the high courts have failed to respond adequately to the swelling tide of campaign cash.

Birth control is indispensable and frankly life - changing for millions of women, and yet politicians are still battling over whether it's just too easy for us to get our hands on over-the-counter contraceptives.