Sentences with phrase «than politicians when»

I hate interviews with japanese developers, they are worse than politicians when it comes to stating facts.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

Not exact matches

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

When most politicians try this, as Finance Ministers often do to try to create the appearance of sophistication, it's usually just in nonsensical financial jargon that amounts to nothing more than bromides.

-- Manafort joined Trump's campaign when his work for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine began drying up — but his work there continued longer than previously thought.

But it makes people more cynical than they already are» cynical about politicians, and cynical about newspapers» and cynicism corrodes the cynical, even when they have reason to be, and for that the Washington Post bears responsibility.

You know or SHOULD know, (you sound pretty stupid so you might not) that politicians make decisions based on their faith, so when people find someone with a different faith than theirs running for the highest office, it makes sense that they are uneasy with it.

As someone who is committed to increasing political participation and passionate about Christians engaging with what politicians actually say, rather than what we've heard them say, I believe it can be helpful when a politician chooses direct modes of communication rather than allowing their words to be mediated through the press.

It always irks me to no end when I see what politicians have been doing in the name of God, Christianity, and family values that does nothing more than alienate others and cause them to embarrass themselves and other believers.

So is he a better politician now, in his mid-50s, than when he started?

When people complain about «professional politicians», they are talking about a generation of parliamentarians who struggle to assemble a showreel from more than a decade on the frontbenches.

Sooner than later someone is going to have the tape recorder rolling when he makes one of his famous phone calls, and he will be just the latest crooked politician to have been hung with his own rope.

Mandate relief, consolidation and IDA reform are three topics that are older than dirt and are always pulled out of a politician's hat when they have nothing else to offer.

Politicians accrued some respect, but then most people only saw their local MP when he opened the village fete rather than being able to tune in to watch the antics in parliament any time of day.

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.

When politicians are described today as «Machiavellian'the implication is that they are no more than cynical graspers at power for its own sake.

«No salaries to pay», on the other hand if every citizen becomes effectively full - time politician (voting is much more than merely pressing the button), who (and when) is going to get the real work done?

So it beggars belief that at a time when there are more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.

We have entered a dangerous age when the politicians are better known than their policies.

When asked which politician they would rather go on a date with, more British gay men picked David Miliband than anyone else.

In 2011, Mr Jarvis became the first serving politician in more than 60 years to be awarded a military honour, when he was made an MBE for his services to the armed forces.

It will create hundreds of unaccountable new elected politicians at a time when we as a party are committed to reducing the cost of politics an; gd it will produce a chamber which is less expert, less diverse and significantly more expensive than the present one.

Cuomo's approval rating is still higher than most politicians, at 55 %, but it's down nearly 20 points from last December, when Cuomo reached his highest approval rating ever, at 74 %.

And he can be more forthcoming than your typical politician (when he wants to be).

He continued in this «tough and tender» (his words again) vein when discussing the deficit reduction plan, landing the Lib Dems headlong into the government's strategy, rather than shying away and blaming all the unpopular cuts — as some Lib Dem politicians tend to do — on the Tories, resurrected as the «Nasty Party» by Vince Cable earlier today.

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

Politicians have for too long presumed that the blanket negativity about immigration on TV and in newspapers reflects the views of the public, but it is far more nuanced than that, especially when split across constituencies.

It is difficult to ask for a more blatant illustration of the claim that politicians and, at least some, journalists belong to the one per cent than when they go out riding horses together.

The Labour politician burst into life when it became clear that he had more than doubled his majority.

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.

And when he hailed Nigel Farage rather than his own leader as the most successful politician of the year...

The politicians love it when you are half baked than fully cooked so that they can always manipulate you.

Am sure some people get the story of ogun APC wrong, the issue is not between Osoba and Amosun rather Amosun with other Apc stalwarts, started from his deputy, all the senators, all the reps, most of party leaders, mejority of assembly members in ogun state even some of the grass root members that worked for amosun's victory in 2011, despite all Osoba intervention with some traditional ruler, Amosun believe he can do it alone, so am sure Osoba left with no option than to stay with mejority followers and path away with Amosun, especially when Amosun always says that he need no politician with him, even went to an extent of attacking ogun central senator with thugs and attempted to kill him.Also,short - changed Osoba's people in last APC congress in the state.But, after the result in Ekiti, he started realizing that he need them only for his 2015 victory but not in his government or in the party..

The mainstream politicians and media could do a lot worse than listen to Maajid Nawaz, when it comes to critiquing Islam.

Bearing in mind that incumbents always receive more coverage than opposition politicians, the ratio was much more pronounced when the Conservatives were in power in 2012.

Liberal politicians who back the mayor still want to be seen as pro-police and pro-tech industry; the playbook in those scenarios is less apparent than when Republicans threaten to defund Planned Parenthood and Democrats rally to denounce anyone who's not pro-choice.

But when it comes to doing his civic duty by serving on a jury, Heastie, now one of the most powerful politicians in the state, has been less than accountable, according to court records.

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.

The idea may sound improbable, especially when it sometimes seems that more politicians court voters by ridiculing science than by studying it.

While Roxeanne is trying to keep herself together, Isabel goes off gallivanting with a French politician (Lhermitte, The Dinner Game), finding an attraction to the casual attitudes regarding having mistresses, but she is uncomfortable with her position when she wants to be more than a sexual companion.

By Anthony Cody California Gov. - elect Jerry Brown has a better understanding than most politicians of education issues, as we discovered last year when he sent some cogent advice to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Actions speak louder than words, and when it comes to educational expectations, legislative inaction betrays the hollowness of politicians» words.

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.

«Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it,» he writes, «hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can't tell the politicians from the witch doctors.

They call it «freedom flights» from the Bahamas when it's really nothing more than exploitation for profit while at the same time, local politicians outlawed pet stores from selling puppies bred by American dog breeders.

Someone writes a guest post on RC and then for eternity it's a done deal and assumed «true» when it was little more than egregious incompetent SPIN more worthy of a biased politician than a couple of biased scientists obviously incapable of thinking holistically and unable to stop creating fraudulent Strawmen arguments out of thin air trying to prove they are «right» and the other is «wrong».

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).

i wonder when we'll have a politician with the courage to speak the truth: that decreasing death rates by improvements and advances in medical care and nutrition and living conditions in the third world — without an even more dramatic reduction in birth rates — will only make the planet's environmental problems worse than they already are.

When politicians distort science, academics and scientists tend to watch in shock from the sidelines rather than speak out.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.