Sentences with phrase «of politicians on»

For fame, glory and riches, these scientists are causing needless lawsuits instead of focusing the attention of politicians on the real solutions to maintaining Earth's health, be it atolls or the Amazon or other.

Larry Flanagan, the EIS general secretary, said: «Despite the fine words of politicians on the need to support schools and teachers the range of motions indicates that excessive workload remains a huge issue for teachers and, therefore, for our schools and our pupils.

EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: «Despite the fine words of politicians on the need to support schools and teachers, the evidence from both the recent EIS workload survey - which highlighted an average teacher working week of 46.5 hours - and the range of motions to this year's AGM indicate that excessive workload remains a huge issue for teachers and, therefore, for our schools and our pupils.»

The capital city of Washington is portrayed here as roughshod gathering of politicians on the make.

«International relations» was once a term reserved to describe the activities of politicians on the world stage, but these days we all live in a global village and with the availability of the internet everywhere, we can look beyond our national border to meet and communicate with others in different lands, and even embark on a new personal relationship and find romance... Why Western men prefer Russian women?

Not something we'd usually mark on the Politics Show, but with two former politicians among its line up, I'll be talking to Ann Widdecombe MP, doyenne of Celebrity Fit Club, about the snakes and ladders of politicians on reality TV.

Alan Johnson is once again the most popular of those politicians on the tracker who are currently being suggested as potential leadership candidates, with a rating of minus 7.

Similarly, there is nothing morally wrong in a campaign questioning the character or judgement of politicians on the other side.

«The people are ahead of the politicians on this.»

«The Upstate Jobs Party will breathe new life into the American Dream for so many New Yorkers who have been betrayed by the empty promises of politicians on both sides of the aisle who say they will create jobs, but never do,» Babinec said today.

Are prisoners and their loved ones once more the whipping boys of politicians on the make?

As a member of Parliament he had the respect of politicians on all sides, and enjoyed that rare ability to command the floor of the House.

Me too Roger — I had enough of these politicians on a mission for God with George W. Bush and his three wars in the Middle East that cost us blood far more precious than the neocons made in money off those wars — not to mention the grief he cost us with his NAFTA and TARP set up to bail out his Wall Street cohorts.

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

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?

Think of every politician on the campaign trail and you'd be hard pressed to find any who don't use hand gestures to articulate points.

He definitely has the look of a politician on the rise - a handsome guy that easily looks good in a suit.

He's taken on the obligatory volunteerism of a politician on the make — coaching his kid's Little League team, joining the local fire department, getting to know his neighbors in Dutchess horse country.

But there is a good chance that «geoengineering» will soon be on the lips of every politician on this planet.

Not exact matches

Spain's attorney general on Monday filed complaints against 14 Catalan politicians, including Puigdemont, with the country's two highest courts, alleging that they are guilty of rebellion, sedition, and embezzlement.

The result was a trending hashtag on Twitter, #MakeItStop, with politicians, professional organizations, members of the media, and many others echoing the message.

(The organization's analysis is based on assessments of those two countries, along with Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.) New Zealand is the more instructive example; its politicians appear to have accepted that home prices are off the charts for lack of supply.

Given changes like that, Canada shouldn't count on U.S. politicians to ease any of its farmers» problems.

If, say, you have children and you want regulation to protect them from the rising sea levels predicted to submerge billions of homes, wars over resources, and so on, you have to realize that however much we call politicians leaders, in democracies they follow the people.

This generation's politicians believe they can finally turn the page on the narrow nationalist interests of past eras, and tackle their problems together — a task that is as laudable as it is immense.

Brothers Larry and Bill are direct descendants of Timothy Matlack, the 18th - century brewer and politician who penned on vellum the original Declaration of Independence.

So the politicians just kind of ignore the evidence and carry on talking like Canada is on the verge of a recession.

OPINION: With one eye on re-election and afraid of making tough calls, politicians have ignored a number of crises that will profoundly affect their constituents.

As allegations continue to rain down on powerful media moguls (like the recently - convicted comedian Bill Cosby), as well as high - profile politicians, doctors, members of Congress and male journalists, the idea that power can be a dangerous tool of manipulation is shifting into the mainstream.

Hot or Not also plans to display customized Hot Lists, based on how its users vote on profiles of easily recognizable actors, politicians, celebrities, and other public figures, Peter Lauria at BuzzFeed reports.

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.

Naville wants it known to U.S. authorities that there is a lot of goodwill on the part of Swiss politicians to reach an agreement — but that another indictment would «blow up the relationship.»

Still, Canada's politicians should keep in mind that uncertainty about trade policy is weighing on business investment, and therefore murmurs of trade wars will do nothing to build confidence.

Today Canada mourns the loss of Jack Layton, a politician beloved by his allies on the left and grudgingly respected, I sense, by a great many opponents on the right.

Thousands of people joined a global March for Science with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an «assault on facts» by populist politicians.

Consumer groups and politicians alike have been critical of the framework since day one for putting too much onus on Internet users to prove issues and for being non-transparent.

There was a wave of public resistance from those who feared American - style retailing on this scale would pulverize smaller players, and politicians in Vancouver also lobbied to keep the retailer outside of city borders, citing environmental concerns.

After making several appearances on network TV and authoring columns on the financial crisis for Slate, the disgraced politician was recently tapped by CNN as co-host of a nightly news and discussion program alongside journalist Kathleen Parker.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

«He's a jumper,» insisted one online post, «more politician than manager, a man always on the run with his pockets full of money.

Unfortunately, it's happening on both sides of the Atlantic, with U.K. politicians debating how to build a next - generation network and Google Fiber rolling out in Kansas.

He convinced Miami - Dade politicians to chip in on a state - of - the - art stadium in the heart of Little Havana.

There's a tendency in sales pitching to rely on the words of mentors, great business leaders, and politicians.

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

«With more than a year left [before the election] and with the different programs out there... politicians are going to go on more of these shows than ever before,» said Bianculli.

Its NRA card was also highlighted in a New York Times opinion piece that called on the financial industry to exert its «leverage over the gun industry,» seeing as politicians — many of whom are funded by the NRA — continue to refrain from doing so.

OTTAWA — About two months ago, when the ink had dried on the 1,600 pages of the Canada - EU free trade deal, two politicians decided another document — a mere five pages — would be necessary to tie up any loose ends.

And the politicians in Washington who are working to curtail basic benefits such as health care and food stamps plainly won't consider the value of spending trillions on a new social - welfare scheme.

Many politicians on both sides of the aisle are raising questions about Facebook following revelations about its role in the 2016 election and, more recently, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

«I grow weary over the fact we have too many politicians who continually shoot from the hip and point fingers on economic matters without having a solid understanding of economics,» wrote one.