Sentences with phrase «elected office because»

In fact, studies have shown that individuals with lower - pitched voices are more likely to win elected office because they are believed to be superior leaders with greater physical prowess and integrity.

It is most important to cherish our freedoms, and never strive to prevent another person from running for elected office because of race, gender, religion, nationality, or sexual preference.

Most atheists couldn't run for elected office because there's a taboo against people who don't have the «right» religious faith.

Not exact matches

But Ford stressed it would bring him no advantage because he plans to put the company in a blind trust, a step meant to avoid conflicts of interests when business leaders are elected to office.

We didn't win these increases because we elected supportive politicians to office.

You said, «Personally I think he's atheist / agnostic, but basically wears his faith on his sleeve, because it's impossible to get elected to political office in the U.S without being Christian»

If only because every single president in our history has been a Christian and it is unlikely that a non-Christian will be elected to this office anytime in the next 50 years (yes, mormonism is technically a Christian religion)?

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

In his memoirs, he and his family have always viewed religion the same as mythology (as it should be) and joined a church when running for office because for some absurd and ignorant reason you can not win an elected office without professing Christian beliefs.

Because of Christians, there are still laws in several states (though they're unconstitutional) that deny atheists from holding elected office.

So I apologise if this comes across as uncivil, but — «the most experienced democratically elected president of the world» has the most experience because he has changed the laws several times to allow him to run more than he should have, and now last year lengthened the amount of time he can stay in office.

Wrongdoing has no political colour and I do not subscribe to the lawlessness of political party supporters simply because their party has been elected into office,» he stated.

We have to improve the way we examine candidates before we elect them, because so many candidates from both parties have had markedly weak characters that have lead to scandal and eventual resignation from office.

While this may have worked for him in his bid to be elected President, it is not going to work as President because one is held to a higher standard the moment one assumes the high office of President.

Let's continue to take a closer look at candidates running for office, and those already elected to office, because to fix the problem of corruption in high places we need people of good character serving the people of these United States.

In a swift reaction to the directive of the party chairman, the Deputy National Secretary of the party, Timi Frank, insisted that he remained the party's legally recognised voice because he was elected into office alongside all other national officers of the party.

@RobertHarvey no, because to be elected again they need to act like they like dogs while in office under the current system or check a box under the proposed one.

Presidents normally didn't run for a third term as it was deemed that after 8 years, either out of respect for Washington's dedication to the nature of the office, or because they died in office, or they were just so unpopular they wouldn't have been elected.

The Queens District Attorney's Office has resisted any calls for substantive criminal justice system reform, because no elected official dares to stand up to District Attorney Brown or the powerful Democratic Party county committee that supports him.

But the district attorney's office is different, because it is an elected job rather than an appointed position such as commissioner.

After the resignation of former Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak, there are now 10 seats vacant in the Legislature for various reasons — mostly because lawmakers left for other elected offices — and Cuomo does not rush to call special elections.

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

The authority to remove an elected School Board member from office falls to New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, whose spokesperson said she could not comment on the situation because she may be asked to intervene.

Gillibrand's push for the WFP is eyebrow - raising in part because of Cuomo's efforts to establish the Women's Equality Party as a permanent party through the next election cycle and Gillibrand's own backing of electing more women to public office.

Because the office of the Atty General was not CREATED during the Time for which he was elected he is eligible.

When asked if he had stayed away because of criticism, Cuomo pointed to the support of the elected and state officials that his office picked to stand with him at the podium and said their support was an indication that locals were happy with the response of his administration to the crisis.

I decided to run for office because I believe in public service so it is disheartening to see elected officials brazenly disregard the public trust for personal gain.

Mr. Donovan recused himself from a 2007 criminal case involving Mr. Molinaro's grandson because he had once worked in Mr. Molinaro's office before he was elected district attorney in 2004.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

«There are many good and decent state legislators with high ethical standards, but the rapidly growing number of elected officials who have left office because they violated the public trust is a big unaddressed problem.

The governor explained that this was an appropriate use of campaign funds, because sometimes elected officials get sued when they've left office.

«Corey Johnson might be a nice guy, but he shouldn't be able to just waltz into office, just because he's an anointed incumbent,» she said of the councilman, who was elected to fill the seat left by former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in 2013.

While acknowledging that he has never run for elected office, Lee said, «Of course I am qualified, precisely because I'm not a politician.»

When I ran for office and was elected in 2010, I ran because I wanted to bring change to Beacon Hill.

While write in ballots totaled an impressive 453 (it is unclear how many of them belong to Samuels because the Board of Elections does not tabulate them on election night unless they are numerous enough to be a deciding factor) Samuels found himself swamped on election day by the expected Democratic tidal wave, carrying appointed incumbent Richard Heppner to his first elected term with 1580 votes, and Lorin Rose into office with 1338 votes.

I hope he reads this, because his public service career ends at the DA's office, he will never get elected to anything other than DA again and if he thinks he's going on to be a judge or something, any Governor or Mayor would be a damn fool to appoint him.

Giordano, 71, said he feels positive about the upcoming vote because he's been a Republican committee member for two decades and has held elected office for five years.

«The president - elect asked, presumably because he's a New Yorker and is aware of the great work that our office has done over the past seven years,» Bharara said.

«When people get elected to public office, they can sometimes come to think change happens because elected officials make it happen.

«He is regarded as philanthropist of note that is equal to non among politicians in the state because he remains the only politician who has not been elected or appointed into political office but yet he remains biggest donor in all spheres to salvage people from grinding poverty.

The problem, said Assemblyman David Buchwald, a Westchester Democrat and the bill's lead sponsor, is that even many new state lawmakers are exempt from that reform because they have been in lower elected office for years.

Because Liu has not been formally charged, others gathered at the meeting took his omission as a snub to the entire Asian community, since Liu is the first and only Asian American elected to citywide office.

«The President - elect asked, presumably because he's a New Yorker and is aware of the great work that our office has done over the past seven years... whether or not I'd be prepared to stay on» and «I agreed,» Bharara said, adding that Trump's U.S. Attorney General pick Jeff Sessions also asked him to stay on the job.

«The President - elect asked, presumably because he's a New Yorker and is aware of the great work that our office has done over the past seven years... whether or not I'd be prepared to stay on» and «I agreed,» Bharara said.

«If our elected officials are not willing to stand up and say, «I'm not going to continue to take money from the [National Rifle Association] because children are dying,» they shouldn't be in office and they won't be in office because this is a midterm year and this is the change that we need.»

I mention the office meeting being mandatory, because when I elected to go for my broker courses, (did them all in one year) it meant I could not attend the Tuesday meetings.