Politicians Sentence Examples

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Sagasta ultimately headed the most Conservative groups of the revolutionary politicians against Ruiz Zorrilla and the Radicals, and against the Federal Republic in 1873.

In the last few days of the campaign the ruling politicians to reverse became frankly laughable.

He had long had the ear of the Chamber in matters of social legislation, and after the Panama scandals had discredited so many politicians his influence grew.

If politicians are demonstrably good at one thing, it is getting elected, and people who are starving don't normally re-elect their representatives.

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Others, as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders, serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God.

Under this act the American element has exercised the controlling power, and this has proved distasteful to certain Porto Rican politicians.

In the absence of these more respectable elements, the government fell into the hands of a gang of military adventurers and unscrupulous politicians, whose only object was to exploit the national resources for their own benefit.

He was therefore deeply disappointed and distressed to find the old feeling of distrust still actively fomented by the press and some of the leading politicians of the country.

The traditions of his Sunday parties have lasted unimpaired to this day, and the most pleasant pages penned by his biographer describe the politicians and the men of letters who gathered round his Tool hospitable board.

But the politicians of Vienna had neither the power nor the time to realize their intentions.

When the Carlist rising began on the death of Ferdinand he is said to have held back because he knew that the first leaders would be politicians and talkers.

The Argus, founded in 1813 by Jesse Buel (1778-1839) and edited from 1824 to 1854 by Edwin Croswell (1797-1871), was long the organ of the coterie of New York politicians known as the "Albany Regency," and was one of the most influential Democratic papers in the United States.

The renewal of the convention was disapproved by certain Liberal politicians, who insisted that the price of sugar had been raised by the convention; and Sir Edward Grey said that the government had intended to denounce the convention, but other countries had urged that Great Britain had induced them to enter into it, and to alter their fiscal system for that purpose, and it would he unfair to upset the arrangement.

The mestizos of the coast are usually traders, artisans, overseers, petty officers and clerks, and small politicians.

Vambery also called the attention of politicians to the movements of Russia in Central Asia, and aroused much general interest in that question.

A commission was created, but owing to the hostility of the politicians in Congress it accomplished little.

The convention, was, however, captured by politicians who converted the whole affair into a farce by nominating Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, who represented almost anything rather than the object for which the convention had been called together.

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This was accomplished on the 1st of June, and on the 10th the " constituent diet," consisting entirely of the most " advanced " politicians, assembled.

In the university most of the textbooks used are English, nevertheless many of the lectures are still delivered in Italian - for the convenience of some professors or to please the politicians, rather than for the benefit of the students.

But this governor was obstructed and misrepresented by local politicians as vehemently as his predecessors and his successors.

The German Liberals and the governmental Socialists had withdrawn their support from Bethmann Hollweg's Government at the time of the so-called " Peace Resolution " (July 19 1917), largely on the ground that it was inconceivable that the Allies and America should ever negotiate with politicians like Zimmermann and Bethmann, who had been guilty of the note to Mexico and other treacherous proceedings.

He had early become connected with the brilliant band of authors and politicians who then led the Whig party, a connexion to which he owed his appointment to the well-paid and easy post of commissioner of stamps; but in practical politics, for which he was by nature unsuited, he took no active share.

He afterwards became the confidential counsellor of Maurice, prince of Orange, and afterwards of Frederick Henry, prince of Orange, in their conduct of the foreign affairs of the republic. He was sent on special embassies to Venice, Germany and England, and displayed so much diplomatic skill and finesse that Richelieu ranked him among the three greatest politicians of his time.

His military instincts did not always make it easy for him to accommodate himself to courtiers and professional politicians.

Her leading politicians were out of sympathy with the conduct of national affairs (in the conduct of foreign relations, the distribution of political patronage, naval policy, the question of public debt) from 1804 - when Jefferson's party showed its complete supremacy - onward; and particularly after the passage of the Embargo Act of 1807, which caused great losses to Massachusetts commerce, and, so far from being accepted by her leaders as a proper diplomatic weapon, seemed to them designed in the interests of the Democratic party.

In 1804 free banking was restricted to such an extent as to give practically a monopoly of the business to associations receiving special charters, and as these charters were generally awarded as favours to politicians the system was a formidable agency of corruption.

It was very commonly believed at the time that this nomination for the vice-presidency was participated in and heartily approved of by the machine politicians or "bosses" of the State of New York in their belief that it would result in his elimination from active political life.

Kdrber' s successor, Clam-Martinitz,' who belonged to the violently Czech feudal nobility, tried to form a national coalition Cabinet, including two German politicians.

Of a less severe type were Cherbuliez, the novelist; TSpffer, who spread a taste for pedestrianism among Swiss youth; Duchosal, the poet; Marc Monnier, the litterateur; not to mention the names of any persons still living, or of politicians of any date.

Poland, as the next neighbour of Hungary, was more seriously affected than any other European power by this catastrophe, but her politicians differed as to the best way of facing it.

In the summer of 1827, through the persistent efforts of persons most interested in the woollen manufactures of Massachusetts and other New England states to secure legislative aid for that industry, a convention of about loo delegates - manufacturers, newspaper men and politicians - was held in Harrisburg, and the programme adopted by the convention did much to bring about the passage of the famous high tariff act of 1828.

