Sentence examples for issue politicians from inspiring English sources

But on such an emotive and contentious issue politicians should reflect society, not lead it.

Within decades, that seeming unity was obliterated by the issue politicians had avoided since the three-fifths compromise, in 1787.

IT TURNS out that the only way to negotiate a budget for the world's eighth biggest economy is to issue politicians with toothbrushes and lock them in a building.

Although there are countervailing arguments Mr Hague's critics retort that the police had good reason to alter their behaviour after the abuses and incompetence uncovered by Lord Macpherson this is surely the sort of issue politicians should be allowed to broach without being muzzled.

With little public scrutiny over this technical issue, politicians have little incentive to stand up for privacy.

Why is it that going to war is the only issue politicians can agree on?

Helen Eadie was the best kind of honourable and tolerant issue politician, at the epicentre of Labour Party affairs for nearly half a century.

"And there is no pressure on me to get tough on criminals from populist-issue politicians like there would be in a lot of other countries".

But effective single-issue politicians do not always make the most comfortable team players, and there was some initial caution inside Labour, according to insiders, about whether Creasy might be too wedded to her own campaigns to dedicate herself to a ministerial brief.

"This is not high enough on the list of issues politicians in the election.

The 'Too Difficult' Box: The Big Issues Politicians Can't Crack, edited by Charles Clarke, Biteback Publishing.