Sentences with phrase «more politicians in»

Every Voice, a 501 (c) 4 group based in Washington, said it is endorsing Teachout «because New Yorkers and our country deserve more politicians in Washington who'll stand up to big money special interests to level the playing field and make our elections truly of, by, and for the people,» according to a statement from its president, David Donnelly.

You don't make government more accountable by having more politicians in the other chamber who have to go on party lists.

Not exact matches

The media — and hence the public — tend to focus more attention on failings in politicians» private lives than in their public ones.

What's more, politicians and experts warned the public that social media could be abused again in the upcoming midterm elections.

The clip earned more than 8 million views in one week and Twitter endorsements from the likes of Ellen DeGeneres and former Arizona politician Gabrielle Giffords.

Here, in 50 inspiring quotes, businesswomen, role models, activists, entertainers, authors, politicians and more share their thoughts on leadership and success — and what exactly those mean to them.

The central thesis of CEO - Speak is no more shocking than the discovery that politicians like to give speeches, sports stars talk in clichés and priests tend to sermonize.

Emmanuel Macron, the investment banker turned politician, has been the surprise in French politics over the past few months, gathering more popular support than his center - left rivals.

Hundreds more convened outside NRA headquarters in Virginia, criticizing the influence the gun rights lobby has on politicians.

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.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

If they had, the number would likely have been far more modest than what politicians would claim, as a significant portion of the increase in payrolls would have happened even without the tax rebate.

Everywhere one looks across the developed world, central bankers are taking increasingly unorthodox actions to buy more time for politicians to put their fiscal affairs in order.

These quirky differences in consumer behavior between members of the two parties matters more to marketers than to politicians.

He's spoken in favor of electing more female politicians, spoken out against racism, and even found time to stay connected with world leaders.

And Klepper's proudly ignorant character style comes across as a slightly more genial, Midwestern Colbert, who will also participate in the adversarial in - character interview style that helped get Republican and Democratic politicians alike to avoid «The Colbert Report.»

The longer some politicians have been in business, the more money from those groups they've seen spent in their favor.

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.

They are mostly technocratic in nature, exhorting politicians and public servants to be more rational and scientific in finding cost savings and efficiencies.

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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.»

While politicians point to a lack of investment in technology and skills as root causes, a recent Bank of England research paper has a more novel suggestion: Smartphones.

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

More important, the cliff is an obvious effort at correcting the biggest flaw in public budgeting — the tendency of politicians to ignore the broader, long - term implications of what they do by continually kicking problems down the road.

In Georgia, for example, politicians are already using Amazon's potential to push more progressive laws.

The more heartfelt a politician's apology for legitimate wrongdoing, the more likely a clip of the apology will appear in an opponent's attack ad.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

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.

In that sense, being a small businessman is more like being a politician than being a mogul.

No politician in history — and I say this with great surety — has been treated worse or more unfairly.

President Donald Trump went off script during his Wednesday commencement speech to Coast Guard Academy graduates, saying critics and the media had treated him more unfairly than any politician «in history.»

But the fact that non-white politicians receive significantly more abuse than white ones clearly shows a racist undercurrent in political life on Twitter.

Gauck is not the only politician in the country who feels the chancellor has a lot more explaining to do.

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.

Still, Whitman pointed out the possibility for pushback to Pruitt's anti-conservation agenda from hunters and ranchers within the GOP's base, and possibly the more moderate Republicans she has had conversations with in Congress (Whitman declined to name those politicians).

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.

Today's Republican politicians have shifted gears, adopting the increasingly absolutist view of the Second Amendment proffered by the gun lobby, which, in the Trump era, has itself become more ambitious.

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.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the 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 (by letting them protect themselves), despite what the research says.

When most politicians try this, as Finance Ministers often do to try to create the appearance of sophistication, it's usually just in nonsensical financial jargon that amounts to nothing more than bromides.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the 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 (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

Mr Rittenberg, Mao's former interpreter, says that promoting a single popular figure may have been a deliberate strategy of the party elite, in the hope that such a politician could more effectively carry out the difficult economic and social reforms which Mr Xi says are needed.

Things have looked grim for Donald Trump's future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician.

«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.

Some of the retiring politicians have spent a decade or more in office, so before the writ is dropped I thought it would be fun to take a look at what some of them looked like in their younger years in office.

How many more students are going to have to die and have their blood spilt in American classrooms, trying to make the world a better place just because politicians refuse to take action?

Reportedly close to Trump, Farage was the first British politician to meet with the then - president - elect after the November election and has since come out in full support of his more controversial policies, including the «extreme vetting» of refugees.

But of course it goes beyond that: thanks to a high capacity to intercept rockets, the IDF and the politicians are more able to refrain from harsher responses to the fire from Gaza, in a ground operation, for example.