Sentences with phrase «of powerful politicians»

Preet Bharara had a seemingly apolitical tenure, noted for prosecutions of powerful politicians from both parties.

The race to represent the 24th Congressional District has been marked largely by negative campaign ads, character attacks and a variety of powerful politicians coming to central New York.

«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.

Dean Skelos is the latest in a series of powerful politicians whose convictions unraveled because of a recent Supreme Court decision.

The power of Mukerjee's telling of this man - made famine that killed — following Amartya Sen's analysis of famine mortality — around 3 million people, lies in the formidable marshalling of a wide range of data, from cabinet meeting records and papers of powerful politicians and officials to interviews in Bengal villages with survivors of the famine and militant rebels against the Raj.

In their opening statement in the corruption trial of state Senator Dean Skelos on Tuesday, federal prosecutors painted a picture of a powerful politician who abused his office to benefit his son and co-defendant, Adam.

The corruption trial of a powerful politician Newsday takes a look back at what led to the downfall of former Sen. Dean Skelos and his son Adam after their conviction on Dec. 11, 2015.

And on suspicion of the murder of a powerful politician!?

The latest kidnapping victim (Ekaterina Samsonov) is the daughter of a powerful politician (Alex Mannette), and soon enough Joe confronts a welter of conspiracies and depravities.

And on suspicion of the murder of a powerful politician!?

Not exact matches

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.

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 jailing of the country's most popular politician, Lula, and voter disgust at corruption among the powerful will give outsiders with clean reputations a chance to shine in October elections.

The hectoring of three global giants in the world's largest manufacturing industry by the most powerful politician sent shudders through head offices from Japan to Detroit to Ontario.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

From commercials predicated on creating desires rather than on meeting utilitarian needs, to the therapeutic rhetoric of politicians of Left and Right, the gravitational pull toward a psychological understanding of the self is powerful and omnipresent.

It validates the proverbial double - talk of the powerful, the politicians, and the press.

«The majority of our country supports change, and 92 % of Americans support universal background checks, but unfortunately powerful lobbyists for gun manufacturers have some politicians scared to do what they know is right.»

Powerful regional and caste - based politicians were no longer content to broker votes for an upperclass elite within the Congress, and wanted their own share of state power; during the Eighties many hitherto imperceptible political assertions became louder, turning into what V. S. Naipaul in a book published in 1990 termed «a million mutinies now.»

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

«I wish I could take this compact, powerful, clear - eyed, beautifully written book and put it in the hands of every parent, teacher and politician.

So in today's Motherlode piece I ask Confessore what, if anything, parents can do to be heard on this issue over the powerful voices of lobbyists and politicians.

We've heard these images alluded to many thousands of times during the course of our lifetimes by politicians, supported by the press and other powerful elites.

The most refreshing, and little discussed, aspect of the book is his conclusion that the media is less powerful than either editors pretend or politicians fear.

Many of these career - minded politicians, determined to stick with their man as a way of rising through the ranks rapidly, have been frustrated by Miliband's disinterest in creating a powerful faction.

Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements.

Critics accuse Vucic, who remains the country's most powerful politician, of being a populist authoritarian who has clamped down on media freedom.

If successful, Lammy would become one of the most powerful politicians in the country, with a # 17 billion budget and a huge international platform.

As a result these films can be more powerful than any number of biographies or academic books in shaping how we view politicians and their lives.

For some of us it can be very enjoyable to see politicians (and writers) champion the poor and denounce the powerful.

Meanwhile Justice Moro — so far largely seen as an impartial individual heading up a serious and comprehensive operation exposing corruption practices of mainstream politicians and powerful business figures — had made a critical move when he decided to make public the contents of a series of tapped phone calls intercepted by the police while investigating Lula.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

The office of the two most powerful politicians in New York are under subpoena.

Turnout was in line with the trend over the past 30 years sending a powerful message to politicians of the need to re-engage with the people of Wales.»

If the sentencings of two ex-house leaders of one state weren't enough, now New York's two most powerful politicians are under the microscope.

Mr. Skelos is hardly the first powerful politician to make the pilgrimage to Brooklyn's kosher soup kitchens, but he is the most notable Republican to do so in recent years, demonstrating a new reality that a swath of heavily Democratic Brooklyn and Queens is ready to vote for candidates who belong to the same party as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

Prosecutors also filed a similar response this week in federal court to the bail request of another once - powerful, now convicted, New York politician, Dean Skelos.

He's the most powerful politician in the state and his embrace of the concept «immediately makes it viable,» said transit advocate Jon Orcutt.

Prosecutors say the 74 - year - old Silver earned $ 4 million illegally in fees for his work on behalf of a cancer researcher and real estate developers who stood to benefit from his clout as one of the three most powerful politicians in New York state government.

Prosecutors had accused Silver, for two decades one of the most powerful politicians in New York, of abusing his office for years.

Kim's statement goes on to say, «Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

For the record, while the politically powerful Nehru - Gandhi family has shown that concession was not a bad venture as some may think, the incommodious confusion of political party action with family matters by some particularly petty politicians, in my view, runs against the grain of human values.

This «None of the above» option, the books title, Edwards foresees could be a «powerful trigger» for politicians to take heed of young voters interests with greater sincerity.

In the short term, however, it also raises the tricky question of how British politicians should treat someone they have previously called every name under the sun who is now ascending to the most powerful political role in the world.

Silver, who was one of the most powerful politicians in New York for two decades, was also required to repay $ 5.18 million and will be fined an additional $ 1.75 million.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

MANHATTAN — Icons of the civil rights movement, the city's most powerful politicians and hundreds of regular New Yorkers jammed into Riverside Church in Morningside Heights Wednesday to pay their respects to Harlem's Percy Sutton, who died last month at the age of 89.

Had a constitutional amendment been approved in 2013, said Stec, the discussion now would have been to determine how the legislation would apply stripping one of the state's most powerful politicians of his benefits.

Governor Andrew Cuomo may be the most powerful politician in the State of New York, but that doesn't mean he can't embarrass his kids just like the rest of us.