Sentences with phrase «controlled by political leaders»

Each also continued to see the world in top - down terms, controlled by political leaders.

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Observing the practice of a cultic group, the outsider may be inclined to compare the «control» exercised by a religious leader to that in political or economic organizations without realizing that obedience may in each case be very differently motivated, and that it hence may not be really the same thing.

An «election» could, however, include a situation like that surrounding the adoption of the Magna Carta or the assembly of representatives of the various estates that was convened by the monarch shortly before the French Revolution in which the franchise is quite limited (e.g. limited only to aristocrats, or to elders, or to clergy, or to members of a political party, or to members of a particular tribe or caste, or to a council of leaders of tribes or castes) who are not all members of the incumbent's extended family and whose appointment was not primarily within the control of the incumbent as a practical matter.

De Blasio's experienced political operation doesn't seem to matter much, either; organizing is great, but at the Capitol, the flow of legislation is tightly controlled by the majority leaders in each chamber.

Syracuse, N.Y. — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wired $ 1 million just before the last election to a political committee controlled by the Republican leader of the Senate.

Yakasai lamented that political parties in the country are controlled by a few individuals who referred to themselves as party leaders.

ALBANY — The 25 largest donors to state - level politicians and political parties last year included several hedge fund managers, labor unions and a PAC controlled by a former leader of the Senate.

Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all - powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term — the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the «unchangeable» Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron - fisted control.

Unfortunately, the national family planning program has been a political target by House Republican leaders who want to end access to birth control, and as a result, the program has suffered disproportionate budget cuts.