Sentences with phrase «politician of all stripes»

At the moment politicians of all stripes are competing with each other to tackle passive smoking.

It is understandable that U.S. politicians of all stripes vie to be seen as the one most capable of clipping the wings of their country's preeminent challenger — China.

«With voters plainly fed up with politicians of all stripes, it seems that fewer are ready to admit — perhaps even to themselves — who they will plump for next time,» ICM director Martin Boon said.

Politicians of all stripes agreed that job security was important — and job security increased over time until the mid-1970s.

It's true that politicians of all stripes receive insults on Twitter, and that's par for the course when you're a public figure.

Public Eye has been supported for the past two years by a small group of readers who have made monthly $ 10 contributions to keep me filing freedom of information requests, poring over government reports and holding politicians of all stripes to account.

CEO Randall Stephenson's $ 85 bln offer for Time Warner lacks strategic rationale, has politicians of all stripes criticizing it and has destroyed shareholder value while denying owners a vote.

However, what he said is a TOTALLY understandable level of frustration for people who've sat through one election cycle after another watching politicians of all stripes act like they just HAVE to offer lip - service to the insane religious right of this country.

Any politician can rattle on about ending austerity - and by god, politicians of all stripes do these days - but there needs to be more.

Tea Partiers in particular are a dangerous crowd to trifle with, because at heart they're purists like my friends Adam and Charles — they don't seem to trust politicians of any stripe, meaning that Cantor is potentially playing with fire.

His chutzpah is so mesmerising that he can brag about gaming the system and bribing politicians of all stripes, only to serve the noble purpose of unmasking the corruption of the system.

The television age ushered in a more media conscious era, in which politicians of all stripe had to be mindful of the press.

«What they are seeing right now is politicians of all stripes not working for them.»

Incumbent and neophyte politicians of all stripes were present and hobnobbing at an East Hampton Group for Good Government meet - the - candidates affair on Sunday afternoon at Arthur and Laurie Malman's house.

Politicians of all stripes on the panel agreed that it has to be addressed.

Without a ruthless clean - up man, all this referendum seems designed to do is cover politicians of every stripe with ordure — fuelling voter disillusionment

As CBS2's political correspondent Marcia Kramer reported, Bharara never blinked in the pursuit of Wall Street titans, terrorists and dirty politicians of every stripe.

But Nevada politicians of all stripes are steadfastly opposed to that idea, even as lawmakers from other states push to find a safer home for the spent fuel.

Influential writers and politicians of all stripes blamed him for a series of political blunders.

Traditionally, when on the campaign trail, US politicians of both stripes pose in front of archetypical red barns, to profit from their association with a wholesome America.

This is set to rise steadily higher — yet it is being imposed for only one reason: the widespread conviction, which is shared by politicians of all stripes and drilled into children at primary schools, that, without drastic action to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, global warming is certain soon to accelerate, with truly catastrophic consequences by the end of the century — when temperatures could be up to five degrees higher.

#JustJustice also found supporters amongst politicians of all stripes, including some who donated to the crowdfunding campaign at Pozible.

Experts said a massive transit strike in a statewide election year could spell trouble for politicians of all stripes, especially Cuomo, a Democrat.

Politicians of every stripe and persuasion call for a return to traditional and family values as the surest solution to the nation's woes, from crime and drug abuse to poverty and illiteracy.

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Dee says many of the people she met at the party conference «blew my preconceptions out of the water», but she warns that politicians of all stripes «are not helping themselves, because they're not people persons.»

I advocate the Hunter S. Thompson response to all questions of previous drug use directed at all politicians of any stripe:

Leonard Litwin, one of the state's biggest real - estate developers and one of New York's most prolific donors to politicians of all stripes, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, may have helped fund a Virginia outfit that ran TV attack ads that helped Skelos and the Republicans retain a majority in 2012.

But as I've pointed out, even if we make heroic Defense & Other Discretionary spending cut assumptions, a solution will be unpalatable to politicians of all stripes.

Politicians of every stripe have promised energy independence, but that promise has so far gone unmet.

It's probably true that some people consider some members of the legal profession to be at least as moral as used car salesman, certain members of the clergy, carnival shills, some professional athletes, politicians of all stripes (think Mark Twain), and criminals.