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For all her sound instincts and skills as a politician, she appears to have no vision for the EU.

He is such a canny politician that everyone is afraid of him.

Here, as a real change, was a politician using accusation to forge a moral argument that rose above the occasion of his speaking.

AS THE up-and-coming politician sat down to dinner, he asked if it was at all obvious he had been wearing make-up.

Mr. Phay Siphan called King Sihanouk a "well-respected politician" and the "godfather of Cambodia. " But he said the nation had moved on.

CA: Can you picture, in our lifetimes, a politician ever going out on a platform of the kind of full-form global ethic, global citizenship?

Thus Nicolas Sarkozy a few years ago, when crafting the image of a crusading politician ready to take aim at France's elite.

A KMT politician said the party's leaders were "shocked" by Mr Ma's choice, especially since he had failed to inform them beforehand.

A former European finance minister reminded me that, from a political perspective, there is nothing in it for a rational politician.

He was a great old-fashioned politician who knew all the players in the rural areas like the back of his hand.

I guess some of you will find it hard to believe, but I never really wanted to be a politician.

But it took a Hungarian politician to turn a logical conundrum into a political strategy.

On Christmas Eve Santa Claus met an honest politician and a kind lawyer while riding up in an elevator of a very exclusive hotel.

You need to be a bit of a politician to succeed in this company.

We've never thought of him as a radical socialist politician, much less a leader of the revolution.

Politician who for security reasons to let his wife and sister and reporters to submit campaign file, think they are immune from attack.

Blears said: "I think a balance in a politician's life, a bit of fun as well as a bit of hard work, is probably the best place to be. "

Yet another American politician has caused a stir online after photos of him doing shocking things surfaced on a microblogging service.

For a politician whose rise to prominence was largely built upon his powers as an orator, Obama is well versed in the arts of speech-making.

The controversial but extremely influential politician said he would run against Mr Kan in the party's leadership contest on September 14.

Bush had been a very adept politician in 2000, building a coalition with moderate rhetoric and quite conservative-specific proposals.

But respondents said she was more likable, and Biden was more of a "typical politician" .

After all, this is not a serious affair, the boys were young, high-spirited, and one of them is the son of a powerful politician.

He was also a good deal of a politician; too much so, perhaps, for his station.

From time immemorial how much famous general die in the hand of politician.

This, indeed, is one of his main virtues as a politician: he has beliefs, but few are so devout as to be utterly impractical.

By the same token, Mr Browne always seems to know just the American or British politician to turn to in a scrape.

For a fleeting moment, it seemed she might be allowed to function as a politician.

Another Swiss politician, Christoph Blocher, is usually skeptical about international collaboration but shares the same opinion.

His pictures looked down from giant hoardings all over the country and no other official or politician was allowed to rise to prominence.

That's how much money we're talking about. And the fact is, it's going to be a big-politician, big-bureaucracy, pork-laden bill. . .

I just found this out recently and was surprised that this local politician to my area was in attendance.

Whenever a South African politician talks about nationalisation, its shares react as if whacked with a shovel.

I spent years trying to be a politician failing at every attempt and nearly gave up.

It would be easier to make a case that it was Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician, whose legacy has defined modern American politics.

Commentators and bloggers often use the word "gate" when a politician is accused of trying to hide the truth.

It was also like the politician he said he was, always careful to balance the demands of one group of constituents against those of another.

Of censorship broadly, Li says: "I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician. I should not be in a position to make this kind of a call. "

A biography by G. M. Trevelyan, which came out in 1913, described him as "a rare example of the hero as politician" .

In Germany, politician and privacy advocate Malte Spitz sued his carrier, Deutsche Telekom, to get all the information it had on him.

Worse for the worriers, Mr Fukuda, a consensus-style politician, assumes office at a time of apparent backlash against "Koizumi reforms" .

But you expect that of a politician, whose livelihood depends on winning hearts.

The politician talked for so long that she strayed away from her original point.

One eagerly awaits the American entrepreneur or politician capable of writing such a balanced, enlightened book imagining our future.

In fact, I remember a well-known politician who whenever he was speaking would constantly massage the top of his head.

