Sentences with phrase «political dynasty»
A "political dynasty" refers to a situation where members of the same family continuously hold influential positions in the government, resulting in a concentration of power within that family. Full definition
I grew up admiring Pierre Trudeau (not fully realizing how much he and I differed, politically, from my Albertan grandparents), and even though I'm not a fan of political dynasties, per se, I definitely admire and support your new PM - designate.
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As The Journal's Michael Howard Saul reported, Democratic nominee Andrew Cuomo, the current state attorney general and scion of famous political dynasty in New York, has given up much of his lead in recent opinion polls.
McLaughlin was asked about Albany's troubled history with political dynasties and explained her support for term limits:
Hailing from one of America's most famous political dynasties, the granddaughter of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush explains how every product sold, mainly bags, has a number on it which represents how many meals FEED is able to donate through the purchase.
Created by «The Good Wife» team of Robert and Michelle King, the 2016 summer series centers on Laurel (Winstead), the daughter of a Democratic political dynasty who left Washington, D.C., but is pulled back to help run her brother's Senate office.
Kenya's president took an early lead as results from Tuesday's national elections trickled in, the culmination of a hard - fought contest between the East African nation's foremost political dynasties.
The 51 - year - old prince of the Cuomo political dynasty started by his father, Mario, can't...
A lifelong resident of Windsor Terrace, Robert «Bobby» Carroll hails from something of a Brooklyn political dynasty.
William F. Walsh, the former Syracuse mayor and member of Congress who was the patriarch of a local political dynasty, died Saturday at his home in Marcellus, according to his family.
On the whole, we're not enthusiastic about political dynasties.
Three members of the Vallone family, the Queens Democratic political dynasty, are mulling simultaneous runs for office in 2013, according to knowledgeable Queens political sources.
It has taken nearly half a century to bring to the screen this particular tragic incident that rocked the star - crossed Kennedy political dynasty, but in some ways it is more relevant than ever, particularly in its depiction of efforts to shape the story in order to save Kennedy's career and his very real presidential ambitions, which basically sank along with the car he drove into the water.
A CNN / Time / Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that 53 percent of likely voters support the seven term Republican congressman, with four in ten backing Carnahan, the Democrat's nominee, in a fight between two of Missouri's leading political dynasties.
Quickly, let me concede that Isiaka Adeleke's political dynasty left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) the very day the late politician chose siding with unpatriotic and reactionary extrationists as a full - time job.
Avella and the Vallones (a NYC political dynasty family) have never gotten along terribly well.
Witness whole political dynasties - from Kennedies to Bushes to Clintons just to list the high level visible ones.
The protracted electoral break by Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, and the pointed silence of the Bush political dynasty, rebounded positively onto Trump.
Ephson, who had always insisted political dynasty is alien to politics in Ghana, noted on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM on Monday that Samia couldn't make inroads into the elections, since «there is a limit to how much she can use her father's influence to win an election»
A hugely popular St. Patrick's Day breakfast that for generations has been a must - stop for city pols — and one of the last shows of might for a Hell's Kitchen political dynasty — has been canceled this year.
Stevenson, who comes from a three - generation political dynasty, even hoped to name the Westchester Avenue Center for his grandfather, Edward A. Stevenson Sr., who was also a Bronx assemblyman.
Albany's presumptive mayor - to - be may be signaling the end of a century - long political dynasty - crystallized by the term «Democratic machine,» which many in the crowd now believe has been vanquished.
The affable 37 - year - old state representative didn't find himself up against a political novice, instead he faced a member of a South Florida political dynasty hoping to make his way back to the Florida Legislature.
Bush is the patriarch of one of America's most prominent political dynasties and is father to former US president George W. Bush (2001 - 2009) and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who was a Republican contender in the US presidential primary.
Then, the beginning of the end, for the Obasanjo political dynasty: the rise of the presidential vacuum that was Goodluck Jonathan, under whom everything just collapsed!
And her influence upstate, where she is from (she sprang from an Albany political dynasty of sorts) and is known as a more moderate Democrat, can't be ignored.
On the Lower East Side, it looked like the 40 - year political dynasty of disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came to an end with the convincing defeat of his ally, and incumbent, Alice Cancel at the hands of Yuh - Line Niou, former chief of staff to Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim.
Political dynasties went out with the Kennedys.
And the man for the job was obviously former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the scion of a mighty Republican political dynasty whose time in the White House had clearly come.
Her universe trembles when Jason, her boyfriend, proposes marriage and she must confront her family, the Hidalgo, the most chaotic and surreal political dynasty in the history of Mexico.
VARIETY — Dustin Hoffman and «Game of Thrones» alum Richard Madden have been tapped to star in an eight - part drama series chronicling the rise of Italian Renaissance political dynasty, the Medici family.
The silky Carter Page (Harrelson), black sheep of a southern political dynasty, could be the spiritual son of Julian Kay from «Gigolo,» a man who moves comfortably through the social elite but is abandoned by everyone in his circle when he's implicated in a scandal after trying to cover for a friend.
Finding none, I concluded that he had no idea what the movie was about, and considered the possibility that his generation, raised on stories of a chap who plays quidditch, knows less about Chappaquiddick, a defining event in the evolution of the most important political dynasty of the postwar era.
The show is a combination of silkscreen, monotypes, photographs, and video that explore the celebrity of JFK Jr. and America's obsession with political dynasties.
It was both insane and somehow inevitable that DC insiders expected this election to be a rerun between the two political dynasties who led us through the two most gigantic financial bubbles of our time.
Kudos to the electrifying Australian actor Jason Clarke (Mudbound, Zero Dark Thirty) for playing Senator Edward «Ted» Kennedy with a forceful urgency that avoids the trap of saint - or - sinner labels — an easy go - to when you're portraying a member of America's foremost political dynasty.
The Public Accountability report finds that natural gas companies have retained lobbyists with close ties to the Cuomo political dynasty.
College Park is encompassed by Orlando's city commission district 3, currently represented by Robert Franklin Stuart, Sr., scion of a local political dynasty that includes Orlando Chamber of Commerce president Jacob Stuart, congressional candidate Charlie Stuart, and former state senator George Stuart, Jr..
If you're sitting down with the audaciously titled Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Eileen McNamara, you may find yourself exhausted by vicariously participating in the life of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the woman who most famously founded the Special Olympics but also served as cheerleader - in - chief for the Kennedy political dynasty.
In a letter first reported by the NYT this morning, Paladino slams Cuomo's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, saying he «left our state economy a wreck» and suggesting the AG feels he's entitled to inherit the job to further a «political dynasty.»
«It's difficult to understand why you, a polished veteran campaigner, scion of a political dynasty and king - designate, would fear a simple businessman from Buffalo, who candidly has never been in a debate in his life — except maybe in a bar,» Paladino wrote in the missive, which appears in full after the jump.
«A man who is not part of a political dynasty or funded by corporations or the 1 percent,» the ad's narrator says.
Brother to a treacherous sibling, righteous heir to a political dynasty — and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.»
Kennedy and Cuomo married with great fanfare and press converage about the melding of two political dynasties to form «Cuomolot.»
The Tea Party Express pumped in about $ 600,000 to help the once unknown Miller edge out Murkowski, part of a political dynasty in Alaska.
It's difficult to understand why you, a polished veteran campaigner, scion of a political dynasty and king - designate, would fear a simple businessman from Buffalo, who candidly has never been in a debate in his life — except maybe in a bar.
The senator, who's part of a political dynasty in Alaska, was upset in the August 24 primary by once - longshot attorney Joe Miller, who enjoyed strong support from Tea Party activists and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.