Sentences with phrase «held by our political leaders»

Foreign Policy — Discover the actions of our government beyond our borders and the attitudes about foreign policy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention and more.

His talk touched on the findings of his recent work, and pondered the divide between public opinion regarding global warming — he pointed out that strong majorities in every single state believe that it's real — and the opinion held by our political leaders.

Not exact matches

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

As things turned out, that consensus held just long enough to ensure that, deepened intellectually and reinforced politically by conservative and neoconservative thinkers and political leaders in the 1970s and 1980s, freedom's cause won out over Marxist - Leninist totalitarianism.

By engaging citizens in a wider discussion, it is shaping a certain type of Romanian citizen, a critical one, capable of engaging in civilized discussions with his fellow citizens, of taking action whenever needed and of holding the political leaders accountable for their actions.

Accountability is measured in terms of representative governance and whether political leaders can be held accountable by their constituencies.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

It has been the issue that has dominated the political news since last weekend, after David Cameron rattled the cage of SNP Leader Alex Salmond, by challenging him to hold an early Scottish Referendum.

Some State Police officials said they believe Freilich has held onto his non-union job through four governors, and at a time when many state workers are facing the loss of their jobs, because top state officials and their political advisers believe Freilich can marshal votes in Jewish communities known for voting in unison behind candidates recommended by their religious leaders.

Political leaders in the seven counties of the 3rd Judicial District — Albany, Rensselaer, Ulster, Columbia, Greene, Schoharie and Sullivan — are territorial, actually quite turfy, about Supreme Court seats being held by their counties» residents.

Alianza reported on prayers at graduation; blessings by its school leader, Dennis Snyder, during assemblies; the bending of pension rules by the American Heritage Education Foundation, and the holding of a Republican political rally on Escondido Charter grounds during which the school mascot wore a shirt that said, «Friends don't let friends vote Democrat.»

Anderson's argument is not helped by the fact that the Tyndall Centre, where he deputy director and leader of the energy and climate change research programme, recently held a conference on «radical emissions reduction», the content of which seems to be overtly political, to say the least.

«Pledges» by political leaders to «reduce carbon emissions to X % of those in year Y by year Z» or «to hold AGW to a maximum of 2 °C» are not actionable proposals, but simply political posturing

What I do not consider to be an «actionable» proposal is a blanket pledge by a political leader to «reduce carbon emissions of his / her nation to X % of the level they were in year Y by year Z.» Even worse is a pledge to «hold global warming to no more than 2 °C».