Sentences with phrase «kind of politician»

A new kind of politician could do something with that.

That's just the kind of politician he is.

James Inhofe is exactly the kind of politician that has stopped any meaningful action of climate change in the United States.

His willingness to stand up to the baiting brought what was then a flailing candidacy visibility, defining him as a different kind of politician, unembarrassed about his modern family.

«He is exactly the kind of politician voters are tired of.»

Rice is the worst kind of politician there is.

A different kind of politician in a very different party, the flamboyant and extrovert Nigel Farage MEP, former leader of UKIP, has written his autobiography Fighting Bull.

That's just the kind of politician Cuomo is — an ultra-cynical lying snake who does things like help Republicans keep control of the state Senate, or lie about why Port Authority tolls are being raised, or get in a pissing match with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio out of pure spite.

Davey was never the kind of politician to really electrify voters — and he's succumbed to a Tory campaign in Kingston and Surbiton which left him comprehensively unplugged.

16:12 - Now Clegg is being laughed down by the opposition, when he suggests that the reformed Lords will be the home for «a new kind of politician».

It's tempting to cast Clement's attendance at every graduation and rubber duck race in his riding as the labours of a man who knows what it feels like to be unloved by constituents, but he's always been that kind of politician.

Most of the time, they've been so - called «values voters» who demanded that their leaders be people of faith, committed to traditional moral principles, and the kind of politicians who stand up for the 10 Commandments.

Recent years have seen all kinds of politicians from outside the Con - Lab - Lib Dem mainstream scoring well.

The kind of politicians John Kennedy wrote about in «Profiles in Courage» were in the arena.

Not exact matches

So the politicians just kind of ignore the evidence and carry on talking like Canada is on the verge of a recession.

Sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation, PutinCon was the first event of its kind — a meeting of dissidents and journalists; of people who've been robbed by the Kremlin; of former soldiers who've seen too much; of prosecutors and politicians who know too much; of Russians and Europeans and Americans (North and South) who had enough of Putin's interference and violence.

«Canadians might not like them as politicians — they may not vote for them because they're too conservative on social issues — but they're not the kind of governors that make trouble for Canada.»

And that's exactly the kind of thing we've come to expect from politicians.

What kind of message has our Chief Magistrate passed on to Toronto voters about politics and politicians at City Hall?

If you can get your local politician representative to kind of sponsor you with the Department of Energy, then things seem to move a little bit quicker.

A sarcastic tweet from Gabe Rivera, the founder of the technology news aggregator Techmeme, put one of the main risks fairly well — namely, that pieces published by politicians and political groups on Medium won't get nearly the kind of oversight and fact - checking that newspaper opinion pieces do.

Not just on the basketball side, but with connections to business people, connections to politicians — the kind of connections that most people garner when they're in college, that scholarship athletes don't typically avail themselves of.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

«What matters and should matter to politicians and people who believe in the kind of values that I believe the National Citizens» Coalition share and the Reform Party share is not whether the Canadian state prospers, but whether the Canadian people and the land we call Canada prosper.»

Added Elmgren in an email to Canadian politicians: «This is the kind of act one expects from the Taliban in Afganistan, not from the government of a civilized and educated nation.»

After the backlash, Trump issued a rare conciliatory statement and spoke to Panamanian press, insisting that he was simply criticizing the negotiating abilities of American politicians and that «if I were from Panama, I'd try and make the same kind of a deal, I respect that.»

Every time a politician asked how Facebook was planning to clean up inappropriate content from the site or stop bad actors from creating fake accounts, Zuckerberg said Facebook is building more AI «tools» to stop those kinds of things.

Nobody knows exactly how the referendum will be worded, or right now whether there even will be a referendum, because, as you also noted earlier, the other politicians in Greece are now jockeying for position and are trying to get rid of Papandreou and to replace him, in a very opportunistic mood, to prevent any kind of a referendum happening at all.

But is you don't have the kind of cash lying around that it takes to bribe high level politicians (i.e millions), you are middle class.

«It's kind of hypocritical of him to go there after saying so many politicians bow to the NRA and are owned by them,» Hogg said.

His long political career has demonstrated a kind of political longevity and stamina that not many Alberta politicians can claim to have.

This opens the door to all kinds of dubious actions on the part of politicians, including — to my point today — capital controls.

The more educated one becomes the less religious one is... when you see educated politicians and professional people of all kinds talking religiousness it's lip service for the ignorant... it's part of their job... other wise there's trouble from the little people.

We have to write to our politicians and let them know that we do not want this kind of trash in our country.

politicians go against their supposed religious rules all the time; looking at how they voted on previous issues is the only way to tell what kind of person they are.

And one may, without being unpleasant about it, note that the mainstream media and the scientific establishment who beat the drums for the necessity of killing embryos in order, they said, to find cures for all kinds of illnesses, along with politicians who agitated for multibillion - dollar referendums in California, Missouri, and New Jersey, were, not to put too fine a point on it, dead wrong.

According to Nathan Hatch, professor of American religious history at the University of Notre Dame, this kind of populist sentiment - expressed in 1803 by the New England politician and polemicist Benjamin Austin, Jr. - represents the salient contribution of American religion to the formation of our cultural ethos.

So the «pro-lifers» are against abortion as a legally medical form of «murder», but then vote for politicians in our USA who promote war and all kinds of both domestic and foreign policies that lead to the death of millions of already born humans.

This kind of thinking takes the fear out of the politicians minds as they are making incredibly ridiculous decidions in Washington, decisions that harm me (the one working and paying the taxes) and only benefit them.

That's because faith in people, moreso in politicians, is the worse kind of faith.

When our identity is tied up in a certain politician, we find it hard to hear any kind of argument against that politician's words.

Recently, politicians and theorists have been striving to revive a liberal politics that is not about «identity,» especially not the kind of identity displayed on liberal college campuses.

Clergymen and politicians had to grapple with this to retain any kind of credibility.

The Saudi rulers — clergy, politicians, and capitalists — have embarked on a kind of perverse modernization that limits the social progress that comes with modernity but encourages the modern love of gain that Muslims traditionally have condemned.

So after seeking to meet with politicians and continually being turned away, some of us «God botherers» decided that we'd pay them a visit, and I guess refused to leave (in the most amiable, respectable kind of way) until we got an answer on when these children will be released.

These contributors are intentionally not, well, the kinds of people that some evangelicals distrust (media, politicians, etc.).

History may be much more kind to him than our current crop of politicians.

The politicians pad their pockets with lush millionaires salaries for life and one of a kind pork healthcare all the while talking about fiscal responsibility.

But if money now becomes the only basis for access of any kind — religious, educational, political — to radio and television outlets, within a few years only the largest and wealthiest electronic evangelists (and teachers and politicians) will be able to stay on the air.

This was the kind of immigration compromise — allegedly humane and moderate — favored by such politicians as Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Marco Rubio.