Sentences with phrase «political decisions people»

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Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

«This is something that has been under consideration for years at LG, but the current political situation is simply accelerating that timeline for a decision,» the person said,

Extremely wealthy people — enabled by a series of key Supreme Court decisions as recently as yesterday — want to be able to spend gargantuan amounts of money in the political process and remain essentially private persons who don't get knocked around or criticized like everyone else in the political arena.

Zuckerberg added that Facebook gets criticized by people from both sides of the political spectrum for their decisions around content moderation.

As the political discussions continue, the European Central Bank on Tuesday raised the limit on emergency funding available to Greek banks, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the decisions are private.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

A person who didn't consider family before embarking upon a political career, who simply didn't care about the impact of that decision on his or her spouse and children, would be some sort of monster.

And even though marriages in Jesus» day were arranged (pun intended) far differently, the principle was the same: People were making logical, relational, sometimes political decisions.

The political problem is replicated at the international level, where the constant expansion of international rights, as in Europe, reduces the scope of political decision - making at lower levels, thus eroding one of the most important rights in the UDHR, namely, to live in a government based on «the will of the people» (Article 21).

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a man on the opposite side of the political fence from Eisenhower, said much the same thing in a 1952 Supreme Court decision when he wrote, «We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

I don't think that other people's bad political decisions should change a compassionate reaction to a person in pain.

The biggest lie is that Mary was never a virgin, that was a political decision made at the Council of Nicea in order to oppress and control people, especially women.

(3) Third, if our society is to change for the better, this will come from a change in the people who influence our political policies and make our economic decisions.

The claim of my nonpacifist colleagues that the system they are using is more socially responsible, more understandable to ordinary people, more culturally accessible to people of other value communities, more able to manage with discrimination the factual data of political decisions, than is my testimony to Jesus» words and work, still has the burden of proof.

We really don't need people in powerful political positions basing their decisions on imaginary sky daddies.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

We need to honor and protect our political freedoms, and hold people morally and in some cases legally accountable for their decisions; but we ought not overestimate the will's powers.

People of faith can help to shape public opinion and so influence political decisions.

It is the confident statement about the intentions of God that all might be one in Christ, that love and justice will dominate political decisions, that all persons will be liberated from the bondage of sin, seif - centeredness, racial pride, arrogance, and despair.

As Toby Huff points out, the idea of legal autonomy and corporate persons brought in its wake: constitutional government, consent in political decision - making, the right to political and legal representation, the power of adjudication and jurisdiction, and the power of autonomous legislation.

«We're keen to share the stories of real people who are facing the crisis so that policy makers across the political spectrum can make informed decisions to be able to help shape a benefit system that works well and efficiently».

It proposes to include all people into decision - making that affects their lives and to extend such participation beyond the political realm.

For, whether we admit it or not, political decisions and actions involve the people about whom God cares very much and, therefore, political exercise has theological dimensions.

Politicians are notorious, particularly in the country, for giving people what they want in order to garner votes regardless of the long term effects (say it with me: 16 trillion dollars) The mere fact that a political decision is made may suffice for proponents but you and I both know that political victory doesn't equal moral certainty

On May 7, the people of the United Kingdom will troop to the ballot box, furrow their brows, pick up their political pencil of destiny and make their democratic cross of decision.

I was wondering if elections really insure to the people that their voices will be take into consideration in the political decisions?

The flag bearer and chairman of the all peoples congress (APC), Dr. Hassan Ayariga has reprimanded the Ghana police service and have asked them to rethink their decision of offering security to political parties and their flag bearers during before, during and after the general elections in November 2016.

The Global Commission further recognises a need to increase the participation of «people everywhere... in the political decisions that affect them».

Miliband wants to redefine what is seen as being strong and weak, as our prevailing macho political culture always defines «strength» as taking «tough decisions» (usually against the most vulnerable people).

For one thing, people tend to make political decisions based on the opinions of friends and family, and how they react to a scandal or other negative event may be filtered through what's said by people they trust.

Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes, a Buffalo Democrat elected in 2002, discovered while community organizing that most issues are «political decisions.»

The decisions and actions of political leaders make a difference and can change outcomes, with big consequences for people's lives».

We need our young people to leave school with an understanding of how our political system works, and how they can be active citizens and influence decision - making at different levels.

Cut taxes for the people that create jobs and make economically sound decisions while spending our money instead of wielding their political power to punish the people who disagree with them.

«That person decided that they have other political ambitions, and I had worked with that person for a number of years, but I have to respect their decision,» the congressman said.

Alluding to last year's disastrous 5 - 4 Supreme Court decision allowing corporations the same First Amendment rights as people when it comes to spending directly on political campaigns, Joe, who also declined to give his last name, joked to me, «They've got to get rid of personhood» for corporations «unless they want to be drafted or executed.»

Wow — totally unfair for people to say that it's only people in red states making stupid political decisions.

The decision to oppose what seemed like the inevitable move to intervention drew plaudits from the party's leftist, anti-war support, but led others to question whether political concerns had taken precedence over the fate of the Syrian people.

Web ads are useful, but at this point, most of the people looking at Lazio's web ads are the few who already support him, or are political junkies who will not make their voting decisions based on web ads.

«When the law makes a decision and it goes against party executives or party officials, the very political parties who are calling for rules of order and law to be put in place so that they will have a fair playing field are the very ones who go and support these recalcitrant young persons as if what they did was right so it sets the tone that there is a conflict and it throws both parties at each other,» he added.

Instead of constructing intellectual justifications, most people make political decisions emotionally.

Speaking at an event at the Glastonbury festival over the weekend McDonnell said the people who died in the tower block inferno «were murdered by political decisions that were taken over recent decades.»

Gone are the days when people felt they have to give automatic respect to the decisions of our political leaders.

The fact that Pataki chose to go against Demos is far less surprising than his decision to buck Cole and Finkelstein, two people who played long - standing roles in his political career.

A governorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde has appealed to former governor of the state and one of the leaders of the party, Senator Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja to rescind his decision of dumping the political party due to alleged impunity.

This term completes his second decade in the Assembly, and he's grown comfortable in the realization that nothing — not an indignant Andrew Cuomo, not his out - of - fashion decision to simultaneously draw a pension and a salary — can undo the lifetime's worth of good will he's built among the political leadership and people of Albany, who just call him Jack.

«Of course the Greek people, the Greek political system has to deliver really difficult decisions now but I don't think Greece has any other option.»

A foreign national shall not direct, dictate, control, or directly or indirectly participate in the decision making process of any person, such as a corporation, labor organization, political committee, or poltiical organization with regard to such person's Federal or non-Federal election - related activities, such as decisions concerning the making of contributions, donations, expenditures, or disbursements in connection with elections for any Federal, State, or local office or decisions concerning the administration of a political committee.

With the debate over welfare savings likely to form one of the central political battlegrounds of 2013, the deputy prime minister, speaking at a joint press conference with David Cameron at Downing Street, said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision as one that divides one set of people against another, the deserving and the undeserving poor, people in work and out of work.»

Failure to invest in CUNY faculty and staff represents a political decision not to invest in the people we teach.»