Sentences with phrase «leading politicians»

However, this does not involve the sovereign in making a personal assessment of leading politicians since no major party could fight a general election without a recognised leader.

Most of our current leading politicians appear to have no idea what they're talking about.

What leading politician is going to step forward and tell us that it was all a big mistake?

Andrew Neil and the BBC's Economics Editor Robert Peston were joined by leading politicians to discuss the economy.

That reaction was also true of other leading politicians in the CDU and FDP and of Brandt and much of the SPD.

As he probed News International's extensive dealings with leading politicians over five premierships, extensive and sometimes cosy (Labour slumber parties, Tory country suppers and borrowed police horses), the judge detected «patterns of behaviour» suggesting that public policy decisions were also sometimes traded for favourable treatment in Fleet Street.

The late Hugo Young, Guardian journalist and keeper of political secrets, up to a point, kept detailed notes from many of the lunches he gave to leading politicians over 30 years.

One of the themes that Searle eludes to is the role of certain leading politicians who did not see themselves constrained by party loyalty.

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He was not the architect of the events that unfolded last week — opposition leaders seldom make the weather like that — but he has become the first leading politician in living memory to get up off his knees and challenge the malign hold Murdoch and his acolytes have on British politics.

executive director Richard Lloyd and Jo Coburn after they watched interviews with leading politicians on British relations with the EU.

The public are ready and willing for exactly this kind of left - wing intervention, where leading politicians do more than just whimper about their inability to interfere with the market.

Some of the country's most leading politicians, known as «tigers,» have been housed at the jail, sometimes referred to the «tiger's cage.»

An anti-crime mission met leading politicians in Ottawa and Statistics Canada recognized police - reported crime alone should not define «the national crime rate.»

At the behest of a couple of fanatical Frenchmen, leading politicians suggest that the government of the U.S. should punish a French citizen for something he did in France fifty - three years ago.

But Republican politicians and consultants seem to have contempt for conservative voters, which ironically leads politicians to say things that repel persuadable voters and do nothing to energize the conservative base.

Sir Albert Bore, Labour's leading politician at the local government level, is backing Mr Byrne for the mayoralty.

Stern and the undercover FBI agent led the politicians involved to believe that they were wealthy developers looking for to curry favor and would use their economic resources to help Smith bribe his way into City Hall in exchange for political favors that would pave the way for their upstate development projects.

The public often suspect leading politicians of promising one thing and then, at some stage in the future, reneging on that pledge and wriggling out of it.

Leading politicians like to use these big occasions to introduce new phrases to the Westminster lexicon, but this was rammed down Brighton's throat in a thoroughly overdone manner.

A former adviser to David Cameron has said none of Britain's leading politicians seem able to push through the changes in society needed to «radically decarbonise» the economy.

One of Northern Ireland's leading politicians visited BASC headquarters recently to give a talk to the association's elected Council.

Leading politicians espoused this course, President Eisenhower among them.

The trackers include good job / bad job questions for the party leaders and Gordon Brown, they also include a more general question on people's opinions of leading politicians asking if people have a positive or negative impression of that politician, and the politicians covered include Blair, Brown, Cameron and Campbell.

A similar pragmatism has come to overtake leading politicians who used to describe state - sponsored gambling as wrong - headed.

Daily Politics reporter Elizabeth Glinka looked into the archives at other profile calls when leading politicians were told it was time for them to go.

A row between London mayoral candidates Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone raised the issue of leading politicians offering full disclosure on their tax returns.

Indeed, seeing this film amidst the present climate, I doubt I'm the only one wishing that Tom Wilkinson's indefatigably incisive Richard Rampton QC might be put to work combating several leading politicians in Ms Lipstadt's modern - day America.

As the state's leading politicians attempt to hide the truth, public education advocate and fellow columnist Wendy Lecker has written another «MUST READ» column.

This disinformation and obfuscation campaign is only leading politicians to do little to try and combat climate change.

Andrew Neil and the BBC's Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys were joined by leading politicians to discuss education.

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Corbyn was the first leading politician to make me feel genuinely enthusiastic about the future.

The silence was deafening from New York's two leading politicians over the firing of their mutual nemesis — corruption - busting former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara.

By far the biggest concern is leading politicians who never had a «real» job outside politics and associated trades before becoming an MP.

In addition to anecdotal case studies, some Chinese stem - cell companies bolster their reputations by claiming to have connections with leading politicians and scientists.

The awards culminate in a glamorous black tie gala dinner that is attended by over 700 Western Australian business professionals from all industries, the state's leading politicians and other prominent personalities.

Alex Salmond, Scotland's leading politician, dismissed the warnings as «scare - mongering» and accused the British government of exploiting the news for political gain.

Apple doesn't have a corporate political action committee that gives to federal candidates, so Cook has acted as the company's ambassador to leading politicians.

«In this role I talk to leading politicians and cabinet ministers, I talk to university presidents, and they are all keenly aware that we have a productivity issue in this country,» Porter said following the meeting.

My last essay ended by noting that conservatives are told by many of their leading politicians and pundits that America's fundamental problem is that too many of their fellow citizens no longer understand its basic principles, of which liberty has pride of place.

Now, people who are asked whether they are apprentices of a leading politician, musician, lawyer or screenwriter would not need to think a second to respond.

But there is still very little fundamental theological reflection about the idolatry that commands the worship of most of the world's leading politicians, technicians, financiers, industrialists, and academicians.

Has your child's antics been any worse than our leading politicians?

Two of the UK's leading politicians will take questions from prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs next week.