Sentences with phrase «politician did in return»

In its ruling, the high court narrowed the definition of what constitutes an «official act» by a politician, making it more difficult for prosecutors to obtain convictions in cases in which it can not be made clear to jurors exactly what a politician did in return for money or services received from someone or an entity hoping to improperly influence government.

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Answer: Press for the return of the $ 10,000 annual contribution to the Tax Free Savings Account, and do so in a high - profile way that politicians can't ignore.

Monserrate also faces scrutiny from his fellow politicians, who did not approve his impromptu appearance at recent Ecuadorian events in Queens, and from the Senate leadership, who want him to return his Senate - issued parking placard.

People don't give money to politicians unless they expect much more in return, usually from the public treasury.

Yes the chemical companies will undoubtedly and happily sacrifice all of us in return for profit, but just as tragic is the fact that we continue to elect corrupt politicians who are enslaved to the very same companies, and so do nothing about it.

For the novel, all of this had to be simplified — a catastrophe years earlier, the company refusing to come to court, the factory still poisoning, people still ill, children being born with terrible deformities, politicians selling their own people down the river in return for dollars — hardly ever do these issues come into the foreground, and whenever they do, Animal is there to debunk and deride, dissolving polemic in the acid of his own cynicism.

Answer: Press for the return of the $ 10,000 Tax Free Savings Account, and do so in a high - profile way that politicians can't ignore.