Sentences with phrase «run by politicians»

It seems the industry is run by politicians: lots of promises, few results (unless someone takes Sony's device seriously).

Ideally, once the executive and the legislative arms of government are run by politicians of the same party, people expect that governance would be plain sailing.

Clegg: Whatever body replaces the PCC, they can not be gift of government or run by politicians directly.

«They're trying to sweep the whole affair under the carpet with a narrow inquiry run by politicians rather than a full independent judge - led inquiry.

Not exact matches

The inquiry is being run by the Justice Department's Kleptocracy Initiative, which has seized properties in the United States owned by relatives of politicians from Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South Korea and Taiwan.

Politicians running for office, whether they are an incumbent or a challenger, try to leverage or blunt this effect by criticizing status - quo trade rules.

Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

I really don't know what to tell you about protecting your money when Washington seems to be run by Goofies and Dumbos, when the stakes are so large but the politicians seem to be humming «It's a Small World After All».

The power doled out by Mr. Kowalski, and the rewards he lavished on his constituency, led some Opposition politicians to claim that he was actually running the government, with the Premier only as a figurehead.

That job technically falls to the Finance Department, which, until Canada starts appointing technocrats to run its ministries, will inevitably be controlled by a politician.

Recently, the UK Daily Telegraph ran a remarkable Op - Ed written by William Hague, the just - retired Conservative politician and former UK Foreign Secretary.

The world is run by the CIA, MI5, terrorist and money men, even the politicians don't know what is going on.

So if the general population is at fault for having no choice but to elect yet another fraudulent and unrepresentative politician to some public office, then at least the prerequisites for running are faulty, the process absent of any oversight, the office free of any accountability, and the whole government essentially run by people who do not respect the law, to put it nicely.

The American people are still angry and the politicians know it, I am told by friends on the Hill that their mail runs very heavy indeed from constituents strongly protesting the continuing excesses of executive compensation.

But they are absolutely certain of being utterly ignored by any of the conventional politicians who ran for president this cycle.

A wise public official after observing politics in an American city for a number of years said that he would prefer having the city run by elected officials with all the dangers which that involves to administration by political experts; for the politicians often have a human kindness and mercy which the experts lack.

But many point to the term «mama grizzly» as being directly associated with the 2008 run by esteemed U.S. politician Sarah Palin, who used the term to refer to herself, and whose philosophy of fierce mama pride trickled into the psyches of thousands of mothers across America.

President Akufo Addo in his address yesterday, continued the propagandist path beaten by his Vice President in the run up to the 2016 elections on matters relating to the economy.As if schooled on the subject by his Vice, the President showed that he was yet to come to terms with his new designation as President and came across more as a politician addressing charged party supporters on the campaign platform.

Ironically, the Brexit campaign run by some British politicians reminds one of Enver Hoxha, the communist dictator who ruled Albania for fifty years from the end of the World War II.

Real democracy could take # 200 billion (30 %) off the cost of running the UK by replacing our unproductive politicians and senior civil servants by a few elected co-ordinators with emergency powers only.

Politicians and senior civil servants have proved their inability to run countries by allowing the credit crunch.

The NASUWT is a sponsor of the conference, run in partnership with the Fawcett Society and supported by Twitter and Facebook NASUWT General Secretary Chris Keates is speaking at the conference in London, which has brought together politicians, police, and leading experts in the fields of technology, the media, campaigning organisations and charities.

«I had a front - row seat in the private sector to what happens when a government office meant to provide grownup supervision to Albany politicians was itself run by Albany politicians,» Trichter said.

His revelation follows an invitation extended to him by the Ghana Police Service for a similar prophecy he made that some politicians were planning to kill Mr Akufo - Addo in order to give his opponents a smooth run in the December 7 polls.

Regular attacks on civilians last month throughout this Beni - Butembo route have been said to be the activity of bandits placed there by Mbusa Nyamwisi, a local politician (also former warlord) running for the post of president.

