Sentences with phrase «more than politicians»

Although the Act remained silent on the amount of political campaigning a charity was allowed to engage in, the Advisory Group on Campaigning and the Voluntary Sector considered charities» political influence «as a way of addressing the «democratic deficit» in the country», as people trusted them [charities] more than politicians».

More than politicians and the invisible hand of markets, it is teachers working as professionals who recognize that students are not numbers to be thrown into global economic wars, but rather lives and bodies — bodies that sit in desks, that suffer, that grieve, that matter uniquely in the future we wish to create.

There are few things that voters dislike more than politicians acting like politicians — saying one thing and then doing another.

54 per cent of the public say they trust businesses more than politicians; just 8 per cent say they trust politicians more than business.

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.»

Not exact matches

And since more people are informed by the front section of the paper, or their Facebook filter bubbles, than they are by the business pages, the politicians end up setting the tone.

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

It will be a money - making opportunity, both for entrepreneurs who dream of growing a business and politicians who will be more than happy to tax it.

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.

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.

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.

Situated on the Blagdon Estate owned by Matt Ridley, a peer and Conservative politician who has said climate change has done more good than harm, Shotton has been mined by Banks since 2008.

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.

«He's a jumper,» insisted one online post, «more politician than manager, a man always on the run with his pockets full of money.

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

«With more than a year left [before the election] and with the different programs out there... politicians are going to go on more of these shows than ever before,» said Bianculli.

But the false alarm sparked outrage from local politicians, as it took more than half an hour to correct.

Israeli politicians and more than 370,000 Britons urged their governments on Wednesday to bar Donald Trump from their countries.

The attacker continued driving for more than a mile, the ranking politician of Alpes - Maritime Department told reporters.

«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.

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.

A bigger problem, says Sheikh, it's that the public and politicians now place more importance on GDP growth than it probably deserves.

But then, newspapers have often been more than happy to print ridiculous assertions by their favorite politicians, so that's not really anything new.

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

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.»

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

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

«It can be said that marijuana is more popular than politicians themselves,» St. Pierre says.

Still, it's not hard to see why politicians have latched on to entrepreneurship: It's sexy and founders make much more palatable economic heroes than the corporate titans who triggered the financial crisis.

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.

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

As any good politician understands, more kudos are garnered for fixing a crisis than for avoiding one.

For Congress, it's a chance for politicians to bare their teeth and hold somebody accountable for the sins of the internet — diminished privacy, fake news and the polarization of ideas, issues that Facebook deals with more often than most.

Companies proved from recent fights with the National Rifle Association and legislation targeting bathroom use by transgender people that they can be more finely tuned to public opinion than politicians.

 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.»

Mnuchin is more politician than financial guy.

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

The survey found that Americans blamed politicians more than any other group for the recession, with 73 percent of respondents laying the blame at their feet, just above the 72 percent who blamed big banks.»

Landslides in the House are guaranteed to bring in some weak politicians who wash out quickly; perhaps this one will also bring in more than the usual amount of policy and political expertise.

Just three blocks from City Hall — that gorgeous, gold - plated building where politicians are deciding how to spend more than $ 10 billion next fiscal year — sits a shooting gallery in broad daylight.

Got ta wonder who these American politicians are really loyal to.I believe atheists would be more likely to represent all Americans than a Christian would, if a situation occured where the choice would have to be made.

A Nicaraguan Catholic priest and politician who defied Pope John Paul II to help teach more than half... more than half... MoreMore

Harry Benson, a Christian from the Marriage Foundation, said many policymakers, experts and politicians - who are often more wealthy than the national average - have been hypocritical by continually saying marriage is not necessary for a stable family, while often being married themselves.

A Christian advocacy group has called for the murderers of a Pakistani Christian politician to be brought to justice, more than four years after his death.

American politicians know that they need something more than secular contract theory to persuade Americans to perform these acts of political loyalty.

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?

A Nicaraguan Catholic priest and politician who defied Pope John Paul II to help teach more than half a million Nicaraguans how to read has died aged 82.

As a student of the Christian realist theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Obama is a far more pragmatic politician than his predecessor.