Sentences with phrase «most of the statesman»

I could have done without most of the Statesman characters.

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The Marine four - star general and leader of NATO's coalition in Afghanistan «is probably the most complete warrior - statesman wearing a uniform today,» says a former Marine commandant.

The most elite group, known as the Statesmen, whose members donated $ 250,000, included Aetna; Coca - Cola; Exxon Mobil; Koch Companies Public Sector, the lobbying arm of the highly political Koch Industries; Microsoft; Pfizer; UnitedHealth Group; and Walmart.

The media too has gotten on her case, the most recent — if breathtakingly tasteless — salvo coming from the British magazine New Statesman, which compared Merkel to both the Terminator and Hitler in the span of a few short paragraphs and also said she represented a greater threat to the world than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Michael Burleigh's study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than the one we behold today — not the polity of bureaucrats in Brussels but a Europe of statesmen and revolutionaries who aimed at the most extravagant notions of national destiny.

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

Niebuhr's prophetic politics, steeped in biblical theology, Greek classics, Western history and philosophy, depth psychology, and shrewd economic analysis, was the intellectual salvation of some of the most secular of statesmen and scholars.

So the reason, Tocqueville explains, that most Americans shouldn't read the Greek and Roman authors is that they celebrate aristocratic ways of life — philosophers, warriors, statesmen, and such.

One of the most important letters is one to Malik Ashtar who became governor of Egypt, a letter which awakened Malik's heart and taught him how to behave in Egypt, and is a model for statesmen of all times and places.

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.

Serious statesmen will debate whether the only way to avoid a new age of high - tech killing fields is preemptively to undermine or overthrow the world's most unsavory and power - hungry regimes.

«33 Bushman also pointed out that Samuel Johnson, the great Episcopalian leader in Connecticut, lumped together Revivalism and democracy in their disrespect for proper authority: «The prevalency of rigid enthusiastical conceited notions and practices in religion and republican mobbish principles and practices and policy, being most on a level and each thinking himself an able divine and statesman: hence perpetual feuds and factions in both.34

It was Arshavin and Park who interested me the most out of our elder - statesmen.

Abbott told the Statesman that the benefit cap was «part of a political narrative which demonises welfare claimants; most -LSB-...]

Trickett, whose recent article in the New Statesman certainly marks him out as the most left - wing member of the shadow cabinet, will certainly improve the advice Ed gets to hear.

Abbott told the Statesman that the benefit cap was «part of a political narrative which demonises welfare claimants; most of the public don't understand that half of welfare claimants are pensioners and that another quarter are in work.»

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».

«He was not only a great leader for his country, but one of the most profound statesmen our world has ever known.»

The Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee of senior US statesmen, said most American troops should leave their combat role by early 2008 and also urged greater cooperation with the country's neighbours, Iran and Syria.

In the longest re-shuffle since the emancipation of women (thanks to the New Statesman's Stephen Bush for that gem) Corbyn made the grand total of two sackings, both of ministers with limited name recognition among the general population, while appointing one who is most notable for a Twitter gaffe.

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-...]

Justice Annan was one of the finest statesmen of integrity that I have come across and gave his best to this country as most of us attempted to do.

The New Statesman said it was a «bizarre decision» as Woolas had «run one of the most disgraceful election campaigns in recent history».

Nwobodo, who observed the congress as an elder statesman, said: «Our party faithful in Enugu South Local Government Area had displayed comportment and commitment to the party; in spite of the heavy rain, most of them turned up.

League is the founder of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, co-founder of Fantastic Fest and was named by the Austin American Statesman as «one of the most unusual CEOs in Texas history.»

When considering what seemed promising, the things that will most likely pull people back into the theater after an enjoyable ride in The Secret Service will undoubtedly be Channing Tatum's inclusion as Statesman Tequila and Colin Firth's mysterious return as Harry Hart, both of whom are completely underutilized in the story throughout The Golden Circle in both screen time and in lazy storytelling, especially in regards to the quickly explained and underwhelming revival of Harry after suffering a bullet to the head.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation — and perhaps any — came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries.

In his richly detailed and stimulating new book, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, historian Greg Grandin writes that Kissinger was «the quintessential American, his cast of mind perfectly molded to his place and time.»

Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial statesmen in American history.

«The most heartbreaking data point was that 40 percent of those lower - income people giving up their pets said that if they had access to free or low - cost veterinary care, they would have kept them,» Mills told the Austin American Statesman back in 2016, «We see a future where there is a safe, affordable vet clinic in every underserved neighborhood.»

To celebrate the opening of Tate Modern's Richard Hamilton retrospective, we've profiled the five most important figures in the British Pop art movement, from elder statesmen to artists who died before their time.

Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia wrote an article in 2006 saying that there had been no global warming since 1998 according to the most widely used measure of average global air temperatures... [and] David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London made the same point... Mark Lynas said in the New Statesman that Mr. Whitehouse was «wrong... We know now that it was Mr. Lynas who was wrong.

Most of all, let our leaders act as statesmen, not as salesmen.

Like most statesmen of the time, he put in time as everything from a surveyor to Major General in the Continental Army to member of the New York Colonial Assembly.

One of the most anticipated conferences of the year brings together disparate voices from the around the world: leaders such as statesmen, business owners, philosophers, rappers,...

One of the most anticipated conferences of the year brings together disparate voices from the around the world: leaders such as statesmen, business owners, philosophers, rappers, coders, authors, thought and opinion moulders.

NCAA Division II Delta State University 2012 Baseball Captian, leading the Statesmen to Championships of the Division II Gulf South Conference (GSC) and Regional Tournament and Runner - up in the 2012 Division II College World Series; awarded Delta State University 2012 Baseball Sandifer Statesmen Award and N.L. Cassibry Most Valuable Player Award

NAR President Moe Veissi invites one of NAR's most respected leaders and statesmen, 2001 NAR President Richard Mendenhall, to share an inspiring and entertaining story of how General Schwarzkopf realized the no. 1 role of leadership: raise the bar.