Sentences with phrase «generation of politicians»

No good reason for this, except perhaps to suggest the current generation of politicians isn't responsible for the deficits / debts of their forefathers.

Teach for America's Deep Bench The education nonprofit is also training the next generation of politicians, who have very specific ideas on school reform.

However, since the new generation of politicians is the first one that hasn't been exposed directly to the shock of war and the atomic explosion, for the first time after WWII, Japan seems inclined to reconsider its constitutional provisions regarding the involvement in armed conflicts.

I have been struck since the beginning of the campaign by the plain speaking, fresh thinking and political courage of Liz Kendall and the new generation of politicians — Chuka Umunna, Emma Reynolds, Tristram Hunt — who have declared their support for her.

But the new generation of politicians will regard newspapers as a tool, not as an ally.

In fact, the new generation of politicians has very different priorities about how they choose to communicate, and whom they choose to communicate with.

To believe that any of today's generation of politicians is likely to uphold such impartial standards is naïve to the point of absurdity.

A new generation of politicians in the city of Syracuse are following in their families» footsteps and running for office.

But in the long term, if New York politics start to resemble what has happened at the federal level, New Yorkers will have very different types of leaders and a very different generation of politicians.

The obsession with the political centre which has so reduced debate in this country since 1997 was noticeably shaken by the financial crisis, and one might hope that the stage is set for a new generation of politicians to emerge who occupy a political spectrum without the baggage of the seventies and eighties, even if those were the times that formed them.

It would look like the worst sort of opportunism to the electorate, the recent generation of politicians would be mightily peed off at having to reface the electorate so soon, and the chances of an overall Tory majority are miniscule.

The vote spelled frustration at a whole generation of politicians.

Finally PPP tell your leader to rest because Ghanaians are not interested in handing over power to very retired Andropose and Menopause generation of Politicians.

For a contemporary generation of politicians, especially in the Labour Party, The Tortoise and the Hares is well worth reading.

Certainly, the events of the past year have caused enormous damage to the current generation of politicians and restoring trust to any reasonable level in the House of Commons will take years.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

Each generation of politicians and economists tries to flatten the cycle of boom and bust, and every generation fails.

If former generations of politicians reposed at the feet of the Holy Father, most of the current generation are happy to kneel at the feet of Brussels.

Not exact matches

This generation's politicians believe they can finally turn the page on the narrow nationalist interests of past eras, and tackle their problems together — a task that is as laudable as it is immense.

Unfortunately, it's happening on both sides of the Atlantic, with U.K. politicians debating how to build a next - generation network and Google Fiber rolling out in Kansas.

«The idea (promoted by politicians of both the left and the right) that Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are falling from the middle class in great bunches, even trailing behind the living standard of their parents, is, in aggregate, complete rubbish.

The next generation of Catholic politicians will require a well - developed and clear - sighted vision of the common good, coupled with the virtues of courage and prudence to pursue it.

Theocracy is based on studies of an old book or two written by philosophers and politicians in addition to stories handed down over generations with no real physical evidence to analyze.

it appears the goal of voters is same as iran and soros and israeli pm — and that is to destroy the us by selecting vile politicians who will screw america and future generations.

Pretty much every Democratic nominee has been tarred as hopelessly corrupt — even one of the cleanest politicians of his generation Obama.

The truth is that the politicians have let us down for a least a generation with lack of foresight regarding world sporting events.

If Scots vote as the polls suggest, then Nicola Sturgeon will soon have some claim to being called the most successful British politician of her generation.

When people complain about «professional politicians», they are talking about a generation of parliamentarians who struggle to assemble a showreel from more than a decade on the frontbenches.

But I am desperate to find and work with other Nigerians especially our young and vibrant upcoming politicians, to establish a political incubator to breed a new generation of leaders who will do things right, maintain high ethical standards and abhor greed, avarice, selfishness and impunity.

«I'm taking this step not only because we need to fight back against self - interested politicians like Faso and Trump, but because I believe we need a new generation of leaders to step up and fight for the communities that raised them,» Rhodes wrote in an essay posted to Medium.

UB40 said in a statement: «Jeremy has re-ignited an interest in politics for people who no longer felt included, and engaged and inspired a new generation of young voters who, for the first time, believe that they have an incorruptible politician who truly represents them.

The seeds of the current crisis were sown generations ago in the failure of politicians and intellectuals to address the legacy of the British Empire and to speak positively about the contribution that immigrants make to the country.

Alan Clark, the politician and diarist, had an ambivalent attitude towards his father, «K», or as Private Eye called him «Lord Clark of Civilisation», a figure of fun to a younger generation in his final years.

«The group will argue that values — and not a politician's background — are the crucial factor in communicating effectively with blue collar voters and that it is today's generation of Conservative politicians who most closely represent the values of those voters who will determine the outcome of the next general election,» he said.

Some refer to the experience of countries in central and eastern Europe after 1989 when in many cases a new generation of younger politicians came through rapidly.

Unlike their predecessors, the next generation of niche politicians won't necessarily choose the third - party route.

In 2008 Harriet Harman — surely the most influential militant feminist politician of her generation — introduced a piece of legislation which hadn't been trailed in the Labour party's 2005 election manifesto.

And politicians seeking donations, votes and other kinds of support may look to tap into this new generation of self - selected, point - and - click activists.

Her dedication to politics has survived undiminished and it's this commitment, in her and past female politicians like Lady Thatcher, to making a difference to the world that I believe we need to encourage and nurture in future generations of women.

I suffer a form of predictionitis when I write a blog arguing that Francis Maude is the most influential Tory politician of his generation.

With some reservations, Spicer backs Michael Howard, and some younger eurosceptic politicians of the current generation, Daniel Hannan and Mark Reckless, who were active then, working for Spicer and Howard.

This change has produced some good side - effects - the present generation of professional politicians works harder for their constituents than the previous one of citizen legislators did.

While we have a new generation of Bono-esque musicians wanting to be politicians, we're getting our own back in that we're a group of politicians wanting to be musicians!For me, music remains an overwhelming passion and a great way to de-stress from politics.

While of different generations, boroughs and backgrounds, Heastie and Silver are both career politicians who rose up the ranks of local city Democratic clubs through behind - the - scenes maneuvering and alliance building to become major players in state politics.

For Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at 65, it is ode to brilliant ideas and deep compassion — and just as well; for no politician of his generation better epitomizes these two concepts.

In its place we have a generation of career politicians — with their Oxbridge PPEs — and, while Johnson didn't say this — probably little concern for which party they represent, as long as the get a seat.

Marine Le Pen will not become president of France and the outbreak of open war between the three generations of Le Pens has been an hilarious end to 2016 and couldn't happen to nicer politicians.

The Conservative heavyweight said Nigel Farage was the most successful politician of his generation - because he persuaded people that the EU was full of «faceless grey Eurocrats» who do nothing but come up with «vast quantities of awful legislation» to achieve things such as banning bent bananas.

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

None of the outstanding Scottish Labour politicians of this generation have thought the job big enough to forgo a career at Westminster.