Sentences with phrase «of being apolitical»

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The rule of law and apolitical law enforcement are under attack by a president who is a walking conflict of interest, with his un-divested businesses, nepotistic hiring, and unprecedented lack of transparency about personal finances.

Being fairly apolitical in those days, I really couldn't care less whether the guy was a Democrat or Republican, but I was thrilled to get to know one of the great quarterbacks from my childhood at our annual strategy meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Most fundamentally, the temper of the times has turned against technical expertise in favour of populist passion and the Fed is the quintessential enduring apolitical institution.

-- Exchange rate policy is another area where given the number of industrial and international interests involved it is hard to imagine complete delegation to an apolitical institution.

The Gateway Student Journalism Society is a not - for - profit, apolitical society that publishes the Gateway, the student newspaper at the University of Alberta.

Moreover, Oakey would have us believe that unions exist in some sort of vacuum, in which negotiating contracts is an apolitical process.

For the prospect that in future, with the aid of the media, anyone can become a producer, would remain apolitical and limited were this productive effort to find an outlet in individual tinkering.

This was not an apolitical act or a renunciation of politics, but a sign that the Church was a different sort of political order.

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

Not the posture of value - detachment and apolitical objectivism but the articulation of one's social location, interpretive strategies and theoretical frameworks are appropriate in such a rhetorical paradigm of theological studies.

Since the birth of the Baha'i faith, it is noteworthy to observe that the followers of this religion have been strictly apolitical and honorable in their dispositions.

Such a political program has been opposed by those evangelicals of the Reformed tradition, because «for all of its political relevance and all of its political language, it is in the end an apolitical strategy rejecting power, and thus rejecting politics as well.

And Mexico continues to have a widespread appreciation for the transcendental, but this appreciation is largely apolitical; it remains, in a peculiar way, the domain of the church.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

Condemning the brutalities of the Nationalists, Burleigh nonetheless exonerates the great bulk of the Spanish clergy, most of whom were apolitical and who dedicated their lives to the poor.

Their antics are only the most visible (partly because they are sometimes the most silly) examples of how liberal institutions influence people who think of themselves as basically apolitical.

According to one estimate, only 5 percent of the general public can be considered politically engaged beyond the level of voting, and thus termed «activist»; concomitantly, a solid 20 percent are resolutely apolitical.

The results of several surveys indicate that charismatics and Pentecostals are not as apolitical, otherworld, bent on «speaking in tongues, the «hard - driving engines fueling the global spread of Christianity that is usually the stereotype.

Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies on the century - old phenomena.

Hopefully, radical theology is truly apolitical and nonethical, if responsible ethical and political action are identified with the established forms of modern Western politics and ethics.

The emptiness facilitated by Will's basically apolitical brand of libertarian judicial activism is what pushes us most forcefully down the road to serfdom.

So America, at its best, is about people who somehow see democratic citizenship as both a means and an end and so avoids the extremes of endlessly meddlesome democratic tyranny and apolitical libertarian indifference to the souls of their fellow citizens and creatures.

Those who claim to be apolitical usually side with and support the forces of status quo.

Such apolitical stance will create an unacceptable dualism between the spiritual and the material aspects of life, implying that there is another Lord who is in charge of the political sphere than God, our Creator and Redeemer.

He even regrets the complicating influence of a Pascal who was much too apolitical and too Catholic for revolutionary purposes.

Undoubtedly, part of the explanation for the absence of a genuine statement of political philosophy by organic philosophers is the seemingly apolitical character of Whitehead's system.

I'm not religious, but everything I've heard about them suggests the atmosphere of apolitical spirituality and inclusiveness that you're demanding.

Being part of «a very apolitical bunch,» he felt «a kind of anger at God» at the time, but he never thought of demonstrating against the authorities.

It prides itself from being apolitical — and there is something to be said about withstanding the political pressures especially in many ill - governed countries — and that allure explains its surprising resilience despite the odious lack of transparency and the general heavy - handedness.

Although the idea for new apolitical movement is novel in the UK, it is not uncommon on the continent, particularly in the new democracies of central and east Europe, where «traditional parties» constantly compete against ephemeral movements of local notables.

Olney though contends Goldsmith has overegged his role in the «apolitical» anti-Heathrow movement: «For him to say «the only way we can stop Heathrow is to appoint me as MP» is actually ignoring a great deal of work done by thousands of other people over the decades.

I don't care if it's a liberal, conservative or apolitical, did you or did you not continue a chain of e-mails that were offensive to the president, had racial overtones... We just had two governors back - to - back that were losers, we're looking for somebody who's going to put their head above this personal flotsam and jetsam that has paralyzed the office.»

It may contribute to an apolitical self - image of young adults, generate a sense that the young are of lower social, or at least political, status, and reinforce the sense that older people are more fit to rule.

Perhaps, far from being apolitical, demands across the political spectrum to empower the 99 % with real democracy are republican in spirit, as are pragmatic efforts to share control of our wealth and workplaces.

Half of the group was exposed to political posts about the upcoming elections while the other half received apolitical posts.

In March, Governor David Paterson, a Democrat, said an «apolitical» method would be used to pick a new supplier after state and federal authorities began probing whether Aqueduct Entertainment Group had won the lucrative contract to assist one of Paterson's political allies, the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a former congressman.

It's easy to laugh at things like this, but this point demonstrates two of the fundamental problems Scottish Labour faces: that its problems are political but are perceived in the «apolitical» language of «organisation» and that the membership can place no trust in the leadership for salvation.

«This is a tremendous leap for me, because I went being completely apolitical, to neck deep in the political end of the pool,» he said.

The installation of the statues was a highly political act, when they were erected, which is my point: Not the installation was apolitical, but it was in the past, that's what I mean by «historical».

«It was a sudden and highly politicized end to (Bharara's) seemingly apolitical tenure, which was noted for prosecutions of powerful politicians of both parties,» though he had his critics who accused him both of overreach and, at times, an unwillingness to be forceful enough.

Its founders were determined to be independent of the Rochester City School District and apolitical, with a focus on helping students in city schools become successful adults.

«As part of our administration's change mantra, it has been confirmed and repeatedly reported that this empowerment programme is not only impactful but apolitical by all standard and measures.

What perhaps is missing is the effective functioning of our institutions devoid of political interference and absence of apolitical personnel manning these institutions.

There is little sign that large numbers of formerly apolitical young people are being recruited into politics online, even if we define «politics» broadly to include consumer and cultural activism.

Sandman discusses the process used in determining which hospitals were chosen and the apolitical nature of the commission.

The Cape Town march was apolitical and strove to showcase the positive things science can bring to South Africa, rather than negative sentiments about the anti-science movement, said its organizer Julie Kohn of Cornell University, a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Cape Town.

Until 20 years ago, the creation of voting districts by the independent Boundary Commissions was a largely apolitical process, according to geographer Ron Johnston at the University of Bristol, UK.

We like to think of ourselves as apolitical, but I don't believe that's possible in good conscience right now.»

Although the post is supposed to be apolitical, members of Germany's new coalition government have called for Peter Sawicki, founding director of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, to be replaced with someone who is friendlier to the pharmaceutical industry.

The CSR is a unique science - oriented, apolitical forum for leaders of the chemical enterprise.