Sentences with phrase «power with an agenda»

It's still just a collage of of dozens and dozens of different authors works all pieced together by people in power with an agenda.

Not exact matches

This power shift is often a result of voter frustration with one party's propensity to do «too much» or «too little» to benefit its political agenda.

The «leaders» are either rulers of dictatorships, politicians with power agendas or local clerics with their own version of islam that is rooted in the traditions of their region.

We support free Pakistan despite their corrupt government being replete with alternative agendas (India,) graft and power - grabs.

Austin, what you have is a book, written and edited by men who lived in a relatively primitive society with the agenda to promote the institution that gave them power.

I trust the reliability of my own god - given gray matter and the quality of my own recipes far more than that of others with their own agendas and power trips to play out at the expense of others.

During his homily at the Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice [for the election of the Roman Pontiff] on April 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cautioned his fellow - cardinals that John Paul II's successor would have to deal with an emerging «dictatorship of relativism» throughout the western world: the use of coercive state power to impose an agenda of dramatic moral deconstruction on all of society.

With the advancement of the progressive Obama agenda by legislative (as distinct from administrative) means halted, Obama, now the «conservative,» will be using every ounce of his powers to sustain the parts of his program that have been enacted, while the Republicans, as proponents of change, will be seeking to reverse many of them.

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

Democracy, to be practiced and implemented with integrity, demands a free flow of information to citizens; it definitely can not be overly censored, curbed, or edited to suit the agenda of the political party in power.

I have no problem with that agenda in a world in which coercion is necessary to control a fallen humanity, and in which the coercive powers of government are themselves wielded by fallen humans.

Appointment of a chair with sufficient, knowledge, skills, power and influence to take the agenda forward, such as the Chief Medical Officer or the Chief Nurse.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

Which meant that the newly acquired power had to be shared with those who helped to acquire it, but who had their own agendas.

Of course, Obama and Trump are characterized by wholly different domestic agendas, political leadership styles and public rhetoric, but they are also both US presidents, who govern the leading economic and military global power, confronted by largely the same foreign policy problems and endowed with the same bureaucratic structures and military capabilities.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

The Hard Road to Power (with Giles Radice, 2015); The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz, 2015); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister (2013); After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme, 2012); Beyond New Labour (with Roger Liddle, 2009); Social Justice in the Global Age (with Olaf Cramme, 2009); and Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens, 2006).

But in a speech in Birmingham today, there's another Keir Starmer on show - the usual one, who says things with moral and technical meaning and is clearly following an agenda designed to restrain executive power on Brexit.

The potential loss of persuasive power across Europe, then, can not be underestimated — particularly when the UK leadership wishes to be the catalyst in both shaping and standing as a model of excellence with respect to the preventive health agenda.

Also Dickson community to community meet the people tour may turn out to be the game changer for the ruling party as the tour afforded the governor the opportunity to interface with the communities in all the nooks and crannies of the council to sell his agenda to the locals The APC may have captured power at the federal level but the PDP remains a formidable party in the state where money, to a large extent, plays a major role in swaying the vote.

That there will only be a single question is a good example of something well known to those that study social choice theory: the power that someone with control over the agenda has over the outcome of voting.

In short, an assembly with: time; a high degree of independence from political parties; openness, to facilitate wide public engagement; and real agenda - setting power.

House prices were expected to be top of the agenda, with committee members considering new powers handed to them last week by the chancellor, George Osborne, to curb house price rises.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Aubertine says Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor, «has set an agenda that includes a permanent successor to Power for Jobs in the mold of the Energize New York legislation I sponsored and passed in the Senate with broad bipartisan support.»

The left - leaning Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) argued that although the localism agenda was promising, it will be largely meaningless unless the coalition delivers «real powers with new funding streams that give local people more control over how their taxes are spent».

If Spitzer had come to Albany as a crusader, cleaning out the ethically compromised and ridding the state of the Republicans who could slow his agenda, Cuomo signaled from the start that he was willing to work with the powers that be, so long as their powers didn't get in his way.

Sat in the middle of the government's legislative agenda, and neatly tying these themes together, came the proposals for the northern powerhouse, which will see a raft of powers including those for regeneration, transport and health devolved away from Westminster to the cities — with Manchester standing first in line.

May said Valesky may bring home more money for Central New York in the power - sharing deal with Republicans, but she said it's not worth the price of the broader Democratic agenda.

The TPP is a major part of President Barack Obama's trade agenda, and he has sought «fast - track» authority from Congress that would grant him unilateral power to negotiate the deal and would leave the legislative branch only able to vote yes or no on the treaty, with no possibility of introducing amendments.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

Even if Mr. Gianaris and his team succeed, questions remain over how Ms. Stewart - Cousins will adjust to the powers and responsibilities of the majority leader role, where it will fall upon her to appoint committee chairs and set the legislative agenda for the body with Mr. Klein.

New York's lieutenant governorship, however, has far more power in theory than reality, with a huge percentage of the position's time spent promoting the governor and his agenda.

The Political Economy of the Northern Powerhouse (co-edited with Craig Berry)-- the first volume to critically assess the coalition and Conservative governments» Northern Powerhouse agenda since 2014 and associated efforts to devolve power to local authorities across the North.

The move would significantly diminish local council's power over the town centre but it would chime with the coalition's «big society» agenda.

Polanco acknowledged that in order to enact such an agenda, the Public Advocate — a largely ceremonial citywide elected position with little direct authority — needs to heavily rely on the bully pulpit and organizing, as opposed to hard power.

Republicans, newly emboldened with an outright majority in the Senate, say they're loath to cede any of the power to push an agenda to Klein and his I.D.C., as they were forced to do to keep power for the last two years.

Ezeemo seized the opportunity to present his 5 - point agenda which he entitled «SHAPE - Security, Health, Agriculture, Power and Education, saying that he would abide by the contract he is entering with the people, and use the agenda to ensure development of the state.

We will not stand by while people with their own political agendas, controlled by downstate power brokers, maneuver to prevent the downsizing of the Erie County Legislature,» said Legislator Ray Walter, R - Clarence.

The mayor's calls to raise the tax rate for people earning over $ 500,000 from 3.86 percent to 4.41 percent clashes with Cuomo's tax - cutting agenda and is likely to meet opposition from Senate Republicans who have a power - sharing agreement with a group of breakaway Democrats.

In a statement, Ortt called Schneiderman a «power hungry, political opportunist» with «his own radical progressive political agenda.»

Now, with Smith arriving on the scene with a significant new devolution agenda, Scottish politics may gradually revert from being dominated by the grievances of the 45 % who voted yes to independence, to the quieter aspirations of the 75 % or more who tend to back increased powers for Holyrood.

As the dangerous cat - and - mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Academy Award winner Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda.

A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne), erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim (Liya Kebede), and adversaries with an agenda for destruction.

Agenda of Lecture: - Modeling - Sets - Properties of univariable functions - Applications of univariable functions In this File you will find: - 1 Univariable Functions Lecture Power Point Presentation - 1 Univariable Functions Seminar plan - 23 Activities / Exercise on Univariable Functions with full answers for those exercises All teaching materials are used for Bachelor Level Students.

Back in those heady days, the new president, fresh off a comfortable electoral victory and with congressional majorities as far as the eye could see, had the power to drive the agenda.

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