Sentences with phrase «doing political work»

In 2014, The News reported Offinger was doing political work for the mayor while running Campaign for One New York.

Meyers was investigated for allegedly doing political work on county time but eventually cleared, the sources said.

«The best champions of this work went into the administration and they couldn't do political work any more,» Sapp said.

Netroots Nation, an organization of progressive bloggers and activists who use technology to do political work — not all of whom supported Mr. Obama — sent out invitations Monday for a party in Arlington, Va., on Monday, Jan. 19, the day before Mr. Obama is sworn in.

Not exact matches

Merely preventing your political opponents from doing what they want isn't the most inspiring work.

What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

But the filing claims that Flynn's work was on behalf of Inovo, not the Turkish government, and that it concerned merely «the political climate in Turkey» and «doing business in Turkey,» related to the export of natural gas.

I asked if there was anything she had learned through the experience that she didn't pick up in her academic, legal, or political work.

«I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody who had quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, a personal touch with people, a sense of innate fairness,» the former president said.

«These are agencies that have absolutely no political agenda, just collections of scientists that are doing work to better society.

In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL / Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe.

You start to build up those data points and you can very accurately say «Well, I don't know this person's party political affiliation, but I do know they have a Barber and a Land Rover and a dog and they like shooting and work in merchant banking, therefore, they're likely to be a Tory.

b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier).

He said he did not want to turn what was happening at the Tata works into a political point - scoring battle.

That the clause has not been invoked for 56 years, and doing so wouldn't remotely comply with what Trudeau has called a «social licence» — a fashionable, non-legal concept swaddled in political fleece that means popular support for government projects — but still, that's how the country works.

It's been a slow start, with logistical and political obstacles to using outside groups to do the work that cities have traditionally carried out themselves.

There is also an internal SCL email chain regarding a political targeting project that also appears to involve the Kogan modeled Facebook data, which is referred to as the «Bolton project» (which seems to refer to work done for the now US national security advisor, John Bolton)-- with some back and forth over concerns about delays and problems with data matching in some of the US states and overall data quality.

Kyle is a really smart, dedicated kid, but his opinion probably wouldn't be public fodder except that the left has hijacked a series of leftist teenagers to do their political dirty work, and Kyle is happy to respond to his classmates.»

As a matter of company policy, we do not and have never worked on or been involved with elections or political campaigns anywhere in the world.

When it's not Facebook admitting it allowed data on as many as 87 million users to be sucked out by a developer on its platform who sold it to a political consultancy working for the Trump campaign, or dating app Grindr «fessing up to sharing its users» HIV status with third party A / B testers, some other ugly facet of the tech industry's love affair with tracking everything its users do slides into view.

It is pretty clear that in the often fractious environment of Canadian federalism, Canadians do better when multi-levels of government and political parties work together to put people's well - being first.

While we work for clients from all sides of the political mainstream across many countries, some do not want it known that they are using a professional political consultancy.

But do simple rules of thumb such as this, which are particularly alluring to fall back on during political and policy uncertainty, really work?

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that did digital work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, is reportedly shutting down after recent ethical and legal questions about its business practices.

Public workers are hired on merit, not political affiliation, and are expected to do their work conscientiously in the public interest, not act as political assistants to the party in power.

Canadian and Alberta voters need to understand that every time you get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all you need to do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon you will realize the propaganda and hate these clowns spread about their own political / religious views trying to scare the general population to their side or views.

Every time I get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all I do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon I realize the propaganda and hate these clowns try and spread about their own political / religious views I revert back to supporting the more liberal viewpoint).

While this in itself would be a major victory for democracy, it is crucial that the government does not stop there, but rather works to fundamentally reform Alberta's political culture in the public interest.»

Manafort did his foreign work for Ukraine's pro-Russia political faction, but so far, it is not clear if these charges have any connection to the topic of Russian interference with the 2016 campaign.

So blaming foreigners — for getting rich in the very same way that the United States has done ever since the North won the Civil War in 1865 — simply offers political cover for a status quo that is not working.

Though McClay, Levin, and Rogers are obviously influenced by «thought that has been thought out,» as intellectuals struggling with such an important enterprise as the working out of a political system, they really must do some philosophizing themselves.

Your community is too lazy to do the ground work of incorporating a new law for what you are seeking... and to gather the political participants that will help you pass it is the problem.

The work of peacemaking doesn't just happen on an international, political level; it happens in our neighborhoods.

To do justice today is to follow the widow and the abolitionists» example and work to undo the ways that we, in our fallen humanity, deny access and opportunities (economic, political, social, etc.) to the vulnerable.

He deepens this insistency in the Ethics and ties his argument explicitly to the sin of political or public overcoming that requires a norm of shamelessness in order for it to do its dirty work, dirty no more, or so is the claim, because the ruthless deed - doers know no evil.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

And isn't it all just so sad, and if only we didn't have this American political / legal system of marriage it wouldn't be working out in such a devastating way for «the suffering spouse,» would it?

Gay people can choose how we live, however, and the majority of us make all of the same lifestyle choices that everyone else does, including the religioun we might select, the value we place on family, our work, or hobbies, and our political beliefs.

Political theology has already done fine work in clarifying the relation of faith to the political sphere and in showing what the church must do in order that the appropriate relation be Political theology has already done fine work in clarifying the relation of faith to the political sphere and in showing what the church must do in order that the appropriate relation be political sphere and in showing what the church must do in order that the appropriate relation be realised.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

Those who engage in regular and systematic reflection on political / cultural issues will, unless they are utterly mindless, come to some set of interrelated conclusions — however tentatively held — as to how the world does and should work.

Do you have any thoughts about whether churches should actively confront political power or work behind the scenes, as Chile's Catholic bishops largely decided to dDo you have any thoughts about whether churches should actively confront political power or work behind the scenes, as Chile's Catholic bishops largely decided to dodo?

He was concerned with doing God's work here on earth instead of amassing political power.

Did it have to take «Sandy» to give us, what will hopefully be, more than a «teachable moment», with regards to what happens when Republicans «work across the political aisle» with Democrats, for the good of American households, instead of «working the craving» to «occupy» the White House?

This may reflect the fact that the category political theology, has not been the major one under which Moltmann has done his work.

Neville there were times when dominionism worked for Israel which were the exceptions rather than the rule but generally it did nt sadly because of the wickedness of peoples hearts.Power tends to corrupt people ie in the case of nebbucanezzar especially when they succeed.Like you i think Gods people have more impact by just letting Christ work through them could be me but i find politics tends to involve power money and compromise.Regardless of what political state we find ourselves Gods sovereign and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.My focus is real simple just follow Jesus with all my heart mind soul and strength and love others as myself and that is just following Jesus daily and trusting him in everything.regards brentnz

This chronological parallelism notwithstanding, nothing would seem more improbable than a bringing into dialogue of these two works, for not only do they spring from disciplines breathtakingly remote from one another (political theory, neurology), they appear to have radically different centers of interest.

It does not feel quite right to use the term with political leaders, or especially military heroes, although it works okay with some «public intellectuals.»

So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»