Sentences with phrase «for elected politicians»

Still more obviously, the comparison between the enormity of suffering within forced marriages on the one hand and the disruption to innocent couples within the 18 - 21 age group whose desire to live together in this country is temporarily thwarted by the rule change, is essentially one for elected politicians, not for judges.»

Khan complains that fewer and fewer people are having a say in the future of our country; that he has no wish to make light of the task for elected politicians to show that politicians are in tune with people's lives; that they get what issues concern us, and that they are able to do something about it, ending by pleading not to give political parties an excuse to ignore us, our family, friends and work colleagues.

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

The gap that has emerged between the U.S. positions and those of Mexico and Canada has now raised the stakes for elected politicians in all three countries, he said.

It is PRECISELY that majority who is responsible for electing our politicians who have created all of those items that you dislike.

Not exact matches

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.

«Despite the fact that polls show how dissatisfied Americans are with Congress overall, there's been no change in our appetite to elect affluent politicians to represent our concerns in Washington, Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said in a blog post.

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.

The author founded an anti-corruption campaign that resulted in putting «a couple of municipal politicians and a developer in jail,» and she was subsequently elected to council for the City of York.

«Every word that comes out of a politician's mouth, including mine, should I elect to go for this, is how does it create the next incremental job,» O'Leary told the CBC.

«It is unseemly and wildly inappropriate for Canadian politicians to visit Beijing at a time when thousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong asking for their democratic right to elect whom they want» she writes.

European citizens have been showing signs of frustration and dissatisfaction with their elected politicians for years.

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.

So if the general population is at fault for having no choice but to elect yet another fraudulent and unrepresentative politician to some public office, then at least the prerequisites for running are faulty, the process absent of any oversight, the office free of any accountability, and the whole government essentially run by people who do not respect the law, to put it nicely.

And politicians need to start standing up for what's right, and what they believe... instead of polling opinion, and doing whatever will keep them elected!

Courage to Take a Stand According to the civics textbooks, politicians campaign for office, get elected, and then spend their time on governing until it is time to campaign again.

A wise public official after observing politics in an American city for a number of years said that he would prefer having the city run by elected officials with all the dangers which that involves to administration by political experts; for the politicians often have a human kindness and mercy which the experts lack.

In considering how we might respond to our shared concerns, it is helpful to remember that our civil laws, for good or evil, are made by elected and non-elected politicians.

One rational means for GOP voters to do so is to elect politicians who would be crazy enough to take the irrational action in the last stage of the game of not increasing the debt ceiling.

If I elect a politician to office, I'd like to think that out and out lying is challenging for them at best.

The British secretary of state for India, the liberal politician Edwin Montagu, and the viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, drew up a programme that provided limited power to elected Indians in the provinces.

«Chris McGrath is not a politician and he has never before run for elected office, but he has dedicated his life to serving his community and giving back to others,» Reif said.

an elected politician, so it isn't surprising that he is cautious in offering publicly a detailed manifesto of remedies for what has gone wrong.

If we do, we end up with politicians who are hermetically sealed until they are old enough to be elected, so that they don't make mistakes for 20 years.

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.

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

Thank god Sunder reminds us of the need for a bit of basic courtesy when dealing with elected politicians.

For many years, he was THE go - to guy in Harlem — closely connected to African American elected officials and power brokers, and therefore much sought out by politicians both black and white.

It's time to stop electing the same career politicians hoping for a different result.»

When it came to addressing political corruption, Cuomo introduced a widespread proposal that included limiting outside income for politicians and creating a full - time legislature; term limits for elected officials; an independent advisory opinion before earning outside income; closing the LLC loophole; more financial disclosure for elected officials; reforms to FOIL for the legislature; and procurement reforms.

The Times dissects the buzz that has elected officials, including Latino politicians in the Bronx, encouraging Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion to run for comptroller rather than mayor.

«Western New Yorkers elected Mark Grisanti hoping for someone to change Albany, but all they got was a typical Albany politician who changes his position each week.»

Now try and get a politician to admit this picture of Britain in the parliament for which they seek to be elected.

Speaking at the G20 summit in China, the prime minister said: «What has been clear throughout my political career, and what is important for people, is that they feel they are able to have confidence in their politicians, and that is what we have a duty to apply for those who elect us.

The ballot for the London Assembly - elected politicians who hold the Mayor to account - take place on the same day.

Remember, once they are elected, party politician do nothing for the people, only for their party.

Paul Masterton (born 2 November 1985) is a Scottish Conservative politician who was elected at the 2017 snap general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire.

He concluded: «Our message is clear, on May 6 don't just vote for another politician, elect another champion with the SNP.»

Katherine Anne Green [1] OBE (born 2 May 1960)[2] is a British Labour Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford and Urmston in 2010.

Despite this being a move to improve our democracy, this would, in fact be undemocratic, as the Queen currently has a great deal of support; Support that elected politicians would kill for, in fact.

No departing politician has ever paid for the cost of electing a successor, and there's no way Albanese could force Weiner to become the first to pay up.

In two state races overshadowed by the presidential primaries, voters will elect replacements Tuesday for crooked politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Another candidate for Jackson's seat, Cheryl Pahaham, accused Levine of attempting to make a back door deal with elected politicians to move her out of the Council District.

Susan Elan Jones (born 1 June 1968 [1]-RRB- is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Clwyd South, replacing the previous Labour MP Martyn Jones after his retirement.

Politicians Huntsman, Romney, Bachmann, et al., who support this nonsense should not be elected to public service for our country.

Taxpayers are set for a bumper windfall because we don't have to elect politicians to sit in the European Parliament after next year

NEW YORK CITY — Moses «Mark» Stern, the cooperating witness who played a pivotal role in the arrests of state Sen. Malcolm Smith and five others, is a well - connected upstate powerbroker who kept dirt on politicians for a «rainy day» and had ties to many elected officials, including state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, sources said.

Part of being an elected official is telling people things that they don't want to hear, and when they have it in their mindset that there are other politicians who are lying or not being honest or are under the veil of corruption, it makes it much more difficult for all of us to do our job in a time when it is very difficult to be an elected official.

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

Asked if the pressure campaign is coming early — legislators aren't up for re-election until November 2012 — Koch said it was important to tell voters they elected a politician of «dishonor.»