Sentences with phrase «most politicians try»

So at the start of a new parliament, it should be acknowledged that most politicians try to do a decent job in often demanding and sometimes demoralising circumstances.

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.

Not exact matches

I realise that many rabbis, Jews as well as the Israeli politicians will castigate me for trying to start a religious war for being so verbal, since our greatest adversary (those who wants to destroy us by converting us rather than killing us) are also our most fervent supporters.

«Politicians must try their best to describe the world and their plans for dealing with it in the most accurate terms they can master.»

It clamped most of the politicians in detention, and set up special tribunals to try the «corrupt» politicians.

What the public most fear is politicians who try and shove the complicated lives of voters into the likes of those little boxes that subdivided Woolworths» counters.

I ask, because most politicians from all parties are busily trying to assure both the EU and the British electorate that nothing should really change when we finally leave.

Most politicians know that their words are scrutinized and so try to be straightforward.

In a week when politicians try to bury news amid the Christmas rush, Mr. de Blasio said that he would grant six weeks of paid parental leave to 20,000 city employees, one of the most generous policies of its kind in the country and red meat for his liberal base.

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.

Just as political organizers and fundraisers have tried to make the most of emotional moments with mobile technology by devising mobile donation systems that can enable giving at rallies and political events, Garvin thinks that canvas managers can update surveys based on news events and inopportune comments by politicians on the other side of an issue.

«With the exception of the Greens, politicians always try to gain votes on who can be the most anti-Gypsy in this country.

Indeed, I think they are trying to have a speech that opposes the general feeling that most politicians and institutions are corrupt and that another kind of politics is possible.

Mike, you are probably correct about Skelos and the rest of the Repubs trying to make political hay on this, but Medicaid Fraud has been a problem in this State for 50 years and all the politicians have ever done is to throw money at it, shuffle agencies, people and responsibility around like a 3 - card Monty con near Penn Station and continue to screw the taxpayers with the most expensive boondoggle in the country.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors have tried and tried again to take on public corruption in New York, going after several of the state's most powerful politicians and power brokers.

«Most of the politicians in New York are like trying to hold back time,» he said.

That will make the most prominent Florida politician appearing at the event Senate candidate Rep. Katherine Harris, who appears headed for a crushing defeat and whom the Bush family has tried to avoid this fall.

If unions and their Democratic allies prevail in the recall — just over a year after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to curb collective bargaining rights for most public workers — it would send a powerful warning to other politicians who might try to limit union rights.

He said there were ways to «get the most leverage» by targeting donations to politicians who could help the firm and to withhold money from politicians who might try to stand in their way.

The press conference, held in the shadows of a federal courthouse where one of New York's most powerful politicians is being tried on corruption charges, came as other recent developments also shine a bright light on the state's insufficient handling of ethics and corruption.

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.

Commentators are pointing out that immigration reform appears to have strong support in Virginia's seventh district, and pro-reform politicians are trying to spin the issue differently — Cantor lost touch with his constituents; Cantor failed to embrace immigration reform wholeheartedly enough — but most commentators clearly feel that Cantor's defeat makes immigration radioactive for Republicans.

Most actors will try and deflect the question, or give a politician's answer.

And most Americans want more clean energy, though conservative politicians and Fox News opionators try to do their best to ignore them.

They really need to know about protecting data via encryption, and the technical community tries to help via events like «Cryptoparties», as describe here by Rick Falkvinge http://feeds.falkvinge.net/~r/Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy/~3/Yu81GtIrGoI/ That's easily enough for most people, including politicians (like Rick), but other need to verge on paranoia.