Sentences with phrase «more of a statesman»

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Anyone concerned to know more about the vagaries of such statesmen as the Reverend Winrod may turn to page 142 where an appendix of anti-Semites is published for the benefit of fanciers of Americana.

Fathers especially can take as their model the patron of statesmen, St Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England in the 16th century, who was once described in The Sunday Times newspaper as «the most saintly of humanists, and the most human of saints».13

«The traditional burial of poets, statesmen and great national figures, and indeed kings and queens, has actually ceased... partly because you couldn't find any more room for the bodies,» Carpenter said.

More than a century ago, Dutch statesman Abraham Kuyper coined the term «sphere sovereignty» to account for the diverse forms of community found in the mature society.

There are several key players and extreme positions within the movement and the government: Prime Minister Harper, Chief Teresa Spence as an icon of the Idle No More young revolutionaries, drum circles, elders, statesmen, chiefs, passionate youth, and also the brilliant Shawn Atleo as head of the Assembly of First Nations.

The «church - system» looks more like the «filling - station system,» and the clergy in their varieties of responsibility and excellence seem most to resemble democratic political leaders — from town selectmen to governors, from demagogues to statesmen, from ward heelers to national party leaders.

One thinks of William Temple, who in more ways than one deserved the phrase humorously applied to him in early days, «not one, but all mankind in effigy,» 46 Those who think of him first of all as philosopher, Christian socialist, ecumenical statesman, or evangelist should remember that it was the priesthood of the Church of England to which his life was primarily devoted, and by its traditions that he was inspired.

Though Wenger is clearly more renowned for bringing in youthful additions he is not averse to strengthening his squad with the signing of elder statesman on short - term deals and may well feel that chance to land Malouda on what would surely be a nominal fee is a move well worth making.

Gabi (7): It seems odd that the elder statesman of the Atleti midfield is not the player chosen to sit deepest to conserve his energy, but Diego Simeone seemingly prefers for his captain to be more involved in the attack.

However the New Statesman has now cast the net a little wider with some more examples of the political airbrush albeit in their «David Cameron: Supermodel» post.

«Many quiet, moderate members don't attend meetings at the best of times and are even more put off in the current climate,» a Labour MP told the New Statesman.

We need more generalist hubs (and this might be New Statesman / Guardian type spaces, as well as political hub spaces) to try to make relevant specialist information accessible to general audiences, in the way that some of what we do here tries to do.

Maybe this is his strategy — stay out of the last leadership race — it's likely to produce a dud, get the position of party chairman, make challenging powerful speeches and articles (he has identified the English democratic defecit, Toque, in his New Statesman article, which is about the best on the issue from any MP see: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/08/labour-party-english-england), make more of a public name for himself, then stand when the prospects of victory are real.

The future direction of Labour is set out clearly by Owen Smith, who recently in the New Statesman, described the reforms as a «historic attempt to make Labour a true people's party once more».

He told the New Statesman he views Miliband as «polite and nice», a member of the «soft left» of the Labour party and who is «instinctively a bit more pluralistic than most Labour leaders and a bit more internationalist as well».

More scathing was the verdict of New Statesman correspondent Stephen Bush: «Something v charming about Williamson's leadership bid, which he approaches in the manner of a 14 - year - old who's read a self - help dating book... Now I will initiate Stage 2: the airing of the sex scandal!»

Assuming the role of the elder statesman, Mr Blair warned the Conservative leader not to be «cocky» after his local election success, which saw the Conservatives win more than 800 new council seats.

Globally, the tide has turned, and ever more prominent statesmen and women are calling for an end to the failed war on drugs and its replacement with models of legal regulation based on science, public health and human rights principles.

He'll be shown to be much more of a calculating politician than a visionary statesman.

As the New Statesman has just tweeted, the vote of one MP is 608 times more valuable than the vote of a grassroots member in Labour's union - heavy electoral college.

