Sentences with phrase «into political office»

«He is regarded as philanthropist of note that is equal to non among politicians in the state because he remains the only politician who has not been elected or appointed into political office but yet he remains biggest donor in all spheres to salvage people from grinding poverty.

I'll stop feeling like a minority when theists help put an atheist into political office.

Not exact matches

Five years after staring into a political and personal abyss, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out to prove that the man who threw in the towel after barely a year in office has what it takes to survive as a long - term leader.

Overall, I think my age brings more to the table than not, and the idea that someone who isn't affiliated with a political party, didn't have the blessing of the establishment, and who doesn't have deep pockets was able to get elected into a substantial government office is pretty exciting.

With British officials raiding the offices of embattled political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee before congress, and GDPR set to go into effect next month, no story holds greater sway in techland.

«This is just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data for political purposes,» the office said in a statement after a judge granted the request for a warrant.

With the election on Tuesday, voters delivered a verdict on the country's direction, affirming Trump's message about the need for a Washington shake - up and sending a self - described political outsider into the Oval Office.

(Incidentally, the UK's data protection watchdog is conducting just such an audit of Cambridge Analytica right now, after obtaining a warrant to enter its London offices last month — as part of an ongoing, year - long investigation into social media data being used for political ad targeting.)

Last month the UK's data protection agency obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica — as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes which it kicked off in May 2017.

Demand in Argentina spiked in June when former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose policies put the country into a recession, announced that she was running again for political office.

Her office has been conducting a widespread probe, which started last year, into data analytics and political profiling.

The Guardian reports the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is launching an investigation into the collection and use of voters» personal data in political campaigns.

Barbour reportedly acquired his first paid political appointment by stalking into the board's offices and reminding those in power how many votes Calvary Baptist Church had.

There is a current of uneasiness, especially among Mormon academics, about what will happen if and when Ezra Taft Benson becomes church president and carries his right - wing political views into office with him.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

A March 14 statement by the archbishop's office in Havana said that «no one has the right to turn temples into political barricades.»

«12 At the same time, the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington was putting economic and political pressure on the governments of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea to withdraw their trade barriers and allow U.S. cigarette sales and advertising into their nations.

BTW I don't know what Reggie Miller is into that he was «kissed harder then that» Maybe he should run for political office.

As Kelly spoke via Skype about the political future of South Korea, the door to his home office swung open, and a small girl in a bright yellow shirt and pink glasses sauntered into the room, clearly very pleased with herself for having gotten access to dad's office while he was doing something important.

Josh is hoping to run for political office someday, which could mean turning his family's hateful views into law, so I will sit back and cackle that he has a little scandal tarnishing his previously squeaky - clean reputation.

When Buffalo Grove «s new village president steps into office April 15, he wo n`t have far to look for a political agenda.

Wrongdoing has no political colour and I do not subscribe to the lawlessness of political party supporters simply because their party has been elected into office,» he stated.

With a new K Street office, new Republican lobbyists on retainer to balance the company's traditional tilt toward Democrats, and an expanded portfolio of issues, Google's getting into political advocacy in a big way.

«In his prior political offices, Eliot Spitzer brought junk lawsuits which seldom held up in court against New York's leading industries for his own political gain, to the detriment of the citizens of New York; he misused the powers of his offices to «steamroll» legitimate political opposition, and acted with calculated hypocrisy, signing tougher penalties into law for the very crimes he was committing.

Spitzer (AKA the steamroller) was hardly a shrinking violet during his brief stint as governor, and according to a report by Cuomo — who was AG at the time, having followed Spitzer into that office — he misused his executive power over the State Police in a botched attempt to smear his top political rival, then Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Political necromancy never yielded sweeter fruits, as Mr. Obiano romped into office!

The other consequence, as we have seen is the multiplication of recurrent costs of governance as resources which should otherwise have been channeled into areas of public need are expended paying and maintaining civil servants and political office holders.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office on Thursday reacted to the decision by federal and city prosecutors to not bring any charges in multiple investigations into fundraising and political activities.

