Sentences with phrase «powerful government do»

Let the all - knowing and all - powerful government do it all so we can sit here and devolve from caring nation to one that expects its butt to be wiped.

Not exact matches

The country's powerful Interior Minister Horst Seehofer shocked the government and the public opinion last week by saying that «Islam does not belong to Germany.»

He has been forced to operate like a prime minister in a coalition government, pleading for consensus from powerful ministers — such as combustible news head Matt Winkler and terminal boss Tom Secunda — who control resources and decide whether they'll allow anything to get done.

China must do the hard work of shifting wealth from powerful government officials and managers of state - owned enterprises to Chinese households, with consumer spending carrying more of the economic burden.

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

What does the Almighty, the All - Powerful, All - Omnipotent, All - Knowing, needs with a mere mortal - construct called government?

Since public opinion, or world opinion, or the opinion of governments in general has become a powerful factor in the situation, and since the West must depend very much on capturing the opinion and the sympathy of what might be called the uncommitted powers, our future is going to depend on the kind of internationalism which does not attempt to freeze the existing situation in a legalistic manner but takes the lead in predicting and preparing the necessary changes in the status quo.

There are many there who oppose the government but they are not powerful enough to do much.

American Evangelicals might have gone to Uganda to campaign for anti-gay legislation, but so did other powerful figures on the gay lobby side, including President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, threatening African governments with the withdrawal of aid if they didn't conform to the new Western normal.

«If God is so powerful, why does he need a human government to prop him up?»

Powerful well - funded agencies, often promoted by the State (I avoid the word «Government» as I do not want to speak in party - political terms), are mounting a relentless onslaught upon the family and especially the moral sense of our young people.

Still, it is worth remembering that there exists in America a very powerful form of command economy: a large and powerful sector of American business (by some estimates up to one - fifth) is effectively removed from the strictures of the market economy since it does most of its business «on command» with the military branches of the American government.

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

It's as if... a small group of ultra-rich people... have a disproportionate effect on how... aaaaah, my brain... government can help them stay ultra-rich even in matters that don't affect the... aaaaagggh it burns, help... general population, just by virtue of having powerful friends in... AAGGGH I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME... Congress?

However, this widespread scepticism of the merits of the free market has given way to a powerful critique of the state and the government insofar as the state did not only exacerbate the economic downturn, but was the source of its creation.

The most powerful intervention of the day: Mike Gapes reminds Jeremy Corbyn what Labour governments used to do; pic.twitter.com/EO6aVe 0rzy

«Cuomo will do anything to distract from his real record on women's rights, which is one of protecting and promoting powerful serial harassers in state government who were allowed to repeatedly prey on women,» Proud said.

Perry Weitz and Arthur M. Luxenberg of the personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg said they did not anticipate that Silver would use his position as one of the most powerful individuals in state government to aid his work for the firm.

Government watch dog groups say the arrest of one of the two most powerful men in the New York legislature on fraud and corruption charges highlights the need for better state laws against wrong doing.

«That's right, Englebright, the chairman of the Assembly's powerful Government Operations Committee has done nothing.

In many countries here in Europe raising defense expenditure is one of the few things that governments would love to do, to make good friends with the USA as well as projecting a more powerful image, but they're really afraid of potential voters backlash.

At a funeral service in Manhattan Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered a powerful, stirring eulogy in memory of his father, former governor Mario Cuomo, recalling his fondness for argument and his belief in the power of government to do good.

Most New Yorkers don't realize four of the most powerful people in state government have their terms expiring early next year and only a small group will be allowed to decide what happens next.

We also believe that the core ideas animating our community aren't inherently partisan: the freedom to connect, the freedom to share, the freedom to innovate, participatory democracy, open government, transparency for the powerful, privacy for the weak are principles that don't come with party labels but rather are values we should strive to hold all parties to.

The attorney general's proposals do not directly address what he termed New York's exemption - riddled «swiss cheese» tax code, nor do they appear to limit the influence of powerful consulting firms that run politicians» campaigns and then represent business, labor and nonprofit interests seeking government benefits.

«And I think, in each case, the people of our cities don't like the notion of those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people.»

