Sentences with phrase «than a foot soldier»

In recent months he has taken to sitting to the side of Labour MPs during Prime Minister's Questions, more an observer than a foot soldier, and out of the media spotlight since last autumn when Gordon Brown successfully managed a Labour revival Clarke had argued would not happen without a change of leader.

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The company, which owns more than 1,500 apartment units in Greater Boston including nearly 1,000 in Allston - Brighton, acquired a new 19,250 - square - foot headquarters at 1200 Soldiers Field Road from Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. on May 24 for $ 3.8 million.

They have been touted as being more efficient, accurate and cheaper than using foot soldiers, with the cost of human lives decreasing dramatically when a pilot can kill his target from behind a computer screen thousands of miles away.

«And to the party youth and to all committed foot soldiers of MPP, there is nothing gratifying in party politics than having your party in power.

According to his attorney, Percoco, the burly, reliable presence at Cuomo's side for more than two decades, was not the governor's right - hand man — an image Percoco himself once cultivated — but rather more of a foot soldier, a scheduler and «nuts and bolts guy» in charge of assembling stages before events or overseeing the holiday card mailings.

Caroline Lucas, as the only Green Party MP, does get more attention and thus wields more influence than the average Labour or Conservative foot soldier.

Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier sprung out from the remark «neoliberalism is more dangerous to cultural harmony in the UK than the far right».

Within days, Shelley's own party decided it would rather go without a candidate than send its foot soldiers out to support him.

They are the foot - soldiers of fashion weeks, but that doesn't stop them being more knowledgeable than most of the guests, including some journalists, out front.

«Soldiers have been relying on these four - footed comrades - in - arms since the beginning of organized warfare and today military dogs are more important than ever in keeping our service men and women safe,» said Robin Ganzert, the American Humane Association's president and CEO.

Rather than focus on sending out waves of disposable foot soldiers reinforced by higher - quality recruits, in Kiwami 2 the focus is on protecting the construction site and its assets with those recruits.

Big Red One does a good job of making you feel like you're part of a much larger endeavor rather than a lone foot soldier checking items off of his laundry list of objectives.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»