Sentences with phrase «of leaders of both political parties»

Perhaps you will be too for the right of a leader of a political party who won the elections for the European Parliament in 2014.»

Not exact matches

«Too many of our political leaders are putting party before country, power before principle and cynicism before civility.

That bleak irony was hammered home earlier this month when John Boehner, a former leader in the political party that formally initiated the War on Drugs, joined the advisory board of a marijuana firm.

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

However, given the fragmentation of the Dutch political scene, the party's leader, Geert Wilders, in unlikely to get a majority.

The leader of Germany's socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the country's political stalemate.

The Popular Unity Candidacy joins a line of far - left movements seizing the political momentum in Europe, from Greece's ruling Syriza party and Spain's own far - left Podemos movement to the shock emergence last week of hardcore socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's Labour Pparty and Spain's own far - left Podemos movement to the shock emergence last week of hardcore socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's Labour PartyParty.

The leader of Germany's socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the country's political stalemate — despite the experienced lawmaker not being involved in recent coalition talks.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

His shooting spree lasted an hour and 13 minutes, as he methodically stalked and killed many of the 600 up - and - coming leaders of Labour, Norway's dominant political party, which he blamed for the rise of multiculturalism.

The indictment says Manafort and Gates received the money by acting as unregistered agents of the pro-Russia government of Ukraine and its political parties and leaders.

Part of being the institutional party is refraining from putting excessive strain on institutions — either tangible ones, like investigative agencies that feel compelled to maintain their own public reputation, or intangible ones, like the sense of the public that political leaders have high ethical standards.

And in recognition of the new political landscape, New York's Sen. Chuck Schumer, the incoming minority leader responsible for corralling his caucus, is also embracing populist rhetoric to shepherd the party in the Trump era.

Faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling because people distractingly assume they are getting the whole picture (from a plethora of media) but they are not!

Monday's meeting of Greek party political leaders may be dominated by a call for finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to be removed from the country's negotiating team.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

This article provides a summary of the 2004 Alberta General Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final results.

The strength of any long - ruling political party is the ability to reinvent itself under new leaders and changing circumstances.

Another core issue of the 2008 election campaign is political leadership or, more specifically, public confidence in the abilities of the party leaders to govern the country.

Even her political opponent, United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, agreed, arguing that a «market failure» justified the use of putting taxpayer money into the project.

As the 2008 campaign continues to unfold, the political parties and their leaders will continue to place an emphasis on their economic policies and credentials, while, at the same time, working to downplay and discredit the plans of their opponents.

In this week's episode, we ask former PC President, Katherine O'Neill, about what really happened inside the PC party after it was nearly wiped off Alberta's political map in 2015, and why she decided to step down from the party executive, just three weeks after the election of party leader Jason Kenney.

Political pundits say that people vote for the party, the party leader and the local candidate in that order of priority.

To ensure populist parties do not increase their share of the vote, the German leader is likely to closely focus on maintaining the economy's robust growth and to carefully consider the implications of any steps to promote greater political and fiscal union across the EU.

We expect better of our political leaders and so far you and the Alberta Liberals are the only party that lived up to our expectations.

To ensure populist parties do not increase their share of the vote, the German leader is likely to closely focus on maintaining the economy's robust growth and to carefully consider the implications of any steps to promote greater political and fiscal union across the European Union (EU).

Edmonton - Gold Bar Liberal MLA Bettie Hewes became the first woman to lead a major political party when she served as interim leader of the Official Opposition in 1994.

Actress Neve Campbell, authors Ann - Marie MacDonald and Farley Mowat, musicians Anton Kuerti and Jim Creeggan of the Barenaked Ladies, athletes Adam Kreek (Olympic Gold Medalist) and Andrew Ference (Boston Bruins defenceman), and political leaders Jack Layton of the NDP and Elizabeth May of the Green Party, are just a few of the many prominent Canadians to sign the letter.

But that would require a fundamental change to the Elections Act — eliminating the requirement of a party leader's endorsement to run as a party's candidate, then fashioning a more coherent rule — and a change in the ways our political parties do business.

The allegations have sparked a political and government crisis of a magnitude «never seen in Malaysia's 58 - year history,» said Lim Kit Siang, parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP).

Obviously, political leaders in both parties, Planned Parenthood, parents, the «stupid part of the USA» and the educational system have failed miserably on many fronts.

Effi Eitam, leader of the National Religious Party and a member of Sharon's cabinet, refers to all Palestinians as a «cancer that must be rooted out», and claims that Arabs must never be given any political rule or sovereignty within the Land of Israel.

Colin Hart, director of The Christian Institute, commented: «This poll should act as a wake up call to the leaders of the political parties.

The moderator of the Church of Scotland has meet with the leaders of every political party in Edinburgh.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats and selfprofessed evangelical Christian Tim Farron has stepped down from leading the party, citing a clash between his faith and political views.

It would be a mistake to imagine that Pope Francis were somehow endorsing the policies of his predecessor as perhaps the incoming leader of a political party might wish to be seen as the anointed successor to this or that great political figure.

The political manipulation of Christianity was the design behind the declaration of the National Party's first prime minister, D. F. Malan, that the church's «special calling» was to «guard the [Afrikaner] national interest,» and it is the design behind the recent call of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo for «every good believer to become a witness for liberation.»

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

In other words, evangelical leaders were willing to speak about the issue when it was unpopular to many conservatives (this is another reason why Christians should not be seen as a wing of any political party; they must speak prophetically as needed on issues).

«To be a political leader - especially of a progressive, liberal party in 2017 - and to live as a committed Christian, to hold faithfully to the Bible's teaching, has felt impossible for me.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

The «church - system» looks more like the «filling - station system,» and the clergy in their varieties of responsibility and excellence seem most to resemble democratic political leaders — from town selectmen to governors, from demagogues to statesmen, from ward heelers to national party leaders.

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

One positive change is the increase in support of international aid programs from the U.S. public and political leaders of both parties.

Yet in another sense, leaders of sovereign nations and of political movements and parties all too often look out on the world from a viewpoint of «Gott mit uns.»

The people who are fed up with the barbaric ideology of political correctness desperately seek leaders, parties, and organizations that might oppose it.

«Geert Wilders (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣeːrt ˈʋɪldərs]; born September 6, 1963) is a Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), the third leading political party in the NetherlParty for Freedom (PVV), the third leading political party in the Netherlparty in the Netherlands.

As the general election approaches, we're hoping to speak to the leaders of all the main political parties in the coming months.

It appears that the people in Galilee were especially open to revolutionary appeals, sometimes of a political, sometimes of a religious, sort: Judas of Gamala (east of the Sea of Galilee) was known as a leader of the Zealots; among the disciples of Jesus appeared a Simon the Zealot, apparently a former member of the revolutionary party converted to Jesus.

Ipsos Mori's latest Political Monitor shows Labour regaining the lead over the Conservatives, but none of the party leaders will be completely happy with their situation.