Sentences with phrase «political life meeting»

He added: «If you lost your way for a minute in the cut of thrust of political life meeting Jo would remind you why you went into politics in the first place.

Not exact matches

In the political life of every nation, challenges and crises must be met.

Now, there were two aspects to the night life of Shady Hill; there were the parties, of course, and then there was another side — a regular Santa Claus's workshop of madrigal singers, political discussion groups, recorder groups, dancing schools, confirmation classes, committee meetings, and lectures on literature, philosophy, city planning, and pest control.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

In spite of the heroic renunciation of the religious orders they live in the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situations.

But if basic democracy means the attempt to order the common life in such a way that these conditions are met — and I believe that basic democracy can be so defined — then the positive relationship between the Christian ethic and political and social democracy is here affirmed.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

NY1's intrepid political director Bob Hardt is otherwise indisposed (no word on whether he has been taken hostage by allies of a certain gubernatorial nominee as a result of sparking Lasagnagate), and so I will be live blogging the leaders meeting from the studio with the assistance of input from CapTon's Mike Whittemore and Kaitlyn Ross, who are in the Red Room.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

BY COLIN MIXSON Locals living in and around the Financial District are cordially invited to attend the Apr. 11 inaugural meeting of the New Downtown Democrats, a political club formed by area civic mavens to harness the relatively newfound voting power of New York's fastest - growing residential community, according to one founding member.

Mannion, the former CEO of Unity Mutual Life Insurance Co., first met Cuomo in the late 1970s at a Syracuse political event hosted by then - Mayor Lee Alexander at the Hotel Syracuse.

«I don't care if it's someone on a subway platform or someone I've met in political life.

I have endeavoured, in my social and political life, to treat everyone with whom I have had the privilege of meeting, big or small, famous or not, with the utmost respect and reverence.

Hosting the meeting was the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, who had taken time out from his schedule to discuss the coalition government's foreign policy, despite days of rampant speculation about his private life and political judgement.

I have had three recent opportunities to observe the great man at relatively close quarters — twice at Akure, and once in a meeting in his Lekki Phase 1, Lagos home and on all occasions, the attributes that you observe are always the same - boldness; direct and forthright communication without mincing words; a willingness to challenge and even to confront; and of course his irrepressible energy and vigour, which for a man who has lived a very full and active life in journalism, political party organization, law practice, community affairs, pro-democracy advocacy and agitation, and to the ripe, old age of 90 is truly remarkable.

How this political neophyte with no resources met the stringent requirements to get on the ballot — she needed 1,250 signatures of registered Democrats living in the district — has raised questions whether Rangel operatives somehow are behind her candidacy.

In a statement, Lady Williams described Lamb, MP for North Norfolk, as one of the finest MPs and ministers she had met in her «long political life».

James Lane gets Brooklyn Democratic club endorsement over Vincent Gentile editor's note: this past fall 3 local NYC Democratic Party Clubs endorsed Howie Hawkins, the Green candidate for NY Governor Staten Island Live by Rachel Shapiro April 28, 2015 James LaneThe Southern Brooklyn Democrats have endorsed Green Party candidate James Lane over Brooklyn Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile in the race for Congress, citing Gentile's unwillingness to meet with them and Lane being a political outsider.

Luckily, I quickly met a political junkie who lives in town online on Match.

In this fictional version of the end of his political career, Francois Mitterrand meets an ambitious young journalist named Antoine Moreau who draws the president into a conversation that soon evolves into a major discourse on life, death, politics and morality.

She witnesses demonstrations, visits a tai chi class, encounters an art professor who resembles a hippie and lives in a school bus, and meets a student political activist whose cause is global warming.

After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first - hand, and in The International Bank of Bob he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met, while illuminating day - to - day life - political and emotional - in much of the world that Americans never see.

ALIZA NISENBAUM (Born 1977 in Mexico City; lives in Brooklyn) Calling her work «political witnessing,» Ms. Nisenbaum makes portraits of immigrants, many of whom she meets through her art classes at the Cuban - born artist Tania Bruguera's community space in Queens.

During this residency Andrea met Cori Redstone and the two artists began an artistic and political collaboration that they hope will continue for the rest of their lives.

The teen activist is now calling for March for Our Lives supporters to help a group called Town Hall Project, which is organizing town hall meetings with political representatives and their constituents in two weeks.