Sentences with phrase «of a statesman»

As Afghanistan's election season marches on, Charles Tilly's unsavory portrait of statesmen as «coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs» seems eerily resonant.

Trump knows this of course; that's the key to his success: he rejects the very role of statesman.

Dodaro provides a wide - ranging and instructive account of the role of the scriptures (the Christian rhetoric that displaces the traditional Latin rhetoric) in forming the understanding and character of the statesman.

But Lincoln remains a formidable achievement: a portrait of a statesman that transcends expected pieties to make the liberalising impulse in public life live anew.

The APC chieftain, who emphasised that conflicts must happen in a political setting, however noted that it is expedient for such to be resolved by progressives, to protect and sustain the legacies of statesmen like the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

Osoba reportedly commended Amosun for working towards ending the differences that existed between factions of the party in the state, adding that «it is a sure step to protect and sustain the legacies of statesmen like the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.»

Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges and Pedro Pascal are in The Golden Circle as members of the Statesmen, the British Kingsmen's super secret spy equivalent in America.

I could have done without most of the Statesman characters.

The practical imagination of the statesman or of people in business that sees what use the world can be put to, and that foresees the condition of things that will appear when they have imposed what they imagined upon the world, can not be confused with the poetic imagination.

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.

In the hands of men who evaded the real moral issues and who were narrower in their comprehension than so many of the statesmen of the nineteenth century, it is a question whether the established form in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 1939.

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.

But the opposition grows louder and louder, and the courage required of statesmen to stand becomes costlier by the week.

Throughout the book, the understanding and behavior of the statesman holds the center of attention.

A couple other less - than - fully - flattering aspects of the statesman, such as his life - long aversion to truly dealing with the slavery issue, do emerge, but never in a tendentious way.

Reston's deep belief in America is reflected in his immersion, in its history and his familiarity with the biographies of its statesmen.

Up until the early 1980s the international community of statesmen, diplomats and military analysts had tended to regard the prospect of a nuclear war as a problem only for the adversaries in possession of the weapons.

That statement summed up Arsene Wenger, a football coach who became a manager of statesmen, with all - encompassing quality but whose greatest achievements took place some time ago.

But, nonetheless, the persona of the statesman eludes him.

He was the first Chairperson of DHL, Ghana Limited; Chairperson, Kinesec Communications Company Limited, publishers of The Statesman and the first Chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and Peoples» Rights.

One omission is the decision not to include any documents or artefacts in the archives relating to Parliament from the official and private papers of statesmen, including for example Lloyd George and Bonar Law.

«This was an opportunity for our senior senator to be less of a politician and more of a statesman.

The founder of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom says Ghana, in its current state where there is a desperate need for the good counsel of statesmen and women will miss the late Paul Victor Obeng.

Would you really want a celebrity instead of a statesman to lead the country?

Governor Wike can rise above his partisan politics and display the hallmark of a statesman by openly condemning this murderous act and stop at nothing to arrest the criminals,» he said.

The Acting General Secretary for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, John Boadu has joined the list of statesmen who showed up at the premises of Multimedia to mourn departed Asempa FM's political show host, Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong (KABA).

The whole cast of Statesman are grossly underutilized, and much like the villains never have their backstories developed.

Vaughn also teases the possibility of different spinoff films after completing the trilogy, but probably the most exciting possibility for fans is that of the Statesman movies.

The Golden Circle, despite the addition of the Statesman, still belongs to the Kingsman and their troika threesome.

Their laconic, Southern - accented tour guide, Tequila (Channing Tatum), introduces them to Champagne (Jeff Bridges), the gruff, raspy - voiced leader of the Statesman, along with the bullwhip and electric - lasso - wielding Jack Daniels / Whiskey (Pedro Pascal, Game of Thrones), and Ginger Ale (Halle Berry, wasted in a thankless, throwaway role), the Statesman's counterpart to Merlin (Mark Strong).

Commissioner Gordon and Batman had just witnessed the transformation of statesmen and public hero District Attorney Harvey Dent into the evil and demented Two - Face.

Vaughn's own world seems cobbled together from movies and TV — the Bond - movie bespoke tools of the Kingsman, the lariats and lever - action Winchesters that form the iconography of the Statesman (Tatum does a pretty good Chuck Connors trick with his rifles).

At nearly two and a half hours long, The Golden Circle feels like three Kingsman sequels crammed into one; between Poppy's evil scheme, the introduction of the Statesmen, and the reintroduction of Firth's superspy Hart, the film feels overstuffed.

Taron Egerton is back as our favourite working - class spy Eggsy as he takes on a new enemy - and, indeed, discovers new allies in the form of Statesman.

The second Kingsman film sees the dapper British secret agents go up against American supervillain Poppy Adams, played by Julianne Moore, with the help of Statesman, their US equivalent

Retconning the backstory of The Secret Service, The Golden Circle then sends these last remaining Kingsmen off to the former colonies in search of Statesman, a hitherto unknown American counterpart organization disguised as a distillery in Kentucky, with cowboy agents code - named after beverages: Ginger Ale (Halle Berry), Whiskey (Pedro Pascal), Tequila (Channing Tatum, in what turns out to be a glorified cameo), and the head honcho, Champagne (Jeff Bridges), who goes by «Champ.»

Jeff Bridges plays the head of the Statesmen, with Halle Berry as the group's tech support.

Concerned about the lack of statesmen, conservation of America's freedoms and classically trained leaders, AHA was formed to «build tomorrow's heroes today.»

[96] Later on, the VT bodywork spawned a new generation of Statesman and Caprice (again based on the long - wheelbase wagons), [56] and even went as far as resurrecting the iconic Monaro coupé of the 1960s and 1970s [97] via a prototype presented at the 1998 Sydney Motor Show.

«I think it is important to note that there are important equities that have to be considered,» he said, with a distinctive note in his voice that suggested the foresight of a statesman.

I was publishing my interviews of statesmen and ambassadors about the effects of climate change on their small island states.

Results of that in the US is the city of Detroit that is bankrupt, California is bankrupt, predicts that Chicago is on the verge of bankruptcy who are seeing the signs of high unemployment, massive debt and increased violence as a result of statesman awarding themselves huge financial benefits.

Even if Trump's provocations reflected his true feelings or those of the average citizen, it is not the role of the statesman to give voice to feelings.

Newcomers to the Matthew Vaughn - directed sequel include Game of Thrones» Pascal, Berry, Tatum, and Bridges, who play members of the Statesman, the American version of Kingsman.