People who have dealt with the Home Office for a couple of years eventually come to the conclusion that it is the most corrupt government department of all Whitehall departments, as they do not look after the people of this nation, but powerful corporations and people who make billions every year through suppression.

Victoria Taylor, Senior dietician at the British Heart Foundation, which part - funded the study, said: «This powerful study may make sobering reading for countries that have set their recommendations at higher levels than the UK, but this does seem to broadly reinforce government guidelines for the UK.

What Is Life Worth is an Erin Brockovich / Spotlight - type story of Ken Feinberg, a powerful insider D.C. lawyer put in charge of the 9/11 Fund, who in almost 3 years of pro bono work on the case, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy and politics associated with administering government funds and in doing so, discovers what life is worth.

Powerful commercial media owners who are sanctioned by the government control the production of knowledge, and set the limits on what gets said and what doesn't get said, and create the contexts in which information is valued or perceived as unimportant.

Although he is speaking of government and open - source software, what Stogdill has to say has powerful impact on what we do in education, how the tools we use change our perspective, and how we interact with others in our learning communities.

Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, says yesterday's «Day of Action» is no more than the latest attempt by the powerful teachers union to pull the wool over the public's eyes: «Randi Weingarten doesn't care about reforming schools in the name of quality education; she cares about exploding government budgets in the name of filling her union's bank account.»

The main theme of this paper has to do with the finding that every nation that tops the list of global education performers has an agency of government at either the state or national level where the education buck stops — an agency that has the responsibility for the health of the education system and the authority and legitimacy needed to provide the effective leadership that results in a coherent, powerful education program.

Could it have something to do with the fact that powerful social interests have access to the State government, whereas the concerns of the ordinary populace are more or less irrelevant to the formation of public policy?

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Inch by little - noticed inch, government and corporate interests are limiting or taking control of everything you do in an effort to make themselves richer and more powerful.

Sorry for the digression — my main point is that even the most powerful governments get bogged down, and can't do nearly what people imagine they can do.

It takes courage for a government to serve notice to powerful offshore oil exploration companies that they're not welcome, but that's exactly what the Belize government has been doing throughout 2015.

Reluctantly, Quatermain agrees to help the US government find a powerful artefact before the Nazis or the Russians do.

Since the government is not doing it, there should be a consortium of powerful and influential small crafs owners (Hollywood types, business executives, etc.) whose means and environmental awareness could spur research and help transform GA in a petri dish of change, instead of the collection of antiquated technologies that it is today.

In other disasters the most powerful narrative can be one of blame - of the people who started a fire (leading at times to the demonization of a supposed arsonist), the government who did not build the flood defenses, the construction companies who broke building codes, or the emergency services who failed to do their job.

The fact is the plans pushed by various Western governments to control the climate (LOL) will in fact do nothing in that regard, but will make the rich and powerful more rich and more powerful, while the rest of us get poorer.

If Goldacre really wants to stick his neck out, why doesn't he try arguing against a rich, powerful, bullying Climate - Change establishment which includes all three British main political parties, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister, the President of the USA, the EU, the UN, most schools and universities, the BBC, most of the print media, the Australian Government, the New Zealand Government, CNBC, ABC, the New York Times, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, most of the rest of the City, the wind farm industry, all the Big Oil companies, any number of rich charitable foundations, the Church of England and so on?

We do this by bringing together powerful networks of business and governments that shift global markets and policies.

His actions tell me that he believes in an all powerful socialist government and he's doing everything he can to to turn the U.S. into a socialist nation.

That's a more complex issue, involving as it does the collusion of the very governments that should be upholding the existence rights and food security of its least powerful citizens.

He says: «With a genuine acceptance by the governments that reports from the IPCC represent the definitive assessment of what we know and what we don't know... that is a wonderfully powerful starting point.»

Not only did the federal government have a new source of revenue at their disposal, it had an extremely powerful policy tool.

I do not let LA or NO off the hook, but the perception of our allies (and our enemies) is that the government of the most powerful nation on Earth allowed civil society to break down for an extended period of time — and it makes them wonder just how strong we are.

Almost nobody actually reads and understandings the government sanctioned definitions; and the Agriculture Department, beholden to the more powerful agribusiness interests, does little to promote the sales of organic food.