Sentences with phrase «days about politicians»

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in his second day of submitting to politicians» questions about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and frankly a lot of it has started to blend together: data, moral responsibility, privacy, blah blah blah.

«As cryptocurrencies gain wider acceptance, their ability to undermine politicians increases,» said Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoin who is known as Bitcoin Jesus, for proselytizing about the digital currency in its early days.

We heard politicians talk about three separate bills throughout the two days: The Honest Ads Act to regulate online political advertising; The Consent Act, which would require users to opt in to share information with tech companies versus sharing it by default; and a similar sounding bill called the Browser Act.

Given that most politicians» main aim is just to stay in power, the knee - jerk policy responses by the regime of the day is not encouraging, so pondering their reaction to a significant % of the electorate panicking about their mortgages is nightmarish.

poor this rich that church here politics there why argue about church an politics its the same funny how people loose there jobs but churches an politicians pockets keep getting bigger but nobodys crying about bet that new guchi shirt impressed the preachers wife you wore on sunday but you argue for the poor, ol lutz says 25 k die a day well then why worry about charitys they collect 10,25 % just like churches an line thier pockets, so why argeu you stoopid sheep

On an interesting side note, back in my fundie days, I refused to vote for the politicians that supported marriage equality and even wrote a letter to my member to that effect; the only thing I ever felt strongly enough about to actually write rather than be content just signing my name to a petition.

My 20 yrs in Africa has revealed Americans who claim they care about 20,000 children dying every day from hunger and disease are guilty of the same useless rhetoric they criticize in politicians who are at least trying to stop unnecessary daily deaths in this country, by getting elected and passing moral laws.

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

Welcome to My Morning Routine, where we talk with musicians, actors, politicians, athletes, and all - around interesting people about how the foods they start and end their day with — and everything in between.

[After some back and forth Mr Cassidy tries to explain to Senator Xenophon, who seems hung up on the fact that nobody from the ACCC attended the previous day's hearings (perhaps forgetting that while politicians seem to have all the time in the world talking about things they don't understand, the ACCC has other commitments), that he really doesn't have a clue what he's talking about; he was a little more dignified than that though]

Any politician can rattle on about ending austerity - and by god, politicians of all stripes do these days - but there needs to be more.

Many politicians and climate reports now talk about risk, which works for some audiences — particularly in the business sector — who deal every day with assessing investment, insurance and other types of uncertain outcomes.

Economists and politicians alike feel uncomfortable talking about money being created out of thin air, even though it happens every day when private banks create loans.

Days after the revelation that former state Sen. Shirley Huntley secretly recorded some of her fellow politicians launched a new wave of headlines, a crowd in St. Albans voted on a debate about whether corruption or conspiracy played a role in the -LSB-...]

What does that tell you about politicians these days?

Look, you can make up stuff about me, as indeed people do day in day out, have a go at me, but just don't drag Miriam into it, don't drag politicians» families into it.

I spoke to the Senate about it last year, and the Senate feels very strongly that the Constitution is about a citizen Legislature, and not a bunch of full - time, 24 - hour, seven - day - a-week politicians making the laws.

It's very fashionable these days to be despondent about the quality of our politicians.

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

As the day approaches we ask politicians and leading commentators about what his first goals should be and how it will change relations with Britain.

Two days after becoming the newest symbol of «tea party» politics, Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky thrust himself, his party and the movement into an uncomfortable conversation about the federal government's role in prohibiting racial discrimination and about a period of history that most politicians consider beyond debate.

Charleston, WV (CNN)- At a diner in Charleston and a parade in Milton, I heard something repeatedly from West Virginia voters that you almost never hear about any politician these days: they love their governor, Joe Manchin.

(CNN)- Newt Gingrich is calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to resign her leadership post Tuesday, days after deriding the California Democrat as a «trivial politician» over her description of what the CIA has told her about aggressive government interrogation techniques.

The politician, 67, tells Angela Wintle about tough times growing up in North Kensington, dodging dogs in his postman days and happy memories of landslide Tory defeats

Mr. Carvin said the Debt Clock, which increases by about $ 4 billion per day, «crystallizes» how reckless career Washington politicians, like 24 - year - incumbent Nita Lowey (D - WFP), have been to this country — and just how sorely new and fiscally responsible leaders are needed.

At the annual Somos el Futuro conference, where just about every politician and lobbyist of consequence in the state spends a few days gladhanding in sunny Puerto Rico, Mr. Schlein will set up a table on the beach.