Paul Mason and Chuka Umunna would normally be expected to come up with radically different proposals with regard to Labour's policies, yet they are putting forward more or less the same solutions to the most pressing problem underlying Brexit, that of Free Movement of Labour (FML), Mason in an article in the New Statesman, Umunna in -LSB-...]

But then I had spent an evening on Guinness at the Irish embassy party, more champagne at Geoffrey Robinson's second New Statesman party of the week and several bottles of a hearty Italian amarone at dinner before returning to the Midland for my cap de nuit.

APC in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Tuesday by its Director of Media, Research and Strategy, Dr. AbdulAzeez Olatunde said that it would have been more interesting to have Senator Ladoja among the gubernatorial candidates for the 2019 election, noting that the path towed by the former governor not to contest was also an honourable one being an elder statesman.

Part of me feels like Stark should have taken the place of the absent Nick Fury in this film, more elder statesman than rival leader.

The change in her character to a more clued - up elder statesman ensures that Mirren joins the ranks of unlikely screen detectives — think Frances McDormand in Fargo — and her inquisitive nature and intuition ensure that she's a formidable foe for the brutish men.

The Statesman recently reported that Austin ISD and Pflugerville ISD will be partnering with Teach for America to address the issue of high teacher turnover in low - income schools and to recruit more teachers of color.

[1] The semi-sports suspension is stiffened compared to the Statesman, Holden refer to the more sporting suspension as «FE1.5», sitting halfway between their standard suspension tune and the «FE2» suspension tune of their sports models.

Alien: Isolation is the multi-award-winning first - person survival horror game with end of year awards from PC Gamer, Official Xbox Magazine, Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, IGN, Destructoid, Official PlayStation Magazine (UK), Time Magazine, New Statesman, The Guardian, Game Reactor (Germany, Sweden, Finland), Games Radar, Edge Magazine and many more.

More than 30 years pass over the course of the show, beginning with such influential elder statesmen as Barkley Hendricks — whose striking late 1970s portraits blend classical tradition and Pop Art with seldom - seen African - American subjects — and Robert Colescott — whose wildly satirical takes on racial stereotypes in the 1980s get still more edge from his vibrantly expressionist brMore than 30 years pass over the course of the show, beginning with such influential elder statesmen as Barkley Hendricks — whose striking late 1970s portraits blend classical tradition and Pop Art with seldom - seen African - American subjects — and Robert Colescott — whose wildly satirical takes on racial stereotypes in the 1980s get still more edge from his vibrantly expressionist brmore edge from his vibrantly expressionist brush.

For more overtly political work, there's a punchy installation of sculptures by the Amsterdam - based Folkert de Jong at James Cohan, with figures of ghoulishly melting, candy - colored American statesmen — Benjamin Franklin; Abraham Lincoln twice — set against an explosive Yinka Shonibare mural.

Widely known as the greatest statesman of the 20th century and the savior of Western civilization, a Nobel Prize winner, and the subject of a recent Academy Award - nominated film, more people than...

Armstrong, who has been part of a local movement promoting the building of more tiny homes as an affordable housing alternative, says on Austin - American Statesman that the flexibility that tiny homes offer was one reason she built one for herself, in the midst of rising housing prices in Austin:

Rather, their approach was much more theoretical than practical.60 In 1779, Thomas Jefferson, then the Governor of Virginia, established «a Professorship of Law and Police» at William and Mary College.61 George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and, not coincidentally, the lawyer under whom Jefferson apprenticed, was appointed.62 The purpose of the course of study Wythe taught was less about producing practicing lawyers than it was educating the statesmen of the New Republic.63 Wythe did attempt to blend in some practical training with his lectures and readings through the use of a moot court and a moot legislature, though there is no indication that Wythe required any writing on the part of the students.64

Jack Straw, the minister with key responsibility for HRA 1998, admitted in the New Statesman last month that more should have been done to explain to British citizens the benefits of HRA 1998.