Sentences with phrase «failed political leadership»

«It is easy to point the finger at failed political leadership.

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Asked whether MPs who have criticised his leadership should be worried about deselection, Corbyn — who won 61.8 % of the vote to see - off challenger Owen Smith — failed to totally rule out this possibility when he spoke to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

Frustrated wings of both parties blame cowardly political leadership for failing to accomplish the impossible.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in an interview late Monday afternoon slammed the political and policy strategy of the mainline Democrats in the chamber, saying the leadership of Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins has failed to effectively advocate on key issues.

(CNN)- The Senate Democratic leadership failed Thursday to muster up enough support for a bill that would have put new restrictions on political television advertising by special interest groups.

He warned that the government had invested almost # 500 million into the CSA but had «completely failed to demonstrate the political leadership required to push through the reforms that are desperately needed by so many single parent families».

Cameron's failure to win an overall majority in 2010 meant that to many conservatives, he had failed the ultimate test of political leadership.

We've seen this dynamic in Albany, too, and our state political leadership badly failed the test.

Whilst the Palestinian people are understandably frustrated with the lack of political progress towards statehood, the Palestinian leadership - from Oslo to Camp David, Taba and Annapolis - must take its share of culpability for failing to reach agreement.

The political commentariat comprehensively failed to predict either the Conservative victory in the May general election or the emergence of Jeremy Corbyn as the eventual victor of the Labour leadership contest.

... Where we are failing is in political leadership.»

The acceptance of the policy by George Osborne and David Cameron is political in nature, but in failing to fight the argument they are allowing Labour to set the agenda in favour of higher marginal rates of tax in that people will assume that the Conservative leadership must have decided that it will raise money, otherwise they would oppose it

In a Comment accompanying the Series, former US President Jimmy Carter, founder of The Carter Center says, «It is my hope that political and religious leaders will step forward and use their influence to communicate clearly that violence against women and girls must stop, that we are failing our societies, and that the time for leadership is now.»

«Qatari political leadership has so far failed to materialise but there are two days left of the negotiations, so Qatar needs to, today, pledge to reduce carbon emissions put money for climate finance on the table in order to lift the political energy in the talks,» Hmaidan said.

Being my first COP, I saw how respected leaders from developed countries failed to show leadership and political will in addressing the structural issues that have caused climate change.

I do, however, fault certain scientists for a) failing to communicate to the political leadership that this step is necessary, and b) in many cases outright denying that it's either necessary or even possible.