Sentences with phrase «political interests felt»

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But in today's political climate, when establishment politicians fix on trying to find the right policies to appeal to interests, disempowered voters (or perhaps more accurately, voters who feel disempowered) latch on to this promise.

Democracy as an ideal might be said to be the attempt to accord to every person the possibility of finding his rightful share in the social good through an order in which his interests and claims will have a fair hearing, and through a political process in which whatever power he can legitimately muster will be able to make itself felt.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

Those who now make the decisions feel free to make them in terms of their own short - term economic interests, without fear of political and military consequences.

It is a great advance when people who have been powerless and plagued by apathy or fatalism organize to improve their lot, and this means creating instruments of political and economic power that enable their interests to be felt by the community at large.

Whether it's celebrity gossip or the latest Lana Del Ray album or political news, try to keep in touch with your interests so you have something to talk about with your friends, and you feel like a part of society at large.

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

The movement has no real political experience and Mr Grillo seems only interested in pandering to the electorate's gut - feelings, demanding on one hand a Federal Europe and on the another the return to a national currency.

It was felt that Ministerial control over interest rates was not conducive to long - term economic stability, as multiple political factors had long clouded economic judgments about what monetary policy should be used for.

«Once you get past all the venom and the vitriol and the bruised feelings, there's a mutual self - interest in eventually finding agreement,» said Bruce N. Gyory, an Albany - based political consultant.

So why de Blasio felt compelled to gild the lily — to form nonprofits and collect special - interest cash to enhance his political prospects — is an enduring mystery.

Clegg said that doing that might make people like Hope feel good for about five minutes, but that it would «destroy what we are trying to create», because it would undermine the idea that political parties can work together in the national interest.

«It is on the basis of these facts and some decisions of the Ajimobi's government as it affects the generality of our people that I have had cause in the past to criticise him and insist that the overall interest of APC as a political party in power should be paramount, rather than the egoistic feelings of the governor and his co-travellers.

«It certainly does not serve the public good to create a pay - to - play atmosphere where New Yorkers who have business before the city feel the need to contribute financially to the Mayor's political and nonprofit interests in order to have their business favorably considered.»

«The political muscle memory will be that each legislative house will pass their own proposals, they magically won't match and yet lawmakers will feel like they have enough political cover to face voters in November,» the New York Public Interest Research Group's Blair Horner said last week, before the revelations about Percoco.

The other party conferences often feel like trade fairs, with lobbyists from this interest and that attempting to bend political ears.

Clauser would later write with great passion that in those years, physicists who showed any interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics labored under a «stigma,» as powerful and keenly felt as any wars of religion or McCarthy - like political purges.

That professor, Stephen Malley (Redford, The Clearing), is featured in the second story, where he calls in to encourage a student (Garfield, «Sugar Rush») who appears to be dropping out of his interest in in a potential future political career because of a feeling of apathy that nothing he does will ever make a difference.

Renoir's removal of any hefty political inquiry feels justified given his interest in the women's foregrounded sexual awakening and the idea of Harriet running from childhood into love.

I don't mean to suggest that Hobbit 3 is political in any way, just that it feels very much like everyone involved lost interest, decided to throw a few Christians to the lions, and call it a day.

The Thai political ethos has proved either interesting or confounding enough that several news organizations, including the BBC, felt compelled to chronicle the sequence of events.

He subsequently became interested in language as a subject and in video as a medium and generated a substantial body of work that played with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political satire, oddball performance, and a kind of intellectual comedy.

This is perhaps the most significant pivot in our short history, but one we felt was a necessary evolution both in our own internal shifts of interests and in response to broader intersections in contemporary arts publishing, social and political movements and artist - centered practices.

His work often invokes the art historical alongside contemporary political issues and topical interests, delivered with a feeling of post-apocalyptic futurity.

Many seasoned observers of climate science and policy feel it's hard to see how they will, given the pressures on political figures to focus on the here and now, and the variegated interests arrayed at the ranks of tables — from shrinking island states to oil monarchies to established and emerging powers sitting on mountains of coal — and the tough time our species has recognizing slow but consequential changes.

For those not spending the time marching the kilometer or more between the negotiators» Bula Zone and the Bonn Zone — stopping off at the US Climate Action Pavilion on the way — you can still feel the surge in interest: a flurry of state - of - the - world journalism, the publication of academic and practitioner research, and pronouncements from political leaders and campaigners.

The report includes many other interesting results, including measures of public feelings of anger, fear and hope about global warming and the frames by which Americans conceptualize the issue (e.g., as an environmental, scientific, political, moral, or religious issue).

The American Bar Association gets its fair share of criticism from lawyers who don't appreciate the political positions that the ABA adopts or who feel that the organization is dominated by large firm interests.