Sentences with phrase «than the politicians seem»

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Republican politicians seem no less prone than Democrats to adultery and other common if frowned - upon behavior.

For now, with the leader of the opposition, a longtime politician and establishment figure, calling to install a council of «good people» to govern, the Thai market seems a safer bet than Thai democracy.

It would seem the Atlanta Fed agrees with the assessment that the economy is far weaker than is being promoted by politicians and Wall Street.

 But now it seems that 2 months of positive data is more than enough to conclusively declare the recession over — and, for Conservative politicians, more evidence that their plan is «working.»

[After some back and forth Mr Cassidy tries to explain to Senator Xenophon, who seems hung up on the fact that nobody from the ACCC attended the previous day's hearings (perhaps forgetting that while politicians seem to have all the time in the world talking about things they don't understand, the ACCC has other commitments), that he really doesn't have a clue what he's talking about; he was a little more dignified than that though]

And like gridlocked politicians, it seems each side of the debate relies more on spin than facts to justify its positions.

Another obvious one is the fact that many of these populists run specifically on the issue of jobs and job loss - and a successful entrepreneur naturally seems like more of an expert on creating jobs than a professional politician, regardless of whether that perception is accurate.

The idea that female politicians should be defined by anything other than their clothes or gender seems to have passed much of Fleet Street by.

Yet rather than learn from these historic mistakes, our politicians seem determined to repeat them.

More frequently than not (it seemed) a politician would get indicted and no one made a big deal.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

It seems that politicians are making the news in more ways than one.

In this case Labour seems to be arguing that the BBC is giving more coverage to coalition politicians and policies than to their own side.

Your brother seems less plugged into everyday life than almost any other politician I can think of.

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 the vast majority of the stuffed - to - the - rafters audience seemed to like it, many of them treating the new mayor as more of a celebrity than a politician.

In voting down the idea of elected mayors so widely, and by turning their back on this week's police elections in such vast numbers, the people seem to have understood far better than the politicians how unattractive that patchwork is.

A million dollars a month is at once an impressive and excessive amount of money for almost any politician to raise, especially one still quite popular more than a year before what would seem to be a rather easy path to re-election.

Seen from outside Westminster, the question today is much clearer than too many politicians seem to pretend.

Secondly, whilst the sights of Labour activists in both Scotland and Wales are firmly concentrated on their new national parliaments rather than Westminster, Scotland (unlike Wales) seems to send its leading politicians to Westminster.

It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.

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

So perhaps, if politicians were so concerned about the opioid epidemic as they seem to be, they might want to investigate marijuana as a safer alternative, rather than continuing to fight a losing battle against it.

The political has rarely seemed more personal than in Jonah Markowitz and Tracy Wares» talky - in - a-very-good-way portrait of four lesbian politicians — Sheila Kuehl, Jackie Goldberg, Carole Migden and Christine Kehoe — who were fighting for their LGBT constituents long before the marriage - equality debate came to the fore.

If publishers can not understand that they have a social responsibility (which seems a dirty word these days), than I think the politicians will have to force them.

He has not courted the wealthy, politicians, and the media, preferring to go personally to his flock, making him seem far less a prince of the church than a Catholic Worker.

All politicians seem hell - bent on kicking the can down the road rather than tackling it head on.

Given that warming over the next 50 years seems inevitable, some serious long - term planning is needed — but financial centers seem to have a hard time looking beyond next quarter's results, and the politicians don't seem to look much farther than the next election cycle.

A claim about forest fires in northern Asia seems to go further than the evidence referred to — in this case a speech by a politician — would warrant.

And political parties and politicians, like journalists, comedians and seemingly radical intellectuals, seem to be no better at making sense of the «swirling fucking madness» than the next man.

In such a febrile atmosphere, the very fact that such a statement was made at all seems to let the safety cat out of the nuclear bag; in the minds of anti-nuclear campaigners and politicians, declaring that Fukushima has had no negative impact on the UK identifies the HPA as partial, rather than independent.

I've met and worked with politicians who were genuinely concerned with good policy in the broad public interest, although they seem to be rarer now than they were.

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.

Some people seem to believe that if we allow too much transparency, well, before you know it, not only will our «junk» be exposed but some people will get the idea that lawyers are no better than, say, politicians.

A few months from now, last term may seem far away; the brethren may seem once more fraternal; and the institution may look a little more like a court ruling on law than a fractious bunch of politicians striking exactly the poses their constituencies expect of them.

It seems that politicians have forgotten what they are actually talking about — locking people up for weeks on end with no more than shadowy and often vague suspicions.

It certainly helps that the leaders of the movement to implement stronger gun controls are articulate and smart, often seeming far more articulate and much smarter than the politicians who oppose them.

It seems more like a publicity stunt by politicians rather than genuine concern about protecting customer interests.