Sentences with phrase «man of the people»

All three main party leaders are desperate to portray themselves as men of the people, especially when energy bills are the only show in town.

Jeremy Corbyn has reinforced his «man of the people credentials» — by spending three hours sitting...

A real man of the people.

The chief priests and scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him; but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people hung upon his words.»

The paper wrote: «Man of the people Dave forgot to mention that he was taken along by his uncle, Sir William Dugdale, who just happened to be the Villa chairman at the time».

With Eric Pickles campaigning insight, with his «man of the people demeanour» and with his undoubted management skills, as we head into General Election territory, Cameron would be mad not to put him in charge of Central Office.

Paladino also released a video, «Behind the Scenes,» featuring himself and supporters that seeks to portray him as a thoughtful, sensitive man of the people needed by a state in crisis gripped by professional politicians.

While at first Ida appears to be a hard - working man of the people, very soon he is realized to be slightly insane and genocidal.

Academy Award ® - winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people.

Daniel Day Lewis» portrayal of the man as a softly spoken, thoughtful man of the people is extremely watchable, although Tommy Lee Jones puts in a scene stealing performance as a radical political firebrand and James Spader adds more character and some mild comic relief as one of Lincoln's back room «fixers».

It's the usual profile of Prince's duality as man of the people and cultural elitist with scenes of the artist eating burgers at the post office / diner in town.

Jeremy Corbyn has reinforced his «man of the people credentials» — by spending three hours sitting on the floor of a packed train.

He added: «I think also the Labour campaign has been brilliant, it's outshone the Tories, Jeremy Corbyn has come across as a real man of the people and a real leader.

Santa is only in our heads, it makes me wonder how man of you people weren't told that as a child.

Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canuck.

Though personally cold and aloof, he takes pains to appear in public clad as a man of the people — that is, without a jacket or tie.

Is this Pope's «man of the people» approach (which I think is sincere) what is needed to appeal to the biggest growth potential, poor in Africa and Asia?

Just a man of the people looking out for the little guy.

He was a man of the people.

Mitt's problem, besides not having been a conviction conservative all along, is that he is not exactly a man of the people.

One showed humility, the other arrogance; one practiced sincerity, the other hypocrisy; one made efforts at cultivating unity, the other seemed to delight at encouraging division: and one succeeded in becoming more and more a man of the people, while the other, despite his harsh populist appeals, has grown more distant.

On the contrary, it made him seem a «man of the people» who was concerned about «lowering his carbon footprint,» etc..

Their greatest influence over the decades has been in Brazil, and Brazil has now elected as president a man of the people, who understands the structure of capitalist oppression.

I don't want a «born - again» «man of the people» running this country.

A man of the people, an intellectual, a man of pastoral care, a man of determination and an ability to ignore the fear which sent the adrenalin racing through his body so often, was becoming someone to be reckoned with.

Unlike the rav of traditional Rabbinism, the zaddik, or rebbe, was at once a saint, dwelling with God in the solitude of the mountain - tops, and a man of the people, transforming his mysticism into ethos and bringing it to the community in the valley below.

I'm a man of the people.

CP3 is truly a man of the people, no ifs, ands or butts about it.

It's not a high bar, at all, but by not being some self - serious golf robot, this is how you end up getting labeled a «man of the people» while wearing gators and making $ 50 - plus million a year.

Mark Cuban is definitely one of the more popular owners in the NBA, as his antics have certainly made him a man of the people.

«If a lot of people don't know about Richard Petty, then Richard Petty is nothing,» he says, «so I've had to become more of a man of the people.»

He is, and always has been, a man of the people - one of that generation of Liberals for whom grassroots «community politics» was always a more effective way of getting things done than the formality and flummery of parliamentary procedure.

Harold Wilson used to smoke a pipe, even though he preferred cigars, to show he was a man of the people.

It was most certainly heavily used by known ancient rulers - from Persian emperors who left behind what was clearly fictitious accounts of themselves, to Cleon of Athens; from Alexander the Great's mom claiming he was a product of an affair with a god to Augustus who commissioned art to portray himself as humble and a man of the people.

Despite this fact, he has been portrayed as «man of the people» with constant emphasis on his humble origins.

He wants you to believe he is a man of the people, Really John!?

Donny Deutsch claims that unlike Mitt Romney, Mayor Bloomberg, while also rich, is a «man of the people.»

Cameron, ever the man of the people, appeared at a press conference the next day with an answer he seemed to have learned by rote.

* President Mahama lived in his bungalow for 8 years as Vice President and President without demanding for an upgrade or renovation of his private residence because he is a man of the people and the voice of the ordinary.

He is regarded as belonging to the «nationalist» wing of the party in power and a man of the people.

But its brazen projection under Jonathan earned a furious, mass censure, akin to the Achebe quip, in A Man of the People: folks just stole too much for the owner not to notice!

how on earth is he so far out of touch with the people that he can not see that we absolutely love Jeremy... he is a man of the people and he will prevail.