Sentences with phrase «than another politician taking»

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But the false alarm sparked outrage from local politicians, as it took more than half an hour to correct.

Ted, they are Americans and unless you want to take that battle to all of the other politicians that come in with their own personal groups than you post just sounds extremely pety.

Two years ago, then Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb delivered the Conservative Christian Fellowship's Wilberforce Address and claimed that «it is easier for a politician to admit to smoking weed or watching porn, than it is to admit that they might take prayer seriously in their daily life».

While we can forgive a man like Churchill, who weathered a world war with brandy glass in hand, and whose response to charges of overindulgance was as defiant as that towards the Third Reich - «I took more out of drink than it ever took out of me» - the modern politician must conform to a new set of expectations.

Consumer brands are usually very sensitive to how they're perceived, making them far more vulnerable to online action than a typical politician — Congressional offices EXPECT to get criticized via email, and they accept that many constituents will simply never be happy with them, but a corporation takes a great risk if it runs off even a few of its customers.

Few things need the piss taken out of them more than the pretensions of American politics and American politicians.

Theresa May is a walking contradiction: the authoritarian who took on the police, the Remainer who would pursue a tougher Brexit deal than the Leavers, the politician who refuses to play the Westminster game.

Journalists need to take a good look at themselves and hold politicians to account, rather than simply talk about their wonky smile.

In the wake of the most severe global depression for more than eighty years and the search for viable and practical alternatives to neo-liberalism, politicians across the ideological spectrum have ostensibly vied to champion and take ownership of the mutualist cause.

Only about 5 % of taxpayers choose the $ 3 check off for public campaign funding (which is about $ 23 million per year because there are about 150 million 1040 tax returns filed each year), but public television, radio, the NEA and the NEH might get closer to the 25 - 27 % percent participation that the check off got when it was started (bringing the take to perhaps $ 115 million a year), because their programming is probably more popular than campaign funding for politicians.

But as it becomes normal rather than exceptional for campaigns to have a presence on Facebook and other social media channels, politicians will have to endure many more attempts by activists to take over their pages to get attention for their issues or their demands.

Cuomo has also taken far more from LLCs since his election than any other New York State politician or committee.

«That Cuomo took more money than any other politician from lobbyists who wish to block fundamental reform would be infuriating, but that's what New Yorkers have come to expect from him.

In this case, I'd say that what gives the campaign its chance for viral take - off is that it touches a (really) raw nerve and that it has an unfamiliar and quite juicy target — a high - profile corporation rather than a politician.

We take a look at Jeremy Corbyn's support for homeopathy and suggest that it is more than a harmless eccentricity and actually speaks to a politician's commitment to objective truth and scrutiny.

Rather than stand up to the governor, my state senator — like most politicians in this city, in both parties — has taken the coward's way out, doing nothing for straphangers who pay escalating fares for service that is nothing short of catastrophic.

Grodenchik has received more than ten thousand dollars from other politicians» campaign committees, for example, and Lynch has taken close to $ 50,000 — more than half of her contributions — from labor unions.

The early portion of his speech spent some time patting himself on the back for good news (as I've said previously, this is normal behavior by politicians, who take more credit and receive more blame for news than they deserve).

Cuomo, who has benefited from LLC contributions more than any other politician in New York, said companies regularly take advantage of the gap in state law and set up numerous LLCs to donate millions of dollars to candidates.

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.»

An education freedom act would take educational decision - making firmly away from the politicians and into the hands of local authorities, while sponsor - managed schools would replace Labour's academies, to be commissioned by local authorities rather than central government.

Take our quiz and see if you know more about political faux pas than some politicians seem to know about science

«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.

As I'm closer to mathematicians than to politicians, the bulk of my answer will take their point of view.

It is telling that as the police demonstrate they have better things to do than chase cannabis users, politicians are urging them to waste even more of their time on those taking laughing gas.

When the Orange women take on UConn tomorrow night, some New York politicians will have more than just team pride on the line.

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

It seems every politician wants to take a stand against crime and criminal activity and every candidate wants people to think they aren't criminals and thus people should have respect for political figures, but when push comes to shove, actions speak louder than words, and right now everyone remains silent.

