Sentences with phrase «great statesmen»

The politicians responsible would now be feted as great statesmen and women, and there is no chance whatsoever that seven years later there would be any inquiry pouring over the finer nuances of international law, the AG's advice, and precisely who knew what and when regarding WMD.

Archbishop Justin Welby, Head of the Anglican Communion Worldwide, told President Buhari in London this week: «Great statesmen are those who run for the good of their country.»

Furthermore, the «great statesman - Archbishop» Dr. Davidson has condemned handing C.O.'s over to the military.

That means enlisting the help of Atlanta's greatest statesmen.

Obviously he's not going to be a great statesman,» Paladino added

The good news and bad news is the same: Churchill, starring Brian Cox, is a worthy addition to the considerable canon of films about the great statesman (the greatest of the British, many say), but it also doesn't go beyond the best of the many bios that have already hit screens big and small (with stars like Albert Finney, Richard Burton and Brendan Gleeson as the British leader).

You want to see the contradictions at work in any great statesman.

In the year of Brexit / no Brexit, here is another biopic portraying Winston Churchill as the great statesman of his time.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation — and perhaps any — came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries.

Many have proclaimed Winston Churchill the greatest statesman of the 20th century.

Widely known as the greatest statesman of the 20th century and the savior of Western civilization, a Nobel Prize winner, and the subject of a recent Academy Award - nominated film, more people than...

OK, what else can I find... let me see if I can find where that great statesman Rep. Gary Ackerman, D - N.Y., declared last year, «I want to know who is responsible for protecting the securities investor, because I want to tell that person or those people whose job it is that they suck at it.»

During the»60s, one was declared a great statesman.

Not exact matches

Robert Mugabe is a massively divisive figure — a despot and an educator, reviled by many for his policies, but also revered as one of Africa's greatest revolutionary statesmen.

The media too has gotten on her case, the most recent — if breathtakingly tasteless — salvo coming from the British magazine New Statesman, which compared Merkel to both the Terminator and Hitler in the span of a few short paragraphs and also said she represented a greater threat to the world than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

A few minutes away is the National Historic Site that preserves the last home of Frederick Douglass, the great American abolitionist, writer, and statesman.

As the great theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper once observed, «In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, «That is mine!»»

Empirical claims about institutional dynamics have to be open to counter-examples, and an interesting one in the theological world these days can be seen at the Free University — Vrije Universiteit — in Amsterdam, a school founded by the great Calvinist theologian - statesman Abraham Kuyper.

Is not moral, social, or political normative evaluation an attempt to discover patterns of social «weaving,» as Plato put it in the Statesman, which carry over the achieved values of the participants while achieving greater value through their interactions?

These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

A few years later I was sitting in the home of one of the great elder statesmen of German New Testament scholarship, attempting to describe to him my efforts to relate Freud and Paul (however much I knew it would be in vain).

«The traditional burial of poets, statesmen and great national figures, and indeed kings and queens, has actually ceased... partly because you couldn't find any more room for the bodies,» Carpenter said.

Manent shows in great detail the ineptitude that invariably follows when the church attempts to think politically, to do the work the nation and its statesmen are supposed to do — just as the nation engages in tyranny based on psychological reductionism when it tries to displace the universal message of the City of God with some ideology or civil theology.

A great man, the Czech statesman and playwright Vaclav Havel, died this December, and for whatever reason, his death received very little notice in America.

What a wonderful moment it would be if our once - great country were to produce a number of great Catholic statesmen ready and able to confront the great crises, moral and civilisational, threatening our nation (and the world) today.

«33 Bushman also pointed out that Samuel Johnson, the great Episcopalian leader in Connecticut, lumped together Revivalism and democracy in their disrespect for proper authority: «The prevalency of rigid enthusiastical conceited notions and practices in religion and republican mobbish principles and practices and policy, being most on a level and each thinking himself an able divine and statesman: hence perpetual feuds and factions in both.34

In the East, syncretism has received a powerful boost during the past century from such Indian leaders as the great Hindu mystic Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekenanda, Mahatma Gandhi, and the philosopher - statesman Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Forty years ago this winter, during my undergraduate studies, I discovered the great Dutch statesman and polymath, Abraham Kuyper (1837 — 1920), whose thought would have a huge impact on the subsequent course of my life.

