Sentences with phrase «more about the politician»

Prompted by the discovery of an old tweet sent by Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, we ask if belief in homeopathy says a lot more about a politician than simply suggesting they may be a tad eccentric.

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Those sorts of questions are much more interesting and useful than questions about whether a particular politician should accept paid speaking engagements, and certainly more important than the borderline silly question of whether money that was accepted in good faith ought to be paid back.

Many politicians on both sides of the aisle are raising questions about Facebook following revelations about its role in the 2016 election and, more recently, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Gorsuch has said that if judges factor in personal beliefs, societal changes or calculations about maximizing social welfare, they risk becoming «little more than politicians with robes.»

«In my life, I have never been more excited about any politician than I am about Barack Obama,» he said in the organization's announcement.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

We might soon learn more about the controversial U.S. government surveillance scandal that has privacy advocates, news organizations, politicians and others up in arms.

But if you're looking for more hints that The Rock is beginning to seriously consider a presidential run, his comments to Fallon about why people were looking to him as a possible candidate certainly sound like those of a politician.

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.

We can talk about all the bad players (lenders, politicians, greedy investors, etc...) that contributed to this period in history, but personal responsibility would more accurately hit the mark.

But America has become resistant to doing anything about this issue, in large part due to a decades - long public campaign by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms and that more guns will actually make people safer, contrary to what the research says.

«Central bankers know that QE can't go on forever and are talking more about handing the baton back to politicians,» says Graham McDonald, head of private equity at Aberdeen Investment Management in London.

excerpt: «My Indo - American friend made a few other observations about the coverage that we're seeing, which is that he's not actually being treated poorly over there, and it's more that certain politicians and business leaders don't want to be associated with members of the Indian Cabinet, which is controversial in large swaths of Indian society.

I suspect that in India — as opposed to here in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it, as an eccentric but friendly gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.

In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change, but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy.

And if you want to talk about self - interest, just watch politicians jump on any bandwagon of crisis, to impose more fees, levies, taxes and control on the marketplace.

Both politicians ran into trouble because they didn't really know very much about the people they were trying to explain, having much more in common with the ones they were speaking to.

But is there a person left in the United States who thinks that politicians care more about justice than about pandering for the next election?

But it makes people more cynical than they already are» cynical about politicians, and cynical about newspapers» and cynicism corrodes the cynical, even when they have reason to be, and for that the Washington Post bears responsibility.

And as for, Sarah Palin, while I admit that she's not my favorite politician in the world, I might watch it, to «learn» a bit more about her, to see if my «assumptions» about her are correct, or wrong, or something else.

Perhaps just as interesting is that while evangelicals care less about a politician's infidelity today, most other groups are actually starting to care more.

I think it makes a little more sense to pay attention to this for the higher offices, such as the presidency, because it's hard to really learn about these big politicians that are so far from our everyday lives.

Bachmann and Perry represent the worst of what our politicians offer and learning more about the other remaining Republican candidates can only be a good thing.

What's even more ridiculous about Fundamentalists is their braying about the truth of the Bible while their politicians make mincemeat out of history.

The Vatican's expressed «great concern» about corruption in Italy, after allegations the mafia, politicians... More

It would be easier for politicians who are our allies to speak effectively about the issue, and they would find a more sympathetic audience.

«If they go back and take the cardinal from Milano, there is a possibility he will be a little more of a politician, get along better, be less concerned about sex sins, but he is part of the corporation.

About half (52 percent) say politics would be more civil if politicians read the Bible more.

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

It may sound funny but think about it... if politicians and CEO's did the same thing more or less - there would be peace on earth in a fortnight.

His «constant gripe» about American politicians was that they were «stupider, prouder, more self - righteous, more moralistic, more vain - glorious than the American people on whose behalf they spoke.»

There are, of course, good things being done by politicians at Holyrood and Westminster so it is not just about mitigating the bad but about making a choice which may allow more good to flourish.

Its a bad thing for a politician to more concerned about ABOUT THE ECONOMY than friggin the Earth'sabout ABOUT THE ECONOMY than friggin the Earth'sABOUT THE ECONOMY than friggin the Earth's age.

Rather than talking about marginal tax rates — which few people fully understand — savvy politicians should support a law that would state that no citizen can be compelled to give more than half of his annual income to any government entity.

Obama said that we must use people's power, for he knows more about how to use them as a politician's arms but knows less about how to power his people right way.

[After some back and forth Mr Cassidy tries to explain to Senator Xenophon, who seems hung up on the fact that nobody from the ACCC attended the previous day's hearings (perhaps forgetting that while politicians seem to have all the time in the world talking about things they don't understand, the ACCC has other commitments), that he really doesn't have a clue what he's talking about; he was a little more dignified than that though]

Herculez Gomez immediately reacted to the tweet, asking the politician to «spend less time thinking about my name and more time helping the people from Puebla».

Everyday people complain about how politicians and bankers and... get all the money and flash it with their cars and bla bla and do nt care about people, money is not everything, the world is beocming to hateful, full of wars, we need more peace and friendship bla bla, and then when a guy like Conor shows up they apploud him for his childish and fake rants and show offs.

Although nearby suburbs like Orland Park and Calumet City continue to attract new retailers, Miller said, the politicians in Markham are more concerned about the size of their paychecks.

No matter that the purple - powder - condom chucked across the House of Commons remains a recent memory, and that super-heroes intermittently scramble over public buildings, Westminster's politicians have begun thinking about active fatherhood as more than a «divorced dad» thing.

That «duct tape and baling wire» line puts the power of political data into a broader context (i.e., NO technology works perfectly), and it's a good antidote to some of the more - breathless speculation about the future power of big data to let manipulative politicians warp the political process through hyper - targeted communications.

Any politician can rattle on about ending austerity - and by god, politicians of all stripes do these days - but there needs to be more.

When people complain about «professional politicians», they are talking about a generation of parliamentarians who struggle to assemble a showreel from more than a decade on the frontbenches.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

She thinks parliament could spend its time much more effectively than «politicians talking about politicians».

Only about 5 % of taxpayers choose the $ 3 check off for public campaign funding (which is about $ 23 million per year because there are about 150 million 1040 tax returns filed each year), but public television, radio, the NEA and the NEH might get closer to the 25 - 27 % percent participation that the check off got when it was started (bringing the take to perhaps $ 115 million a year), because their programming is probably more popular than campaign funding for politicians.

He asked how important SDG5 was to the general public claiming that since politicians have to talk up popular issues to get elected they would talk about SDG5 more if it was a widespread concern to people.

«There's no doubt about it: if we want living wage jobs, stronger hospitals and schools, more affordable rents, lower property taxes, a cleaner environment, and a state government that actually gets things done, politicians like Pedro Espada have got to go.»

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.

See also Sandi's previous pieces on A Politician's Role in the Twitterverse here, here and here, as well as a few more thoughts about PopVox.