Sentences with phrase «political facts of life»

That political fact of life, which has set in among the smart strategist set in Washington over the last 10 days or so, is due longstanding in - state rivalries — much of Hawaii Democratic establishment including its two U.S. Senators don't like former Rep. Ed Case (D)-- as well as a special election quirk that puts Case, state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D) and Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) all on the same ballot.

Not exact matches

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

That's just a blunt fact of political life in this election.

Rice's grim portrayal of our cultural and political circumstance notwithstanding, this is a book marked by a bracing confidence that the friends of life are, in fact, on the winning side.

Concentrated economic and political power is going to be a fact of life, regardless of the economic arrangements under which we live.

From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.

The ministry, or in concrete terms the clergy, has often too easily the impression, not merely that the Church has to proclaim what are certainly correct principles of social, cultural and political life, but that by that very fact it possesses, for everything of the slightest importance?

Indeed, the fundamental point here is that the strong appeal of the proposals being made by the new reformers is due to the fact that they cohere so well with the way in which we now understand political life and with the way in which we represent ourselves as moral agents.

But he was more interested in the fact that each religion was presumed to possess the same «spiritual values» of «the American Way of Life,» by which he meant a soft - hearted faith in democracy (political, economic, and religious) combined with a more robust faith in idealism, activism, and moral conviction.

It is due also in part to the fact that religious institutions in black communities have not been sufficiently cognizant of the radical implications which the changing political, economic and social realities have for their life.

The ending of tyranny in the world is an eschatological hope, not a political policy, and one wishes the president's language would reflect that fact of life.

Christianity does not ignore the vision of a redeemed political order but it sets all political hopes in a perspective which relates each person and each historical fact to the ultimate community of all life with God.

When we are told that «communism and Christianity are in actual fact two competing systems offering to reconstruct China... they are two antithetic and contrasted systems, either of which will affect the whole political, social and spiritual life of the people,» the question at once arises: What are the Christian correlates to the communist economic system and social practice?

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

The importance of the power problem for Christian ethics derives both from the fact that power, whether economic, political, military, or spiritual, means capacity to determine life for good or ill, and from the fact that some fundamental redistribution of power is necessary as a condition of the freedom and dignity of men in their social relations.

«Fullness of life» may mean many things; but what is meant here appears from the fact that it is something which other faiths also offer in an inferior or equal manner and that it is elsewhere declared that «our dedication... is to the progressive realization of the dignity and worth of man in every area of life — political, economic, social and religious.»

The resulting confusion is similar to the one that appears in political life when a particular democratic society is made the object of a devotion that genuine democracy extends only to humanity, created free and endowed with natural rights prior to any recognition of these facts.

This tragic story of mismanagement, which has already cost so many lives, is due to letting decisions be influenced, not by the facts of nature, but by political propaganda.

Thus, in the political calculus that flowed from portraying racism as the central fact of American life, no white effort to redress the transgressions against the blacks was ever adequate, and no black challenge to the privileges or sensibilities of whites was ever excessive.

Most important, Taylor argues, «the practice of execution is a terrorizing tactic that over time creates illegitimate state power»; the eventual result is a corrupt and undemocratic political system — in fact, what else can you expect when you give the government absolute power over life and death?

What in fact do we expect to happen as a result of our involvement and participation in economic, social and political life?

This concern arises out of the fact that Christians believe that God, the Creator, is the Lord over human life in all aspects — be it political, economic and social.

So much of the work of political life is in fact taking the problems of others on your own shoulders.

The end of the Cold War (how matter of fact those words already appear) requires reconsiderations in every aspect of American political life.

[7] Given Gove's antipathy towards Europe, the fact that he claims that the decision to campaign for Brexit was «the most difficult decision of [his] political life» [8] perhaps means that it had more to do with political ambition than with political beliefs.

For instance, they're more likely to donate to a candidate, more likely to join a political email list, more likely to visit a candidate's site, more likely to click on a candidate's ad — in fact, they're more likely to mention even RECEIVING political email from a friend or family member, which suggests a high degree of back - and - forth interaction about politics in their online (and probably offline) lives.

