Sentences with phrase «heard over a politician»

And if voters want their voice to be heard over a politician's ideology, they should think twice about choosing independent candidate Ben Walsh.

Not exact matches

Business owners, workers, and politicians rallied to hear from researcher and writer Vivian Krause, who outlined her work over the last eight years tracking funding for environmental activism in Canada back to the United States.

It does concern me a bit when our politicians vow their religious zeal over and over... what does ol Obama hear when he listens to the «voice»?

«As Lobbyists and Politicians Shout It Out Over School Lunch, Can Parents Be Heard?»

So in today's Motherlode piece I ask Confessore what, if anything, parents can do to be heard on this issue over the powerful voices of lobbyists and politicians.

(In the meantime, I'll link to my New York Times piece from October, «As Lobbyists and Politicians Shout It Out Over School Lunch, Can Parents Be Heard?»)

As I discussed in my piece for the New York Times Motherlode last October («As Lobbyists and Politicians Shout it Out Over School Lunch, Can Parents Be Heard?

It's not rare to hear politicians fret over women voters, who make up the majority of undecided voters.

And I'm not just another politician with another plan, because you've heard a lot of politicians with a lot of plans over a lot of years.

It would address the very real lack of public trust when people hear politicians making promises — they remember Labour's broken promises over the EU Constitution / Lisbon Treaty.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.