Sentences with phrase «most politicians of»

By Anthony Cody California Gov. - elect Jerry Brown has a better understanding than most politicians of education issues, as we discovered last year when he sent some cogent advice to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

But Patrick Wintour's insider account of Labour's election campaign — coming so soon after Charles Kennedy's sadly premature death — is a reminder that most politicians of all parties try hard to come up with good answers to difficult questions.

Not exact matches

Clarke was promoted in 1996 to captain before becoming commanding officer of the intelligence division in 1999, where most of his work involved protecting major politicians who visited town.

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

«Pelosi is already the most unpopular politician in America — something House Democratic candidates would agree with — and the prospect of her implementing an extremely progressive agenda will be a huge motivator for Republicans this fall,» National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Jesse Hunt wrote in an email to reporters.

It is common for investors to treat most of what comes out of politicians» mouths as empty promises, particularly during campaign season.

Accordingly, most American businesses aren't that concerned with the corporate tax rate of 36 percent and the lip service paid by politicians to reduce it.

The most recent of those was in 2006, when Thaksin Shinawatra, the divisive media tycoon who became Prime Minister in 2001 — populist to some, corrupt politician to others — was overthrown.

For the most part, if you wanted to lambast a politician or make fun of a Hollywood celebrity, you sent an email.

It's very easy to roll one's eyes at the earnest «we're gonna fix it, for real, this time» proclamations of politicians when history has proven this to be an issue that sits, perennially, maddeningly, pretty low on the priority list of the people most equipped to solve it.

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.

«I think that Huckabee is the most interesting and the best politician and the best campaigner of the Republicans, but my sense is he's going to have a hard time carrying through.»

Congressman Alan Grayson (D - FL) has emerged as one of the most popular politicians among those frustrated by the endless bailouts and second - chances for Wall Street.

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.

While extreme cases of the Hannibal Lecter variety exist, Dutton says that degrees of psychopathy are scattered across the general population — and may account for the intense charisma, persuasiveness and confidence shown by some of our most talented politicians, surgeons and business leaders.

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

Canadians were most likely to be satisfied with the ethical behaviour of municipal politicians, although almost a third answered they were not satisfied with their ethical behaviour.

Since most politicians» campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give voters a better sense of who the candidate they are voting for is actually representing if the company's logo, or individual's name, was prominently displayed upon the candidate's clothing at all public appearances and campaign events.

He has worked with Canadian politicians and policymakers of all political stripes to craft more effective public policy, including his most recent role as an outside economic adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

In November, one of the state's most senior politicians published his top 10 priorities for the next legislative session.

«Of course, it's undeniable that in our electoral system, candidates need access to wealth to run financially viable campaigns, and the most successful fundraisers are politicians who swim in those circles to begin with.»

«Most reputable data firms are using proven predictive modeling techniques on an individual level, whereas Cambridge was guilty of using fancy fake science terms on unwitting politicians who do not understand how data analytics work.

But foreign policy experts — and politicians themselves — emphasize that the most critically important element of the dispute is maintaining a rules - based approach to international conflict.

Evolution AI ranked some of the most abused politicians on Twitter and found that energy minister Claire Perry, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn all ranked highly — though none received as much abuse as Naz Shah.

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.

Not just on the basketball side, but with connections to business people, connections to politicians — the kind of connections that most people garner when they're in college, that scholarship athletes don't typically avail themselves of.

The UK's Brexit vote is also one of the most potent signs that the public is increasingly dissatisfied with politicians and the current migration crisis.

And though most of us aren't politicians or policy makers, we can all contribute to stopping this cycle — the surest way is to start with the only thing we can truly control: our own reactions, behaviors and choices.

Entertainers are a firm favorite among the most admired women, while politicians and businessmen frequent the list of most admired men.

Trump's explanation of where the jobs went was simple enough to resonate with even the most low - information voters: They went to Mexico and China, shipped there by politicians who cut trade deals tailored to benefit multinational corporations, not American workers.

The Democratic senator's proposed legislation will face an unlikely road to passage, considering that most lawmakers (including those in the White House) are reluctant to end the drug's federal prohibition, but the bill is still the latest attempt by a prominent politician to update federal marijuana laws at a time when a clear majority of Americans support legalization.

Curious, while the German politician advocates diversity of views, she has previously accused it of perpetrating opinions that are most at odds with those of the establishment and traditional media.

While most lawmakers and politicians haven't crafted formal statements yet (expect a landslide of those on Monday), a few are weighing in.

Elizabeth May's recent embrace of Blair Wilson, a rejected and controversial Liberal MP from the Lower Mainland, as the party's first Member of Parliament should remind us that the most important quality of any politician is judgement.

This strikes me as an odd attack, not least because of the reason politicians focus on the middle class: most people consider themselves to be part of it.

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.

«Schäuble has been one of the rudest and most aggressive politicians we have had to face since the crisis began.»

Stripping out lawyers, who have a disproportionately nasty habit of becoming politicians, the three most tax - dodging professions account for about half the votes among Greek MPs.

It was one of the most dominant questions throughout the 10 hours of testimony, with numerous politicians asking Zuckerberg if he would commit to helping lawmakers create some form of new rules around data collection and privacy.

Meunier's organisation was founded by some of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.

The stock prices of most drug related companies have been suppressed a bit recently as a result of politicians voicing their opinions about high drug prices.

If we could get our politicians to debate the that question (regardless of whatever answer they came up with — 5, 15, 500), then we could give the most motivated of the of the world's population a solvable puzzle with a strongly motivating prize — US citizenship.

Despite the high cost of the oil price crash, most residents of Fort McMurray, along with Canada's politicians, think that oil prices will rebound and things will turn around sooner or later.

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.

The jailing of the country's most popular politician, Lula, and voter disgust at corruption among the powerful will give outsiders with clean reputations a chance to shine in October elections.

Given that most politicians» main aim is just to stay in power, the knee - jerk policy responses by the regime of the day is not encouraging, so pondering their reaction to a significant % of the electorate panicking about their mortgages is nightmarish.

Politicians and central bankers will manage the crisis of 2016 - 2017 as they have most other crises (such as 1987, 1998, 2000, 2008) by increasing spending, addressing an excess debt problem with even more debt, and pumping more «funny money» into the global financial system.

PS: while most economists and virtually all politicians are unaware of the potentially devastating effects of their bank capital requirements alchemy, they do understand that lowering risk - weights / capital requirements on some types of exposures has the effect of boosting them.

Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.

Most politicians just push out messages, but Clement takes his followers into his living room and his jam sessions, posting pictures not only of himself, but also those taken from his point of view.