Sentences with phrase «politician in any party»

Director Andy Flannagan said: «We should start by welcoming comments about faith and taking them at face value, whether from David Cameron or from politicians in any party
It is the dominant position in the church, and it supports the type of policies advocated by most politicians in both parties.
What difference does it make if you're a black woman Mormon Republican if you hold the same views and have the same tired things to say that every other politician in your party says?
But I am ready to take it on, like I've done as attorney general, where I've fought for you against bankers, lobbyists and corruption politicians in both parties.
There has been an obvious tragic loss in public trust in elected politicians, especially in light of poor judgment and greed from some of our politicians in all parties.
4) For the many prominent politicians in both parties, from several states, who've taken campaign contributions from Joseph Pontoriero, Worth Construction, or any permutation thereof, one used 6000 dollar suit.
There are still plenty of politicians in both parties that are there for reasons above and beyond their donor's desires.
In the last six years then, politicians in both parties at the national level went right up to the edge of using parliamentary procedures to break a controversial impasse but backed down at the last moment.
I don't think any politician in any party wants to see this sort of thing going on.
This slogan, at least in the manner in which it has been espoused by politicians in both parties, has attracted fair criticism for being overly bland and safe.

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But, Rachel Reeves, a Labour party politician and the chair of the Business Committee in the House of Commons, is less eager for London to pursue the listing.
These quirky differences in consumer behavior between members of the two parties matters more to marketers than to politicians.
In December, the WSJ reported that the funds may have been channeled to politicians and projects to help his party win 2013 elections.
After spending a reported $ 25 million to launch his own political party in Austria, the auto - industry - magnate - turned - politician won only 6 % of votes.
British opposition politicians said Trump was not welcome in the U.K. Former opposition Labour party leader leader Ed Miliband tweeted to Trump that the reason he cancelled was really «because nobody wanted you to come.
And so drug makers and others in the health care industry have responded in force during the 2016 election — contributing heavily to both parties, including to the very politicians who are criticizing them.
Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.
But in today's political environment, such transparency carries a heavy cost for any politician, regardless of party affiliation or background.
Yet it is impossible to even guess with authority about where this headed because few before have seen a politician like Tsipras, who led his Syriza party to victory in January on a promise to undo all the austerity measures that had been implemented since Greece's profligacy caught up with it in 2010.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a politician from the national opposition Labour Party who has criticized the firm in the past, said on Monday he had asked Transport for London to be available to meet CEO Khosrowshahi.
This would be a threat to established politicians in the PP and PSOE, and even Catalan nationalist parties, as unsavoury revelations become known.
Across party lines, roughly nine in 10 Americans support solar power, and according to a poll commissioned last spring by The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC), 69 percent of Republican likely voters and 80 percent of Democratic likely voters would be «unlikely» to reelect a politician who failed to raise the solar net metering cap.
«What matters and should matter to politicians and people who believe in the kind of values that I believe the National Citizens» Coalition share and the Reform Party share is not whether the Canadian state prospers, but whether the Canadian people and the land we call Canada prosper.»
Given that fundamental aspects of how the Internet works are being decided by the PMO, Shade and Moll say it's up to the public to get Canadian politicians «up to speed» on net neutrality the way the American public did in the U.S. To date, there is scarce indication that any of the major parties are thinking about the issue; McArthur says a letter to his Conservative MP in Edmonton didn't even generate a standard response letter.
The resulting public discourse has seen furor from many quarters with politicians on both sides of the Atlantic rounding on all parties involved in the allegations with Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg earlier facing two inquisitions from the US lawmakers as a result.
There will also be inevitable blowback from business interests, but their Republican allies in Congress should think twice about backing them up: No party and no politician that opposes the new overtime rules can credibly claim to care about the middle class.
Mr Rittenberg, Mao's former interpreter, says that promoting a single popular figure may have been a deliberate strategy of the party elite, in the hope that such a politician could more effectively carry out the difficult economic and social reforms which Mr Xi says are needed.
Mr Marshall's Liberal Party secured 25 seats in the 47 - seat lower house, but he doesn't have the numbers in the upper house to push legislation through without the assistance of minor parties and two SA Best politicians.
Rejecting traditional campaign techniques in favor of social media, the party pushed its agenda of, first, ending the generous state subsidies and salaries paid to Italy's political parties and elected politicians and, second, replacing them with a vaguely conceived Internet - based representation system.
A group of lawmakers led by a politician from Korea's ruling political party is drafting a bill to legalize the launch of new cryptocurrencies and ICOs in the country.
Democratic politicians in the state seeking party endorsement are supposed to read and get behind the party platform, including basic income.
Former PC MLAs Thomas Lukaszuk, Doug Griffiths, Teresa Woo - Paw, and Stephen Khan and current Independent PC MLA Richard Starke have been mentioned as potential candidates, though bringing in former politicians associated with an unpopular old government might not be the best strategy for the newly rebranded party.
The decision by Mr. Prentice, Mr. Jean and now maybe Mr. Kenney, gives the impression that Conservative party politics in Alberta is becoming a grazing plot for Conservative politicians whose careers in Ottawa have stalled.
If these opposition parties do not step up to the plate, Albertans can once again expect a Senator - in - Waiting election dominated by conservative politicians.
Many Wildrose Party and federal Conservative politicians have supported Levant's Rebel website on social media, through online interviews, and participation in rallies and events organized by Levant and his employees.
European People's Party MEP Tunne Kelam said the current Iraq crisis has made EU politicians more aware of the fate of Christians in the Middle East.
The vote in favour of the package came after an all - night debate which included significant opposition from many of his own politicians in the Syriza party.
The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi supports civil unions, but other traditional colleagues in his centre - left Democratic Party do not, as well as politicians from other parties in Italy.
But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.
In Washington it is all politics all the time, with declared parties overtly contesting for advantage, led by politicians effusing self - importance.
In a strong two - party system, politicians such as Pat Buchanan or Oliver North are more successful in generating news copy than in winning electionIn a strong two - party system, politicians such as Pat Buchanan or Oliver North are more successful in generating news copy than in winning electionin generating news copy than in winning electionin winning elections.
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.
Rachael Maskell is among politicians supporting a call by her party's leader for a new War Powers Act to require ministers to consult MPs first before taking such action in the future.
The growing indispensability of mass media for reaching electorates, political parties, church congregations, the entire youth population and even widely dispersed intellectuals, has forced not only politicians but educators, clergy, and scientists to join merchants in adapting their messages to fit the exigencies of the media system.
Meanwhile, he adds, he can do a great deal of good on many other fronts in his vocation as a politician, and his party would quickly end his career if he were not clearly perceived as pro-choice.
«Those of us in a leadership role in society must do our level best at all times and try to set a good example to others in what we do and how we behave - that includes all politicians regardless of any party affiliation.
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Americans of both parties, to judge by their behavior, appear to believe that policies are created by placing a suitably charismatic politician in front of a sufficient number of television cameras.
After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....
I wish we had achieved what the community organizer had promised the American people in 2008 and not what we ended up with, another lying corrupt politician dedicated to a government of the lies, by the lies, and for the lies of the liberal contingent of the Democratic Party.
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