But why might Mr Kirchner yield to his wife, a senator and an experienced politician in her own right?

Kiyoko Fukuda is said to have married new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda because he promised that he would never make her a politician's wife.

Like many senior churchmen of his time, he enjoyed the finer things in life and was as much a politician as a scholar.

Michael Kinsley once defined a political gaffe as the moment "when a politician tells the truth" and is embarrassed by it.

It is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician.

The last thing any American politician wants to do right now is to help non-US banks; at least not in the current populist climate.

I don't think the politician was being completely sincere when he said he supported the government's plans.

She did not press charges at the time, partly on the advice of her mother, a Socialist politician.

If I were a politician who might need to underwrite the next bailout if Goldman's bets go bad, I'd be a bit worried.

The winner was almost sure to be a politician with experience of running a government, he said.

The leadership of a politician, I believe, is founded on the personal qualities that he possesses and projects by his actions and words.

If the politician hadn't gotten angry and lost his head, he never would have slandered his opponent.

Hillary Clinton had spent too long in Bill's shadow and sacrificed too much to emerge as a politician prepared to push the style envelope.

"The prosperity of the American people is more important than the political fortunes of any politician or political party, " he said.

Lieberman is a veteran politician that has always been a middle- of - the -road Democrat.

A team chosen by the brother of one of DC's most powerful lobbyists, and a White House headed by the quintessential DC politician.

In 1998, he climbed to the top of a tower to protest against the candidacy of a politician who he said was not a real Filipino citizen.

After the Cleveland coverage, no sex scandal involving a politician of that stature would grace the front pages for a century.

He went on to become a journalist, and later a politician, finally settling with his wife and five sons in Dhaka.

He lived out his remaining years as a politician, eventually dying at the age of 81.

Perhaps he found it a novelty encountering something he had never met before: an honest politician.

A year ago such a demand from a leftwing politician would have provoked a " loony left" response.

It never occurred to me that such a respectable politician could be a paedophile.

In fact, the default fate of any politician who publicly considers the legalization of marijuana is to be cast into the outer darkness.

A day earlier, his son, also an opposition politician, was suspended from parliament for a year.

A year ago Mrs Hutchison was the most popular politician in Texas, a moderate serving her fourth term in the Senate.

She said she spoke not as a politician but as the mother of an Iraq war veteran.

"You can see it in his face, " said a senior Socialist politician who has known him for 30 years. "He has just lived through a nightmare. "

In the opinion of many scientists George Bush, America's retiring president, was just such a politician.

The politician insisted that he was innocent and that he was as straight as an arrow.

A prominent politician, Vaiko, roars in his office that the hangings would be a "betrayal of the Tamils" , and would provoke popular fury.

Mr Fini is probably Italy's most able politician. He has skilfully plotted and schemed his way to the top, using power to win power.

Whenever a politician makes a mistake, his opponents are ready to draw a bead on him.

One of the hunger strikers argues with a senior opposition politician who has come to try to convince them to end the strike.

If he expects to be able to continue in office, a politician must keep in step with the times.

One of the men was Made Gowda, a retired politician. The other was Suresh Kumar Jain, secretary of a local trade group.

His approach in the crisis has been that of a hard-driving chief executive, not a politician.

Zhou came through to Kissinger as subtle, brilliant, and indirect, a politician of vision who refused to get bogged down in petty detail.

New York's governor had appeared briefly on cable television with his wife in the traditional politician-and-spouse tableau.

Rudd had always been more popular with the public than with a party that saw him as aloof, a policy wonk in politician's clothing.

Winston Churchill is well-known as a statesman, politician and as the British Prime Minister during most of the Second World War.

A deeply closeted politician will hurt anyone-even those closest to her-in her ruthless climb to the top.

Similarly, don't look for a politician to be your mentor if you see yourself running for office against that person in the near future.

150 years from now, he might be a politician, the leader of a cult, or a talk show host.

They miss the point. As a politician, Margaret Thatcher was a study in reinvention.

As a child, the young Nancy learned hard-nosed political skills from her politician father.

For any other politician of his age, that would be that, a statesman's final flourish.