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who bent state government to his will for more than 20 years as one of New York's most powerful and canny politicians, was arrested Thursday on charges of taking nearly $ 4 million in payoffs and kickbacks.

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey is raising money hand over foot, but the first - time politician is also spending more than he's taking in, excluding...

And while she never mentioned Cuomo by name in the video, she took a shot at the two - term Democratic governor by saying, «We are sick of politicians who care more about headlines and power than they do about us.»

Getting politicians to set up large reserves takes more than simply appealing to their competitive nature, says Pauly: it requires proof of the reserves» economic worth.

And it's filled with terrific performances, including Kristin Scott Thomas as an earnest career politician, Bruno Ganz as a spiritually enlightened (and more than a little smug) Zen teacher, Patricia Clarkson as take - no - bullshit realist, and Cillian Murphy as a vengeful yuppie.

The second film introduces politician Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and one of the most recognizable villains in films and comics, The Joker (Heath Ledger), and takes the franchise down an even darker path than the one tread in Batman Begins.

If you've had any exposure to this show at all, you'll know by now that Kevin Spacey essentially owned Netflix for a brief period back in February (though Corey Stoll threatens to steal the limelight more than once, but more on that later) in his role as leading man Frank Underwood, the politician passed over for Secretary of State who decides to take his revenge on those who betrayed him — and hell hath no fury like a politician scorned.

Let's invest in education with more than comparisons: Improve teacher training, incorporate mentor programs, hire executive assistants for teachers, pay professional salaries, take education decisions away from pandering politicians, provide alternative programs for disruptive students, and spotlight success when it occurs.

The new polls make clear that more than a year of high - profile opposition to the Common Core from parent activists on the left and the right, as well as from tea party groups, celebrity comedians and politicians such as Jindal and Huckabee, has taken a toll.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

From the furore around Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary during the Brooklyn iteration of the Sensation show in 1999, to last year's kerfuffle over Martin Kippenberger's crucified frog, displayed in Bolzano, Italy — in protest at which an Italian politician, Franz Pahl, went on hunger strike, describing the sculpture as «a grave offence to our Catholic population» — the Catholic church has taken more than its share of body blows in recent years.

As Terry Hartig of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Sweden's Uppsala University writes in an accompanying commentary article for The Lancet, «This study offers valuable evidence that green space does more than pretty up the neighbourhood; it appears to have real effects on health inequality, of a kind that politicians and health authorities should take seriously.»

Sean@190-1: John Howard is a politician who has decided that there are more votes to be gained from denial and delay than by taking action that we can not be sure will avert catastrophe.

I won't consider them any more trustworthy than politicians who will do whatever it takes to get votes.

Vulnerable and affected people deserve better than this failed agreement; they are the ones who feel the worst impacts of our politicians» failure to take tough enough action,» said Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International climate justice and energy coordinator.

Politicians — who have been expressly elected for that purpose — must then make a decision, taking into account a larger range of concerns than those considered by the scientists.

The facts that a) we use in one year an amount of fossil fuel that took a million years to accumulate, b) we may be on the verge of a climate change catastrophe of global proportions and c) powerful technologies may soon fall into the hands of disturbed individuals with minds riven with those twin cancers of nationalism and religious fanaticism, seem to concern the scientific community a lot more than they do politicians or the media.

The point she should really be making, and as you said, is that politician should take more affirmative and transformational actions towards climate change including revolutionize our energy system rather than just planting trees.

So maybe it takes a group of physicians, who enjoy much a much higher public perception than politicians, to publicly encourage higher taxes for high earners, starting with them personally.

More revealing than bloggers at the DNC would be a cadre of guerilla videographers, taking their cameras behind the scenes, away from the scripted events and celebrity politicians, and streaming what they find over the Internet.

Opposition politicians called that «cronyism,» and said ordinary Canadians won't be impressed by Mr. Butts's assertion that a political appointee took a pay cut to make more than $ 200,000 in a plum post.

They don't just take a look at what's happening in the news, but in the context of the broader implications of rather than simply what politician put his foot in his mouth most recently.