Brodsky has taken issue with Rice's «career Albany politician» line, noting that it could just as easily apply to Cuomo himself — even as the AG strives to put some distance between himself and the dysfunctional state government that has been entirely run by members of his party since 2008.

He said the politician who tries to revert to a modest lifestyle runs the risk of being poisoned by his wife who has become used to a good life.

For the record, while the politically powerful Nehru - Gandhi family has shown that concession was not a bad venture as some may think, the incommodious confusion of political party action with family matters by some particularly petty politicians, in my view, runs against the grain of human values.

«We need a concerted effort by parties and politicians, not just in the run - up to an election, but beyond.»

A conventional politician with a major announcement to make at short notice would summon one television crew for a «sit down» interview which would then be «pooled» by all the broadcasters who would run it at an agreed time.

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Politicians gave their reaction to the plans by broadcasters for televised debates between party leaders in the run - up to the 2015 general election.

In King's first crack at a television ad, a nameless politician has his cup run over with sugar being poured by a butler.

He said late veteran journalist turned politician was knocked down by an oncoming vehicle while running into a nearby bush to escape an armed robbery attack.

So, by some form of voting system — I think it's closer to propawtional representation than furs past the post — the politicians get their constituents to vote online for their canine running mates, and then they have to do the «Doggy Dash» where they are forcibly raced through one of two narrow tubes.

The buffet is a lot different than the menus being offered by politicians running in the November elections.

Randy Bryce, a Wisconsin Democrat running for the seat currently held by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), claimed last week he wasn't a politician, but this is the fourth time he has run for public office.

The conviction and hefty sentence — the second highest for a state politician convicted of corruption in the past decade — has capped a stellar run of Albany and New York City corruption cases brought by Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara and federal authorities in Brooklyn.

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New Yorkers Against Corruption believes the convention will be run by the same politicians, lobbyists and special interest groups who have led to Albany's dysfunction.

He also said that as politicians ran out of options to explain the decline in economic opportunities, they always conclude that the problems were caused by immigrants who had come to take over local jobs.

What Labour or more accurately Tony Blair and Alan Milburn, then health secretary wanted is what Mr Lansley now aspires to create: a self - improving system run as a regulated market of competing providers driven by patient choice and commissioning in a way that no longer needs direct management from politicians and the health department.

Mr. Kennedy won running on just the Republican line, when these days endorsement by minor parties is believed by many politicians to be helpful, if not critical.

The trio based on investigations by DAILY POST in the five geo - political zones of the state; Ibadan, Ibarapa, Ogbomoso, Oke - Ogun and Oyo have started running after politicians, party men and women and various interest groups including youths and socio - cultural organisations in ensuring that they clinch the ticket of the umbrella party and eventually emerge as next governor of the state.

While technically a lobbying entity, the CSNY shared many attributes with independent expenditure committees: it raised large sums of money from a small number of donors to bolster the agenda of a specific politician with whom it purportedly did not coordinate, running advertisements thematically identical to those funded by the Democratic Party's campaign finance committee later in Cuomo's term.

Local residents and politicians gathered at Rocco Petrone Park on Saturday morning to join Palatine Supervisor Sara Niccoli for her official announcement to run for the District 46 state Senate position, currently held by George Amedore

Prosecutors say common themes run through many of the political corruption cases: lack of transparency on a politician's outside employment, nonprofits staffed by cronies and used as personal piggy banks, greed and above - the - law arrogance.

Without a viable two - party system there is no democracy; one has a one - party state controlled by the proverbial back - room politicians who permit only candidates that they control to run for your vote which then becomes meaningless.

Lastly, it appears that Rep. Maurice Hinchey believes that his constituent tax dollars should be provided to organizations that are fully capable of running as private businesses, would prefer not to fully fund the military (and thus troops), would prefer children in D.C. receive substandard educations, and waste taxpayer dollars on programs that are ineffective, burdensome, and widely viewed (by politicians of both Parites) as a complete mistake.

Never ever apologies to the Fascist at the FDA which stands for the Facist Department of America run in part by your corrupt politicians, Big Pharma, and Doctors looking for their next upmarket Vehicle.