Sentences with phrase «which elected politicians»

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Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

A wise public official after observing politics in an American city for a number of years said that he would prefer having the city run by elected officials with all the dangers which that involves to administration by political experts; for the politicians often have a human kindness and mercy which the experts lack.

The ERS's main objection is that the introduction of above the line voting is that closed list PR systems would increase the power of political parties to influence who gets elected, which, in the words of their chief executive Katie Ghose, would result in the Lords being «a mini-replica of the commons, full of party - politicians with pre-set loyalties» whilst «STV would help create a chamber free to provide objective scrutiny».

It's raising tensions with left wing politician that does something which Trump - and the ideology which got him elected - strongly oppose (namely, their worldview includes an assertion that the western elite deliberately downplay the threat of radical Islamic terrorism).

By the way, why do so many politicians - especially the young and ambitious - need to be reminded that civil rights are not some kind of bonus, granted to a «lobby» with an agenda, but a defi ning characteristic of the free society which they have been elected to serve?

Note that I do believe this question is on - topic, since the moral standards and culture of a country dictates whom it elects as its politicians which in turn dictates which policies it enforces.

Now try and get a politician to admit this picture of Britain in the parliament for which they seek to be elected.

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.

Whatever the outcome of Stevenson's case, the accusations alone — which came just days after corruption charges against two other elected officials — seem to have chipped off another chunk of the public's brittle trust of politicians.

In other words, I am not interested in examples of someone being elected as «President for Life» which has happened numerous times, or examples of parent - child pairs of democratic politicians who manage to be elected in an ordinary democratic election system to a term of office for a fixed term of years.

However, if there was enough popular support, it would be easy for politicians who supported the measure to get elected in the House of Representatives (which is where you need to get this bill started, as it would be a spending bill).

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.

Does it from the the politician's pocket (which I am assuming is the case for someone that is campaigning but not elected) or say are they allotted money from their state to hire assistants / aides?

Like many local politicians, Silver earns supplemental income from jobs other than his elected state government post (which earns him $ 121,000 annually).

He has not received endorsements from elected officials or unions, which he chalked up to him not being a career politician.

The former deputy prime minister's revelation in the Guardian again raises concerns about the extent to which the security services felt they were entitled to use broadly drawn legislative powers to carry out intrusive surveillance and keep this information from democratically elected politicians.

He spent most of the time not talking about the area's elected Republicans — City Councilman Eric Ulrich, who represents District 32 which covers from Woodhaven to the Rockaways — but against Queens Democrats, who he called the city's most corrupt politicians.

SD31 In Senate District 31, which includes the Upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood and runs down the West Side into Hell's Kitchen, Senator Adriano Espaillat is leaving his seat to run for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional district — an election he is favored to win, which would make him the first politician born in the Dominican Republic to be elected to the House of Representatives.

You'd think from all the whooping and dancing around by the campaigners that they were electing the President, but in truth, even if they got their man elected, he would be only one vote out of nine members; hardly enough to convince the staid politicians to extend the Monorail — which to this day it simply is not.

He also notes that there are a «number of authorities which afford elected politicians a qualified privilege when speaking to the media on subjects of public interest.

According to Lemay, a Quebec City lawyer with Tremblay Bois Mignault Lemay, who specializes in municipal law and teaches an ethics course to newly elected municipal politicians, ethical and conflict questions and considerations under the dispositions of Quebec's eight - year - old Municipal Ethics and Good Conduct Act need to be evaluated in the context in which they arise.