Sentences with phrase «much as a politician»

If you have to sacrifice your integrity to win an election then you will never amount to much as a politician - unfortunately it appears that is the path Mr. Benjamin has taken.

«As a parent as much as a politician, I say we have to accept that current policy has not achieved the reductions in crime or consumption that we'd hoped for.»

But as educators know, that doesn't mean as much as politicians or the media imply that it does.

An elementary school teacher is worth at least as much as a politician.

Not exact matches

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

That may be as much for politicians and regulators as for entrepreneurs, but that's not to say the sentiment behind them isn't sincere.

Blacktop politics are as old as the roads that led to Rome, but the time lag between a politician promising to improve public infrastructure and cutting the ribbon has grown longer — to years, and sometimes as much as a decade.

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.

I expected more from Trudeau, but he has shown he is just as much a weasel as any other politician.

Mr Buffett doesn't pay as much in taxes because he has accountants and lawyers who make Mr Buffett's income pleasant to politicians.

What of the credit - ratings agencies whose AAA writings were as much up for sale as the conscience and honesty of politicians on the Senate and House Banking Committees?

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

As Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.&raquAs Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.&raquas ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.»

There is a political factor, with twice as many Democrats saying politicians talk too much about religion as Republicans.

It feels like an attack on us, as much as on the politician.

Like a jury in a court case listening to witnesses, we should ask if politicians in their tweets are telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (or as much as you can in 280 characters).

But, Beck contradicts himself by pointing out that individual politicians don't give out of their wealth as much as he thinks they should.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

I don't think that most Americans would care too much if a politician was like Hugh Hefner, as long as he was honest.

In a statement I heartily endorse, Scott says, «Much as I respect the efforts of economists and social scientists to explain the world and the intermittent efforts of politicians to change it, I trust artists and writers more.

In many eerie ways, this echoes the devolution of Adolf Hitler, although he began as a politician, then became his own amateur general (and a stubborn, unteachable one, and therefore a bad one); and then, pretty much skipping the whole serpent phase, he ended up as a spent, pathetic, vegetarian toad.

The devil is a clever politician: He knows how to offer power in such a way that it does not appear so much as a grab for glory as a chance to do great good.

Pretty much every Democratic nominee has been tarred as hopelessly corrupt — even one of the cleanest politicians of his generation Obama.

But, if we may also add, the privileged world of the corrupt politician needs no love from the poor masses, as the richly lived and living experiences of the corrupt politician is not an academic question, much the same way we might ascribe «life is a dream» to the abject conditionalities of the poor masses.

While some, such as @LeaveEUOfficial, have blamed it on Labour wanting to get the Muslim vote, as far as I can tell, none of these politicians are Muslim, and at least some of these politicians don't have much of a Muslim constituency.

(So, it's not necessarily the opinions of actual people as much as the opinions of actual politicians.)

A Tory spokesperson said: «Following the tragic killing of Labour MP Jo Cox, the Conservative party has decided not to contest the forthcoming by - election as a mark of respect to a much - loved and respected politician.»

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

In more practical terms, it would be regarded as a scandal by large segments of the press and public, who hold the Queen in much higher esteem than elected politicians.

That politicians should give away any power at all, let alone as much as they did in CEE, is a paradox.

Politicians at the time figured that creating twice as much road space would create half as much congestion.

[xiii] An example they put forward is unemployment policy: politicians «tend to focus not so much on creating opportunities, but on -LRB-...) motivating young people who are presented as feckless and even as «inadequate citizens»».

As much as you'd like, you can't all be professional politicians, living off the state and doing nothinAs much as you'd like, you can't all be professional politicians, living off the state and doing nothinas you'd like, you can't all be professional politicians, living off the state and doing nothing.

He is as much a politician as any senator, only with a much bigger wallet.

They can manipulate the average citizen just as well as they can manipulate politicians, in fact even more, because the average citizen is much less educated, and as such, is more subject to external influence.

Despite being, by any reasonable measure, about as much of an «establishment» figure as is possible, the career politician and former commodities trader has managed to present himself as the leader of a people's revolution.

The trick was that he didn't need the mainstream media as much as past politicians in the broadcast age, because he'd built an army of supporters with whom he could communicate directly — using the internet.

Broad reforms have long been necessary to restore the public trust, but tone - deaf politicians in Albany were able to shrug off the clamor for reform as just so much background noise.

For TV & movie celebrities or politicians, much of their Twitter popularity isn't as genuine.

A voter would have to be either a historian or very old to remember that David Lloyd George was capable of lying quite as much as any other politician.

I have called as witnesses Gerry McCann, and obviously you are much gentler with firstly people who are not politicians or public figures and people who are likely to become distressed.

The politicians and the media don't really know as much as the people pushing the buttons do [humanists], so they are almost unwitting accomplices in breaking down barriers which will eventually lead to people being more vulnerable than they are today.

Balls makes a wider judgement as much as an economist as a politician.

As much as the left might try to pretend otherwise, the simple fact is that politicians on both sides of politics tend to be disproportionately posAs much as the left might try to pretend otherwise, the simple fact is that politicians on both sides of politics tend to be disproportionately posas the left might try to pretend otherwise, the simple fact is that politicians on both sides of politics tend to be disproportionately posh.

Mr. Mancuso made sure to devote attention reigning in «out of control» tolls, an incredibly important local issue that Ms. Malliotakis (and pretty much every Staten Island politician) focus on as well.

But it's unclear whether the idea of turning pedestrian plazas back into streets as a solution will have much support from other politicians.

Were we to treat Faso the way he treats SNAP recipients we might conclude that since many Republican politicians are corrupt followers of President Donald Trump and corporate greed, Faso, too, is just as much a fraudster and swindler.

The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Aishah Ahmad, has cautioned politicians against too much spending as 2019 elections approaches.

Some say New York should alter the landscape so that the state does not coronate another politician with as much power as Sheldon Silver amassed.

In return, Mr. Schneiderman's plan calls for altering the state constitution to extend terms from two years to four, establishing public financing of campaigns reminiscent of New York City's matching funds system, and increasing politicians» salaries to as much as $ 174,000 a year.