Sentences with phrase «political class has»

The government's rejection is, he says, offensive, but lack of ambition from the political class hasn't stopped Indigenous Australians before and «it won't stop us now».

Lack of ambition from the political class hasn't stopped us before and it won't stop us now.

There appear to be some cracks now emerging from the fierce grip the scientific - political class has on climate change.

«Let's face it: the political class has built a corrupt system that rewards themselves,» Ratigan wrote on his campaign website.

As subway riders suffer through train delays and packed cars, the political class has hit upon the easy fix: more money.

COLONIE — With chants of «lock her up» and «Trump, Trump, Trump,» roughly five dozen women from throughout upstate New York gathered for a lunch rally here in support of the GOP presidential nominee, who they said was uniquely qualified to end the «gravy train» where the nation's political class has supped for decades.

Long appeared at a «Women for Trump» rally outside Albany, where roughly five dozen women from throughout upstate New York gathered for a in support of the GOP presidential nominee, who they said was uniquely qualified to end the «gravy train» where the nation's political class has supped for decades.

The political class has many self - serving theories about the British electorate.

Today, the political class has not yet been prepared to respond in a similarly bold fashion.

The whole political class has lost public confidence.

Amidst this hullaballoo, the political class has conveniently turned a deaf ear to the calls by civil society groups to undertake critical electoral reforms such as decriminalising politics.

They need to wake up and realise that although the mystique surrounding the political class has largely been dissipated, they are still expected to take a moral lead — especially if they want high office.

PRONACO; the main citizens» movement advocating for national restructuring based on democratic self determination and peoples» ownership of the Nigerian constitution said the interjection of the political class has reignited hope for national cohesion and political stability in the country

Addressing the rally Len McCluskey will say: «The political class has become adrift from ordinary people and has failed to offer an alternative to austerity.

Italy's political class has struggled to deal with the underlying causes of the country's malaise, including a loss of international competitiveness and the stagnant productivity of its business sector that began well before the European financial crisis of recent years.

No, the political class has to make these decisions.

America's corrupt political class has been bought off by Middle Eastern client states.

Canada's political class has doubled down on preserving middle - class house prices at any cost, but it's stranding a generation in the process

The citizen is neglected, and even exploited by a political class having ceded large sectors of sovereignty to an increasingly liberal and alienated market, while the spoilt consumer worries about his own well - being.

I suspect that the public are more critical of Thatcherism, or at least divided, whereas the political classes have embraced it by and large, albeit with rounded edges.

So will many or indeed any politicians from the old political class have a role in any renewal of the new Greek political system that may emerge in the next two years?

Young people are especially disillusioned and disgusted at the social and economic crisis the Greek political classes have produced.

His idea of «rottamare» («scrapping») the entire political class had an extremely wide impact on public opinion and soon became a slogan for all those who wanted to contest the status quo in Italian politics.

Established media, state radio and tv and the political class had only a walk - on role in forcing the referendum which they collectively opposed: it was the victory by UKIP in a national election (the 2014) European Elections), social media, youtube and the spreading of the message even when it was kept away from the voters by the elite that did the job.

To add insult to injury, our political classes have ensured that those «with the broadest shoulders» have been able to protect and in many cases, add to their wealth whilst those who had no hand whatsoever in the crisis are having to deal with the impact of the recession head - on by way of pay cuts, pay freezes, redundancy and the systematic erosion of employment rights, all in the name of «economic necessity».

Whatever the reason, members of New York's political class have turned their attention to the 2017 mayoral race, or more precisely, to the question of whether de Blasio will even face a serious challenge when he seeks re-election.

«But first the political class have got to recognise there's a problem and either initiate real change or, as Bob Dylan would have put it, «get out of the way».»

Nor the collective horse laugh the political class had at his expense when the wheels came off his last feeble attempt to put that industry out to pasture in January.

And now, when he was sixty - five years of age, the very political class he'd so attacked and hounded and scorned from his redoubt, mocked without consideration or respect for the ties of family or friendship (and he'd lost quite a few friends as a result; even a few relatives no longer spoke to him), that very same political class had decided to put the gigantic Colombian machinery of sycophancy into action to create a public homage that, for the first time in history, and perhaps the last, would celebrate a cartoonist.

Well, that's what our political class would have you believe: in reality, a very recent poll found that a majority of Americans would indeed be willing to pay over $ 160 extra dollars a year to buy cleaner electricity.

Not exact matches

They have been less successful on the extremes, in countries with strict gender roles, and also in places like France, where infidelity is a long - recognized feature of the political classes and a staple of media coverage.

The Occupy movement may have failed to trigger a middle - class tax revolt against the rich, but the issue of tax fairness is gaining political traction.

Trump ran largely on the argument that his business background made him an outsider from an entrenched political class and would lead to him negotiate good deals for the American people.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Barr had said she made Roseanne a Trump supporter on the show because it seemed like an «accurate portrayal» of the political preferences of many working - class American families.

There is also no question that profit sharing has a long and distinguished political pedigree in American history as the bipartisan idea to lift incomes of the working middle class.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for companies, bureaucrats and the political class to work more closely together so Japan can win in robotics, batteries, renewable energy and other new and growing markets.

Doug Mataconis, a political blogger, writes that Cain is «either blind or idiotic to ignore the impact that a combined federal and state sales tax would have in jurisdictions that already do have a sales tax, and the impact that a combined levy approaching 20 percent on the sale of goods would have on the middle class, and on small businesses.»

The staggering growth in China's middle class, the current Chinese political environment, the Chinese investor's penchant to speculate, and Vancouver's reputation as among the most liveable cities in the world have contributed to these rising prices.

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

A San Diego Navy veteran has joined with two other Southern Californians to file a class - action lawsuit against Facebook and others in the wake of revelations that the profile information of an estimated 87 million users was obtained without their authorization by a political consultancy firm with...

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

In the United States, we have disaffected and disenfranchised working - class voters, which have helped drive the whole political framework more toward a populist sentiment.

Has Europe's political class found the formula for dealing with the phenomenon?

This tax - the - middle - class - more reality contrasts with the political rhetoric we hear from federal and provincial politicians, who have talked up their fealty to middle - class finances.

«As the new elite [class] rises, there will be new billionaires created because they have ties with the political elite,» said Shih.

Why has the NDP chosen to attack this world - class institution to score cheap political points, and then be flat wrong?

If you get past racism, political affiliation, and class, we all have the same interests.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

Heroin has become a symbol of both working - class depravity and ruling - class neglect — an explosive combination in today's political climate.