Sentences with phrase «stood for leader if»

Ed's a tough cookie - he wouldn't have stood for leader if he wasn't - and he will ride this out.

Not exact matches

To be a leader, you have to stand up for what you believe in, even if you know you might not get a good reaction for it.

If forced to make prognostications, the two of us would predict a Party Congress that does not break any major taboos (e.g. scrapping tacit age or term limits for Politburo Standing Committee members), but one that also portrays Xi as powerful and thoroughly in command of the Party (e.g. following previous leaders in having his wisdom included in the Party's constitution).

If the organization has a leader who infringes their values, they should be able to have him step down because it compromises what they stand for.

If police have no warrant but force their way in, church leaders should stand aside for their own safety but try to record the raid on video and inform the media as soon as possible, the advisory said.

Yes, she would step up to the plate if no men were available but if a Godly man was standing in the sanctuary and he gave over leadership of the church to a woman???? No doubt about it, we both do not believe that God intended for women to be preachers, or priestesses, or leaders in the church except for tending to the women and the children.

...... the motivation and hunger that separates real winners from mere contenders is what we are and have always missed and that is solely down to the manager... if we are good enough to be in touch with the leaders by Jan / Feb and still stand a very good chance of winning it then it seems to me we are not exactly bad personell and quality wise, what we lacked is the ability to be fired up and be in the right state of mind for games that are of importance to our quest.....

Now that you're up to speed on the 7 - under leader of the contest taking place at Oakmont, here's how he stands as he awaits a 3:30 ET tee time with Andrew Landry, who is tied for second at 3 - under with Dustin Johnson: This is the first time Lowry has held such a lofty position, but if anyone can keep his composure in such a pressure - packed situation, he's a likely candidate.

If leaders and others fail to stand up for democratic principles when other priorities seem to be more important, there will be nothing left to safeguard democracy when it is most under threat.

Not surprisingly, the number of first time candidates outnumber the incumbents (10 to 7; the full list appears after the jump), and the highest - level elected to sign on is Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who has been calling for many of these changes for some time and probably stands to gain if redistricting is indeed taken out of the hands of elected officials.

But former Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie, a long - standing critic of the Labour leader, said: «Would the Prime Minister agree that a policy if inaction also would have severe consequences and that those who would turn a blind eye, who would do nothing in pursuit of some moral high ground, should also be held accountable for once.»

«What we need in Ghana is an understanding President, the era of dictatorship is gone, we are not looking for a dictator, somebody who can't stand criticism in his own party, if you criticize him, he will sack you... that is not the kind of leader we are looking for, we are looking for a leader who can bring people together.

I wonder if people who never much liked Mr Howard when he was Employment and Home Secretary or Leader of the Opposition might have been willing to give him the benefit of more of the doubt if they'd known about what has been his long - standing support for the hospice movement.

«To Peter Grant I make this pledge: I will work with you in your role as council leader to do the best I can with you on behalf of the constituents and I pledge my support for you if you stand up to the SNP government in Edinburgh to tell them to stop slashing budgets across Scotland.

If I was picking Osbourne wouldn't have been my first choice for Chancellor, but having a very close Leader and Chancellor will stand out as starkly different to the Labour benches.

Sadly, if predictably, this has failed to secure them and their leader the undying affection of their Conservative partners, as anyone who witnessed Tory Eurosceptics baiting Nick Clegg when he stood in for David Cameron at PMQs yesterday can attest.

Tempting though it always is to attack opponents, their candidate, leader and policies, if the rationale for not standing aside is that the electorate deserves a proper choice then it becomes incumbent on the candidates to promote themselves rather than simply becoming the default option of «not the other».

«If it turns out when Nick Clegg hangs up his clogs as leader... whether that's directly after the next election — I doubt it — or in a few years» time — more likely — when he does that, of course there will be colleagues like myself and others, who will think about whether they want to stand for leader,» Davey speculated on LBC.

«As they did in 2012, if labour leaders do not also stand up for the people at this time, posterity will not forgive them.»

«If we want leaders who will stand up for women and working families, then we need to remove the barriers that keep women and working parents from running.»

Like the leader that he is, after patiently listening to us, what I could pick from what he said was that we all stand to lose if we don't fix these problems before heading for the next elections.»

«We have an unelectable leader, and if we lose elections then the price of our failure is paid by the working people of this country and their families who do not have a government to stand up for them.

If for some reason the Minority Leader and Mr. Peterson are suggesting that my response was somehow inaccurate and they do support what Rep Lyons and I were attempting to do, I would welcome them to stand with us.

«Nobody comes into politics to be a thorn in their party leader's side but at the end of the day it's such a massive issue that if you don't stand up for what you believe in, I'm not sure what the point is of going into politics.»

In any future leadership election, candidates from either gender would be free to stand; in any deputy leadership election, the candidates would be all female or all male (to counterbalance the existing leader), with perhaps the option of a triggered election for deputy leader within 12 months of a new leader if necessary.

It would be invidious, for example, if Harriet's decision not to run for Leader but to stay on as Deputy meant that only men could stand for the top job.

She said: «One of the clear lessons of this vote is that people all over the country don't want politics as usual, and if there's any party leader that stands for not - politics - as - usual, it's Jeremy Corbyn.»

What he is saying is that he doesn't want the breakup of the UK, however if England was to be a nation in itself perhaps with Dependencies and other overseas Territories I imagine he would try to become Prime Minister of England, although Labour and the Liberal Democrats would change leader as I can't see Menzies Campbell or Gordon Brown wanting to stand for an English seat and try for PM of England - more likely they would retire, although they might try to become PM of Scotland - I imagine that someone such as Stephen Byers would become Labour leader and probably Vincent Cable would become Liberal Democrat leader.

Little pointer for the future that many people don't realise — The Lib Dems have already stated in this conference and again in interview in the Sunday Times — they will not enter into coalition with Labour if Miliband is leader — he will have to stand down.

Mr Field said Mr Afriyie would only stand for the leadership if Mr Cameron lost the next Election and resigned as Conservative leader.

If he was talking about four - year degrees, we will have to increase degree attainment rates by 1 percent a year over the next decade among the population of 25 - to 34 - year - olds just to pull even with the current leader for that age group (Norway), and no one expects the rest of the world to stand still while we try to catch up.

To challenge that culture, leaders must be prepared to stand up for effective practice even if changes are initially unpopular.

These initiatives are informed by the North Carolina Center for 21st Century Skills, through which educators, administrators, and business leaders work to identify the skills North Carolina students will need if the state is to continue to improve its economic standing.

Colorado's 20 - year record of steady (if slow) improvement may be dashed in coming weeks if political leaders do not stand up for accountability.

Maybe if all our so called, «leaders» could speak of something else besides the repeat rhetoric (blah, blah, blah) and empty promises I've heard now for 50 years and stop trashing each other with 3rd grade tactics, we'd stand an inkling of chance toward some kind of world peace and planetary healing.

But I think if you were to go by the stand of political leaders all over the world, I think the evidence is very clear, and more than that, I think if you ask the scientific community where barring a small minority is involved, we have absolutely no reason to feel that there isn't solid support for the scientific assessment that we have carried out.

If there were an «L» after our Simon's names, it would stand for leader, not Legree.

If you do this and it's effective, people will notice and thank you for it, and it's a great way to stand out as a leader.

If you all in the real estate business don't start standing up for yourselves... you are doomed as an organizational entity... your leaders are not leaders, they are what I would describe as «appeasers», «Quizzlings» even.