Sentences with phrase «most leading politicians»

Some of the country's most leading politicians, known as «tigers,» have been housed at the jail, sometimes referred to the «tiger's cage.»

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Yet his flight led to the removal and subsequent sentencing to life imprisonment for corruption of Chongqing's leader, Bo Xilai, formerly one of China's most powerful politicians.

But there is still very little fundamental theological reflection about the idolatry that commands the worship of most of the world's leading politicians, technicians, financiers, industrialists, and academicians.

The monarchy survives because the public see it as being a harmless thing led by a distinguished lady who has, lets face it, out performed most of the politicians she has seen come and go.

Of course, we are told that politicians are universally held incontempt - just above journalists - and most of us lead such mind - numbinglydreary lives that nobody could possibly want to read a political memoir ordiary.

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years...

The most recent polling for Gillibrand's own race has her leading opponent Wendy Long by wide margins — 64 to 27 percent, says a September Quinnipiac poll — and so the New York senator has sufficient leeway to throw her time and resources behind other campaigns, an unusual luxury for a politician and a traditional path for New York figures to a measure of national power.

He seems to me to be establishing a strong lead for «politician most likely to turn the Thick of It into political fact most often», but perhaps there are some other good contenders on both sides.

Operatives from both parties say the young secretary of state likely holds a small lead over the longtime politician Blunt, a remarkable development for a race that most analysts considered a second - tier contest when the summer began.

As other politicians followed their lead and reported their actions on Twitter, there were also a couple of nominees for the UK's most daunting polling stations...

«The trio of candidates running for governor of Virginia represent the three most flawed politicians to lead the commonwealth's general election ballot in a lifetime,» wrote the Virginian - Pilot in an editorial that endorsed McAuliffe.

According to those rooting for the Bole - born historian - turned - politician, he is the most marketable and visible candidate among all those who have either openly declared their intention of leading the party, or rumored to be interested in contesting the 2020 elections on the ticket of the biggest opposition party.

Arlo Devlin - Brown, a veteran federal prosecutor in Manhattan who led a string of prominent Wall Street cases and more recently oversaw the prosecutions of two of New York's most powerful state politicians, is departing for the private sector.

Jeremy Corbyn is the Labour leadership candidate most feared by the SNP, one of the party's leading politicians has told TP.

Britain's leading politicians have united behind the most significant decision to use the UK military in an international intervention since the 2003 Iraq invasion.

As a result, the unions, led by the UFT and supported by most Democratic politicians, opposed us at every step.

The author calls for a debate on standardized tests led by education leaders instead of politicians and the testing, tutoring, and textbook industries that benefit the most from testing.

Opponents of voucher programs have been led most vocally not by politicians but by parents.

While some unfunded pension liabilities are due to market fluctuations, including sharp stock market declines in 2002 and 2008, leading economists say the most severe cases are due to politicians» failure to keep up with employers» share of pension payments over many years (most public - sector workers also contribute toward their own pensions).

By Dr. Dietrich E. Koelle [Translated, edited by P Gosselin] Announcements that the Arctic sea ice would soon disappear have been among the most favorite of claims made by publicity - seeking climatologists and leading American politicians.

But Dr. Beckmann was the first to bring this hokum to my attention, and he had it tagged from the beginning as one of Mencken's «endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary» being exploited by the politicians «to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety).»

Politicians like Vice President Mike Pence, who's led the charge to attack care at Planned Parenthood, would hurt those who already face significant barriers to accessing health care, and as such are some of our most vulnerable people.