Sentences with phrase «political leadership at»

And, even more predictably, political leadership at the national and international level is mostly paralyzed and unwilling to act.

«Leaders must demonstrate political leadership at a number of key moments this year to get where we need to go, including the Petersberg Dialogue, UN General Assembly, and the World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings.»

All we need to move decisively on carbon reduction is a different kind of political leadership at the very top.

«It is partisan, it is mean spirited, it is cheap politics, it's un-American, it causes the congressional people to show fealty to their political leadership at the expense of their constituents,» Cuomo said in Selkirk.

Wildrosers had a history of refusing to moderate, but Kenney learned political leadership at the feet of fellow social conservative Stephen Harper, who excelled at letting certain elements hijack the party agenda for strategic advantage.

Not exact matches

«It is easy to point the finger at failed political leadership.

No matter which side of the political fence you live on, President Obama is good at moving his agenda forward from a leadership perspective.

Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the point when very few countries in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk of staging the Olympics.

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.

The increased scrutiny comes at a time of emphasis on political and economic stability ahead of the Communist Party's 19th Party Congress this autumn, when leadership decisions are likely to be made.

Surviving students at the school quickly spoke out on social media and to news cameras about the violence and, more broadly, about political leadership that they saw as having let them down.

Let's hope these four Finance Minister can now come up with a «magic elixir» that they, and their colleagues can use at their next finance ministers» meeting to create some «political leadership and courage».

From recruiting many emerging Pro-Life leaders who have gained valuable knowledge and skills in political leadership on our provincial board to activating lifelong Pro-Life supporters at the grassroots level, helping them engage effectively in our last provincial election.

Christy Clark, B.C. Liberal leadership candidate: «At the political level, they see how dumb this decision is, so I think there's an appetite to change it.»

Meanwhile in China, the world's second - largest economy, President Xi Jinping has every incentive to maintain stability ahead of this fall's Party Congress, where he hopes to use a raft of leadership transitions at the top of the Communist Party to consolidate political power.

Its social, political and economic analyses are often admittedly Marxist, but I found no one among its leadership, at least in Nicaragua, who wished to baptize Marxism or to merge Christianity and communism.

The political leadership of Revisionism at this time was secular and sometimes unlettered about Judaism; it generally chose to «respect» religion from a distance.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

Journalists have lately been writing about the Watergate syndrome in almost apocalyptic terms: as not merely the worst political disaster in U.S. history but also the nemesis of U.S. world power and effective leadership in government at home.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

At the same time as the focus of much interfaith activity has become more practical, those in positions of leadership in the political and economic spheres are both recognizing the importance of religion in shaping the modern world and acknowledging that there is a spiritual and ethical dimension to the major problems facing humankind.

During a Summit of the G - 7 * on the information superhighway in February 1995 at Brussels it became abundantly clear that the information superhighway project receives strong support from the world's top political leadership.

And so, just as the Catholic Church rightly takes the initiative in promoting human unity in social and political trends already at work in the modern world, so she can also take leadership in the ecumenical movement, and interreligious dialogue.

What the ex-KGB hand, Putin, has gotten done is this: He's erected a kleptocratic quasi-dictatorship on top of a crumbling civil society while murdering his political opponents, invading his neighbors, backstopping Syria's murderous Bashar al - Assad, and conducting a fantastic propaganda campaign throughout the world (supported, sadly, by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church)-- all of which is aimed at reversing the verdict of recent history, rebuilding Stalin's empire in a new guise, and deconstructing the West.

The confrontation between Nathan and David reveals the nature of the Davidic rule, which followed the way of despotism and broke the covenant, At the same time it reveals the true nature of political leadership as preserver of justice, on the basis of the covenant (II Samuel 12:1 - 15).

Lewis called the uproar over longer school days and teacher pay a «political issue» not driven by the new leadership at CPS.

Cameron has ensured the UK plays no serious constructive political leadership role in the EU at its moment of deepest crisis.