Madoz was distinguished from most of the politicians of his generation by the fact that in middle life he compiled what is still a book of value - a geographical, statistical and historical dictionary of Spain and its possessions oversea, Diccionario geogra Pico, estadistico y historico de Espana, y sus posesiones de Ultramar (Madrid, 1848-1850).

These representations on the part of the Barolong, and the Bamangwato under Khama, supported by the representations of Cape politicians, led in 1878 to the military occupation of southern Bechuanaland by a British force under Colonel (afterwards General Sir Charles) Warren.

A peculiarly notable form of this special or private bill legislation is that of dealing by special statutes with the governmental forms and details of management of municipalities; and the control exercised by the state legislatures over city governments is not only a most important branch of legislative business, but at the same time a means of power to scheming politicians and of enrichment to greedy ones.

The members of these bodies belong for the most part, though by no means entirely, and least so in the agricultural states, to the class of professional politicians.

His mind gradually turned from belief in the efficacy of violent measures to the acceptance of constitutional methods; and in his last book, King Stork and King Log, he spoke with approval of the efforts of politicians on the Liberal side to effect, by argument and peaceful agitation, a change in the attitude of the Russian government towards various reforms. Stepniak constantly wrote and lectured, both in Great Britain and the United States, in support of his views, and his energy, added to the interest of his personality, won him many friends.

He was one of the few prominent politicians who consistently maintained the struggle against state socialism on the one hand and democratic socialism on the other.

An end was thus made of the "carpet-bag governments" conducted by Republican politicians from the North, some of which were very corrupt, and had been upheld mainly by the Federal forces.

This policy found much favour with the people generally, but displeased many of the Republican politicians, because it loosened the hold of the Republican party upon the Southern States.

President Hayes endeavoured in vain to induce Congress to appropriate money for a Civil Service Commission; and whenever he made an effort to restrict the operation of the traditional "spoils system," he met the strenuous opposition of a majority of the most powerful politicians of his party.

Although President Hayes was not popular with the professional politicians of his own party, and was exposed to bitter attacks on the part of the Democratic opposition on account of the cloud which hung over his election, his conduct of public affairs gave much satisfaction to the people generally.

Popular opinion at first opposed the Compromise of 1850, and some politicians demanded immediate secession from the Union; and the legislature had approved the Alabama Platform of 1848.

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It is sometimes alleged by native Indian politicians that famines are growing worse under British rule, because India is becoming exhausted by an excessive land revenue, a civil service too expensive for her needs, military expenditure on imperial objects, and the annual drain of some 15,000,000 for "home charges."

Adroit politicians flattered the king's vanity, defended his follies and taught him how to violate the spirit of the constitution while keeping the letter of the law.

His reputation in the parliament of 1880-1886 was that of a dilettante, who allied himself with the three politicians already named from a feeling of irresponsibility rather than of earnest purpose; he was regarded as one who, on the rare occasions when he spoke, was more desirous to impart an academic quality to his speeches than to make any solid contribution to public questions.

The German politicians and the Prussian diplomatists accredited to Rome had worked too openly at undermining the papal hierarchy, and had veiled their sympathies for Piedmont far too lightly to lead the Vatican to expect, after the 10th of September 1870, a genuine and firm intervention on the part of Prussia on behalf of the temporal power of the Holy See.

Even at the lowest ebb of his fortunes Christian had never lost hope of retrieving them, and between 1629 and 1643 the European situation presented infinite possibilities to politicians with a taste for adventure.

He distinguished himself originally as one of the soldier politicians who contributed so much to the overthrow of feudalism and the restoration of the administrative power to the throne.

His speech in favour of reserving to the crown the right of absolute veto under the new constitution drew down upon him the wrath of the advanced politicians of the Palais Royal; but in spite of threats and abuse he continued to advocate a moderate liberal policy, especially in the matter of removing the political disabilities of Jews and Protestants and of extending the system of trial by jury.

His writings on government and his personal influence among the Liberal politicians of his time determined the change of view from the French Revolution theories of the rights of man and the absolute equality of men to the claiming of securities for good government through a wide extension of the franchise.

Absolute master of the forces of the banat, Jellachich now waited until the intractable politicians of Pest should give him the occasion and the excuse for setting the imperial army in motion against them.

For the next two years political interest was transferred from parliament to the law courts, in which financial scandals were exposed, and the reputations of some of the leading politicians were destroyed.'

The agitators gained their chief strength from the support accorded them by certain Radical politicians in England.

The possibility of theoun states entering into a combination which Y g g would enable them to offer a united resistance to foreign interference while simultaneously effecting a compromise in regard to their national aims, has at various times occupied the attention of Balkan politicians.

The politicians hoped that Elizabeth might convert Mary to her own invisible shade of Protestantism if the sister sovereigns could but meet, and for two years the promise of a meeting was held up before Mary.

The idea of a Spanish marriage excited the wrath of Knox, whose interviews with Mary did nothing but irritate both parties and alienate the politicians from the more enthusiastic Protestants.

After the war of 1870-71 he took a leading place among; the most radical section of French politicians, as an opponent of the " opportunists " who continued the policy of Gambetta..