Is it that this Pyrenees vineyard manages to produce great shiraz more often than anyone else in the region — elder statesman Taltarni included?

That statement summed up Arsene Wenger, a football coach who became a manager of statesmen, with all - encompassing quality but whose greatest achievements took place some time ago.

The Governor described Mama Akande as a great mother, loyal wife and, above all, one of the last bastions of progressive women in the region, who diligently served the people, the party and his husband till her last moment on the surface of the earth, noting that Mama Akande was a great pillar behind Chief Bisi Akande through thick and thin during the elder statesman's political career.

And they do so because, when the world demands leadership, it is this alliance of values and interests — this Special Relationship between two countries — that, to borrow the words of another great American statesman, enters the arena, with our faces marred by dust and sweat and blood, to strive valiantly and know the triumph of high achievement.

«The Boston Globe once accused Mario Cuomo of being the «great philosopher statesman of the American nation,»» says O'Shaughnessy.

«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»

Something of the same passion pervades his very readable biography John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator (IB Tauris, # 25)-- Bright was a cousin of his great - grandfather.

It's a very sensitive issue and you have to know how to handle it, especially verbally, especially appealing to the right instincts, not overreacting, even though, politically, there's a great temptation to go on one side or another, and that's the difference between a politician and a statesman, and he made every effort to be an appropriate statesman as governor.»

«He was not only a great leader for his country, but one of the most profound statesmen our world has ever known.»

Speaking to the New Statesman, he argued that one of Labour's greatest achievements has been to combine the needs of the «aspirants» with the less - advantaged, suggesting that this is one area where the party fell down in the past.

That, the president said, was evident in the fact that «in 2014, for example, industry, which in 2008 — the last year of the government of the great Ghanaian statesman, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, former President of the Republic — had grown to 15.1 %, slumped to 0.8 %, in 2015 to 0.3 %, and further down to -1.4 % in 2016.

The Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee of senior US statesmen, said most American troops should leave their combat role by early 2008 and also urged greater cooperation with the country's neighbours, Iran and Syria.

The Foreign Office, one of the four Great Offices of State, is a mouthwatering prize for any ambitious wannabe statesman — and Boris leads that particular field by a mile.

Neither would make a pantheon of great party leaders, but as statesmen they had their talents.

The group in a statement issued by a certain Ogah A. Ogah, quoted APC as saying that «As a party embarking on mass appeal for greater membership even after elections at all levels, this is not the time to embark on unnecessary exchanges with statesmen like Sen. Mark.

«That is why, as Attorney General, under the government of the great Ghanaian statesman, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, the 2nd President of the 4th Republic, I led the process, in Parliament, for the repeal of the Criminal Libel Law.

Being born and raised in a spiritually well - established family in Karnataka, KavithaJi's upbringing was instilled with all the values and teachings of Basavanna (one ofthe greatest saints in 12th - century and a highly - distinguished Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada poet).

By Mark Miller I was a woman's last Online dating hope... Some men distinguish themselves by being great scientists, statesmen, artists.

Almost a dead ringer for Benjamin Franklin, Watts did indeed play the great American inventor / statesman in The Remarkable Andrew (1942), one of his final films.

On the other hand, the great Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martel from Game of Thrones) is a blast as rogue Statesman, Whiskey.

Conscience - stricken by his own brutality during the French - Indian wars, Martin opposes South Carolina's entry into the conflict with Great Britain and gives a heartfelt speech (the first of many) at a town meeting, pleading with the assembled statesmen to give diplomacy a chance, to spare their families the horrors of war.

THE LATE FILMS OF RENÉ CLAIR By Philip Kemp Out of fashion in the postwar era, this elder statesman of French cinema pressed on undaunted to do some of his greatest work, now ripe for consideration