Sentences with phrase «political front lines»

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Made with love in beautiful B.C., the Dogwood Podcast brings you to the front lines of the biggest political battles around our province's land, air and water.

The Globe and Mail, in a front page article entitled «Consider This» argued that the political «parties should commit to holding the line on EI premium increases» [1] They argued that EI premium rates are going up by 15 cents per $ 100 of insurable earnings for every future year and that this is a significant hit on incomes and pocketbooks.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

Second, I predict that the acceptance speeches will be full of the kind of deep political and philosophical analysis which has become de rigueur for those with credentials: the ability to memorize a few lines and pretend to be someone else in front of a camera.

Yet, political in - fighting within CNDD / FDD and its contestation with FNL (the National Liberation Front) suggest that ethnicity is not the fault line that it was in the past.

Political pundits have wondered why such front line executives of the party at the grassroots level can be suspended when it is barely 4 months to the general elections, and also when all hands are needed on deck.

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU - EOM) monitoring team during the 2016 election noted that various factors account for the low participation of women in front line politics and for that matter the governance process, chief amongst which is «hostile political terrain» that results in mudslinging, name - calling and insults or use of vulgar language.

A bruiser and not one to be backward in coming forward to sing his own praises, he is, nevertheless a big political beast, if now no longer active in front line politics.

She wrote: «The Mid Staffs scandal, and the problems throughout the NHS that it has exposed, have one thing in common: Lives lost in our hospitals because of an unaccountable central management and political organisation, more concerned with fixing the statistics for dispatch - box convenience than looking after patients, which has systematically stifled of the voices of those on the front line: both patients» groups concerned for loved ones, and doctors and nurses concerned for their patients.

Cutting the deficit is plainly at the front and centre of the political agenda, and it was mentioned in the first line of the speech, despite not needing a piece of legislation per se.

Alan Crane President of the CIOB said, «Construction might not always be at the front line of making political choices but we are certainly on the front - line of implementing them.

There is no clear front - runner in the Democratic primary, even with the political establishment lining up behind Mr. Grodenchik.

As well as using standard social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, political activists make use of live audio and video streaming sites, including Audioboo and Bambuser, to keep the world up to date with news from the front line.

Publisher's Book Description: The award winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize - winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have fought at the front lines of climate denialism for most of their careers.

Wayne Pacelle, leader of the Humane Society of the United States, offers a front - line account of how entrepreneurs, startups, scientists, philanthropists, and political leaders are shifting American business to create a «humane economy.»

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

Amid national political turnover and financial worries, states remain on the front line in the push for school improvement.

He travels from the White House to war zones and immerses us in the political and flesh - and - blood battles on the front lines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement.

Turkey, a nation known of late for its divisive nature along political, ethnic, and religious lines, has shown a united front in its collective love for the nation's cat population.

As the records show, Exelon does not hesitate to fund front groups and aggressive political lobbying to advocate for its interests and eliminate pro-clean energy policies when those policies conflict with Exelon's bottom line.

Since its launch in 2007, The Daily Climate has marched at the front - lines of the effort to challenge those who do not accept scientific facts and to empower those pushing for grassroots political action.

The award - winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize - winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers.

We are often at the front line of making both the legal and political case for international law.

The political problem for Republicans right now in their endeavor to demonize and defund Planned Parenthood is that family planning providers are on the front lines in the fight against Zika, the rapidly spreading virus that causes severe birth defects.

At a time when funding for front line services is going to be a major political issue, we ask our politicians to recognise that the voluntary and community sector can deliver high quality, value for money and flexible solutions.