Sentences with phrase «role of politicians»

The role of politicians is to facilitate and enable this public voice.

The main difference between the two is that the legislative law is governed by the legislative and the political persons where as the common law is governed by court judges and there is no role of the politicians and the legislature in the common laws.

Which is outrageous — it is the role of politicians to craft policy according to the findings of science, not to attempt to overrule those findings directly.

«It is the role of the politicians and parliament to make sure that requests for new powers, updated powers, made by the security services, are properly scrutinised and checked.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

Of course the author is right that the rich will seek to avoid paying their fair share, but the role of a politician aiming to create a more equal society is to challenge and pursue them for the contribution they should be making, not to shy away and accept their power and the disfigured society it has brought us.

The actor plays the role of politician Jeremy Thorpe in the series, based on the true story of the former Liberal Party leader and his fall from grace after he was accused of plotting to murder his alleged gay lover Norman Scott.

Professionals from different fields such as international business, history, medicine, law and even philosophy would leave their «comfort zones» for two hours and experiment in the roles of politicians and advocates to decide for what is good for one or for all nations.

Not exact matches

Many politicians on both sides of the aisle are raising questions about Facebook following revelations about its role in the 2016 election and, more recently, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

«We've had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news,» Loesch said in the minute - long video, calling out «every lying member of the media,» «every Hollywood phony,» «the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents,» and «politicians who would rather let America burn than lose one ounce of their personal power.»

A key role of the media is to hold politicians to account; to have a recent Minister or an MP running the editorial line of a newspaper certainly calls into question whether this principle can be upheld.

Employer - provided health insurance is so ingrained in the American workplace that people expect it to continue even as politicians thrash out the role of government in health care.

«Inside our country, but also outside, in particular in our European neighbourhood, there would be concern and a lack of understanding if politicians in the biggest and economically strongest country (in Europe) did not live up to their responsibilities,» read a statement from Steinmeier, a former foreign minister who has been thrust centre - stage after taking on the usually largely ceremonial head of state role in March.

The one - on - one meeting sends a message of Tesla's importance in China, whose politicians consider the California company a role model for the country's new electric car companies, as many vehicles suffer from long charging times and a poor driving experience, he explained.

Such statistics likely reflect the impact of the voter attitude behind another of our key findings: over 80 % of respondents to our survey either «agreed» or «strongly agreed» that a politician who is dishonest in his or her personal life can not be trusted in their professional role.

He has worked with Canadian politicians and policymakers of all political stripes to craft more effective public policy, including his most recent role as an outside economic adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

«The fact that they have been included as part of the transition team just shows how inappropriate their role in bridging the gap between him as a businessman and politician is,» Meredith McGehee, a strategic adviser at the Campaign Legal Center, told the Washington Post.

April 2018 — Zuckerberg agrees to give testimony in front of US politicians — but continues to ignore calls to appear before UK politicians to answer questions about the role of fake news on its platform and the potential use of Facebook data in the UK's Brexit referendum

In addition to his own book, he regularly writes for the Huffington Post and the Financial Times, provides commentary for other news outlets, does television appearances, speaking engagements, consultations with politicians and everything else that comes from increasingly sharing a role as the «face» of the company with founder Bill Gross.

Politicians, it is said, must be concerned in their public role not about citizens of other countries, however impoverished; rather, they must focus on the wants and needs of their own country's citizens.

«Those of us in a leadership role in society must do our level best at all times and try to set a good example to others in what we do and how we behave - that includes all politicians regardless of any party affiliation.

According to Spadaro and Figueroa, in church, man is a believer; in the council hall, he is a politician; at the movie theater, he is a critic; and he is apparently supposed to keep all of these roles separate.

«The erosion of public trust in the role of businesses is, I think, quite alarming, particularly if it is fuelled by populist politicians, who seek to impose a greater regulatory burden on corporations that in turn restricts their ability to deliver investment and deliver the employment that Australia needs,» Mr Chaney said.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

Next in the this series of posts is --» A Politician's Role in the Twitterverse: Popularity vs. Influence»

And so began our Twitter discussion on the role politicians should play within the greater Twitterverse, and how they may view their own roles as part of the greater community.

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.

Politicians and commentators were quick to claim that social media played an important role in inciting and organising riots, calling for sites such as Twitter to be closed should events of this nature happen again.

Politicians have staff precisely because the time of the person at the top matters, and one of their main roles is to filter information so that only the most relevant and most important breaks through.

So will many or indeed any politicians from the old political class have a role in any renewal of the new Greek political system that may emerge in the next two years?

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

She said it was hard to «think of many politicians as ill - equipped for the role of environment secretary as Michael Gove».

It all began with a tweet from a college friend — and so began our Twitter discussion on the role politicians should play within the greater Twitterverse, and how they may view their own roles as part of the greater community.

«I'm a politician and I know it's an occupational hazard; sometimes to have your opponents vilify you so I don't take it as anything... I am campaigning and I am saying that we need at this stage of Ghana's history somebody who can bring the country together and my opponent's track record does not fit that role because in his own party, he is not able to bring his people together.

No doubt all politicians keep the party implications of political reforms in mind but Labour's own partisan interests, particularly representing 41 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, would appear to be playing a significant role in the party's difficulty in articulating any coherent view about England's place in the evolving constitution of the United Kingdom.

These politicians are going to have to use talented outsiders that have the confidence and creativity to reimagine a new role for Britain outside of those previous policy constraints.

Certain sections of the media, encouraged by some politicians, play a particular role in demonising whole communities and creating a climate of fear.

Days after the revelation that former state Sen. Shirley Huntley secretly recorded some of her fellow politicians launched a new wave of headlines, a crowd in St. Albans voted on a debate about whether corruption or conspiracy played a role in the -LSB-...]

In a press conference last night, Espada accused Cuomo of using a civil lawsuit against him as political payback for the Bronx politician's role in a Senate coup last summer.

The role of Canada in British imperial history is overshadowed by Australia and New Zealand, yet Canada and its politicians were crucial to Britain's survival in two world wars.

But last night Labour MP Shahid Malik insisted many people who play «an important role in football» have access to tickets, and that politicians, many of whom promoted the game, should not be excluded.

I took the role of Pilate (a frightened politician!)

The New York Times» piece on Herbalife yesterday, which details how billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman is waging a PR campaign to destroy the supplement company for his own profit, buries the role of three of the city's most prominent Latino politicians in a massive campaign to cast Herbalife as a pyramid scheme targeting minorities.

As Ken Clarke and Vince Cable get stuck into their new ministerial roles at the ages of 70 and 67 respectively, we look at other politicians who just keep going

The role of the Cabinet Secretary if now one much debated and viewed with suspicion by many politicians.

David Cameron said he would support public bodies which wished to ban staff from covering their faces if they have public - facing roles but the issue has split senior politicians, with Theresa May saying it is not the role of the state to tell women what to wear.

In the short term, however, it also raises the tricky question of how British politicians should treat someone they have previously called every name under the sun who is now ascending to the most powerful political role in the world.

There were plenty of politicians who were supposedly wise and sensible for staying out of Bosnia, until a genocide was so clearly underway that everyone suddenly started forgetting the role they played in allowing it to happen.

The video features prominent politicians such as Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Andy Slaughter MP and Paula Sherriff MP, who have all been on Caabu delegations to the region and have maintained an active role since, reaffirming the importance of such delegations and parliamentary ties to Caabu's work.

John spent sixteen years traveling across Upstate New York in his role as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting corrupt politicians, business frauds, drug traffickers, and gang members and making our community safer for every Central New York family regardless of race, creed, culture, or address.