Although a Giolittian at heart, he was in favour of intervention in the World War at a time when many other politicians still hesitated and most of his party were decided neutralists.

Wiseman was able to use considerable influence with English politicians, partly because in his day English Catholics were wavering in their historical allegiance to the Liberal party.

Dawson, and others, largely Southern politicians and members of Congress, bought lands here and platted a town which was named Superior.

There is less to be said for the teachers of rhetoric, politics and eristic, who, in limiting themselves each to a single subject - the rhetoricians proper or forensic rhetoricians to one branch of oratory, the politicians or political rhetoricians to another, and the eristics to disputation - ceased to be educators and became instructors.

With every change of ministry in Madrid came a new lot of hungry politicians anxious to fill even the more humble colonial offices.

Jackson, however, was recognized by the abler politicians as the coming man.

Denying any form of moral sense or conscience, he regards all the social virtues as evolved from the instinct for self-preservation, the give-and-take arrangements between the partners in a defensive and offensive alliance, and the feelings of pride and vanity artificially fed by politicians, as an antidote to dissension and chaos.

Here, in company with Giuseppe Mazzini and other advanced politicians, they formed a "European Democratic Committee."

There is no reason to believe, however, that these attacks represented the feeling of any save a small minority of the politicians; the people never wavered in their devotion to the president, and his election would have been unanimous in 1796, as in 1792 and 1789, had he been willing to serve.

France, and was fretted almost beyond endurance by the quarrels of Federalist politicians over the distribution of commissions.

The general election in the autumn gave him no fresh support in the Chamber of Deputies, while he had now to face a formidable coalition between Guizot, the Left Centre under Thiers, and politicians of the Dynastic Left and the Republican Left.

Babcock and urged by President Grant; introduced the merit system in his department, and resigned in October 1870 because of pressure put on him by politicians piqued at his prohibition of campaign levies on his clerks, and because of the interference of Grant in favour of William McGarrahan's attempt by legal proceedings to obtain from Cox a patent to certain California mining lands.

A new race of politicians was springing up. Since 1719, when the influence of the few great territorial families had been merged in a multitude of needy gentlemen, the first estate had become the nursery and afterwards the stronghold of an opposition at once noble and democratic which found its natural leaders in such men as Count Carl Gyllenborg and Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.

Horn had clearly perceived this; and his cautious neutrality was therefore the soundest statesmanship. But the politicians who had ousted Horn thought differently.

The treaty of Abo, and indeed the whole of Charles John's foreign policy in 1812, provoked violent and justifiable criticism among the better class of politicians in Sweden.

During the Crimean War Sweden remained neutral, although public opinion was decidedly anti-Russian, and sundry politicians regarded the conjuncture as favourable for regaining Finland.

On that occasion Castelar delivered his maiden speech, which at once placed him in the van of the advanced politicians of the reign of Queen Isabella.

In the background Marshal Serrano and many politicians and military men steadily advocated a coup d'etat in order to avert the triumph of the republicans.

The battalions of the militia that had assembled in the bullring near Marshal Serrano's house to assist the anti-democratic movement were disarmed, and their leaders, the politicians and generals, were allowed to escape to France or Portugal.

A consummate judge and the narrowest of politicians, he was doubt on the bench, and promptness itself in the political arena.

In 1870 the duke of Saldanha, the last survivor of the turbulent statesmen of Queen Maria's reign, threatened an appeal to arms if the king would not dismiss his minister, the duke of Louie, an advanced Radical and freemason, whose influence, dating from the reign of Pedro V., was viewed with disfavour by Saldanha, as well as by more conservative politicians.

There were also the Miguelites, active but impotent intriguers; and the advocates of Iberian union, who became prominent in 1867, 1869, 1874, and especially in July 1872, when many wellknown politicians were implicated in a fantastic conspiracy for the establishment of an Iberian republic. Portuguese nationalism was too strong for these advocates of union with Spain, whose propaganda was discredited as soon as any national interest was seriously endangered.

A general election, in February 1906, was followed by three changes of ministry, the last of which, on the 19th of May, inaugurated the regime known in Portugal as the dictadura or dictatorship. JoaoFranco, the new prime minister, was conspicuous among Portuguese politicians for his integrity, energy and courage; he intended to reform the national finances and administration - by constitutional means, if possible.

Backed by these forces, as well as by the king and the army, Franco effected some useful reforms. But his opponents included not only the Republicans, the professional politicians and those officials who feared inquiry, but also the magistracy, the district and municipal councils, and the large body of citizens who still believed in parliamentary government.

Newspapers and politicians openly advocated rebellion; Franco had recourse to coercion.

The republican press applauded the murder; the professional politicians benefited by it.

The leading Portuguese orators of the 19th century, with the exception of Malhao, were not churchmen, as in the past, but politicians.

Those who are able to read the history in the light of what occurred later may perhaps be convinced that no policy whatever initiated after 1766 could have prevented or even materially delayed the declaration of American independence; but to the politicians of that time the coming event had not yet cast so dark a shadow before as to paralyse all action, and if any man could have allayed the growing discontent of the colonists and prevented the ultimate dismemberment of the empire, it would have been Lord Chatham.

