Sentences with phrase «treated by politicians»

It seems to me this omission is symbolic of the way Indigenous people are often treated by politicians and policymakers.

Russell Baker, writing in the New York Times (September 30, 1987), said, «Since 1952, the electorate has been treated by politicians less and less as an electorate and more and more as an audience.»

Not exact matches

In terms of the political system, the media, again reflecting the values held by society generally, give us politics by image, treating politicians and their campaigns as products to be sold rather than as people and ideas to be understood.

Leonard goes on by stressing that it is particularly worrying that «Germany's leaders are now trying to treat foreign politicians who question German orthodoxy the same way they treat their own populists».

He had a strong base of support in Chicago's Irish Catholic community, and he was treated by national politicians such as Lyndon B. Johnson as a pre-eminent Irish American, with special connections to the Kennedy family.

Appelbaum, who hosted a breakfast fund - raiser for Liu attended by 38 union leaders at Campanile restaurant next to RWDSU's East 29th Street headquarters, claimed the comptroller has been treated more harshly than other politicians accused of shady campaign financing.

Some 40 per cent of voters believe Mr Corbyn offers a positive difference from other politicians while 37 per cent think he is being treated unfairly by the media, the polling found.

But Entebbe manages to fudge the whole business, depriving us of old - fashioned action movie excitement, while implying that the politics are there to be contested by the variously sly or careworn Israeli politicians and the anguished German revolutionaries, with the Palestinians treated as also - rans.

Public education advocates have fought so very hard to be heard, all the while being treated with gross disrespect by politicians and bureaucrats.

As a retired engineer, I do believe we need a George Marshall to wake - up the politicians and the populace the urgency of mobilization and reorganization to face the threat or be destroyed by the treat!

We will no longer be hunted down and treated like prey by politicians who simply don't care about us.»