Sentences with phrase «even by political leaders»

Yet the basic war / peace confrontation has been given so little attention that its position within the international law of human rights has hardly been grasped by the general public or even by political leaders.

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How can you be a pope or ayatollah or even a political leader who must be separated from his following by castle walls and bulletproof glass?
«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»
How could Party leaders be consistent with the values (fiscal restraint, social conservatism — e.g., high moral code) they have professed for 30 years and nominate someone with zero performance in reducing expenditures even on a local level, someone tainted by giving and receiving political favors as a Commissioner on the Port Authority, and someone linked for 20 years by business and marriage to mobster activities?
Critics say The Mayor can not be taken seriously by national political leaders when he can't even navigate his own state to get things done.
Even as they question whether the deal struck by their erstwhile power - sharing partner, IDC Leader Jeff Klein, with his former Democratic colleagues will stick, the Senate Republicans are seeking to turn Klein's abandonment to their political advantage.
Even more telling is the silence we hear from the Democratic candidates in this district — if they really want to change the discourse they could start by calling out their party leaders who are launching these lies and false political attacks on their behalf.»
The British press, despite its many flaws and its despairingly conservative mindset, still has the dignity to expose corruption even when it knows it will be castigated, not least by its own weak - willed political leaders.
And it would help do both by giving state policymakers more ownership of (and therefore more pride in) the mundane work of everyday governance, even as it redirected the attention and the self - regard of national political leaders toward national questions.
What I do not consider to be an «actionable» proposal is a blanket pledge by a political leader to «reduce carbon emissions of his / her nation to X % of the level they were in year Y by year Z.» Even worse is a pledge to «hold global warming to no more than 2 °C».
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