Sentences with phrase «politics of the big man»

Africa has long suffered from the politics of the Big Man, and the danger is that South Africa will eventually turn against democracy for the easy «solution» of such a saviour.

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Get ALL big o out of politics and perhaps we can get back to «one man one vote» as opposed to «one dollar one vote».

Big, ambitious politics means doing «something about the high cost of health care,» ending our «addiction to oil,» bringing «our brave men and women» home from Iraq.

Instead, I think the big issue for women (and much less so for men) is their lack of confidence in their ability to fulfill their life - goals, which is why marriage, family, and the extremely fraught issues of sexuality loom so large in our cultural politics.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydro fracking.

Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably but would almost certainly lose, crushed by the ability of an experienced candidate like Hillary Clinton to raise money from big donors and lock up endorsements from elected officials and party activists.

Cameron is a man of principle, who took big, brave risks after the election where lesser men would have buckled, and who has managed to change his party, and therefore British politics, for the better.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydro - fracking.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydrofracking.

This is the Celebrity Big Brother Theory of women in the public eye, as advanced by my old friend Matt Goddard [@JokerMatt]: as in politics, when it comes to booting celebs off the sofa, women are more likely to vote than men and they tend to actively vote against the women contestants they dislike more readily than they do their male counterparts.

I've made a big fortune out of the game, and I'm gettin» richer every day, but I've not gone in for dishonest graft — blackmailin» gamblers, saloonkeepers, disorderly people, etc. — and neither has any of the men who have made big fortunes in politics.»

Well, welcome to politics, Steve, I hope it is a short lived welcome especially for the prospect of big fat drunk man being made a Deputy Mayor by you.

A brilliant man of clear, conservative convictions, he is not muddled by the politics of calculation, which gives him an advantage in a big, wide - open field.

Almost all of the pro-European «big beasts» of the Thatcher / Major years - men like Chris Patten and Michael Heseltine - are long gone from front - line politics.

For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women.

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[4] J Liddle in M Langton, «The end of «big men» politics» (2008) 22 Griffith Review 11, pp 15 - 16.