Sentences with phrase «who are apolitical»

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The rule of law and apolitical law enforcement are under attack by a president who is a walking conflict of interest, with his un-divested businesses, nepotistic hiring, and unprecedented lack of transparency about personal finances.

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

Condemning the brutalities of the Nationalists, Burleigh nonetheless exonerates the great bulk of the Spanish clergy, most of whom were apolitical and who dedicated their lives to the poor.

Their antics are only the most visible (partly because they are sometimes the most silly) examples of how liberal institutions influence people who think of themselves as basically apolitical.

So America, at its best, is about people who somehow see democratic citizenship as both a means and an end and so avoids the extremes of endlessly meddlesome democratic tyranny and apolitical libertarian indifference to the souls of their fellow citizens and creatures.

Those who claim to be apolitical usually side with and support the forces of status quo.

Such apolitical stance will create an unacceptable dualism between the spiritual and the material aspects of life, implying that there is another Lord who is in charge of the political sphere than God, our Creator and Redeemer.

He even regrets the complicating influence of a Pascal who was much too apolitical and too Catholic for revolutionary purposes.

I don't care if it's a liberal, conservative or apolitical, did you or did you not continue a chain of e-mails that were offensive to the president, had racial overtones... We just had two governors back - to - back that were losers, we're looking for somebody who's going to put their head above this personal flotsam and jetsam that has paralyzed the office.»

He's just an apolitical grifter who backed into the White House by a fluke.

In March, Governor David Paterson, a Democrat, said an «apolitical» method would be used to pick a new supplier after state and federal authorities began probing whether Aqueduct Entertainment Group had won the lucrative contract to assist one of Paterson's political allies, the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a former congressman.

«It was a sudden and highly politicized end to (Bharara's) seemingly apolitical tenure, which was noted for prosecutions of powerful politicians of both parties,» though he had his critics who accused him both of overreach and, at times, an unwillingness to be forceful enough.

He was supported in his endeavor by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former mayors Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch, who said Donovan would provide a fair, apolitical counterbalance to the Democrat - run state government.

Although the post is supposed to be apolitical, members of Germany's new coalition government have called for Peter Sawicki, founding director of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, to be replaced with someone who is friendlier to the pharmaceutical industry.

One of the effects of the film in following a single soldier and one who appears seemingly apolitical, is to convey the chaos and the senselessness of the violence on both sides of the conflict.

It seemed unlikely that the Globes would be political at all, given that they were being hosted by the apolitical Jimmy Fallon, who doesn't do controversy, he just rubs Donald Trump's head for laughs.

Bergman's tortured husband (Max von Sydow) is apolitical, thrown into a spiritual chasm by Chinese nukes, while Schrader's is a radical environmental activist (Philip Ettinger) who can't bring a child into a doomed world.

She's even employed in the picture as a punitive, apolitical, unapologetic champion of order who limits her victims to drug - dealers and gangsters, those disturbers of civilization.

The good news is that ithis new novel of Cricton's is boring — that's according to some apolitical types who don't think about climate change very much.

I don't have a side, but am no less an investor than anyone else and an apolitical look at the associated funding may lead to a reduction of the noise of who funds whom.