Sentences with phrase «than a political process»

What are our interactions with teenagers, for instance, other than a political process where arrogance is severely punished?

I find it odd that some people think such a discussion, rather than the political process, is what is victimizing the people who are suffering as a result of this event.

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Rather than a political failure, the decline of manufacturing employment is a natural economic process that many industries, like agriculture, have gone through in past eras.

When talk drifted to the legal hurdles, Goldwater suggested that rather than entering California's potentially bruising political process, Google should start small.

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

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But I think we are beginning to get into that kind of turning process where there are those broader issues, those that have tended to have assets, be they salaried pension holders or those that own property or other real assets, have tended to do better than the millennial generation and I think that we are seeing that in some elements of political protest.

And when creditors turned their economic gains from this process into political power to shift the tax burden onto wage earners and industry, this raised the cost of living and doing business — by more than technology was able to lower prices.

A third reason for selecting political theology rather than liberation theology for discussion in this book is that other process theologians have begun the dialogue with liberation theology, and I am confident that this will continue.

The practice constituted by rights to private liberties may not be violated and, further, rebellion is bound by something like the following principle: Extra-legal attempts to establish what one takes to be the substantive conditions of a full and free discourse are not permitted unless the changes are more likely to occur or to occur more quickly in this manner than through legal activity, and the democratic political process is likely to sustain the changes once they are made.

For process theologians the ecological horizon is even more important than for Moltmann, and the question arises whether this excludes us from political theology.

When challenged on why he was speaking about grassroots reconciliation rather than a political settlement, Welby said both were important: «The process has to be top down, bottom down, middle out.

Actually, millennial Christians are more likely than any age group — notably, those generations of Christians that invested a ton of hope in the political process — to share their faith in public (43 percent say they talk to others about their faith at least once a week).

And finally, they need to support reform measures which would help television support and enhance the political process rather than despoil it.

I believe that a pluralistic political process with more than one political party is more likely to produce liberty.

Grace has the power to transform the world, but most Western Christians seem to have more faith in their ideology and failed political process than they do in Grace:

However, such metaphoric language is more than ornament, affecting people's conceptual systems and thought processes, influencing how they perceive others, and determining their political views and behavior.

It is symptomatic of a way of engaging with the political process that is deeper rooted than the particular propensities of our current ecclesial leadership.

But I have no desire to stay in my position longer than is needed to ensure the path to economic growth is assured and the process of political reform we have agreed moves forward quickly.

Five years is a long time - more than enough, surely, for peril to be averted and political capital to be accumulated in the process.

According to official reports, the social network has more than 2.2 billion active users monthly and all these people can take a part in the political process.

This feeds into the general sense of lawlessness and Arbitrariness that has engulfed the 7 - months old Akufo Addo Government; A govt in which ministers would rather serve the interest of their masters rather than follow due process; a government in which genuine businesses are deliberately impeded from operating on the altar of political expediency..

I'd read both hype and skepticism in the days beforehand, and I suspect that ultimately the new format will have a bigger effect on the debates themselves than on the political process.

It is a term deployed to allude to grand ideas and strategies and to conjure up an image of national power, rather than to illuminate what is actually going on in the foreign policy process, or routine political activity.

There will be little support for a new political agenda based on a participatory process unless local communities understand such processes and receive protection from the state — and people see that the democratic process will indeed bring more benefits and security than before.

Add to this the political and legislative workload involved in devolving further powers to Scotland — and potentially revisiting the Smith Commission proposals in the process due to the SNP landslide — while also crafting a working arrangement for English votes for English laws, and it's obvious that the government has more than enough to be going on with as far as constitutional politics is concerned.

No fewer than 500 women and unemployed youths including graduates in Ibarapa geo - political zone of Oyo State have undergone various trainings and taught various skills in Cassava processing.

«I think as long as they stuck to the idea that we've spent more money than we have and we can't raise taxes because that's going to drive jobs away and businesses away, then there's going to be a democratic — a small - d democratic — political process that makes better choices on spending.

Canada's deal, which was predominantly on goods rather than services (much easier to negotiate) and broadly without hostile political overtones, took seven when you factor in the ratification process.

Mayor Bloomberg just dropped a report that demonstrates elections in states with nonpartisan redistricting are considerably more competitive across the board than in places like New York where the process is political and directly controlled by elected officials.

But it does ensure that no particular class of voter gets more representation in the political process than any other.

If you want to learn how campaigns ebb and flow, persistence, vision, building wide communities of interest and the rivalries that exist between allies (often worse than with your foes), understanding the political process and how to use it, then this is your go - to book.But my enthusiasm extends beyond the political — right now, I'm reading Claire Tomalin's biography of Dickens.

«Nothing is more important to me than my personal faith, and it is my faith that motivated me to be involved in the political process to begin with,» Carson said in the same statement.

«The whole world watched what was less than a flattering political process.

When I asked Bruce Gyory, an adjunct professor and political consultant who has advised three governors, what he thought would happen, he said, «Anyone who thinks they can see where this process will end up and how has got a lot better vision than I do.»

David Paterson when he signed a temporary moratorium to the controversial natural gas drilling process known as hydrofracking, lamented today that the decision about whether to allow fracking in the Marcellus Shale has become «a political decision» rather than one based on science, safety or potential economic benefit.

«Anyone who believes that to be the case is not reviewing any of the proposals that we are advocating for or putting out as we speak and also because the legislative process has not been completed, I don't know how anyone could come to that conclusion other than for political purposes or fear - mongering or editorializing,» he said.

I hope that the State will work to keep the arbitration process moving so that the facts and foundation of the Compact can be presented to the arbitration panel, rather than clouded by political threats, rhetoric, insults and even jokes in the press.

«But I have no desire to stay in my position longer than is needed to ensure the pass to economic growth is assured and the process of political reform we have agreed moves forward quickly.

The authors offer a stark warning to governments and policymakers: learn from and build on experience before time runs out, rather than constantly reinventing aims and processes for the sake of political vanity.

«Scientists, who are better positioned than most to appreciate what is at stake in these political decisions, surely have no less a right and responsibility than any other group to ensure their voices are heard in the political process,» he said.

It doesn't say much about the political process when being «middle of the road» is interpreted as a dating strategy rather than a willingness to actively engage in the political process.

What consequences will it mean for democracy, if online dating causes our political process to become even more divisive than it already is?

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

Relying on hoary setups and speeches that might have seemed fresh decades ago — before audiences had glimpsed the slimy realities of our political process in everything from The War Room to The West Wing — the film feels more tired than topical.

«When Iget a call from a campaign, I invite them to come in and talk aboutthe political process rather than their own candidacies,» he says.

This indicated a process of change that was more incremental and political than the NASDC teams had expected, as they would soon learn in Memphis.

Both Brazil and Chile introduced more transparent and competitive principal hiring processes, newly based on merit rather than political connections.

Moreover, as a fundamentally political process, state adoption decisions often focus more on pleasing various interest groups than on enhancing the schools» instructional programs.

The structural barriers in schools that limit Meaningful Student Involvement are no less than every norm, regulation and process that keeps students powerless throughout education, from their individual classrooms to highest political offices in the land.