Sentences with phrase «so than politicians»

Scientists are enormously respected in the public discourse, far more so than politicians or journalists.

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Politicians tell a lot of stories in their campaign speeches, and there's a not - so - secret reason why: if you convey your message through a dynamic story or metaphor, it has a better chance of resonating with your audience than if you were to simply state the facts.

But then, newspapers have often been more than happy to print ridiculous assertions by their favorite politicians, so that's not really anything new.

In a speech in Berlin in late November, Polish politician Radek Sikorski declared, «I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity.»

You know or SHOULD know, (you sound pretty stupid so you might not) that politicians make decisions based on their faith, so when people find someone with a different faith than theirs running for the highest office, it makes sense that they are uneasy with it.

There is so much more to this issue than what is reported on the news or by the various politicians.

The rich are better able to benefit those in political office than are the poor; so they are more courted by politicians.

I realise that many rabbis, Jews as well as the Israeli politicians will castigate me for trying to start a religious war for being so verbal, since our greatest adversary (those who wants to destroy us by converting us rather than killing us) are also our most fervent supporters.

Even so, the twenty - seven speeches collected in We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, edited by E. J. Dionne Jr. and Joy - Ann Reid, are neither better nor worse, for the most part, than any other American politician's speeches: often muddled, consistently unmemorable, and boring.

Gun manufacturers know firearms better than politicians so they will always tweak the mouse trap to not meet the definition of an «assault weapon».

Ivan Gazidis can make people think silver is worth more than gold he's an excellent speech artist he could be a politician he should be a politician he talks that much BS he's a compulsive liar and we fall for it every year he's probably already pre rehearsing his AGM speech whiles hes sightseeing in Dortmund but there's only so much c * ap you can talk before people start to wake up.

In the social media world, where things move faster than a politician changing his stand on issues, people are more ready to use you as a step stool to the next level so that makes it a bit difficult to know who to trust and who not to.

At the meeting in November, Helen Gray and Clare Meynell gave an excellent presentation on the WBTi project, explaining why politicians should care about breastfeeding and how current practices result in so many mothers stopping breastfeeding much earlier than they wanted to.

So is he a better politician now, in his mid-50s, than when he started?

So, what has Fayemi done that is worse than what all politicians are accused of?

You have models in the case of road transport where the algorithms may be proprietary and not available, but they are being made to determine government policy nevertheless, because it is convenient for politicians to say, «The reasons we are building these roads is because the computer said so», rather than — «I decided that we would have more roads because I want to see more roads.»

The country's «internal conundrum of military versus civilian power must be slowly resolved in favour of civilian, but civilian politicians must be much more responsible to the nation than they have been so far» (p. 210).

The ideal proportion of income to tax is something for experts and politicians to decide, but proportionality is fairer than so - called «progressive» taxation as everybody knows that they will pay a fair share of their income into the kitty.

«It is a democratic party... indeed we mid-wifed this Constitution that led to the Fourth Republic so we are more committed to the Fourth Republic than any other politician party in the country.

«While we're complaining — could politicians trying to talk about policy do so in an intelligent way, rather than preaching disaster and standing outside Greggs?

It leaves us to believe Bob Turner would do anything for political power including associating himself with one of the most corrupt politician in years who stole more than Tony Seminerio, Sheldon Leffeler, Brian McLaughlin, and so on and so on.

So it beggars belief that at a time when there are more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builderSo it beggars belief that at a time when there are more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builderso obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.

In «Yes Minister», Sir Humphrey is infinitely more intelligent than Jim Hacker, and invariably tries to frustrate whatever changes the politician wants to make to the system - but, if given an instruction, he follows it: it would be against his sense of his professional pride for him not to do so.

The politicians and the media don't really know as much as the people pushing the buttons do [humanists], so they are almost unwitting accomplices in breaking down barriers which will eventually lead to people being more vulnerable than they are today.

Politicians, who as a general rule are better than most at public speaking, rarely deliver lines so agonisingly and cringeworthily terrible that journalists drop their pens in disgust.

To take tax dollars which are scarce, we're spending more than any other state, we're taxing more, and giving it to politicians so they could have robocalls and have dinners is not something I think we should be spending our money on.»

He is so much more refreshing than other politicians.

It is so refreshing to back a candidate who is more an activist than a politician, who believes in something other than their own self - interest, and who, like Bernie, will certainly mobilize thousands of enthusiastic voters to rally behind his candidacy,» NYPAN Co-Chairman George Albro said in a statement.

