Sentences with phrase «crop of politicians»

Another factor is that our current crop of politicians has trouble agreeing on anything, let alone enacting the laws necessary to protect citizens from invasive new technologies, or ordering our law enforcement officers to enforce existing privacy laws.

Here's hoping our new crop of politicians is up to the job.

If only our current crop of politicians had the courage Lincoln had to make the difficult decisions.

And when you consider the current crop of politicians running for office, playing it as over the top as possible is probably the best way to go.

Scharff says while it may not curb abuses by the current crop of politicians, it will attract a different sort of candidate, and representative, over time.

2) The current crop of politicians attained their positions in part because of their ability to HIDE their true selves.

The current crop of politicians is highly provincial.

But the passing of these two men did throw into sharp relief how uninteresting, robotic and fundamentally empty our current crop of politicians have become.

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

History may be much more kind to him than our current crop of politicians.

Not exact matches

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(Bonn, 23 February 2015) «IFOAM — Organics International» is supporting «The Letter from America», an open letter from 57 million Americans to the citizens, politicians, and regulators of the UK and the rest of the European Union highlighting the hazards of genetically modified crops and calling on them not to follow the US example when it comes to GMOs.

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years...

«But they care about this country and they want to challenge the way things are currently done by our current crop of professional politicians.

In a rich crop of self - justifying politicians» books this autumn, Clegg's Politics: Between the Extremes is first to invite an assessment of how he did.

Well, we have now had a crop of books from senior Labour politicians and their aides, of which Peter Mandelson's is the latest, and the only possible conclusion is that a large part of what journalists wrote at the time was true.

The well - meaning but entitled white knight may be alive and well in plenty of places, from patronizing politicians to your average rom - com hero; but in a wide - ranging crop of recent movies, he's being thoroughly, effectively knocked off his high horse.

Look at the current crop of > 75 year old politicians.

As corn crops wither and food prices rise, this has resulted in a steady string of visits to Iowa and other sun - baked states by politicians, including both Rep. Paul Ryan and President Obama today.

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL ROME â $» In the past year, as the diversion of food crops like corn and palm to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and politicians have begun promoting newer, so - called second - generation biofuels as the next wave of green energy.

(02/14/2008) Echoing sentiments increasingly expressed by politicians, scientists, and advocates for the poor, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the world's poorest people are suffering as a result of the push to use food crops for biofuel production.

I noticed a review from Dr John Cameron on amazon that states «The British public, media and politicians have a spectacularly poor knowledge of science and technology as debates over such things as windfarms and GM crops makes clear.»