Sentences with phrase «other political experience»

Galef's other political experience includes being President of the New York State Association of Counties, a county legislator and a minority leader for Westchester County.

McDonough's other political experience includes being president of Merrick Chamber of Commerce and a past president of Nassau County Council of Chambers of Commerce.

In 1961, with no other political experience, he was encouraged to run for mayor.

Her other political experiences include secretary for Queens County 32nd Assembly District; part of the Democratic National Committee; and district leader to Queens County 32nd Assembly District; delegate to Democratic National Convention; majority whip, New York State Assembly; and chair of the Queens County Democratic Committee.

Not exact matches

Given the history and issues the other political candidates have, Macron's lack of experience in politics could possibly be seen as a good thing by the electorate.

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These and many other cases and over two hundred years of business experience with profit sharing in America and serious academic study on profit sharing have created a rare opportunity for political leadership.

Additionally, the memo says, Colombia needs a political ambassador with a «wider world view who can use the Colombia assistance we rendered to push [its government] to aid us with training, experience - sharing and the posting of seasoned policy and military officers with other nations (e.g. Mexico, Afghanistan) facing similar narco - terrorism threats.»

«Our political discourse — both the kind we see on TV and the kind we experience among each other — did not use to be this bad and it does not have to be this way.

For example, the Radicals at level 3 bring into focus aspects of the Gentry, Rotten Boroughs, Political Reform, Philosophy, Property and Monarchy, showing how they relate to each other in terms of the Radicals» experience in the passing of the Reform Bill.

In states with higher per capita income, greater housing prices, Ivy League schools, and other fine universities, Obama's greatest win was in Massachusetts (romney's political experience) with about 60 % of the vote.

This constitutional disestablishment of all churches embodied the wisdom of Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson — the one from his experience with the Massachusetts theocracy and the other from his experience with the less dangerous Anglican establishment in Virginia — which knew that a combination of religious sanctity and political power represents a heady mixture for status quo conservatism.

Experience of suffering, poverty, political disfranchisement, economic exploitation, racism, sexism, and other social ills create a different context for appropriating process metaphysics.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Furthermore, the chief justice believes that the court, in imposing paternalistic limitations upon the process of full American political discussion, is justified by the evidence to be found in the experiences of other nations: «The history of many countries attests to the hazards of religion intruding into the political arena or of political power intruding into the legitimate and free exercise of religious belief.»

What is more, it rejects the temptation, also arising powerfully from recent experiences, to sacrifice the self to a leader, a party, a political dogma, or some other idol.

Other groups may not experience the same conflict because they do not read the Constitution in the same way — in the way, for example, that makes no moral discrimination among the kinds of speech or the kinds of political factions that the Constitution was meant to protect.

On a general note, and from years of experience in political activism, union affairs and my former profession, I think the idea that «the people who are the laziest [that] are the most critical of other people's [XYZ]» is not only incorrect but leads to lowered standards.

Although the strife, political and otherwise, I experienced made me passionate about the cause — there was not a shred of doubt that Sarah and the other ambassadors did not feel as strongly about it.

«His lack of clubhouse political experience may be his greatest asset as the state needs someone untainted from all previous cozy arrangements that the other leading candidates are all part of.

He went on to lambast the many members of Congress who do not have passports; a fact symptomatic of a political class whose influence extends far beyond its experience and whose views of the East are formed solely from second - hand sources — «West — West dialogue» — telling each other what they already think.

She would not wish her experience to discourage others, but acknowledges that a sense of security is crucial to promoting political engagement.

To me that argues for heightened attention to the other aspects of action and concert in political life, in which people who take such risks experience not just fragility but great joy, and not just a sense of precarity but a broadened sense of community and togetherness, not just martyrdom but also transformation.

Other experience includes a year on the US 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a year at the Kabul - based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, two years in Beirut, Lebanon, shorter project management roles in Jordan, Pakistan, and Iraq, political risk forecasting in a London - based firm, and stints with the International Crisis Group and the US Embassy in Kuwait.

And, on the other, public experience (the sort of thing which gives rise to political action) gets privatised out of existence.

Stability in that region has historically meant the repression of political, ethnic and religious differences and assertion of political status quo, as has been experienced not only by Kurds but also by other groups targeted throughout the so - called Arab Spring.

We argue that this is actually part of a broader trend across the political classes away from empirical truth and towards a world in which experience and perception trump all other concerns.

In other words, «elections with integrity» should aggregate political views that emerge when citizens apply their own values and experiences to facts.