«Yes, I understand we have peace in this country but we shouldn't forget most of these countries that had war used to be most peaceful than Ghana but considering how some politicians have taken this year's elections as a «Do and Die Affair» we need to start preaching peace and start telling everyone that we want peace before, during and after elections — so that anyone who's planning anything evil can know that we Ghanaians are not interested» she said.

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.

Politicians change society, so it is vital society debate them in death, rather than restrict itself to piety.

In the weeks leading up to the election, Diaz was so confident, he declined more than $ 200,000 in public financing and announced he would tap veteran Bronx politician Aurelia Greene to be his deputy B.P. And the rest is history.

«It is so refreshing to back a candidate who is an activist and not a politician, who believes in something other than their own self - interest, and who, like Bernie, will certainly mobilize thousands of enthusiastic voters to rally behind her historic candidacy.»

The politicians love it when you are half baked than fully cooked so that they can always manipulate you.

Am sure some people get the story of ogun APC wrong, the issue is not between Osoba and Amosun rather Amosun with other Apc stalwarts, started from his deputy, all the senators, all the reps, most of party leaders, mejority of assembly members in ogun state even some of the grass root members that worked for amosun's victory in 2011, despite all Osoba intervention with some traditional ruler, Amosun believe he can do it alone, so am sure Osoba left with no option than to stay with mejority followers and path away with Amosun, especially when Amosun always says that he need no politician with him, even went to an extent of attacking ogun central senator with thugs and attempted to kill him.Also,short - changed Osoba's people in last APC congress in the state.But, after the result in Ekiti, he started realizing that he need them only for his 2015 victory but not in his government or in the party..

In voting down the idea of elected mayors so widely, and by turning their back on this week's police elections in such vast numbers, the people seem to have understood far better than the politicians how unattractive that patchwork is.

As for my other offences, I have to say that I think that most politicians tell the truth, more so than most other human beings.

There is cross-party agreement on other reforms including ensuring that the House of Commons, rather than MPs, employs staff - so politicians» relatives can not be hired without scrutiny - and clamping down on earnings outside parliament.

After ignoring the party's grassroots for so many years, they are partly responsible for Corbyn's success in the first place; while the future of this party is about a lot more than the neat career plans of a few professional politicians at the top.

South Korea's main spy agency told politicians in a closed - door briefing after the test that it does not think Pyongyang currently has the ability to develop miniaturised nuclear weapons which can be mounted on ballistic missiles, but intelligence officials expressed worries that the North's efforts to do so are progressing quicker than previously thought, said Kim Byungkee, of the opposition Minjoo Party.

IPCC faces more criticism from politicians than ever: In the wake of the revelations about the Himalayan glaciers data, the U.K. director of Greenpeace called for Pachauri to step down; so has Senator John Barrasso (R - WY) and others.

«If you're wondering why so many politicians and news sources deny that dangerous human - caused climate change is real, and you want a relatively short and easy - to - read summary of the issue, look no further than The Madhouse Effect»

So perhaps, if politicians were so concerned about the opioid epidemic as they seem to be, they might want to investigate marijuana as a safer alternative, rather than continuing to fight a losing battle against iSo perhaps, if politicians were so concerned about the opioid epidemic as they seem to be, they might want to investigate marijuana as a safer alternative, rather than continuing to fight a losing battle against iso concerned about the opioid epidemic as they seem to be, they might want to investigate marijuana as a safer alternative, rather than continuing to fight a losing battle against it.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

So the next time some chump politician gets out there and says «let's have a toad day out» or «let's go and kill as many toads as we can with spike axes and picks or something like that, they think «this is bullshit, this guy is a vapid idiot who has nothing better to do than incite people to kill a defenceless animal».

So how to keep conservatives in the charter fold other than by tying the issue to particular politicians, especially one as toxic as Trump?

First and foremost, you should check out Paul Tough's NYT Sunday Magazine look at Roseland and at young Barack Obama's notion that he could do more to alleviate poverty as a politician than as a community organizer — which at least so far hasn't happened.

But from the businessmen and politicians point of view, it's so much easier to make the good schools worse than it is to improve the struggling schools.

«This person couldn't be that much worse than what we have going now, and he sounds a lot different than the politicians that I have been hearing for so many years, ad nauseam.

-- also while a bubble in German property is quite possible / likely in the medium term, they tend to have more conservative banks and less captured politicians (they've already started tightening lending regulations before the bubble is even started), and a more reluctant attitude to debt than most other Europeans, so it is likely to be more muted than Spanish / English / Irish style bubbles.