Political and economic competition across the border is now an increasingly visible fact of life.

The sad fact is we knew Cleggie was a bloke that swings both ways in his Political following, he is a Tory Liberal when the chips are down, who can blame him he is the old Whigs after all, I suspect in five years time Cameron will give Clegg a seat in the house of lords, and then he will be able to earn a living telling people about the liberals being back in power, as his party disappears up it's own ass.

«And so if I have one message for you this afternoon, my friends, it is that this illiberal analysis is deeply and dangerously wrong and that these social and political freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom to practice whatever religion you want and to live your life as you please - these freedoms are not inimical to prosperity — they are in fact essential to sustained growth.»

Although the terms political philosophy and political theory are used rather indiscriminately, those who think of themselves as political philosophers tend to link what they do closely to philosophical and moral principles; while those who call themselves political theorists tend to appeal to facts about the world and to the way in which the structures and processes of social and political life limit the possibilities for the realisation of those principles by political agency.

Republican political economy deepens this appeal by focusing attention on that fact that tax justice is integral to blocking sources of political and economic domination that disfigure and distort the conditions of civic life.

It is a fact of our lives that not many people, or political parties for that matter, in our country appreciate the significance of a Manifesto in a democracy.

Fact: Vince Tabone has made a career out of running for political office, losing 3 times in and even running on the Right to Life Party line like the whack - job radical that we all know he is.

Lies are always corrosive, whither in public or private life, but the use of outright falsehood for political manipulation really wasn't viable until media outlets like Fox arrived to provide fact free opinion sources disguised as news.

It's an obvious fact of political life that there's enormous re-election power in incumbency.

A little backbiting by the officials and their aides, who occupy power suites at opposite ends of the State Capitol's second floor, might be chalked up to the kind of rivalry that is an unseemly but unsurprising fact of life atop the state's political food chain.

While this may be news to many Westchester residents, it is not even an «open secret» in New Rochelle just a banal fact of political life.

«Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant, it is in fact the very elixir of life,» CO2 Coalition adviser Craig Idso says of the climate change debate at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

And so it all becomes a great political calculation as the man balances the fact that hundreds, if not thousands, of lives are being lost daily while he has to stall peace to wrest into being one of the greatest and most important changes in American history.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has immersed himself back in the world of cinema since leaving his political post as the governor of California, possibly due the fact his private life have come under scrutiny since the controversial marriage break - up (as well as those extra childcare payments).

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

If the ambition is broader, and this in fact a science - fiction - laced exploration of life under some kind of miscellaneous totalitarian dictatorship and the homogenisation of mankind, then you'd be forced to concede that the film fails to ignite that particular political powder - keg.

Also, the fact that many people around the world still live in extreme poverty and with no access to basic needs — such as transportation, sanitation, health, education — just aggravates people's sense of political misrepresentation towards official institutions.

In the end, we may need to accept the fact that the school's - and the state's - role in this domain is simply limited: by its meager portion of children's lives, by its pedagogical weakness, by the absence of political and intellectual consensus, and by the modest capabilities of state standards and tests.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

The exhibition directs our attention to these modernists while critically engaging with the perceptual, social, and political implications of their ideologies on the future — in fact, on us — and the way we live now.

By Paco Barragán If we study photographs, articles, manuscripts, books, letters and Salvador Dalí's autobiography we can easily come to the conclusion that as of today Dalí's political life is still greatly unknown by most art professionals due to the fact that all exhibits and retrospectives - think of Pompidou and Museo Reina Sofia or the -LSB-...]

But in fact these paintings belong to the present, and their toxic materials refer directly to the messy political and cultural soup of everyday life.

They acknowledge that «the fact of living in Cuba has already influenced us in our way of thinking and in our logic to perceive the artistic, cultural events,» but stress that this is simply an irreversible effect of their background: «Although our work never made a direct statement towards the political reality of Cuba our context, our culture, and our homeland [always lie] in our artistic practice.

It must never be forgotten that political and economic activity is only effective when it is understood as a prudential activity, guided by a perennial concept of justice and constantly conscious of the fact that, above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty, deprived of all rights.