Sentences with phrase «high public office»

Contra America, it is not the bishops but the party that must make the decision whether Catholics are to be «precluded from holding high public office.»

And isn't it refreshing for us and for our children to see elevated into high public office someone described as «an affable, collegial, unpretentious man with a good sense of humor»?

He concluded: «The core information in this story, namely that the father had an adulterous affair with the mother, deceiving both his wife and the mother's partner and that the claimant, born about nine months later, was likely to be the father's child, was a public interest matter which the electorate was entitled to know when considering his fitness for high public office.»

Without such, corrupt and debauched politicians will perpetually occupy high public offices.

He said if the president is ready to wage war on corruption then the constitution must be followed which includes the declaration of asset by high public office holders.

Republican strategist Rich Galen, a former top Newt Gingrich aide who has seen a sex scandal or two up close, agreed: «People who run for public office, especially high public office, are not like regular people.

Disappointing, but hardly surprising in a world where adultery is rewarded with a return to high public office regardless of party.

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

So, in the decades since feminist ideals have been instilled in the populous, it seems that more women should have been elected into high public office.

The Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson, and two appeal judges, held in AAA v Associated Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 554 that the Mayor of London's «adulterous affair» was «a public interest matter which the electorate was entitled to know when considering [Johnson's] fitness for high public office».

And the information that is available is in the public interest, since Trump is competing to hold the highest public office in the land.

I think the concern is with separation of church and state, and if that's possible with a Mormon in a high public office.

What we should all be concerned about in this country is the fact that some of the best thinkers are not religious and one can not be elected to a high public office in the United States without a professed deep belief in God.

In her column yesterday, Washington Post «s Ruth Marcus argues for why having Sarah Palin in high public office is a «terrifying prospect.»

``... No one act alone qualifies someone to high public office.

«We are witnessing essentially a classical case of state capture in which individuals, including those in high public office, use their position to undermine the state and its policies because of their personal interest.

Paterson aspired to high public office — although, he has said, he wanted to be U.S. senator from New York, an easier job than being governor — so you may think that he was pretty lucky to be in the right place when Eliot Spitzer got caught in that prostitution scandal.

«Going back to George Washington, there has never been a president who has not served in high public office,» he said he told Mr. Trump.