Sentences with phrase «political dead man»

She and Lloyd Constantine, a longtime Spitzer confidant, were nearly alone in arguing against an immediate resignation; Eliot, recognizing he was a political dead man, had wanted to do it first thing Monday morning.

By the same token, the more David Cameron is forced to say he'll serve out the full term, the greater the doubt that will be raised in the public's mind, not least because there is an army of disgruntled Tory candidates who will happily brief any passing member of the media that David Cameron is a political dead man walking.

In a rare introspective interview, Governor Andrew Cuomo looked at the state's history and reflected on his tumultuous political career, noting: «I was a political dead man once.»

Not exact matches

I think most of Crosson's theories are valid and I believe that the core group of Jews that spread their belief that a man named Jesus rose from the dead were initially thought of as political resurgents out to overthrow the government.

For an intelligent, experienced and talented man in the prime of his political career, the taste of defeat was bitter; all the more so when his forward propulsion was stopped dead in its tracks by his own brother.

The man behind year's best political comedy talks dictators then and now, being banned in Russia and why satire isn't dead, thank you very much

The men in the area were all dead or captured, fled or on some sort of political mission.

Poetry in Action: A Tactical Resistance Political philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote, «A life without speech and without action -LSB-...] is literally dead to the world; it has ceased to be a human life because it is no longer lived among men.»