Sentences with phrase «retire from politics»

The Brundtlands and Kofi Annans retire from politics and become figureheads for spurious international organisations providing the policies which politicians put forward as being inevitable, because backed by the higher authority of science, international agreement, or simply some glossy «study».

Following her serenade, President Kennedy took the stage and said, «I can now retire from politics after having had «Happy Birthday» sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way.»

A few weeks ago, it was Sen. Greg Ball, whose district includes Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties, who concluded that it was time, at age 36, to retire from politics.

Suspended Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has risen in defense of former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over claims made by erstwhile chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, urging the latter to stop making disparaging comments at old age and quietly retire from politics.

William Hague dramatically resigned as foreign secretary and has announced that he will retire from politics in 2015 after 26 years as an MP.

Mr. Enoch Teye Mensah, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo / Prampram has said he would not retire from politics despite his number of years as a parliamentarian.

He's out of his depth and ought do the State a vavour by retiring from politics.

If Sanders, now 74, retires from politics at the end of his current Senate term two years from now, without having won the presidential election, he will be able to collect an annual pension of $ 71,340, MONEY calculated using the current Congressional pension formula.

This will be the second by - election in Calgary - Elbow since 2007, when former Premier Ralph Klein retired from politics.

Mr. Klapstein retired from politics after the election was held.

Mr. Johnston retired from politics after the election was held.

«No answer,» he said, saying it was a sensitive political question and that he had retired from politics.

Now that he has retired from politics (yeah right) he has no answer to the sad state of things with his countrymen immolating themselves?

At this age 72, I would have retired from politics and been advising young men of this country to move this country forward and not contest with them anymore.»

The minority of the SDP who rejected the merger remained under Owen's leadership in a rump SDP; the minority of the Liberal Party divided, with some retiring from politics immediately and others (led by former Liberal MP Michael Meadowcroft) creating a new «Liberal Party» that claimed to be the continuation of the Liberal Party which had just dissolved itself.

The former Prime Minister had retired from politics, leaving his replacement (our first and only female Prime Minister) to pick up the pieces.

Rigger said that when Rangel retired from politics in January, final campaign paperwork was farmed out to a Washington company that specializes in FEC filings.

Grimond continued to represent the constituency until he retired from politics in 1983, and regularly polled more than 60 % of the votes cast in the northern Scottish archipelagos.

He retired from politics on January 15th 1966 after the first military coup was staged.

At this age 72, I would have retired from politics and been advising young men of this country to move this country forward and not contest with them anymore,» Ayariga said on Accra - based Class FM.

Before retiring from politics, Marsden co-authored the book Voices for Peace published by Simon & Schuster in 2001.

If this is what Hague does when he's fulfilling his role as part time Shadow foreign it is better that he retires from politics altogether.

(Mr. Paterson, who is black, went on to become governor, but has since retired from politics.)

In 1997 he resigned the leadership of the National Party and retired from politics.

He retired from politics and «vanished» for the term of an incoming conservative government but now with the return of the ALP has re-emerged to actually head Melbourne Water — the man responsible for the most outrageous continuing waste of public money in the state's history.

Not exact matches

Carson didn't plagiarize in anything directly related to his campaign, but it was discovered last year that portions of his book America the Beautiful — which was published in 2012 and clearly designed as part of the retired neurosurgeon's entry into politics — were taken directly from other sources, including a website called SocialismSucks.net, without consistent attribution.

He had developed something of a portfolio career — much of which he will drop, bar his weekly ballroom dancing lessons — and as recently as February hinted to The House that he would retire from frontline politics if a snap election was not held this year.

Last year, Professor Iain McLean retired from his full - time position as Professor of Politics and Official Fellow of Nuffield College.

On 15 May 2012, Miliband appointed Owen Smith to replace Peter Hain — who retired from frontline politics — as Shadow Welsh Secretary, and also promoted Jon Cruddas to the Shadow Cabinet, putting him in charge of overseeing Labour's ongoing policy review with a view to draft Labour's manifesto for the next election.

Gordon Brown will retire from the Commons viewed on the one hand as a giant of Scottish Labour who spent 13 years at the pinnacle of frontline UK politics as chancellor and prime minister: the son of the clergy who stayed true to his roots; champion of the egalitarian tradition.

He famously retired from Parliament in 2001 to «spend more time involved in politics».

Retired surrogate judge Mary Work, now free to politic, hailed Clegg as «a good lawyer» — high praise, apparently, from the bench.

Rangel says he has «mixed feelings» about retiring from Congress, but won't be giving up politics altogether.

Just to add to the problems, many of the Lib Dem MPs who developed a strong local presence in these areas have now either retired from electoral politics or are at an age where another election run seems unlikely.

Some of them were inexplicably downcast, as if retiring from a life of politics was something to be disappointed about.

The former Finance Minister under Former President John Attah Mills» administration said he has retired from active politics — thus, has no intentions of becoming a president of this country.

I have served my country in various capacities and consider myself a statesman who is retired from active politics.

Friends of the shadow foreign secretary have suggested he might retire from front - bench politics if his campaign to become leader is unsuccessful.

He retired from his private law practice six years ago, but has said he has no interest in leaving politics.

According to Mr Ayariga, Nana Addo at the age of 72 should be thinking of retiring from active politics and moving away from his father's house.

Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R - 2), a fixture of New Jersey politics for more than three decades, announced Tuesday that he will retire from Congress, setting up what is likely to be a high - voltage contest next year for his South Jersey seat.

Umoren, a retired Permanent Secretary in the state, is a graduate of the University of Benin and a Knight of the Methodist Church, while Udoh holds a Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, aside his first degree in Politics and Journalism.

He's retired from front - line politics.

Question: so what's he up to on a Bank Holiday Monday morning, when nearly everyone else - including politicians who aren't retired from front - politics - are reading the papers, eating breakfast, cleaning their teeth, having a pillow fight... or doing whatever else they do when they don't have to work?

He subsequently retired from active politics but continued to be politically active by advising his son when he became governor four years ago.

For Graham, who only became publisher after her husband's suicide, the pressure reflects a departure from a privileged D.C. society life where the women are shown politely retiring to the other room while the men discussed politics and business.

Thanks to politics, the duo — who recently retired from the franchise's writing board - say the Bond franchise would seem to be a hard nut to crack at the moment.

This former Mr. Universe then took on politics and ran the state of California for a few years basically retiring from cinema.

On retiring from government, he joined the faculty at George Mason University, where he taught ethics, management and politics and authored a book on international ethics.

He retired from corporate life in 1969 to pursue his interests in politics, art, higher education, and medical research.