It dwelt at length upon such topics as the premature recognition of belligerency, the unfriendly utterances of British politicians and the material assistance afforded to the Confederates by British traders.

Taylor first adopted a course of discouraging these suggestions and emphasized his non-partisan attitude, but later gave way to the pressure, and issued a statement that proved satisfactory to the majority of the Whig politicians.

On the occasion of one of her visits to Madrid during Alphonso XII.'s reign she began to intrigue with the politicians of the capital, and was peremptorily requested to go abroad again.

Sent to the Rigsforsamling of 1848 as member for the first district of Copenhagen, a constituency he continued to represent in the Folketing till 1881, he immediately took his place in the front rank of Danish politicians.

Even those politicians least disposed to criticize the actions of the king protested vigorously against the provisions concerning the Fondation.

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One important consequence of the revolution had been the banishment of many rising politicians to western Europe, where they were brought into contact with a higher type of civilization.

Meanwhile the Porte, in issuing Midhat Pasha's famous scheme of reforms, had greatly irritated Rumanian politicians by including their country in the same category as the other privileged provinces, and designating its inhabitants as Ottoman subjects.

All the prominent Rumanians of that period were politicians; they strove to obtain the emancipation of the country from Turkish dominion, and, later on, the union of Walachia and Mol- Boling davia.

Other well-known politicians at the Cape subsequently found it convenient to adapt their views a good deal too readily to those held by the Bond.

Early in June, however, the Cape Dutch politicians began to realize that President Kruger's attitude was not so reasonable as they had endeavoured to persuade themselves, and Mr Hofmeyr, accompanied by Mr Herholdt, the Cape minister of agriculture, visited Pretoria.

From 1823 to 1829 Marcy was comptroller of the state, an office then especially important on account of the large expenditures for internal improvements, and during this period he became the leading member of the famous " Albany Regency," a group of able Democratic politicians who exerted a powerful influence throughout the state by their control of the party patronage and machinery.

When he proceeded to deny the doctrine of transubstantiation, to assert the all-sufficiency of the Scriptures as a rule of life, to denounce saint-worship, pilgrimages, and indulgences, and to declare, the pope to be Antichrist, he frightened his old supporter John of Gaunt and the politicians of the anti-clerical clique.

They were headed by the two most capable politicians and soldiers then alive in England, the two Richards, father and son, who held the earidoms of Salisbury and Warwick, and were respectively brother-in-law and nephew to York.

The great prelates from Cardinal Beaufort down to Archbishops Bourchier and Rotherham, and Bishop John Russelltrusted supporters of the Yorkist dynasty were mere politicians with nothing spiritual about them.

The jubilee showed conclusively that, whatever politicians might say, the ties of blood and kinship, which united the two peoples, were too close to be severed by either for some trifling cause; that the wisest heads in both nations were aware of the advantages which must arise from the closer union of the Anglo-Saxon races; and that the true interests of both countries lay in their mutual friendship. A war in which the United States was subsequently engaged with Spain cemented this feeling.

But the same divining imagination which showed him these things also showed him the near time when it would be too late to speak of them, and when not to have spoken would leave him irredeemably in the common herd of hand-tomouth politicians.

The politicians who envied his talents and believed him a rascal raised the cry of treason.

He is convinced that virtue (where it is more than a mere pretence) is purely artificial; but not quite certain whether it is a useless trammel of appetites and passions that are advantageous to society, or a device creditable to the politicians who introduced it by playing upon the " pride and vanity " of the " silly creature man."

But the politicians who forced Milosh to abdicate did not feel safe with Milosh's second son as the reigning prince of Servia.

Only a few of the less important forts were delivered to the Serbs at that time; but in 1863 Prince Michael sent his wife, the beautiful and accomplished Princess Julia (née Countess Hunyadi), to plead the cause of Servia in London, and she succeeded in interesting prominent English politicians (Cobden, Bright, Gladstone) in the fate of the Balkan countries.

By that treaty Russia, desiring to create a great Bulgaria, took within its limits districts inhabited by Servians, and considered by the Servian politicians and patriots as the natural and legitimate inheritance of their nation.

The Radical cabinet resigned and was replaced by a cabinet composed of politicians standing outside the political parties.

In consequence of this abstention of the Venizelist electors, no Venizelist was elected, and the new Chamber consisted almost exclusively of the old politicians, whom the military revolt of 1909 had swept out of politics.

He was unable to foresee and unwilling to accept the consequences of his political agitation in 1830 and 1848, and in spite of his talents and acknowledged influence he thus failed to secure the honours won by more uncompromising politicians.

Politics were now managed by a small circle of politicians.

Wars were conducted by professional soldiers whose troops were chiefly mercenaries, and who were usually regarded by the politicians either as instruments or as enemies.

The bill attempted to safeguard British interests, while leaving Ireland at the mercy of the native politicians.

The need for reform was strongly felt, and the politicians of the day were conscious that it would not be safe to neglect the popular demand for it.

In political life he may sometimes have given too ready assent to the wishes of powerful politicians.

His action was applauded by Young China at the time as evidence of patriotic self-abnegation, but events proved that it was chiefly inspired by recognition of the fact that he and the Cantonese group of politicians who had joined him as leaders of the Republican movement, did not yet carry sufficient weight to justify them in attempting to form a national government.

