Sentences with phrase «elected politicians from»
The spectre of a court removing an elected politician from office is highlighted by Ford's lawyers more than once in their arguments.
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Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.
In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.
Ms. Leibovici is a long - time local politician who was first elected as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in 1993 and served on city council from 2001 to 2013.
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.
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.»
The chimpanzee using a stick to get eggs from an anthill, a child figuring out how to tie her wagon to a tricycle, and the country politician developing a strategy to get elected to the legislature all illustrate the interweaving of imagining ends and inventing means.
«I think as far as politicians are concerned they should do what they are elected to do - represent the public, act in the national interest and listen to views from a whole range of people.
Unlike MPs elected more recently Watson and McDonnell, very different politicians, have decades of experience, years of mistakes to learn from, battles fought and lost, leadership crises, leadership bids, policies framed and re-framed.
In his short time in power, blanket protests and petitions have failed to rattle Trump — in some cases, they have emboldened him — but he has conceded, albeit only slightly, to pressure from elected politicians.
As politician, Romario served as a Federal Legislator for Rio de Janeiro from 2011 before being comfortably elected Senator in 2014, winning 63.4 % of the vote for the Rio de Janeiro seat.
«this may repel the Conservative Christian politicians from supporting Trump» - Meh, that ship sailed before he even got elected.
Part of the explanation arises from Balls» leap from an elected politician who some voters and journalists viewed with disdain to an awkward dancer who voters and journalists now hail as an adorable celebrity.
Secondly, with the power to tax and the ability to collect, has to go hand in hand with transparency of how those taxes are spent, and with the ability of those taxed to demand accountability from the government, whether individually as citizens or elected politicians or through the dissemination of think tank research or actions of other civil society organisationsor through the law.
I am from Denmark, and two politicians such as Roy Moore and Donald Trump would never have been elected in any major election in my country.
There has been an obvious tragic loss in public trust in elected politicians, especially in light of poor judgment and greed from some of our politicians in all parties.
Westminster parties are not trusted to lead the process, but nor can elected politicians be excluded from it.
But another letter, signed by «elected officials from across Upstate New York» and supporting an increase to $ 15 upstate no later than 2021, includes signatures from several Westchester politicians, including two Yonkers city councilmembers.
Its 100 members included both citizens and elected politicians: 66 were chosen randomly from the population of adult citizens to be broadly representative in terms of region, sex, age, class and work status, and 33 were nominated from the Oireachtas (Parliament) by the political parties in proportion to their parliamentary strength (and also included one representative of each of the four parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly that accepted the invitation to participate).
The membership of each of Labour's policy commissions is drawn from our National Policy Forum, the Shadow Cabinet and our National Executive Committee, and reflects all parts of our movement, including grassroots Labour Party members, representatives of affiliates such as trade unions, and elected politicians.
Does it from the the politician's pocket (which I am assuming is the case for someone that is campaigning but not elected) or say are they allotted money from their state to hire assistants / aides?
Congressman Jerrold Nadler has laid out an extensive strategy for both Democratic politicians and the public to save «the soul of our country» from President - elect Donald Trump.
Dave Rowntree is now an elected politician, but «no - one else from Blur is running for county council».
Local authorities would be given a strategic role as «champions» for parents and pupils, but the Lib Dem leader said the plans did not give councils any power to do this, and consequently took power away from locally - elected politicians.
«The agitation for sovereignty by the Igbos and the quit notice from Arewa youths will subside once equitocracy is adopted as this will ensure that elected politicians at all levels will do things that please everybody in their jurisdiction.»
Silver, 70, is from Manhattan and has been one of the state's most powerful politicians since he was first elected speaker in 1994.
Like many local politicians, Silver earns supplemental income from jobs other than his elected state government post (which earns him $ 121,000 annually).
Apart from the anomaly of the House of Lords, we elected politicians to take decisions on our behalf, locally and nationally.
«The one thing we learned from President Trump's election in November is that folks are sick and tired of career politicians, folks that think they're entitled to be the next elected generation.
«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.
He has not received endorsements from elected officials or unions, which he chalked up to him not being a career politician.
Flanked by several local politicians and supporters in Utica Monday, Myers, who's a county legislator from Broome County, at the other end of the sprawling 22nd District, promised to be very visible in the Mohawk Valley, if she's elected to Congress.
Before then, the role of PCCs was fulfilled by a board of police authorities, typically made up of 17 members, chosen from a combination of elected politicians and appointed independents, and directly accountable to Parliament.
The former deputy prime minister's revelation in the Guardian again raises concerns about the extent to which the security services felt they were entitled to use broadly drawn legislative powers to carry out intrusive surveillance and keep this information from democratically elected politicians.
He spent most of the time not talking about the area's elected Republicans — City Councilman Eric Ulrich, who represents District 32 which covers from Woodhaven to the Rockaways — but against Queens Democrats, who he called the city's most corrupt politicians.
It amazes me that we allow money to be sent from NY to Texas to «pay» for a politician to be elected in Texas representing Texas.
The other day an article in Huffington Post quotes a rural politician from the Midwest, a Democrat who regularly gets elected in a Republican town.
Biography: Elected the thirty - seventh President of the United States of America, Richard Millhouse Nixon was a conservative politician from Yorba Linda, California.
You'd think from all the whooping and dancing around by the campaigners that they were electing the President, but in truth, even if they got their man elected, he would be only one vote out of nine members; hardly enough to convince the staid politicians to extend the Monorail — which to this day it simply is not.
A mayor's attempt to wrest control of a school system from an elected school board might seem like a brave effort to shake up a recalcitrant education system, or it could be dismissed as a politician's power grab.
Opposition to the dog meat trade is growing among Korean citizens and politicians, and even the newly elected President Moon Jae - in recently adopted a dog named Tory who was rescued from a dog meat farm.
Cats Protection's 10 - point plan calls on politicians from all parties to support measures to protect cats from abandonment, harm and neglect if they are elected.
Since governments (i.e. politicians) are funded by coporations to get elected, wouldn» it be in government's interest to look for results from all that climate change research that could be favorable to their climate denying corporate campaign financiers?
Emissions targets in the future will be determined not by politicians (you know, those people we elect once every few years to make decisions), but deferred from politics, to a committee.
From a politician who voted remain (although notably, didn't campaign too strongly on this), to one whose rhetoric has veered towards a hard Brexit, the snap election should allow us to get a better understanding of what an «elected - in - her - own - right» May would do going forward.
«I brought this application to protect Toronto's municipal government from politicians putting their own interests ahead of the citizens they were elected to serve,» he said in a statement.
Two Broward County elected officials on Friday called for local leaders to defy a state law that puts politicians at risk of being removed from office if they pass any local limits on gun rights.