Sentences with phrase «very political person»

I am a feminist but I'm not a very political person, as in a political activist.

I'm not a very political person, but I'm definitely unhappy with what's going on.

I'm not a very political person but I am interested in going and sharing my input.

I saw the story in the Wall Street Journal Mansion section about Moraga and realized that I had met the owner 20 or 25 years ago with President Reagan at a social party, although he wasn't a very political person.

A complex set of doctrinal, historical and sociological reasons made them a very political people and they have kept up that heritage in both the Punjab, the land of their origin, and wherever they have migrated to in the past century.»

Not exact matches

«With the anti-corruption campaign and the political sentiment, a lot of wealthy people feel going to Macau is very risky.

«He is a free trader by ideology and by experience, but he is also very much a political person.»

You start to build up those data points and you can very accurately say «Well, I don't know this person's party political affiliation, but I do know they have a Barber and a Land Rover and a dog and they like shooting and work in merchant banking, therefore, they're likely to be a Tory.

But for us to do so requires nothing less than a very substantially heightened degree of direct political activism by people who really care about the survival of our country.

The Blockchain Cruise gathered people of very different backgrounds: from founders of blockchain startups, crypto traders and investors to top lawyers in the field and influential political figures.

And while there are now growing calls in the country for legislation to protect people's data — in a bid to steer off the next democracy - denting Cambridge Analytica scandal, at very least — any such process will take a lot of political will.

Commitment and consistency are a very powerful forces that kick in with particularly strong force when people do things like making a public statement about something like a stock price or a political issue.

«Nowadays, people find themselves living in very turbulent times, with political and economic instability all over the world, ranging from the impending Brexit to the escalation of trade tensions.

The very fact that many people believed shortly after events occurred, especially when they could have so easily been disproven by the religious leaders and political leaders of the time, only strengthens my faith.

People get very very worked up about religious and political agendas.

Very often this diversity is delineated entirely in terms of the sex, race, or ethnicity of the person or group speaking rather than any substantive difference in moral or political aims.

He also writes very well» on jazz, civil liberties, and people who are ignored because they are of no political importance to the right or the left.

«When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...» But the Declaration then quickly moves, in the very same sentence, to the question of by what right or by what authority such a change is to be made.

Most people have not thought about it very hard, but then neither have most people thought very hard about the answers they give to political pollsters or surveys on almost anything else under the sun.

There is an irony to all of this, in that often the very same people who decry American exceptionalism as a political conceit seem to embrace that conceit when it comes to American Catholicism.

Just as our peoples, at a certain moment of their history, were mature enough to say «no» to all forms of political colonization, so too in our families we need to be very wise, very shrewd, very strong, in order to say «no» to all attempts at an ideological colonization of our families.

But in general, I am totally with you, aside for the occasional guilty pleasure of coming here and helping theists trip themselves on their lack of logic, for (judgement) their political tendencies are actually very dangerous for people like you.

A more reflective reading of the Gospels makes it very clear that it was not the Father God who demanded the death of Jesus; but the Religious and Political elites whose power was being challenged by the Gospel message that Jesus was preaching to the common people.

Imagine if Jesus was in our world right now and he headed right over to someone who cooperated with and benefitted from oppression, someone who had traded integrity for political power, someone we distrust, someone who we feel is dangerous, someone who stole from people in a socially acceptable and governmentally blessed way, someone who took the very religious or national identity that we cherished and basically stomped all over it for his own gain.

LDS tend to take it well, but I know the anti-Mormons are out in full force right now... it's a very regrettable thing that people would promote hatred against Christ's Church for political gain.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

Mr Trump responded by criticising the pope as a «very political» person who did not understand the situation.

The bigger issue with his «Christianities» stem from the church he claimed to have attended for long is an imposter (what many call a church of hate), his conversion coincides with the start of his political career, he's never given any account of why he converted to Christianity (people who do convert invariably have very specific reasons), and in one of his books he vows that he will stand with Islam.

In chapters 40 - 48 the subject is almost exclusively the deliverance of the captive people — their physical, political release from «captivity» in the very near future.

So some people will think that my blackness and my life as a black man is somehow me being political or being a «left - winged advocate» or whatever, when it's just me being me, saying no, my experience is very unique.

With white voters slipping from 87 % in 1992 to 72 % in 2012, the country is increasingly inundated with minorities whose political wings, with Democrat help, have taken flight to challenge the very people who brought them here.

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

Romans killed a political activist very brutally, then created a cult around that poor guy to control all the people, now you try to insult that poor guy.

Seasoned political observers know what to expect from the candidates — a dozen or so very ambitious people, flag - pinned and furrow - browed, speaking earnestly about their love for America.

«Over a number of decades we were political opponents and held very different views on many, many issues but the one thing we were absolutely united on was the principle that our people were better able to govern themselves than any British government.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

The belief that the Bible takes precedence over any command of government is shared with people of very different political persuasions, including some on the left.

For, whether we admit it or not, political decisions and actions involve the people about whom God cares very much and, therefore, political exercise has theological dimensions.

The local media, including CNN, Fox and your local TV stations and newspapers are a very important element of social and political behavior, as society is shaped by what it sees, hears and reads and it is conditioned by the events that influence the mind of every person.

A model of very limited, but never negligible, transcending, varying in degree from time to time and person to person, can provide a more realistic approach to the political world.

His study of the Bible particularly, and his capacity to interpret Scripture in the light of contemporary social movements and political and world events have sensitized him to the need and demands of persons very different from himself.

To put it very bluntly, it is the fact that people are not very interested, at least they are not interested for long, in hearing any man's opinions about all kinds of things political, social and economic; they are interested in trying to find out what the Bible has to say.

I made a big batch and am bringing half it down to our county political office to support the very dedicated young people working 12 hr days there on the presidential campaign.

But believe me, when I blog on political sites as I do often, i slaughter all bad political people, very much including TRUMP.

Very few people have ever used «cool» and «redistricting» in the same headline, but longtime readers will know that I'm a bit of a redistricting nerd — my first substantive political experience was as staffer in the Texas Legislature during a 1992 redistricting special session, and I've never quite recovered from walking into my first (absolutely literally) smoke - filled room in its waning days.

There are political positions in USA who advocate that people should be able to default on college loan debt (with the status quo being that it's very hard if not impossible to do so right now).

A fantasist libertarian - anarchist «free market» is a very silly baseline, but... and this is a very obvious point, and of course those political philosophers you mention must have dealt with it... but I don't see how equality can be a «baseline» either, not while we live in world where some people work hard and save their pennies, while others don't.

Cuomo noted that his office has gone after some very powerful people who have contributed political cash to him, using this as proof that he can't be swayed from acting in the best interest of the «people of New York State» just because someone throw some money in his direction.

But if we recognise the foreignness of the past, and the very different ways in which people in different political settings responded to the pressures of social change and the emergence of more popular forms of politics at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, we may find ourselves able to ask questions of our present — and of our futures — that would not otherwise be asked.

«I suppose that's always interested me, the idea of people in the same side of the political spectrum who have very different ideas about what the movement should be doing, what the party should be doing, and this idea of a broad church with everybody welcome.