Sentences with phrase «high political office»

There is a certain irony that two men holding high political office, one from the UK and one from the US, should suffer from minor memory loss.

Candidates for high political office, including governor of Connecticut, should fully release their federal and state tax returns so that voters can digest the information and determine for themselves whether there are any financial conflicts of interests or other details that could affect a person's...

And Khan is not the only second - generation Pakistani to have entered high political office in the UK.

The Roman emperor Caligula took a novel approach to selecting his executive team, apocryphally conferring on his horse Incitatus the status of counsel, one of the highest political offices in the empire.

With a dozen years under her belt in Germany's highest political office and a national election approaching in September, this was supposed to be the year that Merkel's leadership came under threat.

Any faith he has will no doubt be used primarily as political leverage in his main goal, higher political office and greater personal power.

Today it is a time to honor all those who have held the highest political office in the United States, past and present.

The son born of their union rises from poverty to attain America's highest political office.

Few weeks back, the media savvy governor of Ekiti State Mr. Peter Ayo Fayose inaugurated his campaign for the highest political office in the land in...

Buhari said Jonathan's foray into politics and ascendency to the highest political office in Nigeria from a humble riverine background testified to the greatness and inclusiveness of Nigeria's democracy, and served as an invitation to all those with interest to add value to the nation.

The first is she may have her sights on higher political offices in Washington, D.C., although she denied a run for president last May, according to

The first is she may have her sights on higher political offices in Washington, D.C., although she denied a run for president last May, according to The Hill.

Political pundits often see the NYC mayor's seat as somewhat of a dead - end to holding higher political office; becoming district attorney for the state's largest county, on the other hand, could put James on a fast - moving political trajectory toward statewide office.

Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo are quizzed on one of TV's most famous marriages - theirs on the This Week sofa before Diane left to seek higher political office - as Richard and Judy see how well the pair really know each other.

This lesson tells the story of Ronald Reagan's rise from a small town in Illinois to the highest political office in the United States: the presidency.

Hamstrung in their ability to influence policy at a local bargaining table, unions are in dire need of more sympathy from the state's highest political offices.

The structural barriers in schools that limit Meaningful Student Involvement are no less than every norm, regulation and process that keeps students powerless throughout education, from their individual classrooms to highest political offices in the land.

Not exact matches

Committee leadership provides a political and policymaking megaphone, as well as a farm team for higher office.

Mitt Romney is a political shape - shifter unworthy of high office.

The intellectuals can play the game on their own terms; they hold no political office, they are outsiders; so it is easy for them with their high principles to decide what should be done.

So, President Obama's increase in giving coincident with his running for higher office is to be spun as a crass political move, but Santorum's failure to increase his giving while he runs for higher office is be lauded, because when caught he expresses that he needs to «do better», and thus «takes it seriously».

As a very young man of thirty - three years, having already served in various political offices, Gregory was offered and accepted the highest civil office in the city of Rome — that of prefect.

If we start preaching the gospel again, we will have to get used to ethnic, theological, and political diversity because we will share our lives with people whose ultimate allegiance lies with something greater than a political party, greater than a ballot measure, greater even than the highest office in the world.

Shah, we found out, used to think Israelis should be relocated en masse to America, compared Israelis to Hitler, issued a public warning that «the Jews are rallying» (to take part in an opinion poll) and tweeted a link to an article which compared Zionism to al - Qaeda, and fretted that the Zionists are «grooming» Jews to «exert political influence at the highest levels of public office.»

Requirement of political experience in lower - level offices and moderate to high approval ratings during their time in office.

In Nigeria, the salaries and allowances allocated to political office holders are amongst the highest in the world.

For the very highest level positions, or for the most flamboyant or charismatic politicians, the fame and recognition from being in political office will allow them to enrich themselves, once out of office, through different types of media - talk shows, jobs with news networks, books (with massive advances), and paid speaking engagements.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

No, instead, Mr. Rangel deserves some sympathy because after four decades in the House of Representatives, building a political machine that has seen scores of friends and protégés win high office, serving a district that has been represented by only two people since World War II, he is now presiding over that district's dissolution.

In this chapter, Brown also charts the rise of women into positions of political leadership writing that «by 2013, more than eighty women had held the highest elected governmental office in a variety of countries, spanning every continent in the world» (p. 38).

They need to wake up and realise that although the mystique surrounding the political class has largely been dissipated, they are still expected to take a moral lead — especially if they want high office.

It might make sense that, say, technology bloggers would be disproportionately male, since many more men than women work in high - tech (and obsess about it), but politics is a different animal — women may still be underrepresented in top elected offices, but at least as many women as men work as political activists and political staff or as volunteers.

The fraud convictions of two former campaign aides to city Comptroller John Liu has not helped his run for higher office, but the jury's decision may influence whether the Queens Democratic Party will endorse the lawmaker's mayoral bid, borough political observers said.

On Thursday, South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the leading figures in the anti-apartheid struggle, added his voice, saying: «If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.»

«I want everyone to believe every decision that I make as attorney general is because it's the right one for our citizens, not for my political aspirations to seek higher office.»

Donovan stressed that he would not join the lawsuit already filed by a number of attorneys general across the nation — an action he deemed «political» because 14 of the 15 people who brought the suit are gunning for higher office.

Cuomo's buddy across the Hudson, Gov. Chris Christie, successfully turned the public against the NJEA in New Jersey, but he did so after first coming into office in 2010 when his political clout was at its highest.

«And the fact that we haven't had experience of high office, frankly in today's political situation is not necessarily a disadvantage.

BROOKLYN — A former political rival to Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson who later became a high - ranking official in his office quit after being accused of sexually harassing a prosecutor who worked for him, DNAinfo New York has learned.

They discuss his political views, his hopes for reforming Albany, and why Donovan has pledged not to seek higher office.

With a base of financial and political support in the city and in Albany, Miner has several options if (or when) she chooses to run for higher office next year.

«I am grateful to the Almighty God and the people of Ghana for the opportunity to have served in the highest office of President; I have enjoyed the fulfilling career and since I emerged on the political scene in Ghana in 1996, I served as Member of Parliament for three terms, I served as deputy minister, as a minister, a Vice President and ultimately the President of my country,» he narrated.

But they have long acted as a route by which people of high ability from impoverished backgrounds — Ernest Bevin, say, or Alan Johnson — could gain political experience and rise to high office.

They discovered, despite the hope engendered by Labour returning to office after 18 years, that the price of gaining that office was too high, as the political principle they held dear were jettisoned.

It's a big surprise that Mr. Schneiderman has surpassed both his predecessors in the nakedness with which he views our state's highest legal office as an extension of his political ambitions.

On Sept. 5, 2008, for instance, four days before that year's Democratic primary, Guillen opined in El Nuevo Diario that «we must retain the experience, political ability, legislative acumen, honesty and high principles» of Espaillat - all without mentioning he was a state worker in Espaillat's office.

It is about adding more money to the political process — more money to Andrew Cuomo, more campaign contributions to allied legislators, more money for «pay to play» deals, a larger war chest and more business contacts for a governor who dreams of higher office.

FAFV is an inclusive, non-partisan civic engagement program designed to encourage high school girls, grades 9 - 12, to actively participate in the political process and begin to imagine themselves as candidates for elected office sometime in their future.

Founder of the Medical Art Centre, Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, said there was the need for a «clause in the constitution that would mandate the declaration of the health status» of the President and other high ranking political office holders in the country.

this one seems to have a higher goal, and would use that office to further his political career much like hillary clinton did as senator.