Sentences with phrase «direct political experience»

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I didn't use military service to justify a political opinion, but due to my DIRECT, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.

Kinzer, a veteran New York Times correspondent with extensive experience in Central America and the Middle East, regards contemporary issues as a direct outgrowth of many decades of British and U.S. intervention and manipulation within the convoluted political and religious history of Iran.

The hearings have so far focused on the response of the emergency services and the victims» experience of the bombings themselves, but may take on a decidedly political dimension once the operational practises of MI5 come under direct scrutiny.

The political dimension enters because there was popular revulsion against weapons which most people did not understand; very few people have direct experience of being gassed, for example.

Labour today faces a simple choice — either a direct, and admittedly initially electorally damaging, battle with the Right, AND their supposed «Soft Left» fellow travellers, to transform the Party into a thoroughgoing Left Party for radical change, Or the «Pasok experience» of catastrophic relegation to political irrelevance still looms.

In the name of reform, the Gates Foundation has wielded its political influence to effectively shift public funds, earmarked for the service of poor children, away from investment in those children's direct education experience.

The exhibition highlights the political dialogue inherent in the artist's artistic interventions — from his concern for the extreme plight of the homeless, his interest in direct community engagement, his belief that we should expand our lived experience of a city into its underground and other inaccessible spaces, and his commentary on development and socioeconomic stratification.

Investigating the political, geographical and social aspects of war, the works on display respond to the theme from various outlooks, presenting direct testimonials, personal experiences or references to historical moments.

The sculptures were produced later, as an attempt to reflect the experience I had at UNESCO this day of how the political and the meditative can stand in direct connection, with art as the very bridge.

If the attitude of this paper had prevailed in the WB (and I know from my government advisory experience that good advice often does not prevail over self - serving and / or ideological / political approaches), then the efforts of the IPCC might have been better directed to the underlying science, improved data and policy - relevant information.

Whether it be representing a client, directing an intergovernmental project, or managing a political campaign, Tony's professional experiences reflect a history of helping people in challenging times.

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