Sentences with phrase «elected politicians»

We have a tendency to think the general population will come around to the views that seem so sensible to us, and elect politicians who will put them into action.

58 % supported that reduction in the number of elected politicians.

As elected politicians in a democracy we all have to be confident that we have to justify what we are proposing to do with taxpayer's money.

We can no longer leave the decision as to who lives and who dies with elected politicians or one single shelter manager.

Most offer directory information, useful addresses and contact details for elected politicians.

Many elected politicians like a long - leash approach, too.

It provides a model of a mixed convention in which elected politicians and citizens sit together — neither purely political, purely expert nor purely citizen in composition.

For other issues, taking elected politicians out of decision making doesn't mean that decisions will be taken by independent, evidence led, impartial forces.

Unfortunately, such political insurance only covers elected politicians, not people living in the real world.

We have long - established relationships with elected politicians and policy makers and are known for producing the state's best work in the political field.

Our system of «Governance» is badly broken and needs a total overhaul and until that happens the Agent's seemingly bottomless pockets will be picked to support an every growing increasingly expensive bureaucracy and their voices will continue to fall on deaf ears much the same as they currently are by elected politicians at all levels of Government in Canada.

The British constitution is, after all, able to manage perfectly well with a democratically elected politician responsible for matters relating to law and justice.

It will create hundreds of unaccountable new elected politicians at a time when we as a party are committed to reducing the cost of politics; and it will produce a chamber which is less expert, less diverse and significantly more expensive than the present one.

The event highlighted that corporations, often singling out the oil & gas industry, are a bane to fair elections and remove the priority of elected politicians from the public to the funding corporations provide.

«Following the general election and the subsequent Tower Hamlets mayoral election, we intend to increase pressure on elected politicians to not just make statements about the dismantlement of social housing but to actively get involved in ensuring it's terminated.»

I see this sloppy language everywhere, and I don't want elected politicians to be confused about how they got into office, or get even more grandiose ideas about what their job is.

The current level of intense focus on one issue simply can not be maintained for ever and, if elected politicians have failed to take the majority of the electorate with them so far, there will have to be a rethink.

It will create hundreds of unaccountable new elected politicians at a time when we as a party are committed to reducing the cost of politics an; gd it will produce a chamber which is less expert, less diverse and significantly more expensive than the present one.

«This is the weakness of the directly elected politician rather than the party.

This is especially true when its considered that New York has had 2500 cases of corruption - related charges imposed against elected politicians since 1976, and 15 cases since 2002 — according to the Caravan as researched by the Center for Working Families.

«Among other elected politicians to be recognised is former Eastenders actor Michael Cashman, Labour member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands and founder of gay rights group Stonewall, who becomes a CBE.

The blitz got positive press coverage, providing «grassroots» cover for newly elected politicians who made school privatization their first priority.

@uncouth... um, don't the voters elect the politicians?

what about a currently elected politician who is also campaigning for re-election?

Douglas Carswell was sworn in as Ukip's first ever elected MP last week and immediately attacked the Government for failing to give voters the power to sack elected politicians through the power of «recall»

Lessig started Mayday PAC in 2014 to help elect politicians who support overturning the Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision and passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

This category covers a wide range of jobs, although they occupy a very specific strata in the public sector: these are the senior administrators that sit between elected politicians and the front lines of the civil service.

Gerrymandering is most common in countries where elected politicians are responsible for defining constituency boundaries.

And when we as democratically elected politicians promise a referendum, as we all did on the European Constitution, shouldn't we stick to it?

«The question is whether one presumes that the deep state controls the organs of the state and acts as a puppet master above elected politicians, and I think in the US's case, that is a wholly inappropriate characterization.»

Why did some voters support Brexit in the UK referendum when they will be victims of the outcome and when many elected politicians warned them that this would be the case?

Wolf also highlighted that Brownback will be the first elected politician to serve as IRF ambassador.

likelihood that elected politician deliver on his / her promises if elected - and even if the politician introduced the promised action, there is no guarantee it will became a law.

Freeze salaries of MPs and all other British elected politicians (including MEPs, MSPs, assembly members and executive mayors) until they are no more than twice average earnings (currently about # 54,000).

Crossed wires and divergent perspectives between London based and Scottish based Labour elected politicians and senior party officials have been a persistent feature of Labour and devolution politics in recent decades.

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.

Labour's most senior elected politicians are united by one thing: they are all men.

It is opposed by Federalists, who believed that the federal level should hold more power and feared a mob rule that might occur if individuals thought they new better than the educated elected politician.

Asked why the county organization is going with Diaz, Garcia said, «It's the same old musical chairs» in the Bronx, where favored elected politicians move between Albany and City Hall, often being selected in a party process for a special election rather than through a primary.

Asked if in those circumstances he would sit in the Westminster Parliament, the Moray MP said: «The consequences of independence are that we don't need to send elected politicians like myself....

«First, it is reasonable to expect that our democratically elected politicians will be peculiarly sensitive to the measures necessary to safeguard the integrity of our democracy.

Elected Politicians sell their ideas to voters.

Duly elected politicians, doing their best for their constituents, and more knowledgeable scientists than those who have the time to become political creatures can be readily vilified and discredited for failing to support the third party agenda.

This contradicts Article 8 of the SEA Directive which envisages elected politicians being provided with a copy of the draft plans and an environmental report to consider.

And it's frightening that even elected politicians were unable to discuss it for a very long time, as they would have to sign on behalf of Germany.

He also notes that there are a «number of authorities which afford elected politicians a qualified privilege when speaking to the media on subjects of public interest.

Elected politicians learn by default that they are really only responsible to a few selected voters who voted for them in the first place.

Political decisions will be made in future by elected politicians in Westminster & Cardiff Bay and not unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.