Many of our members only became politically active in recent years, while some others have had extensive political experience in politics before finding a home with us.

Jefrey Pollock, pollster and political adviser to Cuomo and other prominent Democrats, said that celebrity isn't likely to trump governing experience in the voting booth.

They later picked Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor of Sokoto state ahead of others because of his experience, penchant for good governance and integrity among our political class.

Political watchers and other pundits, had projected Americans to vote for the experienced Mrs. Clinton, who was once an aide worker, former First Lady, a Senator and a Secretary of State in the first Obama administration, and Nana Addo, knowing the influence the American elections had on the Ghanaian one, clearly distanced himself from Mr. Trump, who ahead of the American election, was described as belligerent, anti-black, anti-Islam, anti-Mexico, among others.

Government must take steps to galvanize consensus around other issues of national importance, especially with respect to political governance nation - building matters, and should initiate a process of involving citizens whose experience, insight and expertise will enhance economic policy management and national governance.

«This time last year I was wondering who to vote for and I felt very frustrated that none of the other political parties were speaking to me and my needs and in many respects they had relegated my experiences to an afterthought.

In essence, Jarvis's political experience on the national stage made him stand out as the only credible contender — in fact as the only candidate that looked prepared and cared enough to put together a full manifesto for the mayoral post, whilst the others relied on notes scribbled on a piece of paper at best.

«Those who are more of the status quo political types may move towards one of the other two, Rubio or Cruz but based on executive experience, I'm going to go with the executive every time.»

The coalition of seven political parties that produced Adama Barrow, President - elect of Gambia, has enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to deploy his vast experience, alongside other African leaders to resolve the political logjam in Gambia.

Before starting his political life Smith gained experience on «the other side of the microphone», working as a BBC journalist for ten years.

Despite the lack of electoral experience, the other candidates aren't exactly political outsiders.

The governor also said he had no knowledge of the various legal and financial woes that Mr. Howe faced over the past decade or so, even as he parlayed his experiences alongside the Cuomo family and other political figures into a lucrative lobbying career in Albany, New York and Washington.

We are born with what political scientist Robert Putnam calls «bonding social capital», a sense of belonging to our family or other people with shared experiences, cultural norms, common purposes or pursuits.

A report summarizing the experiences of other communities that have moved to broader school choice, and considering the research about the academic, economic, and political issues for maintaining balanced enrollment.

In speaking with Bhavini Bhakta and other teachers during Vergara, Gibson Dunn heard about the frustration teachers experience when they are forced to spend their own money on political causes that they believe weaken California's schools and classrooms.

Some political leaders did have military experience, others did not, but if Lincoln felt it would be helpful to the cause he did not hesitate to name generals regardless of experience.

When David Bruns, a longtime client of mine, teamed up with other former Navy officer and friend J. R. Olson to write a military / political thriller, they decided to keep a blog about the experience.

She also has experience editing non-fiction (mostly political and women's studies, although she's edited dissertations and other academic writing in the past, as well).

Indie travelers do... - Pack light and keep things simple - Adapt as they go rather than micromanage in advance - Practice caution, but not paranoia - Know how to slow down and enjoy an experience - Seek pleasure in simple moments and details - Make meaningful connections and informed decisions - Learn the economic, political and environmental context of their host culture - Emphasize listening more than talking - Practice courtesy, patience, humility, and good humor - Seek to understand — not judge or romanticize — other cultures - Give back to the local economy - Share what they've learned with others

The exhibition highlights the political dialogue inherent in the artist's artistic interventions — from his concern for the extreme plight of the homeless, his interest in direct community engagement, his belief that we should expand our lived experience of a city into its underground and other inaccessible spaces, and his commentary on development and socioeconomic stratification.

Feminism proposed two alternative sets of criteria between 1970 and 1990: in the 1970s, the first — in whose development Schapiro participated — challenged the formalist canon for its exclusion of so much political narrative, and even formal content and materiality, and proposed alternatives that looked to craft, costume, folk art, surrealism, the real, lived experience, and the body; the second, developed by deconstructionist feminism during the 1980s, challenged the first for its essentialism and looked back to aspects of modernism other than those promoted by Greenberg, namely the fragmentary, the filmic, the appropriational, and the disruptive aesthetics of Brechtian distantiation.

These works may employ disorienting illusions of depth and flatness, intensely affecting color, or synesthetic auditory and haptic stimuli to introduce new kinds of sensory experience that in some cases suggest a utopian vision of the future and in others embody critical or ambivalent attitudes towards contemporaneous reality — social, political, and technological.