Sentences with phrase «on more politicians»

We are expecting people to accept the cuts that the coalition claim are necessary if we are to put the country back on its feet and deal with the mess that we inherited, but at the same time we are telling them that politicians may decide to spend # 153 million on more politicians.»

Not exact matches

(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.

The media — and hence the public — tend to focus more attention on failings in politicians» private lives than in their public ones.

Here, in 50 inspiring quotes, businesswomen, role models, activists, entertainers, authors, politicians and more share their thoughts on leadership and success — and what exactly those mean to them.

Hundreds more convened outside NRA headquarters in Virginia, criticizing the influence the gun rights lobby has on politicians.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

Situated on the Blagdon Estate owned by Matt Ridley, a peer and Conservative politician who has said climate change has done more good than harm, Shotton has been mined by Banks since 2008.

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

«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.

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.

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Israeli politicians and more than 370,000 Britons urged their governments on Wednesday to bar Donald Trump from their countries.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

A bigger problem, says Sheikh, it's that the public and politicians now place more importance on GDP growth than it probably deserves.

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

But the fact that non-white politicians receive significantly more abuse than white ones clearly shows a racist undercurrent in political life on Twitter.

Still, it's not hard to see why politicians have latched on to entrepreneurship: It's sexy and founders make much more palatable economic heroes than the corporate titans who triggered the financial crisis.

More to the point, politicians seek to win votes by placating labor on the eve of elections.

But monetarist politicians single - mindedly blamed the inflation on not following their austerity policies even more stringently and not cutting government spending by even more!

«Central bankers know that QE can't go on forever and are talking more about handing the baton back to politicians,» says Graham McDonald, head of private equity at Aberdeen Investment Management in London.

So if pass - throughs are already advantaged, why are some politicians so intent on making them more advantaged?

If you're looking for more reliable SAT scores for politicians I would look at ELiot Spitzer (this is from the much more reliable NY TImes) who claims (note that to my knowledge oreilly and Limbaugh haven't even claimed to have taken the SAT let alone get any high score on the SAT) to have gotten a 1590 SAT on the old SAT and a perfect LSAT score

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

And if you want to talk about self - interest, just watch politicians jump on any bandwagon of crisis, to impose more fees, levies, taxes and control on the marketplace.

We are seeing more laws proposed based on politicians religious beliefs in the past ten years than any other time period since our founding in 1776.

Our politicians in Washington have exchanged vision for whatever the polling tells them, CEO's have exchanged integrity for a bump in the stock price, educators are more focused on their careers than their students.

But in today's political climate, when establishment politicians fix on trying to find the right policies to appeal to interests, disempowered voters (or perhaps more accurately, voters who feel disempowered) latch on to this promise.

Why can't we find politicians that are more realistic representations of the composition of the U.S. I am a registered Republican but I disagree almost entirely on their social agenda and I hate the Democrat's fiscal agenda.

Britain does not enjoy his company, he has destroyed our democracy, our once centered BBC, rendered our politicians as corrupt, lied to the public on numerous occasions, denied the British public any say on the E.U, denied us the right to know anything of his secret mass immigration policy's, caused more racism and divide in different forms in communities, turned us into the most watched CCTV state in the world, not to mention the wars.

There is so much more to this issue than what is reported on the news or by the various politicians.

Politicians know this, and behind their «ritualistic allusions» to liberty, peace, and democracy they operate on the assumption that voters demand of them no more than an ever expanding economic abundance to satisfy their narrow and self «absorbed pursuit of personal freedom.

While this meant that the Garrisons and the Sumners were unpopular with swing voters, their more inflammatory form of anti-slavery politics made it easier for somewhat more moderate (in both tone and substance) politicians to campaign on opposition to slavery.

A senior Christian Labour politician is calling on the Foreign Secretary to take more action to stop persecution around the world.

Hundreds of people attended and even more stood at the gates waiting to get in — a 300 person limit had been placed on the gathering — as politicians, city officials, interfaith leaders and activists spoke from the steps telling Mayor Bloomberg why he should change his mind.

In tape - recorded conversations, Miller engages liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, big spenders and tax - cutters, politicians, professors and policy specialists — separately and together — in reflection on his proposals, eliciting more or less agreement with this or that plan.

The organizations that run them on the other hand are more corrupt than a Chicago politician.

@TC - The US government is in the red because when the argument between spending more on various programs and taking in less in taxes comes up, our politicians consistently go for the «make everyone happy» option where we spend more and tax less.

... 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.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

It may sound funny but think about it... if politicians and CEO's did the same thing more or less - there would be peace on earth in a fortnight.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

His «constant gripe» about American politicians was that they were «stupider, prouder, more self - righteous, more moralistic, more vain - glorious than the American people on whose behalf they spoke.»

Politicians in Scotland, for example, have pursued a «hearts and minds» campaign to re-educate society on its understanding of sexuality; will a Scottish state rather than a United Kingdom state make that more or less likely to continue.

You are likely more environmentally aware than your theist friends and colleagues and unlikely to fall for claims of industry and wind - bag politicians concerning the impact of man's activities on the environment.

It was a book whose title was to prove more memorable than its content; during the two decades since its publication «blaming the victim» has remained on the lips of politicians and intellectuals as a codified rebuke to any suggestion that people are poor because of what they have done or not done rather than because of what has been done to them or not done for them.

I'd love to see more politicians called on the hypocrisy of claiming to be a good Christian just to vote for lower taxes on the rich, and fewer social services for those who desperately need them.

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.

Anticlerical demonstrations were not unknown and a certain anticlerical rhetoric was common to the more radical liberal politicians.22 A heritage of ill will was created in the first fifty years of the new nation whose full effects would not be evident until the Fascist period when the church, which on every conceivable ideological ground was antithetical to fascism, nonetheless found in it, at least at first, an ally, on the principle that an enemy of my enemy is my friend.