Sentences with phrase «minds of politicians»

Costs in clinical negligence claims continue to be as much of a drain on the minds of politicians

The world is not flat; only in the minds of the politicians in charge of the Ontario energy portfolio!

It poisoned the minds of politicians who acted with hubris and paranoia.

Gordon Brown reportedly reclassified cannabis as a Class B narcotic in a bid to win favour with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre and the reaction of tabloids has been a dominant force in the minds of politicians when they refrain from having the debate over drug policy.

According to him, the action of the section of pensioners was politically motivated and a bid to execute the minds of some politicians, at a time when the state is organizing a bye - election.

Intolerance is in the «sick mind of politicians and the dirty blood of criminals,» Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando said.

Not exact matches

Still, Canada's politicians should keep in mind that uncertainty about trade policy is weighing on business investment, and therefore murmurs of trade wars will do nothing to build confidence.

Money laundering and tax evasion are clearly issues that weigh on the minds of bureaucrats and politicians alike.

If USA rights do not extend beyond the USA then why does your government pass laws that explicitly (at least in the minds of USA politicians) apply in the USA * and * all other countries?

And politicians, recognizing that America has so many mindless zombies willing to believe that a higher power guides everything from who they marry to what they eat for breakfast, use this game of mind control to sway these gullible voters over to their cause.

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.

Yes, I know that God can use all sorts of methods to bring people into the Kingdom, but as this sign shows, door to door evangelists are lumped together in most people's minds with door to door salesmen and door - knocking politicians.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things that, as it were, «off the political table» and will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?»

Hundreds of people attended and even more stood at the gates waiting to get in — a 300 person limit had been placed on the gathering — as politicians, city officials, interfaith leaders and activists spoke from the steps telling Mayor Bloomberg why he should change his mind.

The skillful mind and fingers of the surgeon who relieves human suffering, the plodding work of the politician who wades through the mud of political compromise to hold a city or a world together, the honest workmanship of the manual laborer or the creative artist — all of these are more indispensable to the Kingdom than the purest religious intention which will not stain itself with worldly action.

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

By all means, let churches become a place where like - minded individuals can strategize and hear to politicians of their choice stump for votes — just don't do it on my dime.

Politicians in Scotland, for example, have pursued a «hearts and minds» campaign to re-educate society on its understanding of sexuality; will a Scottish state rather than a United Kingdom state make that more or less likely to continue.

The internet revolution of the mid-1990s, the mushrooming of partnerships and of informal transnational governance networks (grouping multibillion dollar foundations, like - minded politicians, NGOs, representatives of the world of finance, enterprises, academics...), globalisation under all its forms and the decentralisation and regionalisation strategy of the UN effectively brought the global agenda to the regional, national and local levels.

But lawyers and politicians long ago realized they could make a profit, you know, by captivating part of the mind in certain people who's minds didn't have good sense, and made them start believe all kinds of crazy things.

So it's not that atheists are unlimited in what they can do — it's more like the mind is unlimited, and atheists are using more of the mind and not damaging it with make - believe stuff that some lawyers and politicians tried to sell to us.

The influence of Hinduism on the social and religious life of Adivasis has been considerable, particularly in the last 10 - 15 years... the BJP and other Hindu organizations such as the Mandir, the Arya Samaj, saints and sadhus, and some Adivasi politicians have succeeded in inculcating the Hindutva RSS, the ABVP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Shena, the Hindu Milan ideology in the minds of the Adivasi people?

We would have been out of our minds — to use the Schleiermacher phrase — had we failed to pay attention to politicians like Jimmy Carter, whose politics developed out of the same nitty - gritty: «To an amazing degree the lives of both black and white Southerners have been centered around the church.

«Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things that, as it were, «off the political table» and will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?»

It will push believers into the arms of the narrow - minded, bigoted politicians.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

This is something to keep in mind as Australia contemplates an Asian export market for northern Australia produce, the «foodbowl of Asia» model peddled by politicians in distant Canberra.

Bell admits she wasn't coming from an open - minded place when she started writing the screenplay (she chose a contract of seven years is because she heard about German politician Gabriele Pauli's call for a renewable seven - year contract in 2007).

But what comes through the pages of Hearts and Minds is Oliver's ability to carry out substantial research to get at the truth of how to implement or change policy, and impartiality to motivate able people — politicians, civil servants and business types to enthusiastically help him.

Possible problems with democracy that come to my mind are from the Public Choice literature and other economic models of voters and politicians.

It never crossed politicians» minds that they were changing the system: fully understanding the reality of MPLA domination, they were actually doing the opposite.

Many of these career - minded politicians, determined to stick with their man as a way of rising through the ranks rapidly, have been frustrated by Miliband's disinterest in creating a powerful faction.

Britain is not in the midst of a massive populist surge in the way that Tony Blair and other centrist - minded politicians and commentators think.

The party's strident, single - minded position suggests to me that most Labour politicians either do not realise or do not care about the political implications of the referendum campaign.

Mind you, there are a lot of bad politicians.

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She also defended her change of heart by insisting that people were more irritated by politicians who refuse to change their minds about an issue.

Over the course of the last year, there has been a quiet injection of talent and cash into both new and established think tanks with a clear goal in mind: to come up with radical solutions to major problems that politicians can actually implement.

No doubt all politicians keep the party implications of political reforms in mind but Labour's own partisan interests, particularly representing 41 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, would appear to be playing a significant role in the party's difficulty in articulating any coherent view about England's place in the evolving constitution of the United Kingdom.

After a superficially worthy iteration of that now trite sentiment of British politicians, public intellectuals and commentators that national pride needs to be «reclaimed» from the «small - minded» and the «racist», the following 21 pages provided a tour de force in national chest - thumping that could barely do more to put its small - mindedness and contempt for the rest of the world front and centre.

«This shows how depraved a politician's mind can be when he'll use a tragedy as part of a fundraising pitch.»

Glen Oaks Village President Bob Friedrich said his experience as a civic leader will translate well to the City Council, which he says needs to be infused with civic - minded people like himself instead of career politicians.

The book, «Hearts and Minds: The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present», will aim to «persuade the reader that politicians are capable of recognising their mistakes and learning from them» according to the publicity blurb.

Keep that in mind the next time some politician says Donald Trump Jr. is guilty of treason because he met with some Russian, or Preet Bharara takes a swipe at the president.

Mainstream politicians claim voters want them to focus on immigration — and when they do, the issue is further reinforced in the minds of voters.

He urged politicians to be open minded to accept defeat and victory with humility and that they should work together for the overall good of the people of Bayelsa State, who firstly, came out of their goodwill to vote for them not withstanding who emerges as the loser or victor.

As a result of this and the various broken promises or ditched campaigns, Clegg — who rode high in 2010 on his promises to bring a «new style of politics» has simply confirmed a perception in the mind of the electorate that politicians can't be trusted.

But you won't hear a senior leader of the state Independence Party — which espouses those high - minded views on its Web site — utter one critical word about the disgraceful behavior of politicians in Albany, because he's holding down a $ 100,000 - a-year job working for Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger.

Any serious minded politician that is interested in his people should not be talking about 2019 especially if we want to be honest with ourselves, some of the expectations of our people have not been met.

What matters more, in the end, is ability, the presence of mind not to scream in fear every time you appear in front of the dispatch box, and that indefinable charisma sported by politicians such as Blair and Clinton.