Sentences with phrase «political agendas set»

Some commentators have laid the blame firmly on the US media for sticking too closely to the political agendas set by the candidates.

The political agenda set back in the 1970s was to demonize CO2 using unproven, junk science and, knowing that we can not stop using carbon - based fuels, commandeer our energy while claiming to save the planet.

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They eventually found (or made) a political home for themselves in the Socialist party, which has set the agenda of French politics for the past generation.

Steve Chalke sets the agenda for a new series of Faithworks articles — this month «why the Church needs to get political».

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

The difference between me and evangelicals is that MY political agenda doesn't spring from a set of moral codes I am trying to jam down someone's throat.

Doing so means making religious agenda (s) part of the political policy infrastructure, which brings a new set of problems.

(Which, incidentally, is another theme that reappears throughout European history...) But still, in the new North vs. South Europe France could represent the crucial swing vote, and throw some political clout behind the interests of the South, preventing Germany from fully setting the economic agenda for the continent.

The ten «euro - outs» are disgruntled and obstructionist given their declining political clout while the euro 17 are riven by political rancour especially at Germany's agenda - setting.

Above all, political parties will be aiming to set the news agenda over the campaign.

In short, an assembly with: time; a high degree of independence from political parties; openness, to facilitate wide public engagement; and real agenda - setting power.

Political parties, of course, hold considerable agenda setting power in how they control campaign events.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is asked about his ties to several controversial nonprofit groups that were set up to promote his political agenda, he often points to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is asked about his ties to several controversial nonprofit groups that were set up to promote his political agenda, he often points to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

Beyond this, it is an open question as to whether this initiative mechanism should be limited only to constitutional issues, or rather become an agenda - setting device for generating a citizens» assembly on any broad political issue where the relevant number of signatures can be collected.

Unless she gambles with some of her political capital and sets a new agenda, she may find it's diminished by circumstances outwith her control.

There is certainly a plausible argument that Ed Miliband has been one of the most effective leaders of the opposition in modern British history, demonstrating an ability to set the political agenda that exceeds what either Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair achieved from the opposition benches.

We've seen Green Party leader Natalie Bennett interviewed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show — one of the most coveted media platforms for election hopefuls, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage continues to provide good copy and good telly to most news organisations, setting the political agenda along the way.

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

State Senate Republican President Len Fasano accused Malloy of making a political speech in an effort to set up the Democratic Party agenda for the November election.

Empowered by his experience, Watch hopes to organize the club by setting the agenda on a path to target voters who may not have ever been invited to a political club.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has signed on as an adviser to the newly formed Great America Alliance, a political group that is being set up to promote Trump's ambitious agenda.

It must set a programme of political work to support this national agenda.

After Ed Balls's unconvincing response to Chancellor George Osborne's autumn statement, Miliband had a unique opportunity to set the political agenda for 2014.

The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.

Even though political campaigning has not be officially endorsed by the Electoral Commission (EC), the President's address would likely set the agenda of how the campaign rhetoric of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) would look like.

Hein was about a month behind the curve on this one, rare for a political leader who usually sets the agenda.

The investigation is tied to an ongoing corruption probe into fundraising for Mayor Bill de Blasio's former nonprofit set up to advance his political agenda, the Campaign for One New York.

For one day a year, the spotlight falls on the Labour leader, who is given an opportunity to try and set the political agenda, and, even more importantly, show us what kind of person he is.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has signed on as an adviser to a political group that is being set up to promote President - elect Donald Trump's ambitious agenda.

Ofsted was not set up to push through education reforms against resistance from unions, nor was it established to push any particular party political agenda.

Labour is on the margins as the Liberal - Conservative coalition sets the political agenda at a cracking pace.

The acceptance of the policy by George Osborne and David Cameron is political in nature, but in failing to fight the argument they are allowing Labour to set the agenda in favour of higher marginal rates of tax in that people will assume that the Conservative leadership must have decided that it will raise money, otherwise they would oppose it

Rather than do what New York City now does, which is to set its educational policy by a political agenda, the commission could look at the research about what really works in schools»

He set an aggressive, if less dramatic, agenda for his second year after a first year widely praised as both fiscally conservative and progressive in breaking years of political gridlock to legalize gay marriage.

Senior Lib Dems warn that whoever wins faces a mountainous task in setting out a more ambitious agenda for the party, to carve out space in an increasingly crowded political field.

The first includes those that put a higher value on cities based on economic - financial prowess, and strong global agenda - setting power in political and cultural matters.

Washington — The condition of the nation's educational system figured prominently on the nation's political agenda last week, as President Reagan introduced a four - part plan to «revitalize American education by setting a standard of excellence» during his State of the Union Message to the Congress.

The Representative Assembly is the annual conference for the NEA, the nation's largest labor union, which gathers each summer to set its political agenda for the coming year.

While Families for Excellent Schools and the entire charter school industry continue to expand their lobbying efforts, Neil Vigdor, of the Hearst Media Group, reports that Families for Excellent Schools and other so - called education reformers have set up another Political Action Committee that they will be using to reward and punish candidates who support or oppose their agenda.

A Republican majority would usher in major changes in committee leadership, with political opposites replacing the current Democratic chairmen and setting a markedly different agenda from the past eight years of Democratic control.

As Anthony Cody and others have detailed, billionaires such as Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, set the education agenda, wrote the policy, worked political backchannels, and lined up the corporations who would profit.

The political economy offers a general framework to understand the dominant architecture shaping the cultural field - namely Israel's military occupation and spatial reordering of the oPt and intensified processes of de-culturalization; the effects of neoliberal policies on the public sphere; the agenda - setting of foreign investment agendas; and the impact of globalized arts markets on the production, dissemination and reception of Palestinian culture.

The news media in turn finds no place for this long - term crisis on a news agenda set by the daily political debates.

«Retournons à la Nature That is setting field evidence in the center instead of models and ideas driven by political and / or religious agendas.»

Politico also strongly shapes the agenda of news at the cable networks and blogosphere, setting the tone for political reporting and commentary.

Energy access is not among the goals set by the supranational political institutions, NGOs, and national governments that dominate the development agenda because it doesn't fit with their vision of how people should live.

The more complex response is that what the courts acquire when a bill of rights is entrenched is the power to set a constitutional agenda, a power that the legislature may never have had and so has not necessarily lost, a power the political significance of which depends on the form and content of what is entrenched and the value and character of the power it leaves in the hands of the legislature.

We have seen a change in the way political agenda gets set every day.