Sentences with phrase «first leading politician»

He was not the architect of the events that unfolded last week — opposition leaders seldom make the weather like that — but he has become the first leading politician in living memory to get up off his knees and challenge the malign hold Murdoch and his acolytes have on British politics.

Corbyn was the first leading politician to make me feel genuinely enthusiastic about the future.

Not exact matches

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

The first, characteristic of Reinhold Niebuhr and other «Christian realists,» is to worry that this attempt at uniting justice and mercy will either water down the Christian ideal of pure love, which leads necessarily to pacifism even in the face of attack, or that it will persuade politicians to be irresponsibly merciful and trusting towards those nations and powers that threaten it.

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years...

In Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister, the «yes» campaign is led by a politician with a popular touch.»

Of course, Sturgeon would like to hold a second referendum and to be the politician who led the Yes campaign to victory but she is not reckless; the First Minister wants to see support for independence polling at at least 60 per cent - for a substantial period of time - before gambling on another vote.

Rangel, first elected in 1970 in a close race over Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., has been one of the leading African American politicians in the country.

«Isn't this very similar to the end of the first world war when it was said that politicians lied and soldiers died and the reality was, as it is now, that our brave soldier lions are being led by ministerial donkeys.»

As the day approaches we ask politicians and leading commentators about what his first goals should be and how it will change relations with Britain.

It soon becomes apparent that the two crimes might not be as unconnected as McAffrey first thought, leading him, his editor Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren), and junior journalist Della Frye (Rachel McAdams) into a political - corporate cover - up that concerns politicians at the highest party level, powerful corporate interests, and an array of ex-soldiers, politicians» spouses and spin doctors, including Jason Bateman's public relations executive.

BY KATHY KAHN May 24 was Ramapo's first «normal» workshop and town board meeting since the disgraced politician was led away in handcuffs.

Since MA students rank first in the nation, voters are likely to oppose any drastic changes to the current system; the No campaign's portrayal of the Yes side as extremist led many traditionally pro-charter politicians to take what they perceived to be the safer option and oppose question 2, thus shifting public opinion.

Some politicians and experts have tendencies, just rewrite this passage of national history.It's the same in the case of the leading figure of the» Prague Spring 1968 «Alexander Dubcek, the first secretary of the KSC.

Here's the Guardian on Luntz's now - infamous memo, back when the confidential document first leaked in 2003: «the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes the party has «lost the environmental communications battle» and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases.»

But Dr. Beckmann was the first to bring this hokum to my attention, and he had it tagged from the beginning as one of Mencken's «endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary» being exploited by the politicians «to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety).»

Harvard's Negotiation Project first advised the less experienced politician to openly ask his counterpart for advice rather than lead off the traditional way, by affirming his position.