Sentences with phrase «public over the politicians»

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It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

Perhaps he proposed both initiatives because he was appalled by the behavior of D.C. politicians in the summer scuffle over the debt ceiling and because he believes the public sector right now is incapable of microfinancing in the service of jobs creation.

What the group — which was co-ordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and over 100 media entities around the globe — found was a trove of files that detail the holdings of 140 politicians and public officials, including the prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan and the president of Ukraine.

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.

I think the only defense against such an unprincipled politician who will say or do anything to get power, is to point out as loudly and publicly as possible the many untruths and contradictions he is trying to pull over on the Alberta public.

Over the years, I have met literally hundreds of politicians who agree with these ideas in private and then deliver public speeches thundering lock «em up.

As Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.»

According to the Telegraph, Mr Mann, who has spent months sifting evidence from members of the public, met Scotland Yard and handed over evidence on 22 politicians, including three serving MPs and three members of the House of Lords.

In this case, the Chief Politician of the land has implicitly challenged the churches to a public debate over the application of Christian principles to the war he has launched.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

No matter that the purple - powder - condom chucked across the House of Commons remains a recent memory, and that super-heroes intermittently scramble over public buildings, Westminster's politicians have begun thinking about active fatherhood as more than a «divorced dad» thing.

Some question marks remain over the attitude of the leader, but the MP for Islington North is no longer seen universally as a politician that the public affairs industry could never do business with.

There were 33 politicians, selected proportionate to Oireachtas representation; and one chairperson, Tom Arnold, who carried out his role with great skill and ability over the weekend sessions of the Convention held at the Grand Hotel, Malahide; and over the various other Convention public meetings around the country that took place during its lifespan.

Over the last few days, I have been going through the media coverage of the responses of Kenyan politicians and the wider public to the Westgate attack.

It was about power - how he wields the influence of his newspapers, how politicians jump to his command, and how he uses that power over them to control public policy issues himself.

Google searches spiked, politicians and the media took notice of the public interest, and income inequality took over political ground ranging from President Obama's State of the Union to the Republican presidential primary process.

CADA believes that over the years it is the EC's neglect to supervise the Police activities during electoral processes that has fuelled the perception that influential politicians and those in power do take advantage to manipulate the electoral process, the police and expose it to public ridicule.

Politicians are falling over themselves to tell us how hard, how fast and how deep they will cut public spending in order to rein - in the spiralling Budget deficit.

Yet while they'll profess admiration for individual public servants, mainstream politicians have over the past three decades relentlessly promoted a narrative which has taught us to believe that publicly - owned services such as the NHS aren't quite good enough.

Initially, the film would seem to show just how easy it is for politicians to ride roughshod over a staggeringly huge demonstration of public opinion.

She also exposes the corruption of private interests investing in politicians who then turn public education resources over to those same special interests.

People should be able to hold politicians and public bodies to account over how their hard earned cash is being spent and decisions made on their behalf.

The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money,

A wider issue remains about the extent to which public funding should be accountable to people locally and to what extent local politicians should have some say over local services.

And shrewdly, Cooper, who is also shadow equalities minister, sharply shot the fox of those with fingers poised over the «hypocrite» button, by admitting early on in her speech our politicians» need to put their own house in diverse order as well as advising the private sector, and rest of the public sector.

Forget the intricacies of compromise and spin over Leveson, press freedom and Hacked Off - both politicians and the papers are risking losing public engagement

While the public worry about housing, jobs and healthcare, our politicians obsess over debates, coalitions, buses and kitchens.

When Dr. Nduom went for Miss Eva Lokko for Election 2012, we laughed him to scorn as a politically misguided «busy - body» because at the time, Miss Lokko had become so objectionable as a public figure that no serious politician would associate with to prevail over voters.

«David... believed in constant political campaigning as the daily style of politics and in exerting control - freak discipline over his colleagues, with steady injunctions about the use of set policy lines and slogans on all public occasions, of the kind which has given a talking clock style to many politicians.»

In another indication that the world's most powerful politician has few qualms about battling local public officials, Trump again has sued the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser over the valuation of his Trump National Golf Club.

• Elected representatives and politicians should recognise a need for continuous dialogue between decision - makers and different sections of the public over detailed policy choices.

An official internal inquiry into why the Lib Dems did so badly in this year's local elections has pointed the finger at advertising campaigns such as one which portrayed the politician as «Cleggzilla», trampling over public services.

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

My message to Lib Dems would be that, over the next few years, the public will reward politicians who show serious statesmanship, not shrill showmanship in the face of economic events none of us has witnessed before and the outcome of which remains uncertain.»

As he probed News International's extensive dealings with leading politicians over five premierships, extensive and sometimes cosy (Labour slumber parties, Tory country suppers and borrowed police horses), the judge detected «patterns of behaviour» suggesting that public policy decisions were also sometimes traded for favourable treatment in Fleet Street.

Andrew Hawkins of ComRes reveals a new poll, exclusively for Total Politics, which shows that 50 % of the public believe the party has «almost no influence over government policy» · Interview with shadow energy Caroline Flint who says: «I'm ambitious to be seen as someone who has made, and can make, a mega-contribution, but too often politicians focus on that big job and not on with what they need to do.

With the possible exception of public - finance advocates, most people aren't much concerned about politicians accepting campaign contributions from individuals or businesses with whom or over whom they might have influence.

If unions and their Democratic allies prevail in the recall — just over a year after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to curb collective bargaining rights for most public workers — it would send a powerful warning to other politicians who might try to limit union rights.

It would address the very real lack of public trust when people hear politicians making promises — they remember Labour's broken promises over the EU Constitution / Lisbon Treaty.

With the controversy over standardized testing in public schools still at a rolling boil, some national and state politicians are

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Although there appears to be no short - term answer to the tuition debate, the time is nonetheless ripe for universities, students, the public, and politicians to engage in discussions over the state of higher education in Ontario and the direction it should take, particularly with respect to accessibility.

Fourth, the problems are unfolding over decades, whereas politicians» attention spans reach only to the next election and much of the public's to the next meal or paycheck.

The two opposing parliamentary parties bickered over the political importance of the name Boaty McBoatface, arguing whether or not it would encourage the public to trust politicians.

Today, powerful and well - funded agribusiness uses its political clout to manipulate politicians and public perception, all while seeking greater power over the global food system.

Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director for FairTest, a standardized - test watchdog organization, said, «The numbers and consequences of these tests have driven public opinion over the edge, and politicians are scrambling to figure out how to deal with that.»

Education Week's Daarel Burnette II reports that a «tricky financial - transparency requirement» in ESSA has «cranked up tensions among state politicians, school district administrators, and civil rights activists over public understanding of how districts divvy up their money among schools.»

While some unfunded pension liabilities are due to market fluctuations, including sharp stock market declines in 2002 and 2008, leading economists say the most severe cases are due to politicians» failure to keep up with employers» share of pension payments over many years (most public - sector workers also contribute toward their own pensions).

There is a group of corporations, led by a group of «education reformers,» and backed by a group of Republican and Democratic politicians, all of whom are engaged in an effort to destroy public education, and hand the nation's education system over to corporations and consultants, who can make a huge amount of money.

A «culture war» was brewing at the time between conservative politicians and the artistic community over public funding for exhibitions including challenging material.