Sentences with phrase «most politicians tell»

As for my other offences, I have to say that I think that most politicians tell the truth, more so than most other human beings.

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The Trussell Trust has told Premier that the senior Conservative politician who claimed most foodbank... More

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.

Politicians seize on any poll outcome that tells them what they want to hear, yet most simply ask about «independence» as an abstract concept devoid of detail.

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...

That a mere 17 per cent of people aged 18 to 24 agree that «most politicians are basically decent and honest» tells you all you need to know about political engagement.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

These arguments are technically correct and, at the most basic level, it's not the business of politicians to tell a free press what they are and are not allowed to print within the boundaries of what is permitted.

«Yes, I understand we have peace in this country but we shouldn't forget most of these countries that had war used to be most peaceful than Ghana but considering how some politicians have taken this year's elections as a «Do and Die Affair» we need to start preaching peace and start telling everyone that we want peace before, during and after elections — so that anyone who's planning anything evil can know that we Ghanaians are not interested» she said.

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

«You sent a message, as one of the three most powerful politicians in New York State, that you were, in some sense, corrupt,» Wood told Skelos before sentencing him.

What we can say is that there a huge gap in the political market for politicians who can tell a story that combines a lot of truth with at least a little hope — and that most of us will hope that this gap will eventually be filled from within Britain's political mainstream rather than outside it.

A Syracuse.com analysis of 2016 IRS tax return data shows the threatened cut of itemized tax deductions may not hurt most Onondaga County taxpayers as much as you've been told by New York politicians.

A Labour source told Wales Online: «The Rhondda result is really tough for us — we've lost a great Minister and one of the most respected politicians in Wales.

In episode 105, four stories explore the cost of stubbornness: a man refuses to acknowledge some important events in his wife's life; a 14 - year - old boy decides he will never, ever fall in love; a politician attempts to win an election without telling a single lie; a man who continues doing a job during an emergency when most people would probably stop.

On Tuesday, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger — one of the state's most powerful Republican politicians — told North Carolina's teachers they'd soon be receiving their fifth consecutive round of raises.

Unfortunately, the lesson of history seems to be that the politicians people admire most extravagantly are (like Franklin Roosevelt) the most audacious liars; conversely, the ones they erase from memory are, like Warren Harding, those who dare to tell them the truth.

In our area, most politicians can not tell the difference between the snazzy new paint schemes on the bus and shiny new shelters (which give the appearance of public investment) and actual dedicated transitways which guarantee faster and more reliable bus travel times.

The most wonderful illustration of this mismatch between what science can tell us and what politicians care about is the effort to build a long - term storage site for nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

And as any Illinois injury attorney would tell you, politicians (considered public figures in most cases) usually don't win defamation cases brought against political rivals just because they fudged the facts in a campaign ad.

Aside from conmen, compulsive liars and some politicians, most people become uncomfortable when telling a lie and transmit their deceitful behavior through their body language.