"If there's a criticism of me, it's that I think like a businessman, " he says. "I'm not a politician. "

It is refreshing to see a politician engaging in a controversial debate through the new online media.

He resembled a campaigning politician more than a patrolling lieutenant as he stopped to talk to mullahs, village elders, and shop owners.

In a recent television interview she said: 'I'm the wife of a politician. I don't have a role. I'm just married to him. '

An opposition politician said the government had turned into a mutilator of rights.

NARRATOR: Keith Joseph's most significant adherent was an up-and-coming Conservative politician named Margaret Thatcher.

Most people admire a politician who speaks his own mind and who does not just repeat the opinions of his leaders.

Roosevelt succeeded as a policy maker and politician by following four simple rules that ought to guide the Obama administration as well.

To keep your throne, you had to be adaptable, ruthless, intelligent and a great politician.

He was a politician after all and no one in public life has been able to escape public scrutiny-not even after death.

As if already a seasoned politician, he left a trail of political promises in his wake.

The politician sailed close to the wind in his speech against the government.

Mr. Fukuda was born into a political family, but was too modest and unassertive to be a natural politician.

Bill Cohen was an articulate, youthful-looking politician who had been an innovative thinker on defense issues for years.

Once upon a time, there was a politician who was running for president.

The opposition politician Imran Khan is one of the main organisers of the protest, which he plans to address on Sunday.

You're something of a politician.

In presenting himself to the public, Medvedev often acts more like a bureaucrat managing a meeting than a politician running for election.

But a senior politician said that the officer was likely to have been killed by dissident republicans.

Mr Johnson has been a very active politician, but is now laid on the shelf.

He's been a soldier, a teacher, a politician, a vice-mayor and a business man.

Mr Osborne, an astute politician, had long grasped this point and duly administered some very astringent medicine.

As a finely seasoned politician, Laird did not believe in fighting losing battles.

Indeed, it was the politician of the day who furthered the cause of constitution and should bear liability.

The speaker referred to him as an up-and-coming politician.

A senior Taiwanese politician said he viewed it as an aggressive act.

Koizumi was the first Japanes politician to turn politics into a show.

Her skill as a politician, alternately charming and vicious, made her a formidable presence.

Mr Strauss-Kahn proved to be a bold decision-maker, an effective politician and a competent economist.

A politician should be careful to make the right kind of friendships; those which are likely to pay dividends in terms of influence.

A decidedly reluctant politician, her first priority then was the well-being of her children.

He is internationally known as the most formidable politician. His confidence , grace can be seen through the eyes of foreigners!

It was like doing a tour of a constituency with a popular politician: he constantly stopped to shake hands with people in the street.

After all, even the most financially illiterate politician can see trillions of dollars are tied up in derivatives deals.

His own scholar's hopes for such things as a "world civil society" seemed to make the politician in him uncomfortable.

And to a certain extent it's right: Obama is a politician, never said otherwise, and is bound to behave as one.

At the tail end of the nineteenth century, the Viennese politician Karl Lueger founded his power base on an anti-semitic platform.

As it happens, Brown was not the only politician wrong-footed by the third quarter growth figures.

"If you cosy up to a particular politician, by default that politician's enemies will be yours, " Hoogewerf said.

Neither of the front-runners in the presidential election is a mainstream politician.

His next goal may be to win the presidency himself in 2015, sealing his position as Poland's dominant post-communist politician.

There has been a great deal of politician's cant .

I have yet to see a politician climbing on to a soapbox to proclaim the ideological case for nationalising the banks.

In all this, he spoke less like a politician than a pastor or priest comforting a grieving community.

Intense, good-humored, always listening (a rare trait in a politician), she surprised Americans with her fast-mouthed New Yorker's style.

"Yes, sir, " said the florid-faced politician in his amiable and hearty way.

One politician under consideration for a ministerial post was said to have been rejected because he was overweight.

Mr. Clegg, while positioning himself as the new face of politics, has spent most of his career as a politician.

A generation without a cause in its youth has no legacy in its old age. ---Eeward Kkennedy. American Politician.

Do you think there is room today for a politician to change positions without being referred to as a flip-flopper?