Certainly decisions such as ousting Papandreou from office and interference into the Greek electoral campaign could have been made only in Berlin given Germany's economic and political clout.

But other common practices in southern Europe, like turning public office into a livelihood by living off public resources indefinitely, appointing incompetent people to public positions, or shamelessly benefiting from the undemocratic functioning of political parties, are cases of serious corruption too.

The candidates also pushed for the passage of a bill that would give the attorney general's office the ability to independently launch investigations into political corruption, which the office currently lacks.

Vance, in a letter sent to Cuomo on Tuesday night, said the state probe into his office was political, and that Cuomo only started it because he was nervous about a Democratic primary challenge from actor Cynthia Nixon.

When Michael Bloomberg leaves office in 2014 — assuming he leaves office in 2014 — the city will be saddled long into the future with the massive borrowing and school spending he required to maintain his political reputation.

And while the candidates are busy making the case for why the Attorney General's office should be granted new authority to open investigations into political corruption, most New Yorkers — 51 percent — said the office has enough power as it is.

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).

Why is the de Blasio administration, aided by his cats» paws in the Council and Public Advocate's office, putting so much political capital into this fight?

In recent years, the sheriff's office was involved in a federal investigation into political corruption in Suffolk that led to the conviction of Edward Walsh, the former corrections lieutenant under the outgoing sheriff, Vincent DeMarco.

Cabinet Office minister battles for political future as investigation into allegations of sexual impropriety nears completion

The charges and decision to leave office abruptly end nearly 16 years in office for Spota, who came into office promising to fight corruption and political prosecution.

Guy Molinari, the former borough president and congressman, was knocked as a career pol when he ran unsuccessfully for district attorney, as was former - DA and now - Congressman Daniel Donovan, though he had served some time in the Manhattan DA's office before moving into the political world.

His elevation to the great office of chancellor was never to catapult him into the league of political big beasts.

Like so much or our DC political system, the Presidential Office needs to be brought into the 21st century.

And please don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying we shouldn't check corruption, but if we come to office and to power — I've been preaching for 40 years in this country and I've seen governments come and go, from CPP, my father's government, and NDC and NPP, they are here, I've seen them over the 40 years — and this thing where we come into office with vindictiveness and bitterness because of the way we've been mishandled and mistreated, and we target people to go after them, settle scores, I pray that during the reign of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, because of the fight and the betrayals and the suffering and the pain he went through to become president, he will not allow his presidency to be used by people who have problems with others and their opponents to settle scores, but that during his watch and his reign, that vicious cycle would be broken in the name of Jesus; that every Ghanaian, irrespective of your political party, if you're doing the right thing, you'll prosper», the founder of Action Chapel International (ACI) told his congregation on Sunday, 22 April.

But the conversion of the excellent report of the Sole Judgment Debt Commissioner into a political White Paper for electioneering purposes to be published under the supervision of the office of the Attorney - General demonstrates how low we have come in this country in terms of the only constitutionally established office within the executive branch which by hallowed tradition and practice is to defend and uphold the liberty of every individual and the rule of law in its quasi-judicial decision making process.

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.

Fitzpatrick, who has launched an investigation into Mayor Stephanie Miner and her political allies, can compel two lawyers from the city law office to testify, according to a copy of the judge's sealed ruling obtained by Syracuse.com.

There's more than can fit into «Inside Tim Russert's Office: If It's Sunday, It's «Meet the Press,»» the re-creation of the place where he prepared for his weekly hosting duties on NBC's premiere weekly political talk show.

But Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political consultant based in Manhattan, questioned whether it's possible for anyone to come into office and solve Nassau's financial problems.

He continued: «Contrary to governor Okorocha's claim that senator Araraume joined the APC just to contest for the office of the governor, the truth is that the senator was talked into joining the party by people who belong to certain political circles outside the reach of the governor.