Eventually, after the death of the Dictator (1916) he became one of the Cantonese group of politicians which waged continual warfare against the party in power at Peking.

He was careful to flatter the politicians by professing anti-clerical opinions, declaring himself, among other things, opposed to the celibacy of the clergy; and on the 17th Brumaire in the year II.

A Republican party had been formed led by a few professors and coffee-house politicians, with the mob of the towns for its support, and having as its mouthpiece Don Emilio Castelar, an honest man of Qepublican incredible fluency.

The Italian prince had put himself into a thoroughly false position, in which the nearest approach to friends he could find were intriguing politicians who sought to use him as a tool, and where every man of honest principles, royalist or republican, looked upon him as an in- truder.

Lopez-Dominguez and Serranowho had taken offence at the idea that Canovas wanted to monopolize power for civil politicians.

The Suffrage Bill was carried through the Senate and Congress in the spring of 1890 after protracted debates, in which the Conservatives and many military politicians who had previously been regarded as the allies of Sagasta did their best to obstruct the measure.

The increasing violence of the Conservative press and opposition, the divisions developing in the ranks of liberalism, and the restlessness of the agricultural protectionists led by Seor Gamazo, did not weigh so much in the balance at court against Sagasta as the aggressive attitude of the military politicians.

The latter and a strong and influential body of Conservatives, chiefly young politicians, dissented from the easy-going views of Romero Robledo and of Canovas on the expediency of reforms to correct the notorious and old-standing abuses and corruption of the municipalities, especially of Madrid.

The movement grew quickly, its supporters including a number of the cleverest younger politicians and journalists in the Unionist party.

The Board of Trade was set to work to produce fiscal Blue-books, and hum-drum politicians who had never shown any genius for figures suddenly blossomed out into arithmeticians of the deepest dye.

He foresaw that the policy of the government would lead it into a position when it would have to fight against Austria on behalf of a constitution by which Prussia itself would be dissolved, and he was, therefore, one of the few prominent politicians who defended the complete change of front which followed the surrender of Olmiitz.

He first publicly proposed it just before the war; by carrying it out, notwithstanding the apprehensions of many Liberal politicians, he placed the new constitution on a firmer base than would otherwise have been possible.

We had frantic meetings with prime ministers and politicians in the threatened end to the assembly as presently constituted.

They held a contempt for politicians.

The two politicians displayed contrasting perspectives.

He was cynical about politicians' promises on taxes.

The politicians son was not interested in politics.

Politicians were inundated with inquiries from all over the country.

Our politicians are slowly inching away from the old platitudes, too.

Politicians mouth platitudes about giving parents more choice... I know - I've done it myself.

An enormous amount of hard work will be needed from responsible commentators and politicians in the coming days to explain away the mass abstention.

Townshend's intention of using customs dues to raise revenue exploited what most politicians thought was American acquiescence in ' external ' taxation.

Although the UK commissioners are both former politicians, their job in the Commission is essentially administrative.

Politicians will dismiss a rise in crime figures as " mostly traffic offenses ", whilst becoming quite apoplectic about car theft and joyriding.

I mean oddly enough New College, despite its rather aristocratic background, had a curious reputation for producing Labor politicians.

The point is that politicians are more directly beholden to public opinion than ever before.

To conventional politicians of both right and left, then, these workers seemed brash, aggressive and threatening.

In fact, we are not yet even in the position where politicians have appreciated the real breadth of our energy options.

Politicians are the weakest link in the chain because they can be so easily bribed, and backed with lobby material.

The last cantos of Don Juan is a satirical description of social conditions in England and includes attacks on leading Tory politicians.

My teacher told me about some place all the politicians go to " hang out " called chequers or checkers?

There is just a chance that it might have enough clout to make the US politicians wake up!

It is a good example of how we, as politicians, address safety concerns.

This has bred a cynicism about politicians who seem indifferent or even hostile to their feelings.

Contemptuous of the voting public, our politicians are largely responsible for creating the cynicism that they now decry.

Martin McGuinness - his chief co-conspirator - has been shouting defiance on television North and South at democratic politicians.

If politicians want to address political disengagement they must be prepared to take the steps that reach out to the politically disengaged.

Whig politicians out of favor also showed no disinclination to join them.

The real answer is for politicians to show foresight.

I delight in his lack of patience with everyone from students to politicians who demonstrate inexcusable ignorance, incompetence or obfuscation.

Politicians have diminished the debate down to often inane simplicities.

Politicians almost invariably show blundering ineptitude when running the economy.

The climate was set on a path of apparently inexorable warming, perhaps beyond the powers of today's politicians to reverse.

Listeners must have felt that Today ' s chief inquisitors, John Humphrys and James Naughtie, had moderated their toughness when confronting politicians.

The seriousness with which politicians court media executives reflects the media's potential to make or break the ambitions of would-be political kingpins.

The EU is no longer a cozy club of politicians who can forgive their peers for the odd lapse.

There are of course good and bad politicians, but the idea that they are all without exception useless layabouts is complete rubbish.

Politicians are either known to be sexually promiscuous and inveterate liars, or we usually suspect them to be.