Many an aspiring politician has sought his support; many a rebel movement has turned to him for weapons and training.

He was an accomplished politician and a crafty autocrat .

"DSK was a politician and an economist who would push his own ideas, " says one hedge fund manager who monitors the IMF.

When a politician becomes an embarrassment to his party in the Commons, he may be kicked upstairs, i. e. elevated to the peerage.

The scheme might have worked except for one thing: Gamal was not a politician.

More than any other politician, he brought about a smooth transition from the Soviet regime to the Russian one.

According to the Khan family, he was at a bus stop travelling back to Kuza Bandai when he was given a lift by a local politician.

that politician was attacked by his rivals who accused him of having an affair with his secretary , considered a bimbo by many.

The politician shrugged. They were all bright. They all worked extremely hard.

adj. ambitious One of his ambitions is to become a famous politician.

The next phone call came from the office of the landlord-politician whose tenants we had interviewed.

In seventeen ninety-seven, the Independent Chronicle newspaper used the word to describe a politician the paper supported.

Those working closely with Rogge say he is always determined in meetings despite his reputation as a consensus politician.

Paladino is not a professional politician, an apparent advantage in this election cycle, and he is known for speaking his mind.

Perhaps the last, best example of the authentically slovenly politician is sitting in a prison cell in Rochester, New York.

It has become a rite of passage for any aspiring politician to turn up and stroke a cow's bottom or clutch a piglet.

"I come at education as a parent, not a politician, " he said.

Italy's prime minister said that Rosy Bindi, a female politician appearing on the show, was "more beautiful than intelligent" .

When a politician talks of peace, it is merely double talk, for to be a politician is to be at heart ambitious, violent.

I used to be a politician, but since I came back from Beijing, I have been a statesman.

He went on to win four elections by appealing, in a way that no Japanese politician had ever even attempted, directly to the electorate.

I used to be a politician. But since I came back from Peking, I have been a statesman.

The politician gave away his best chance to the promotion when he foolishly said the wrong thing.

It is led by Yukio Hatoyama, a mild-mannered career politician likely to be the next prime minister.

Brave too would be any politician who proposed deregulation as a solution to a public-sector problem.

Politic Politics Politician My friend, Patrick, has always been a fanatical opponent of Mr. Lane's Radical Progressive Party.

We must not think of this writer as a radical socialist politician, much less a leader of a revolution.

For No Berlusconi Day comes after a week in which the billionaire politician has been under relentless attack.

Obama's reputation as a new breed of politician, one able to overcome traditional racial divides, grew steadily.

She sipped her coffee and smiled as the middle-aged politician came to stand by the refreshment table with her.

Covered such a romantic manner and the famous poet, a politician with the necessary political, patience, calm and Yuantong it?

No matter how damaging for Berlusconi's personal image, the scandals, when properly managed, can be good for him as a politician.

Yet if he wants to remain Turkey's most popular politician, he may have to set aside his pride.

No suspects have been arrested in connection with the abduction and killing of a local politician's supporters and media entourage.

These are all facts, and do not let any politician try to tell you otherwise.

He had issued a public apology, but the scandal dealt a blow to his image as a clean politician in a rotten system.

There is no question that Secretary Gates is a thoughtful man, a great administrator and a good politician.

The repercussions are at least arguably less severe than the price a politician must pay for unilateral concessions.

They is all the same, these politician.

In this, at least, Mr Harper looks like a conviction politician.

Mr McCain has his faults: he is an instinctive politician, quick to judge and with a sharp temper.

Mr Cameron is good at carrying off such hokum without blushing: a skill not to be undervalued in a politician.

After he became a politician, Fukuda is said to have handled most of his campaigning activities while he was chief Cabinet secretary.

(It's worth noting that while Bhutto was generally well-liked in India, she was seen there as an ineffective and weak politician).

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity---Robert Anthony Hatcher, American politician during the American Civil War.

The expression may be used to describe a politician's last campaign, his final attempt to win the cheers and votes of the people.

Wang Anshi, one of the represent of "Linchuan Culture" , he is a specialist in literature as well as a famous politician and thinker.

He may be about to become the most unpopular politician in the land as tax increases and spending cuts bite.

