Sentences with phrase «powerful governments get»

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.

Not exact matches

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

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.

OMG, this nitwit takes money from the billionaire Koch Brothers, who want to take over the federal government, so they can get more rich, and more powerful, while running around using Christianity as their sounding board.

It is true that the UK government could change its funding formulas in the future to ensure Scotland gets a smaller dividend, but I suspect the threat of independence is quite a powerful incentive against that happening.

«We've got a government that works all too well for the rich and the powerful, and all too little for everyone else,» Warren said.

Cementing her role as a powerful White House influence, Ivanka Trump is working out of a West Wing office and will get access to classified information, though she is not technically serving as a government employee.

State Sen. Dean Skelos wasted no time «badgering» New York's largest political donor about getting his son a job, whining that his adult kid was «struggling and needed help» within weeks of becoming one of the three most powerful men in state government, jurors heard Thursday.

The criminal complaint alleges Silver received kickbacks after using his powerful state government position to get clients with state business for two different law firms he was tied to.

So far, Miliband has said David Cameron's government «bent over backwards» to help the Murdoch empire, and admitted that Labour got «too close to the powerful interests»

Now, the government wants to get their hands on Wikus because, much to his dismay, he could be used as a very powerful weapon (literally).

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.

They are offering — perhaps screaming — a counterargument against the thrust of decades: a push for a more powerful federal government, the belief that there are «correct» policy answers, the certainty that locals and civil society can not be trusted, and the conviction that we must rely on technical experts to get things right.

With its powerful statement this week, the NAACP sent a message to elected officials and state and local governments — that they are accountable for educating children of color, and need to get back on the job.

The government's decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon in a powerful position: the nation's largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost, and the book world is quaking over the potential consequences.

The government's decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon n a powerful position: the nation's largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an... Continue

The government's decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon n a powerful position: the nation's largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost, and the book world is quaking over the potential consequences.

You're the captain of a massive tub of a ship, a real clunker, but through the standard video game space activities of mining, trading, and bounty hunting — or the outlaw versions, in which you kill miners and traders for their goods and battle government forces — your earned or ill - gotten spacebucks pave the way to better cannons, more powerful lasers, and improved engines, boosters, and shields.

A torch has got to be carried by all of us to the rich, the powerful and the famous, the ones who organize public opinion and form government policy, to get the word out.

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.

Nobody wants to return to the lawless «Wild West» days, BUT the bigger and more powerful that a central government gets, the less personal freedom is left at the individual level.

Certainly the perception of ordinary people in Zimbabwe is that you can not get justice in the courts if your case is against the government, government officials, or people connected with the powerful in the ruling party.

``... there have been powerful last - ditch efforts to get Clause 76 removed from the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill... There has been widespread support for the government's decision to strengthen the law, and — if data protection is to be taken seriously — it is vital that the government and other parties should stand firm against any possible amendments.

As Robin Feldman, an influential patent scholar, wrote in the New York Times last week, patents like the one belonging to Alice Corp can result in the government handing out a powerful monopoly without receiving anything of value in return — the «inventor» gets a patent, but doesn't disclose any undiscovered science or ideas.

Hacking Team, the company now equally known for selling intrusive spyware to governments and getting royally hacked, has words for people who disagree with its habit of peddling powerful cyberweapons to regimes with terrible human rights records: What's a «repressive» regime, anyway?