Despite what you read in the press or hear from politicians, games are not completely mindless jaunts for the juvenile crowd.

The existence of a hereditary monarch keeps the politicians in their place.

But the bad politicians are too concerned about their budget to listen to science nerds, right?

Reforming British politicians of all parties should take note.

Trade union officialdom increasingly began to see that they could not rely on Liberal politicians and that they needed their own representatives in Westminster.

Our politicians approach a problem with politically opportunistic aims.

It shows up the professional politicians and corporate leaders who never make a truly personal sacrifice for anything they believe in.

They show that the Serbian politicians tried to persuade the Bosnian Serb politicians to accept the Plan.

The total pay out of £ 100,000 has been condemned by unionist politicians.

Use the links below to locate the details of elected politicians in your local area.

In 2004, with Paul Moreira, he launched a freedom of information act (FOIA) campaign to lobby French politicians.

And I need hardly remind the politicians present of the consequences of failing to listen to those whom they serve.

The Economist and other publications should be free to criticize Italian politicians.

That leaves the common people, the real enemy of corrupt politicians.

Wednesday 2 July 1986 unionist politicians established their own version of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast City Hall.

If we are a representative democracy, then the make up of our elected politicians should reflect the diversity of the population.

There really are conservative politicians who have spent the past four years waiting for Labor to put up income tax or renationalise British Telecom.

A good fairy story As the General Election approaches opposition politicians are talking about regulatory excesses.

Right wing politicians used to be fond of pointing to Hong Kong as the last bastion of the absolute free market.

The ruling politicians were convinced that thy did not need the intellectuals as anything else but a tame, quiet backround decoration.

I wasn't even sure common ground was possible with career politicians of any persuasion.

This was the first lesson in democratic politics that the British taught Nigerian politicians.

It did prompt one well-known internet pollster to ask its panel to compare politicians with animals.

In recent years academics, politicians and the media seem to have become increasingly preoccupied with the Holocaust.

Brown had the prescience to realize that the public places greater trust in bankers to look after their money, than politicians.

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Politicians and governments, however, believe it to be an important medium capable of influencing public opinion and swaying voters.

Politicians are always promising to cut red tape, without ever getting specific.

And I want to see politicians become more reputable, which is after all what this is all about.

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People like them don't want to hear the empty rhetoric of politicians.

A sharply satirical look at our attitude to politics and politicians, this is a hilarious play and well worth seeing.

Opposition politicians were equally scathing in their response to the news.

Politicians are always dressed smart, and stride confidently into a room.

Summer smog visible on the skyline over cities like Toronto and Los Angeles provides a perfect seasonal soapbox for headline hungry politicians.

However, politicians on all sides admit such internal squabbles are unlikely to have much effect on tomorrow's result.

He gives his professional advice about hair, clothes and social activities to the wealthy, to politicians, to businessmen and rising starlets.

Many politicians used the psychological fears of the West Coasters against the Japanese Americans to gain political stature among the voters.

At this, the politicians did waver slightly, but normal confidence was quickly restored.

Challenge the hysteria whipped up by the press and politicians for political gain.

Colonel Monson, two third-rate politicians of considerable parliamentary influence; Philip Francis, then only known as an able permanent official; and Barwell, of the Bengal Civil Service.

League became dominant in all branches of the government,, and carpet-bagging politicians occupied every official post.

The experiment, however, proved unsuccessful; the Bulgarian Liberal and Radical politicians were infuriated, and the real power fell into the hands of two Russian generals, Sobolev and Kaulbars, who had been specially despatched from St Petersburg.

Six months later, in 1871, he was invited by Amadeus to form a cabinet, and he continued to be the principal councillor of the king until February 1873, when the monarch abdicated in disgust at the resistance he met with in the army, and at the lack of sincerity on the part of the very politicians and generals who had asked him to ascend the throne.

Leading politicians have in all the states felt the cramping effects of mere domestic legislation, albeit on the proper direction of such legislation depends the wellbeing of the people; and to this sense of the limitations of local politics was due, as much as to anything else, the movement towards federation.

He made one attempt to reconcile the disputes between the army and the politicians by a conference, but ended the barren discussion on the relative merits of aristocracies, monarchies and democracies, interspersed with Bible texts, by throwing a cushion at the speaker's head and running downstairs.

He became an Italian in taste and sympathy, entering with enthusiasm into the humanistic ardour of the earlier Renaissance, encouraging men of letters at his court, administering his kingdom on the principles of an enlightened despotism, and lending his authority to establish that equilibrium in the peninsula upon which the politicians of his age believed, not without reason, that Italian independence might be secured.

Nevertheless public confidence in the efficacy of the parliamentary system and in the honesty of politicians was seriously diminished by these unsavoury occurrences, which, in combination with the acquittal of all the defendants in the Banca Romana trial, and the abandonment of the proceedings against Giolitti, reinforced to an alarming degree the propaganda of the revolutionary parties.

This unhappy state of affairs was aggravated and perpetuated by the intrigues set on foot at Constantinople against successive governors of the island, the conflicts between the Palace and the Porte, the duplicity of the Turkish authorities, the dissensions of the representatives of the great powers, the machinations of Greek agitators, the rivalry of Cretan politicians, and prolonged financial mismanagement.

