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This series of errors (combined with Wilhelm II's appalling combination of vanity, aggression, and indolence which is echoed in a frightening proportion of leading politicians today) exploded in summer 1914.

The fact that he did so while providing information to the FBI, and having a younger brother who was one of the leading politicians in the state, speaks to the strange complexity of his story.

A row between London mayoral candidates Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone raised the issue of leading politicians offering full disclosure on their tax returns.

What an extraordinary night in the capital as some of its leading politicians were sent packing.

BBC cameras caught the reaction of some leading politicians to the move, which is not proving popular with the public.

There are at least three important trends at play here - the decline in age of our leading politicians, who now reach the top in their 40s (or even 30s); the fact many people have children a lot later in life; and the fact men are expected to have a much bigger role in childcare.

However, this does not involve the sovereign in making a personal assessment of leading politicians since no major party could fight a general election without a recognised leader.

Throughout the book there are post-election comments from a number of the leading politicians.

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years...

My last essay ended by noting that conservatives are told by many of their leading politicians and pundits that America's fundamental problem is that too many of their fellow citizens no longer understand its basic principles, of which liberty has pride of place.

The 56 - year - old was elected MP for Livingston in West Lothian in September 2005, following the death of leading politician and former minister Robin Cook.

Not exact matches

The paper also got a very painful reminder of how dangerous it can be to accept what politicians say at face value, when its reporting on the lead - up to the Iraq War turned out to be a tissue of lies fed to one of its reporters.

A Saudi - led coalition is fighting to counter the influence of Iran, an ally of the Houthi militia, who deny any help from Tehran and say they are fighting a revolution against corrupt politicians and Gulf powers in thrall to the West.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

Yet his flight led to the removal and subsequent sentencing to life imprisonment for corruption of Chongqing's leader, Bo Xilai, formerly one of China's most powerful politicians.

The minister has been leading a 30 - member delegation of Canadian politicians from five provinces, along with business and labour union representatives, on a trip to Germany and Great Britain to learn about their apprenticeship programs.

Some of the country's most leading politicians, known as «tigers,» have been housed at the jail, sometimes referred to the «tiger's cage.»

Alex Salmond, Scotland's leading politician, dismissed the warnings as «scare - mongering» and accused the British government of exploiting the news for political gain.

However, senior Green politician Cecile Duflot, who was housing minister in the previous Socialist - led government, accused Valls of not learning from losses in municipal elections last year.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

The efforts of Martin Schulz and other senior SPD politicians to gain an advantage over their political competitors by leading a hardline anti-Trump campaign do not appear to have had any significant effect on the SPD's standing in the polls.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

In a modern democracy like Canada, a deep state typically comprises leading owners and executives of major private interests and their allies, together with a selection of politicians and bureaucrats tied to the success of those private interests.

Kasky, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has been part of an outpouring of anger from students who survived the shooting, many of whom have publicly blamed President Trump and NRA - supported politicians for creating the conditions that led to the shooting.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, a leading FDP politician, likewise sought to shoot down the idea of euro bonds on Monday, calling them «out of the question» on German state broadcaster ARD.

A group of lawmakers led by a politician from Korea's ruling political party is drafting a bill to legalize the launch of new cryptocurrencies and ICOs in the country.

The failure of far - right politician Geert Wilders to make the expected breakthrough in this week's Dutch elections has led some observers to speculate that Europe's experiment with populism is fizzling out.

That's led some GOP politicians to claim there was a quid pro quo where the Clintons received money in exchange for Hillary's approval of the Uranium One deal, although there's no evidence to prove it.

Mr. Kenney is a skilled politician, but he would ominously follow in the footsteps of another former federal Conservative cabinet minister, Jim Prentice, who jumped into provincial politics in 2014 before leading the 44 - year old PC government to defeat in May 2015.

There's no question Clement led the political pack in taking up social media, said Mark Blevis, a digital public affairs strategist with Full Duplex who has been observing politicians» use of social media for years.

At the behest of a couple of fanatical Frenchmen, leading politicians suggest that the government of the U.S. should punish a French citizen for something he did in France fifty - three years ago.

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

So the «pro-lifers» are against abortion as a legally medical form of «murder», but then vote for politicians in our USA who promote war and all kinds of both domestic and foreign policies that lead to the death of millions of already born humans.

Christian politicians (if there are any left) should not support any person, group, agenda or movement that promotes a sinful lifestyle, because quite frankly every sinful lifestyle leads to things not beneficial to society (crime, violence, scams, breakdown of the family, etc.).

His background in the movies led many people to underestimate Reagan, says Gaddis, «for Reagan was as skillful a politician as the nation had seen for many years, and one of its sharpest grand strategists ever.

In his account, it has been internationalist idealism among politicians rather than business and financial interests that has led to the removal of trade barriers.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things that, as it were, «off the political table» and will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?»

But there is still very little fundamental theological reflection about the idolatry that commands the worship of most of the world's leading politicians, technicians, financiers, industrialists, and academicians.

-- was a crucial aspect of what led both press and politicians to accept the idea that a massive war against an evil enemy would be both necessary and moral.

was a crucial aspect of what led both press and politicians to accept the idea that a massive war against an evil enemy would be both necessary and moral.

& THESE are the same people our Republican Politicians are being led by & want to control our way of life???

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

The inevitable distortions and sloganizing of politics led the philosopher R. G. Collingwood to argue that a society needs its artists as well as its politicians.

The first, characteristic of Reinhold Niebuhr and other «Christian realists,» is to worry that this attempt at uniting justice and mercy will either water down the Christian ideal of pure love, which leads necessarily to pacifism even in the face of attack, or that it will persuade politicians to be irresponsibly merciful and trusting towards those nations and powers that threaten it.

Jesse Jackson, while still the leading Democratic politician in Chicago, chose to be silent during the public storm that broke after it was revealed that Cokely — then a high - salaried aide to the Democratic mayor — had accused Jewish doctors of injecting blacks with AIDS.

The awareness of the predicament (on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

«Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things that, as it were, «off the political table» and will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?»

«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 Netherlands.