Sentences with phrase «seen as a statesman»

Overseas, Lee was largely seen as a statesman — foreign political and business leaders have long praised him: «legendary» (Barack Obama); «brilliant» (Rupert Murdoch); «never wrong» (Margaret Thatcher), to cite a few of countless such tributes.

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But the process theists tend to see God as something of a wise statesman who refuses to be bought off by any lobby or bloc.

Missionary statesmen in the 19th century saw quite clearly where the vernacular principle was leading, and they welcomed it as the supreme reward of Christian discipleship.

He was belittled in his heyday, then placed on the elder - statesman pedestal as people saw how much worse the daytime talk - show game could get in the hands of people like Geraldo Rivera and Morton Downey Jr..

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

As Ian Leslie pointed out in a recent essay in the New Statesman, most people would love to see a world free from nuclear weapons, but disarmament — even in the complete fantasy world in which it is mirrored by all other world powers — wouldn't create this in a meaningful way.

This can be interpreted as a tradition of seeing former United States presidents as elder statesmen.

«The Statesman has sometimes been seen in the past as the house magazine of the Labour Party and we are absolutely not that.

He said that aside working for peace, stability and development of the nation, statesmen like Abubakar do not see themselves as saints while others are devils.

On September 18, 2006, astronomer Robert M. Quimby detected the brightest and largest supernova ever recorded by contemporary astronomers, using the ROTSE - IIIb telescope at McDonald Observatory (Robert M. Quimby, 2006; and Katie Humphrey, Austin - American Statesman, May 9, 2007)-- but became second brightest on October 10, 2007 after twice - as - bright Supernova 2005ap (see APOD; and Quimby et al, 2007).

For example, Siegfried — a brash, cocky teen when he first appeared in Soul Edge — now plays the role of measured, reassuring elder statesman at age 40, and you can see that growth as a man clearly during one particular cutscene.

The new movie will definitely see the return of Taron Egerton's former wide boy Eggsy and stalwart quartermaster Merlin (Mark Strong), with the addition of some new international flavour in the shape of American counterparts known as the Statesmen.

The sequel to the 2015 hit will see the return of Taron Egerton as Eggsy as he and Merlin (Mark Strong) travel to the US to team up with their American counterparts known as the Statesman.

Kirp tells us, «Ambitious statesmen from both sides of the political aisle... [now] see the issue as a winner — a strategy for doing well by doing good.»

For example, Siegfried — a brash, cocky teen when he first appeared in Soul Edge — now plays the role of measured, reassuring elder statesman at age 40, and you can see that growth as a man clearly during one particular cutscene.

I saw Jack as this kind of incredible statesman.

I see Hans Ulrich as a modern - day incarnation of Musil's Diotima, who runs salons in The Man Without Qualities, connecting writers to economists and philosophers to artists, statesmen, and scientists, and everything in between.

More than 30 years pass over the course of the show, beginning with such influential elder statesmen as Barkley Hendricks — whose striking late 1970s portraits blend classical tradition and Pop Art with seldom - seen African - American subjects — and Robert Colescott — whose wildly satirical takes on racial stereotypes in the 1980s get still more edge from his vibrantly expressionist brush.

please see this excellent article in this recently published article in the new statesman, which clearly makes my point that the times are, indeed, a-changing as far as climate change consensus is concerned, by an by a astrophysicist whose most recent book is «the sun: a biography.»

The man many people saw as the leader of the bitcoin community, or at least a kind of elder statesman, Andresen had just affirmed that he was standing behind Craig Wright's claim that he was the cryptocurrency's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

As seen in the picture of the iconic Statesman House in the heart of Delhi's Connaught Place, I was impressed by how much detail the phone captured.

Results of that in the US is the city of Detroit that is bankrupt, California is bankrupt, predicts that Chicago is on the verge of bankruptcy who are seeing the signs of high unemployment, massive debt and increased violence as a result of statesman awarding themselves huge financial benefits.