Sauer came to England in the summer of 1901 on a mission from the Cape Africanders, and received much encouragement from Radical politicians.

He was forced also to maintain a long conflict with the ultramontane element of the Roman Catholic church in Quebec, which for many years had a close working alliance with the Conservative politicians of the province and even employed spiritual coercion in order to detach votes from the Liberal party.

His name still remained a spell to conjure with, and the politicians sought to obtain the assistance of his approval for their schemes; but in general his last years were quiet and uneventful.

The two great parties, Progressives and tutional Regenerators, were largely composed of professional Changes, politicians whose votes were determined by their 1885-1901.

He had a thorough knowledge of the private and indirect motives which influence politicians, and his genial attractive manner, easy temper and vivacious, if occasionally coarse, wit helped to confer on him a social distinction which led many to take for granted his eminence as a statesman.

But, as has been already said, the scholars and theologians had less influence in the beginning of the English Reformation than the mere lay politicians, whose anti-clerical tendencies chanced to fit in with King Henrys convenience when he quarrelled with the papacy.

From this period the history of Ireland naturally becomes intermingled with English politics (see English History), and much of the detail will also be found in the biographical articles on prominent Irishmen and other politicians.

Originally "mugwump" (mogkiomp) was a North American Indian word, in the Massachusett dialect of the Algonquian, meaning "great man" (mogki, great; omp, man); and in New England it was used of self-conceited politicians.

It is about taking politicians out of management altogether and recasting the role of government so what it does better matches government competencies.

The politicians no longer claim that remission of debts is impossible.

Blair and Major are different people to Prescott and I have seen many politicians abroad retaliating in a much worse fashion than Prescott done.

People like them do n't want to hear the empty rhetoric of politicians.

That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians.

This has been given short shrift by both politicians and IT experts.

This leads to price-fixing, with politicians siphoning off profits and leaving farmers and miners all the poorer.

For politicians, nothing spells ruin so quickly as being perceived as being soft on crime.

The current spat over cash for peerages sadly confirms everyone 's most cynical feelings about politics and politicians.

Each and every safeguard listed here is absent in d & d, regardless of politicians ' specious claims to the contrary.

However, politicians on all sides admit such internal squabbles are unlikely to have much effect on tomorrow 's result.

There is not much that politicians can do about it anyway, thank heavens.

People are contemptuous of politicians and are totally uninterested in the political process itself.

Down by the Land Rovers a number of unionist politicians milled around making statements to the press.

It takes a long time to catch up with venal French politicians, not least because of the privacy laws.

Two media folk in Millbank regularly wager bets on how long certain politicians can go in an interview without uttering their favorite words.

As boss politicians fell by the wayside in the post-war years, the old-fashioned Daley machine lived on.

The re-elected and newly-elected politicians would be well-advised to pay close attention to the lessons arising from their misconduct in 2003.

The legal monopoly on local service remains, competition there remains restricted to the whims of politicians.

The EU 's politicians are wrestling with crucial policy dilemmas which will profoundly affect the future shape of the Union.

Politicians use an excessive amount of hyperbole.

The congressman refused to abase himself in front of his fellow politicians.

Many hope that recent events in our country will engender politicians to take action on gun safety.

The politicians are hoping that the voters pay most attention to the positive ramification in the bill.

Anticipating the high price tag of the war, politicians began to discuss ways to finance military spending.

Famous politicians, movie stars, and news personalities are often quoted at various events.

Adults often want to impart wisdom through quotes from famous people such as writers, philosophers, politicians and other public figures.

You will find plenty of of stars, politicians, athletes, and musicians here.

They happen to musicians and politicians alike.

Mom Logic lets you do the guessing, from politicians like President Barack Obama to singer Lauryn Hill.

Video games seem to be a favorite target of politicians at the moment as more states consider legislation to curtail the sale of violent games.

While politicians point to studies that show violent games have a negative impact on those who play them, there are just as many studies that show there are no such effects on normal people.

Much of the "evidence" cited is anecdotal, yet politicians have found this is a popular issue with certain constituents.

Politicians, experts, and parents complains about time-wasting games, Addicting Games, and Adult Video Games.

Video games are a favorite target for politicians and pundits who are trying to win points with aggrieved parents.

Be aware that offerings change often depending upon which politicians are in office, and you would be wise to check your state government website regularly to see if there is anything new available.

Politicians include famous figures from the U.S. and England, from Hilary Clinton to Tony Blair.

Politicians are another good choice for funny and often in poor taste Halloween costumes.

Disgraced politicians in particular can make a good costume out of a suit and an appropriate prop related to their downfall.

Politicians - each year mask makers have a ball making masks of top political figures.

Local politicians used them when campaigning and of course you could get one that showed your support for your local sports team.

Many educators and politicians whole-heartedly endorse the use of computers by kids.

With stories about celebrities and politicians behaving disrespectfully, it's more important than ever to counter these negative examples.

Making fun of celebrities is almost as old as making fun of politicians, and with the lot we have these days, the YouTube spoofs certainly have a great deal to offer.