If you could ask the Obama operation, the most successful internet political machine to date, they'd say that the online team should be at the leadership table and equal with field, fundraising, communications, IT, etc — it should be a entity of its own, not stuck under the tech director and hidden in a basement somewhere.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

The hope among the NLD leadership is that economic and political life can be gradually opened over the next three years and that moderates will be entrenched enough by 2015 to allow the NLD's inevitable victory at the polls in that year's general election to be translated into some real political power.

I am a child of the 80s and 90s and, as such, I had the privilege of having my first political experiences framed at a time of unprecedently female leadership in the UK.

Gaining agreement at international summits really does come down to the phone calls, the one - to - one meetings, the cajoling undertaken by political leaders, but in the lead - up to the Cannes G20 summit we saw no evidence of any such leadership.

Studies conducted among the delegates at the 2013 Party Conference show that the party's majority backed him in virtue of his personal characteristics and leadership skills rather than political message.

Buhari on Friday held a closed doors meeting with the leaderships of the two political parties at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Akufo - Addo's poor political leadership, the main guy at the headship of the ethnocentric NPP, has hurt the contemporary legacy and political personhood of Kufuor in several important aspects.

At present a political alliance of the party leadership and right wing trade union bureaucracy is spending unprecedented sums of money to try to take control of this NEC section.

It's easy to laugh at things like this, but this point demonstrates two of the fundamental problems Scottish Labour faces: that its problems are political but are perceived in the «apolitical» language of «organisation» and that the membership can place no trust in the leadership for salvation.

«Given the intensity of the leadership race over the last few weeks, I haven't had the opportunity to think much about the political landscape at home in New York City.

They are therefore acting, while the government retains relatively strong public support, to try to eliminate any points within the party leadership or structures — no matter how seemingly insignificant at this moment in time — around which opposition could coalesce into an alternative political perspective within the party.

The GBC reported that the active members from the leadership of the two major political parties, the NPP and NDC converged at the Dabala Parish of the Global Evangelical Church in the Volta Region to mourn Madam Gladys Amavi Amehoho, the mother of businessman, Alfred Woyome.

But it is telling that most political opponents of military action - which at the moment is basically Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership and the broader Stop the War movement - do not seem to be making these points.

In a major speech delivered at the Manhattan Institute's Forum on Replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge, Astorino said that years of study and planning are doomed to failure — not because the bridge could cost $ 9 billion or more, but because there has been insufficient leadership from the state on this issue to overcome political, legal and environmental obstacles.

If a general election is called later this year, which is a very real prospect, we believe that under Jeremy's leadership we could be looking at political oblivion.

«More importantly, we are celebrating this year's holidays at a time the change we had all been yearning for in the political leadership of the country has been made possible through the support Ghanaians offered the NPP during the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.»

Grassroots started decades ago as an alternative to Buffalo's African - American leadership at the time, quickly gaining stature and influence on the local political scene.

«Half the electorate is really not happy at this point with the president's leadership, and so that doesn't provide members of the House with much of a basis for thinking there will be coattails for them to ride on,» said James E. Campbell, a professor of political science at the State University at Buffalo.

I hope he wins just for the entertainment of seeing the current Repub leadership wiggles and squirms as they try to control their new cadre of home - grown political terrorists ------------------------------------------------- — Abso - freaking - lutely!!!!! At the very least I would be pleased to see him usurp Palin's bogus headlines with something that the GOP couldn't just quietly brush under the rug, hush - up, or justify even to most inbred of their base.

Giving his maiden speech in the House of Lords this week, former Labour MP and chair of the parliamentary Labour party David Watts said: «My advice to my own party leadership is that they should take less notice of the London - centric hard left political class who sit around in their # 1m mansions eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution.»

While 2018 has marked a watershed moment with regard to women running for elected office, we know that there is still much work to be done to ensure greater gender equity, including more opportunities for women to have many seats at the political and business leadership table.

The Centre has offices in Abuja and Kaduna, and treats political leadership as a collaborative exercise that requires multiple governance structures at various levels — individuals, households, small businesses, the organized private sector, NGOs and government.