Sentences with phrase «out of the political process as»

This, when the mayor insists he wants the commission to focus on ways to «to get money out of the political process as much as possible,» as he told NY1 back in February.

Not exact matches

And to do this let us begin by climbing up till we tower over the trees which now hide the forest from us; in other words let us forget for a moment the details of the economic crises, the political tensions, the class - struggles which block out our horizon, and let us climb high enough to gain an inclusive and impartial view of the whole process of hominization11 as it has advanced during the last fifty or sixty years.

Yet fellow Gambians, change of the better is common place in decision making processes in pursuit of good governance,» Jammeh said, as he maintains that the only way out to resolve the current political impasse is to organize fresh elections.

The state typically holds its primary in September, but whether the new date is in June (as Democrats want) or in August (favored by Republicans) the usually drawn - out and litigious redistricting process needs to be resolved earlier so that the requirements of the political calendar are met.

NYPIRG rejects this claim as «bogus,» noting the governor's bill creates a three - step appointment process and goes out of his way to ensure that no one political party dominates.

«Anyone who believes that to be the case is not reviewing any of the proposals that we are advocating for or putting out as we speak and also because the legislative process has not been completed, I don't know how anyone could come to that conclusion other than for political purposes or fear - mongering or editorializing,» he said.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Because the process is tedious and invites retaliation, while leaving the CTA's nearly omnipotent political machine completely intact, helping individual teachers opt - out of paying their political dues is about as «incremental» as incremental can get.

How do we, as teachers and educational leaders, condone putting our students through an assessment process that has been designed to ensure that 70 percent of the students taking the test will not meet the predetermined cut - score that has been set by the test company in consultation with political leaders and educational bureaucrats who are predominantly out - of - touch with both classroom instructional practice and how children learn?

As Edward Abbey pointed out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution of our air, the corruption of our politics, the debasement of the school system (hardly worthy of the name «education»), and the general loss of popular control over the political process — where money, not people, is now the determining factor.»

This leaves those scientists with the options of staying out of the political process or being prepared to argue even the least disputed of details with the general public until such time as they have convinced a majority of the public that action is required.

The Law Society of British Columbia has launched an investigation, the Premier has called for a review of the process by which special prosecutor appointments occur, and the Vancouver Sun (B.C.'s major daily newspaper of record) has dutifully pulled out a list of other prominent counsel who have acted as special prosecutors subsequent to making political donations to the governing party in B.C.