Sentences with phrase «more politicians seem»

Unfortunately, more politicians seem to want to play the role of doctor — acting as «gynoticians.»

Not exact matches

Vancouver — or at least local politicians there — seem more welcoming to Amazon.

 But now it seems that 2 months of positive data is more than enough to conclusively declare the recession over — and, for Conservative politicians, more evidence that their plan is «working.»

«In an age when secularism is more common, too many politicians - through a misplaced sense of political correctness or embarrassment at «doing God» - seem to shy away from discussing any matters related to faith,» he said.

[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]

And like gridlocked politicians, it seems each side of the debate relies more on spin than facts to justify its positions.

Another obvious one is the fact that many of these populists run specifically on the issue of jobs and job loss - and a successful entrepreneur naturally seems like more of an expert on creating jobs than a professional politician, regardless of whether that perception is accurate.

From the beginning, it seems that both the term «devolution» and the processes behind it — in contrast to the more bottom up approach in Scotland — have been conceived by and for Oxbridge politicians, local authorities and suited - and - booted business representatives.

Beyond this, the way in which City Deals have been put on the agenda seems only to reinforce the idea that devolution in the North has little to do with democracy, and more with the needs and wills of politicians.

More frequently than not (it seemed) a politician would get indicted and no one made a big deal.

As we become inured to politicians» scandals, perhaps we become more accepting: David Paterson, whose marital shenanigans seemed relatively innocent next to those of Spitzer, is living, governing proof of that.

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It's what all politicians do, although it always seems more obvious with Brown.

On the whole, politicians seem all too wary of any possible «brain drain'that could result from their policies, trying to avoid the relocation of entrepreneurial talent to places with more favourable regulatory environments.

It seems that politicians are making the news in more ways than one.

In this case Labour seems to be arguing that the BBC is giving more coverage to coalition politicians and policies than to their own side.

Before the mayoral election, politicians and establishment leaders of all stripes seemed... (read more)

And the vast majority of the stuffed - to - the - rafters audience seemed to like it, many of them treating the new mayor as more of a celebrity than a politician.

A million dollars a month is at once an impressive and excessive amount of money for almost any politician to raise, especially one still quite popular more than a year before what would seem to be a rather easy path to re-election.

It seems politicians may not mind this - they want someone to deflect criticism for the more politically difficult tasks like police pensions.

It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.

Now, University of Haifa researchers have found that if you're a politician, good looks will also make you seem more newsworthy — because better - looking pols get more media coverage, findings that appear in the International Journal of Press / Politics.

The idea may sound improbable, especially when it sometimes seems that more politicians court voters by ridiculing science than by studying it.

The political has rarely seemed more personal than in Jonah Markowitz and Tracy Wares» talky - in - a-very-good-way portrait of four lesbian politicians — Sheila Kuehl, Jackie Goldberg, Carole Migden and Christine Kehoe — who were fighting for their LGBT constituents long before the marriage - equality debate came to the fore.

Politicians from both parties seem more interested in being right and placing blame on the other party.

According to him, direct interference by politics seems to be more of a problem in the provinces: «Party politics doesn't often play a role, but its occasional impact is biggest where the charisma of museums puts that of mediocre local politicians in the shade.»

It seems like its becoming a popular thing for people to turn to their politicians to plead and beg for them to tell them what to do more and more.

There is a group of scientists, environmentalists, policy makers, politicians and journalists, from both sides of the climate debate that seem to be changing their tune, towards a more rational center ground.

The battleground is now more in the political arena, where politicians still seem hell bent on harming their country's economy, despite so much evidence which undermines the idea of AGW.

U.S. politicians of extreme left - wing persuasion seem to be especially enamored with over-the-top climate catastrophic predictions, which makes sense since they propose more taxes and regulations to control Americans and businesses and, of course, to «save - the - world,» so they say.

Fortunately, there finally seems to be a growing number of influential scientists, economists, and politicians who represent a more sensible approach to the issue.

The facts that a) we use in one year an amount of fossil fuel that took a million years to accumulate, b) we may be on the verge of a climate change catastrophe of global proportions and c) powerful technologies may soon fall into the hands of disturbed individuals with minds riven with those twin cancers of nationalism and religious fanaticism, seem to concern the scientific community a lot more than they do politicians or the media.

but nobody seems to either care or understand that the existence of fake warming is used to influence politicians to pass more urgent anti-pollution measures.

Researching geo engineering seems very logical to me, just look how much we have done till now and what the results are: kust an ongoing continuing rise and politicians who are as keen as ever on explioting more oil (Putin in the Artic, new oilfields in Brazil etcetcetc).

Politicians and their advisers do not seem to have contemplated either a more comprehensive federal approach, relying on either its inter-provincial trade power or the national dimension branch of the «peace, order and good government» power, or a more co-operative federal - provincial approach.

A few months from now, last term may seem far away; the brethren may seem once more fraternal; and the institution may look a little more like a court ruling on law than a fractious bunch of politicians striking exactly the poses their constituencies expect of them.

It seems that politicians have forgotten what they are actually talking about — locking people up for weeks on end with no more than shadowy and often vague suspicions.

It certainly helps that the leaders of the movement to implement stronger gun controls are articulate and smart, often seeming far more articulate and much smarter than the politicians who oppose them.

It seems more like a publicity stunt by politicians rather than genuine concern about protecting customer interests.