Sentences with phrase «important than political»

Thanks to our state and national lawmakers, I now know that until and unless there is a drastic shift in the composition of our Legislature and Congress, until the preservation of life becomes more important than the political machine, I might have been the one who needed to use that active shooter training on Feb. 14 — a day about love that turned into one about the worst kind of hate.

More important than the political control through bureaucracies was control of research funding in each country.

«Believe it or not there are things in the world that are more important than political speculation,» Richards said.

At its best, the religious right reminded all of us that there are realities more important than political or economic success; that we are a nation under God, one that can be weighed in the balance and found wanting.

Fletcher understood that cultural influence was vastly more important than political power.

But the key to this view is that national greatness, of the sort you can obtain with the greatest policies, is more important than political liberty.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

For one, political instability has made maintaining employment in the oil industry more important than keeping government revenues from oil sales high.

Richards and Karp's Tumblr post explains that the current political climate makes it more important than ever to support Planned Parenthood's mission:

But it is Wintour's role in promoting fashion and luxury goods manufacturing as an important US export business, coupled with her growing political fundraising acumen (according to the Obama campaign, she is a «top bundler», raising more than $ 500,000 for the Obama Victory Fund) that led to speculation she is eyeing a political position.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

So what was the point of the call? Political optics, obviously — which explains why the PMO's subsequent spin effort was more important than the phone call itself.

Since economists, especially by those that specialize in international business economics, know that an economy that is not growing faster than its population or labor force is not growing, it's very important to that into account even though for «political» reasons the CB, and NBER do not report that consideration, and thus the financial media do not either.

This is to say that morality is more important than politics as a keeper of social harmony, and that the quality of a population matters more than political or economic structures.

But the concerns cited above show why it is important that judicial decisions be disciplined, based on sources of law other than the judge's own view of political morality.

From Mark: In these theological / political times, where it seems so important to be in the right «camp» lest we be cast out from fellowship with others because we do not hold the «correct» views, how do you suggest moving forward toward greater unity, rather than greater division?

Similarly, there are no means other than denominational journals, most of which have limited distribution, through which a consensus may be developed with respect to important moral, religious, social, political and economic questions.

For process theologians the ecological horizon is even more important than for Moltmann, and the question arises whether this excludes us from political theology.

When challenged on why he was speaking about grassroots reconciliation rather than a political settlement, Welby said both were important: «The process has to be top down, bottom down, middle out.

Even scholars of Christian history often conclude that political and social conflicts really have been more important than doctrinal debates.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

He knew that the breakdown of a world view was far more important than the breakdown of an economic or political structure and that we must go beyond the outward sickness to the inner causes.

No doubt many humorous poems are less important than other more philosophical or political ones, and some comic poems seem hardly poems at all.

Yet McCain - Feingold had the unintended effect of making 501 (c)(4) political activities far more important than they had been, since the law's ban on soft money doesn't apply to such groups...

This was no mean thing, and it's far more important than getting things right all the time, which isn't possible for anyone who risks serious political, moral, and theological judgments in times of upheaval and transformation, as Michael did.

It's hard to think about anything other than the current political climate and all of the horror that is being inflicted upon people, from this ban to the struggle of so many other people in this country, but it's important to rest and stay focused and spend some time re-energizing yourself.

The latter intervention looks to be the more important for precisely that reason: Davidson carries respect within the party whereas Sturgeon is a political enemy; being seen to respond to demands from the Scottish Conservative Party is easier than appearing to cave in to demands from a party that's made anti-Toryism an evangelical faith.

Could we end up with schisms that are more important than class in our political system?

The latter, aged 66, may well lead the party, but most important offices of the state are now in the hands of his younger colleagues using a different language and relying on different political advisers than Kaczyński.

Yes, members (and people, cats, Tories etc who paid three quid) are important but they aren't higher up the political food chain than MPs who are elected by thousands of voters and nor should they be.

The internet's potential for political mobilization has been highlighted for more than a decade, but we know little about what particular kinds of information and communication technologies are most important when it comes to getting people involved in politics and about what this means for the active exercise of engaged citizenship.

Never fear, politics abhors a vacuum and Tony Blair's Global Institute for Change has stepped in to fill in the detail, leading Alistair Campbell to chide Theresa May that a former PM has done more detailed economic research than the current one on the most important political decision for a generation.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

The reason, he believes, is that fighting corruption is less important to Cuomo than other initiatives he appears to more readily spend his political capital on, like same - sex marriage and a $ 15 minimum wage — among signature accomplishments that Cuomo highlighted by having dozens of guests who benefitted from the laws.

Says one Democratic operative of Messina: «I hope he's better at political campaigns than at managing big, important pieces of legislation.»

Video often evokes a stronger emotional reaction than text or still images alone, making it a powerful way to tell stories or make a political point, but online video isn't television — the kinds of content that succeeds can be quite different, with authenticity and topic typically more important than polished visuals.

«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.

While political showboating is an important part of being Attorney General, it would be refreshing for the job to be briefly held by someone who is more interested in just getting the job done rather than advancing her own career.

Ameh said it was important to treat the causes of problems for political parties in the country, rather than treating the symptoms.

(By left - wing I mean any political position that makes tackling poverty and deprivation more important than corporate profit.)

«Sadly, Zephyr Teachout, having just stepped away from running a PAC, is reducing the «People's Pledge» to a political prop rather than engaging in a real dialogue — if she is truly serious about a real dialogue on this important issue, we will be happy to discuss it with her.»

Sometimes it's more a technicality than a matter of political relevance, like for the President of the United States, sometimes it's an important aspect of political life, as in the case of parliamentary republics.

Creative problem solving on behalf of residents is ultimately far more important than sitting on council committees and other formal political business, necessary as that might be.

«Nothing is more important to me than my personal faith, and it is my faith that motivated me to be involved in the political process to begin with,» Carson said in the same statement.

More important, the groups have an independent expenditure arm, the Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation, which has spent more than $ 2.8 million on local political campaigns in the five years since its formation in 2011.

The message to women could not have been clearer: Your right to safety and dignity is less important than the quest for political power.

... scoring the political points was more important than making the right decision,» he said.

«If Gov. Cuomo is resorting to fear tactics for political purposes, he is also admitting that other forms of state spending are more important than providing healthcare to vulnerable populations,» said upstate lawmakers in a joint statement.

Emmanuel Macron has more political experience than Trump, yet his background is more about investment banking (source) rather than politics where he started to play an important role since 2012: