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Politician in sentence

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No single political party or politician in Brussels can claim to represent European citizens’ associated interests, because none has had to compete for Europe-wide public support.
Third, and most important, Trump is not merely an extremist politician.
Though he is a consummate politician who is clearly missed by many of his party’s activists, the rest of France’s voters have even more clearly rejected him, mostly over issues of personality, and see no reason to modify their stance.
Why is this politician saying nice things about that politician?
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel – Europe’s foremost politician – has attracted voters’ ire, owing to her principled policy to welcome refugees.
Though truly supranational politics in Europe remains uncharted terrain, it makes sense that a strongly pro-EU politician should be one of its pioneers.
How Putin, an astute politician, responds to that pressure will determine his political legacy.
Yet when a politician is caught in a lie, the consequences are often dire, at least in democratic countries.
Indeed, proving that a politician is a liar is just about the only way to get rid of him or her quickly and terminally, which is why the attempt is so attractive to political opponents.
Indeed, a politician's reputation can be damaged even if no one doubts the truthfulness of his statements.
Once a politician has lost trust however, people will no longer believe him even if he tells the truth.
Many people regard a successful CEO as someone who can deliver on well-defined objectives, so they conclude that a businessman can solve social problems that a politician cannot.
A politician must ensure that unemployed workers have new opportunities, or risk losing their votes.
Until now, Macri has shown he can be an able administrator and an astute politician.
For one thing, she’s simply not a very good politician.
Macron is only 39, and has never been a party politician.
As an elected politician, I am well aware that Hazare’s campaign has sparked the imagination and enthusiasm of many young people in my country.
After the UK ratified the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, the British politician Nigel Farage left the Conservative Party and founded the UK Independence Party.
Their choice of Romano Prodi as the President of the new Commission has been explained by some in cynical terms: Jacques Santer, the outgoing President, was a Christian Democrat from a small Northern member state (Luxembourg); the next President had to be a Left-of-Centre politician, from a large member state in the south of the EU.
The rabble-rousing Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky called on his followers to smash the windows of the Dutch embassy in Moscow.
No politician with any common sense (which Mr Rais has in abundance) would seek to unseat Megawati at this moment, for the challenges she faces are daunting and the chances of success small.
So Chirac replaced Lamy with Jacques Barrot, an honorable and experienced politician, but one with little knowledge of EU affairs and no language other than French.
With the sole exception of Zimbabwe, no leading politician in any post-imperial country has made a notable speech in recent years attacking colonialism.
As for Trump, who still fancies himself more of a businessman than a politician, natural gas provides opportunities for deal making and job creation.
Nor are the peasants so ignorant to be easily conned by a crafty politician promising much delivering little or none.
Always a politician in search of a platform to sustain his lust for power, Netanyahu is now forced to change course and form a centrist government.
So far, Suu Kyi has circumvented this booby trap with the verbal evasiveness that one would expect of an ordinary politician, rather than someone of her courage and standing.
While Obama was hardly the first American politician to use the Internet, he was the most effective in using new technology to raise money from small donors, energize and coordinate volunteers, and convey his messages directly to voters.
Christianity’s Via DolorosaBRUSSELS – Recently, the human-rights activist, former Dutch politician, and Somali exile Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote about a global war on Christians in Muslim countries.
Nowadays, no hurricane or heat wave passes without a politician or activist claiming it as evidence of the need for a global climate deal, like the one that just got postponed until the end of the decade in Durban, South Africa.
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