Sentences with phrase «leading politicians do»

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.

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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.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

The efforts of Martin Schulz and other senior SPD politicians to gain an advantage over their political competitors by leading a hardline anti-Trump campaign do not appear to have had any significant effect on the SPD's standing in the polls.

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.

I hear ya, maybe we can do that with politicians that lead us to war on a lie, and business elite that bankrupt our nation too?

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.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

The hypothetical (and it is a very, very extreme one, not a prediction) would involve Harriet Harman or someone else leading Labour, while A.N.Other politician, with whom the Liberal Democrats felt they could do business, acting as the head of a coalition government.

It is the politician that takes the lead on this that will earn the respect and confidence of business and the wider public - and the politician that can do that is the one who will win votes and restore confidence in Britain's economy.

Yet, voters are doing what politicians have failed to do and states are taking the lead.

Thus, although the election of François Mitterrand was welcomed by the intellectual left, it did not lead to its reconciliation with politicians and the state.2 In practice, intellectuals never found much in common with the policies implemented by the socialist government and by the time Mitterrand's economic policy U-turn occurred in 1983, the cleavage became ever so apparent and intellectuals resumed to disapproval.

«I think he's just a weak politician who was led astray by some rather nasty advisers and didn't have the guts to stand up to them.

The politicians and the media don't really know as much as the people pushing the buttons do [humanists], so they are almost unwitting accomplices in breaking down barriers which will eventually lead to people being more vulnerable than they are today.

Those who did respond offered a variety of thoughts; many said they had resisted limits because they believe a ban on outside income would lead to a chamber full of career politicians.

Like business leaders, they judge that Labour has moved to the Left, and that leading Labour politicians don't really mean it when they say they are pro-business.

We need more politicians to get out there and lead as they did in New York — whether that means being a driving force like Gov. Andrew Cuomo or sticking your neck out like four GOP senators here.

But the reality is that the politicians who make it to the top invariably do so by leading, not following, their party members.

`' The likes of Kwesi Pratt, Kwame Sefa Kanyi, Adakabre, Kweku Baako, Kaba; if these leading journalists and others in the country stop taking bribes and soli from politicians and do their work professionally, we will progress.»

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.

Calling for firms to «show a lead», the South African - born politician hinted that a failure to do so could lead to higher taxes.

A hung parliament would «lead to a sort of stagnation to a sort of haggling and a bickering among politicians and we won't get done what so badly needs to be done in our country».

Total Politics also looks at a British politician who leads the way on European - wide financial and monetary legislation but who doesn't get the same attention as many politicians based in Westminster.

So, Labour can not win in 2020 no matter who is leading it — they do not possess anywhere in their senior level any politicians that have the gravitas that Osborne, May or Johnson have (one of those three will lead the tories for GE2020) and nor do they have a financial message (left or right) that the voters find superior to what the tories are offering.

Do we want politicians who will come and enact good laws for us;... Or we want politicians who are abusive of their elders, who are intimidating, who use voodoo, who will hire people to intimidate us or politicians who will use violent means that lead to death?

«After four decades of back room deals and the culture of corruption that led to the well deserved conviction of Shelly Silver, the voters of the 65th Assembly district don't want another professional politician who is a product of the same Democratic clubhouses that gave us Shelly Silver, «he said during his acceptance speech.

In so doing, he came of age as a leading politician.

Whereas, Rhodri Morgan was happy to abandon Westminster for Cardiff, no leading Labour politician from Scotland was willing to do likewise.

If Liam Byrne is so agreeved, why doesn't he think about why his stance over the Bedroom Tax lead to «Scottish» Labour politician after «Scottish» Labour politician receive ritual beatings by pro-Independence supporters on the Scottish Media.

So do many other senior politicians, who see the MITI plan as not only essential for lifting the Japanese economy out of its present slump, but also as a way of ensuring a technological lead in the 21st century.

Biotechnology from A to Z (Oxford University Press, pp 358, Pounds Sterling 12.50 pbk) does just that, and should be on the shelves of anyone with an interest in biotechnology, from environmental activists and bench scientists of all disciplines to chief executives of multinational corporations and leading politicians.

The fact that he did so while providing information to the FBI, and having a younger brother who was one of the leading politicians in the state, speaks to the strange complexity of his story.

Those of us who undertake school - led teacher training, or represent providers which do, are being increasingly consulted by politicians, policy - makers and civil servants on solutions to issues around teacher recruitment and retention.

But, thanks to our member - led committees, industry coalitions and public - private partnerships, PIJAC does much more than just talk to politicians.

However, the combination of dog - fighting history, the corruption of the type as a guardian for criminal activity, and the frantic rush of politicians to «do something» to assuage hysteria have led to a general condemnation of the dog, whether one of the above purebreds, crossbred, or mixed breed.

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

One leading scientist recently argued that a discussion of evolution is necessary because a politician who doesn't believe in evolution won't heed scientists on any other issue either, but this is demonstrably untrue.

Try leading for a while, if folks would only think for themselves instead of letting «hollywood enamored scientists» «pandering politicians with hidden agendas» and «media driven marketing machines» do it for them.

I also don't share former Scientific American editor John Rennie's confidence that politicians, led by public conern, will someday set their agendas based on the «objective facts» on climate risk.

Indeed, a disbelief in evolution, distressing as that is, doesn't even lead politicians to question research spending in biology.

«Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen.

: Scientists at a leading British climate research centre had a culture of withholding information from global warming sceptics but did not deliberately manipulate data to support their case, politicians said today

That they have ALL failed to do so, in so uniformly spectacular a way, would lead one to suppose that either: a) They are incompetent modellers, as any accountant / marketing executive / politician / consultant with half a brain can make an Excel speadsheet prove anything he wants.

When it comes to the politicians, I agree there is no debate, but there are scientists that truly do reach the conclusions that lead them to the conclusions that CO2 does cause warming.

It is also commonly held that politicians who wish to lead will do well to follow the people.

Her death has led many to question why there are not separated bike lanes; the usual response from the politicians and the engineers is that there isn't enough room, that you can not give bikes their own lanes without taking something away from cars, and they don't do that in Toronto.

A passive response that calls to the integrity of the media can only lead to a worsened understanding among the public and so a weakened pressure on politicians...» Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place».

If we would suggest to change it back all of a sudden in 2050 (of instance), this probably would lead to yet another argument of economists and therefore politicians not to do anything.

Politicians everywhere don't lead public opinion, they follow it, and when public opinion says go green, even right wing Australians ban incandescents.