Sentences with phrase «than politicians used»

Recent polling suggests that the public is more approving of reductions in welfare than politicians used to realise.

There is little more galling than the politicians using tragic events to pursue their own dubious agenda.

Not exact matches

«We've had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news,» Loesch said in the minute - long video, calling out «every lying member of the media,» «every Hollywood phony,» «the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents,» and «politicians who would rather let America burn than lose one ounce of their personal power.»

But Airbnb canceled his Los Angeles listings from its site in March 2016 after the hotel association argued to local politicians that Airbnb hosts like Mr. de Kleer were raising the cost of housing in the city by renting out properties for short - term use rather than for long - term tenants.

Companies proved from recent fights with the National Rifle Association and legislation targeting bathroom use by transgender people that they can be more finely tuned to public opinion than politicians.

As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 75,000 people have used the hashtag #PrayForOklahoma, including pop starlets, pastors and politicians, according to Topsy.com, a trend - monitoring site.

In the social media world, where things move faster than a politician changing his stand on issues, people are more ready to use you as a step stool to the next level so that makes it a bit difficult to know who to trust and who not to.

«His language was offensive and divisive, using the same racist and classist rhetoric as Donald Trump and the other politicians who use these crises as a talking point to denigrate rather than use their power and positions to help.

The truth is that politicians regularly depict huge swathes of the country as «less than human», to use Twitter's phrase.

Using long words doesn't make you a politician, any more than having long hair makes you a revolutionary.

Especially because there are much more axis» than just «left» and «right» which can be used to differentiate politicians.

How is it worse that politicians were using Cambridge Analytica for targeted ads than any of the other services that offer targeted ads?

«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.

When some politicians try to sway public opinion, they employ the tricks of the debating chamber: cherry - picking data, ignoring the consensus opinions of experts, adept use of a sneer or a misplaced comparison, reliance on the power of rhetoric rather than argument.

Hence the buzz around the idea of «post-truth politics» — although a cynic might wonder if politicians are actually any more dishonest than they used to be.

Miranda Richardson, meanwhile, is clearly having great fun as Barbara Castle, but her character doesn't quite ring true as - bizarrely, to my mind - Cole presents her more as a manipulative politician who uses the women's dispute for her own ends, rather than the canny and courageous fighter for equal rights that she was.

His notion is that students understand passive voice better by dissecting how politicians use it to deflect blame than they ever would from correcting passive voice «errors» in a worksheet.

In addition, the people of Bridgeport, like the people of Connecticut have had more than their fair share of politicians who seek to use their offices to provide financial benefits to their friends and supporters.

Because Connecticut voters believe in education, they believe in democracy and they have had more than their fair share of politicians who seek to use their office to provide financial support to their friends and supporters.

It is up to the donating businesses and scholarship organizations rather than politicians to determine how much scholarships should be to serve the most students and use dollars efficiently.

The survey also found that, regardless of religion, many people would use mind control to help politicians see eye to eye rather than force someone to fall in love with them or use super speed to generate an unlimited supply of free energy over breaking every record at the Olympics.

The retrospective of more than 150 works, many of them depicting gay subcultures, proved too hot to handle and a number of museums found themselves on the frontline of controversy — the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC canceled their presentation of the show and the director of the Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was tried for obscenity and acquitted — and some politicians used the ICA show as an example of how federal grants were misused by the cultural community.

I know some here will decry that I am not talking about the issues because I do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternative).

«Indeed controversial» is academic language; but to politicians, this sounds like «praising with faint damnation» — a politician is apt to assume «is indeed controversial» means «is a hot research area» rather than «was asserted in one paper that used at best controversial methods to reach its claimed conclusion» — eh?

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.

In a nutshell, it's because he uses emotions instead of logic, and uses repetition on a greater scale than most politicians since Hitler.