Sentences with phrase «something around election»

Not exact matches

The need for a political religion was formulated by state authorities around 2010 — something that coincided with the election of Kirill, a Russian World enthusiast, to the Patriarchal See of Moscow.

Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the national initiative for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

«Because one of the things we're keen to do in this election is something novel: we're trying to under - promise and over-deliver, rather than the other way around.

But he has also made himself something of a hometown hero, which is no doubt something that might be very helpful when the election rolls around.

The only concrete policy from his leadership campaign - to pull the party out of the EPP - is looking increasingly misguided, while most other positioning seems to revolve around finding something the Tories backed at the last election and opposing it.

«I wish I could say the crap that came out about Shelly and Skelos is enough to get the governor and legislature to do something real on election reform and ethics, but left to their own devices they are going to pass some Mickey - Mouse bill that tinkers around the edges,» he said.

She predicted, «The Assembly will put something in to address ethics around the edges knowing that in an election year the Republicans in the Senate will do nothing.»

I was a late convert to the idea that we needed to do something quickly... I was persuaded in the few days surrounding the change of government because that's when the sovereign debt crisis was at its peak... Certainly under the conditions under which we embarked on the election there was no immediate sense of crisis that crisis hit us around election time and we had to respond to it... I changed my mind in the days shortly after the election because that was when the sovereign debt crisis his Europe.

«It's certainly something that occurs around the state during election cycles.

Richard also discovered some fascinating back stories to add to his series, including something called Hoop Politics: «The local and regional politicians sponsor and advertise on backboards and also use dilapidated hoops as bargaining chips when elections come around, for instance — vote for me and I'll buy you a new basketball hoop.

The next day headlines will celebrate the «stunning» reduction in GHG and Peter Kent will be quoted as saying that Canada has met half of its Copenhagen target (a 50 - something Mt drop would mean total emissions of around 680Mt), etc., neutralizing any criticism of Canada's inaction on climate change on a hot political year, with 7 provincial elections and, in all likelihood, a federal one.

Something lawyers (and the reps who seek election) might keep in mind when voting time comes around.

When election time comes around, all political parties have something to say about how they will reduce the rates of insurance for Ontario drivers.

But if you've been following the news around Cambridge Analytica, the data consultancy firm hired by the Donald Trump campaign for the 2016 US election that harvested the data of up to 50 million Facebook users without their permission through data collected from third - party apps, you may want to know how to make sure that something similar isn't happening to you.