Sentences with phrase «upon a time politicians»

Yes, it's true, once upon a time politicians would quit running for office when they were deemed to have a moral failing.

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Democratic politicians who have received campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein are being called upon to return the money after the New York Times published an exhaustive story Thursday detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer.

It is totally unenforceable, which renders it useless, and is another attempt by politicians to place a «legal fix» upon what is really just an economic fact of life brought on by changing times, NAFTA, and the ability of farmers in other countries to grow New Mexican varieties to meet the demand here.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

Jason Statham returns in this second action - packed sequel as professional driver and tough guy Frank Martin, this time called upon to deliver a kidnapped politician's daughter from France to the Ukraine while dodging a series of killers bent on stopping him l literally dead in his tracks.

However, for the first time in my career I am disheartened with the current reform efforts that have been foisted upon public schools by education outsiders − businessmen and politicians.

An equally central challenge, that is not going to be touched upon by many politician for a long time yet, is that of a world population exploding while all sorts of human driven ecological devastation is taking place at the same time.

Hypothetical question to the New York Times and the UEA: if US Congressional (or UK Parliamentary) staffers and researchers decided that their work product upon which legislation is or will be based was not to be made available to investigators and / or opposition politicians, what would be the NYT and the UEA position on that refusal to openly provide information / data / research that was publicly funded?

The uncertainties in the financial market are not caused by «climate change» uncertainty; they are caused by political uncertainty: «Using the excuse of saving the planet from climate change, what insane policy, regulation, or law are these megalomaniacal politicians going to inflict upon us this time?»

Once upon a time, politicians held their tongues and the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee (FOMC), in a show of solidarity, appeared to rubber stamp central bank decisions.