Days after Singh testified on his City Hall dealings in a corruption trial against two Long Island politicians, Singh told jurors Monday if he lies about anything, his cooperation deal «is ripped up and I'm back to square one» for his litany of crimes carrying between 30 years and life.

What we must point out is that when people in leadership are simply not here every day, and that goes for bank presidents (which we used to have a few of around here) as well as politicians, important decisions that affect our lives get made by people who don't see the conditions they are deciding about.

Mr. Cuomo's remarks, in the midst of a freewheeling interview with reporters about his campaign on the second day of a four - day trip around New York to advance his candidacy, startled some politicians, given the passions stirred by the topic.

Ex-PDP governors, lawmakers and top politicians who defected from the party in 2015 to the APC have given their new party and President Muhammadu Buhari a 7 - day ultimatum to address their grievances or forget about next year's election for which the had declared for a 2nd term.

«Frankly I think it goes to a bigger truth, which is one day this reshuffle I suppose will be over and we will be left with the collection of politicians, be in no doubt about this, who've signed up to unilateral nuclear disarmament, racking up taxes and spending and the most left - wing programmes in living memory.»

It is a mark of how much has changed in the Conservative party since Thatcher's day that no serious Conservative politician would dream of using such sweepingly uncritical language about the police force today.

The event took place in a small suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, just down the hall from the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty breakfast — a must - attend event for local politicians to demonstrate their support for the Jewish community — and it took place just an hour before the annual Israel Day Parade... Neither Schumer nor Silver nor Nadler so much as mentioned Israel, though there were a couple of Orthodox supporters conspicuously positioned behind the speakers... Silver, who is now a constituent of hers, called Velazquez his «newly acquired» congresswoman, and mostly talked about her work for federal housing money and on behalf of small businesses.

With 30 million followers, he is the second most followed politician on Twitter after his predecessor, Barack Obama, who on average tweeted about four times a day.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

You could say the same thing about nostalgia, whether it's the kind of»80s name - checking that Spielberg and Cline are doing in «Ready Player One» or the kind that politicians and advertisers do when they encourage their audiences to remember the good ole days - comforting if you don't think too hard and, as corporations and film studios well know, monetizable.

Democratic governors, concerned about alienating their base, all too frequently avoided making hard decisions in the face of pressure from local politicians and activists — the same ones who had presided over the collapse of the system in the first place, and the same ones who to this day insist on turning serious discussion about positive change for children into a poisonous political circus in which the interests of children are often subordinated to adult concerns.

Regardless of whether or not a political party's intentions are well - meaning, politicians are somewhat removed from the day - to - day realities of what providing a quality education to an increasingly diverse population are all about.

And they might help students to use their developing literacy skills to combat some of the injustices that they face every day — by writing letters to politicians, local businesspeople, and school administrators about current policy issues.

As they work on their forthcoming titles, the co-founders, who have their own personal projects in development — Lee is working on a book about the struggles of being overly connected in the digital age (eg, texting, IM, e-mail); Love is working on her second novel, about how historians and politicians in the present day contort the history of a failed slave uprising in early 19th century Virginia — continue to experiment with what both the e-book platforms and their own website user experience will look like.

Books about elections and politicians abound, and there's no time like Election Day to get in on the fun (some people might call it a circus).

In 25 years or so a large number of student loans will be written off which will look bad on the books for the government of the day but present day politicians don't care about that.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle still used it as a favorite cudgel through the 1990s and 2000s, but as Dooms Day predictions about Grand Theft Auto - warped teens failed to come to fruition, many abandoned the issue.

Remember back in the days of the Genesis and SNES and all of the politicians outraged about the bloody Mortal Kombat.

I can understand that Obama is not doing well with the electorate these days and as a politician he needs to pander for votes but to me it would make more sense if he's able to be honest about the situation and propose real solutions to the energy problem rather that quickfixes that are not going to translate into real solutions.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

«Just as the concept of a «hiatus» or «pause» began to dominate the discourse in our field because of factors external to the science itself (i.e. the politically - motivated insistence by climate change deniers and fossil - fueled politicians that there was a «pause» or «hiatus» in warming), so too are some authors caught up in a «Groundhog Day» exercise of writing repeated articles about how there wasn't a pause.»

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In spite of the inability of weather models to forecast more than about 10 days ahead, the climate modelers have deluded themselves, their employers, the grant giving agencies, the politicians and the general public into believing that they could build climate models capable of accurately forecasting global temperatures for decades and centuries to come.

The day that the leading climate scientists (and some politicians) of the world are as knowledgeable, as expert and as skilled in linguistics as Lakoff and Mirowski are about the real issues, maybe then something might begin to change for the better.