Local politicians, legal experts, and/or community leaders may be asked for their input as part of the process.

These included bills proposed by the following politicians.

The arguments against health care reform come from politicians, citizens, organized groups, and lobbyists.

Bono has shared stages with economists and politicians as he works on anti-poverty and pacifism campaigns.

They also appealed to New Jersey politicians to join their cause, with mixed success.

Some business owners in Seaside Heights and surrounding towns appealed to their local politicians to stop the show, fearing its impact on tourism.

People known to use Autopens include many politicians, baseball players, and musicians.

Social networking is used by college students, homemakers, business managers, actors, writers, researchers, teachers, directors, engineers, politicians and more.

Politicians who grasp the power of the Internet can harness it to reach a demographic of voters who are less likely to watch television advertisements and debates, but are more willing to read position papers, post its and profiles.

Reporting on politicians or company executives was rarely influenced by corporate interests.

Even French politicians are quoted - though the voice does admit that it doesn't actually speak French.

She stared at a helicopter as it lifted nimbly into the air, imagining Mr. Tim and other politicians aboard it.

By his three marriages he was thus connected with many of the leading politicians of Charles II.'s reign.

He showed indeed none of the avaricious temper so common among the politicians of the time.

Few politicians have been the mark of such abuse as Shaftesbury.

Then the dispute about the Crimea arose, and Ivan became convinced that they were mediocre politicians as well as untrustworthy friends.

Sieyes, who were later joined by other politicians, among them being Dupont de Nemours.

Charles de Lesseps, a victim offered to the fury of the politicians, tried to divert the storm upon his head and prevent it from reaching his father.

He never lost an opportunity, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, of pressing on his hearers that the greatest future for Canada lay in unity with the rest of the British Empire; and his broad statesman-like judgment made him an authority which politicians of all parties were glad to consult.

Sella, the real head of the Lanza cabinet, was worn out by four years continuous work and disheartened by the perfidious misrepresentation in which Italian politicians, particularly those of the Left, have ever excelled.

His shrewd sense of political expediency and his loyalty to constitutional principles saved .him from the error of obstructing the advent and driving into an aati-dynastic attitude politicians who had succeeded in winning popular favor.

Guiccioli, the biographer of Sella, observes that Italian politicians find it especially hard to resist the temptation of appearing crafty.

Had the blow thus struck at Italian influence in the Mediterranean induced politicians to sink for a while their personal differences and to unite in presenting a firm front to foreign nations, the crisis in regard to Tunisia might not have been wholly unproductive of good.

No concession could be denied to deputies, or groups of deputiec, whose support was indispensable to the life of the cabinet, nor, under such conditions, was it possible to place any effective check upon administrative abuses in which politicians or their electors were interested.

In the heyday of the Athenian democracy, citizens both conservative and progressive, politicians, philosophers and historians were unanimous in their denunciation of "tyranny."

The prophets taught that the national existence of the people was bound up with religious and social conditions; they were in a sense the politicians of the age, and to regard them simply as foretellers of the future is to limit their sphere unduly.

The Epitrope was at first nothing more than a handful of discontented politicians who had failed to find places in the administration, but some slight reverses which it succeeded in inflicting on the Turkish troops brought thousands of armed Christians to its side, and in April 1896 it found itself strong enough to invest the important garrison town of Vamos.

At the age of fourteen he was permitted by Scotch law to name his own curators, or guardians, and selecting William Pitt and Dundas for this office he spent much of his time at their houses, thus meeting many of the leading politicians of the day.

Bain, and many leading French and German writers and politicians.

The North at first took arms simply to maintain the Union; but the farsighted politicians from the first, and soon the whole nation, saw that the real issue was the continued existence or the total abolition of slavery.

The history of his youth reveals no special predilection for the military service - the bent of his mind was political far more than military, but unlike the politicians of his epoch he consistently applied scientific and mathematical methods to his theories, and desired above all things a knowledge of facts in their true relation to one another.

He was a leading member of the "Albany regency," a group of politicians who for more than a generation controlled the politics of New York and powerfully influenced those of the nation, and which did more than any other agency to make the "spoils system" a recognized procedure in national, state and local affairs.

Brothers' Club, a society of Tory politicians and men of letters, and the same year witnessed the failure of the two expeditions to the West Indies and to Canada promoted by him.

The new Secretary of State visited India in the following winter for the second time, and held prolonged conferences with the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, the leading members of the Indian civil service, ruling princes, and native politicians, and along with the Viceroy received deputations and memoranda from all classes.

They applied to several celebrated politicians, among others to Machiavelli, for advice in the emergency.

As Easterners, Brady and his brothers continued the legacy their father and grandfather had of serving as the military advisors to the politicians that Tim's Western family bred.

He was not without aptitude for diplomacy, and his intuitive insight and perception of character sometimes enabled him to outwit the crafty politicians by whom he was surrounded.

Lord Temple endeavoured to secure his exclusion on the ground that he had taken orders in the Church, and one of Gilray's caricatures delineates the two politicians, Temple and Camelford, playing at battledore and shuttlecock, with Horne Tooke as the shuttlecock.

The idea that a person can be a political prisoner, jailed for his beliefs about government, politics, or politicians, is ancient but happily fading.