As a result of that situation, the politician resigned from office.

"He is not your typical black politician when it comes to religion, " he said.

No longer must you be a celebrity, a politician or a media personality to be considered influential.

Mencius, as a famous thinker, politician, educator, is one main representative figure of the Confucianism in the Warring States period.

A politician to his fingertips, Mr Strauss-Kahn shares with the president an ability to charm, persuade and hold a room.

Now he sat on the veranda of the politician's house. If you wanted to see the politician, you paid him fifty rupees first.

Tell me of any politician who delivers a politically binding agreement.

After the summer of angry town halls, no politician is going to get anywhere near something that could be called a "death panel. "

It's not unusual for a politician to send someone with a camera to an opponent's speeches, looking for a mistake or a thoughtless comment.

OCCASIONALLY, a politician comes along who seems too principled to be thrown into an electoral dogfight in a giant democracy.

The politician tried to set a trap for his opponent by talking about the war.

Holy crap what an incredibly ignorant thing to say, especially for a politician who holds power.

The politician was ousted from office by a vote from members of his own party .

A politician who mentions the taboo word "formal independence" in Taipei - and in some place in Peking someone might push the red button.

What politician wants to tamper directly with the climate and risk getting blamed for the next hurricane or drought?

And I knew he was a good politician who would make the Bush campaign more effective.

A politician addressing a working men's club could dress down in order to appear to have more in common with workers.

He is Venezuela's most popular politician. His battle with cancer gives him a strong narrative.

Just as the Priest finished his talk, the politician arrived full of apologies at being late.

What if a newspaper describes a politician as a dark horse? This means nobody knows much about him.

As a once and future politician, Mr Emanuel was used to being in the spotlight and brought his dramatic ways to the West Wing.

Lord Patten, chancellor of Oxford University and a former politician, let fly with his own views on March 16th.

But for his forced exile from Germany, Warburg would probably have stayed there as an intellectual or politician, reckoned Ziegler.

On reflection, the investment of so much hope in one politician was inadvertent confirmation of the depth of the centre-left malaise.

Wodehouse, it is never difficult to distinguish between a right-wing British politician with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Ozawa is far from perfect. But for all the flak he gets, the fact remains that Ozawa is the nation's most visionary politician.

Lincoln was a good politician and a smart lawyer. He found an unexpected way to deal with the problem.

Being the daughter of a prominent politician, Emily had the benefit of a good education and attended the Amherst Academy.

Then again, Kerry was never the passionate orator, showman-entertainer or, for that matter, savvy politician that Moore is.

But the country is no politician's property. Central bankers should always be careful. But this does not mean they should never speak out.

It makes me feel like a politician to tell you the truth.

Since every politician in Washington knows that Medicare reform is essential, these proposals ought to be taken seriously.

In recent weeks, the President and just about every other major politician from both parties have been boggled by soldier-lawyer disputes.

The politician could never speak simply ; she was always grandiloquent .

A politician would have to be mighty confident to vote against humanitarian aid and supporting the troops.

The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery---James Harold Wilson, British politician.

The last thing any politician wants to do is to spell out the sacrifices he plans to impose on voters.

This vacillating chancellor needs to recover some of the quiet resolution that once made her Europe's most powerful politician.

To me it's just a made up word; a politician's word.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the charismatic defence minister, is Germany's most popular politician and a potential chancellor.

WHEN she was elected as Chile's president in January 2006 Michelle Bachelet promised to be a different kind of politician.

An informal survey turns up a nice round number of nationally publicized, politician-generated sex scandals since then: fifty.

The best politician isn't always [the person] who has run the best race, but the one who keeps people out of the race.

And, with the air of a politician, he was pictured holdingababy.

As a politician, Qu Qiubai's news activity is an important part of his revolutionary career.

If you find yourself unable to do that but still want the perks of power and privilege, consider becoming a politician.

As a seasoned politician, he was also aware of the possible panic that would ensue should people come to believe a meltdown was imminent.

And as one of the world's largest engineering projects, it would, of course, be a long-lasting monument to whichever politician approved it.

There is no politician who would struggle for love and tolerance! Politicians do not work with love.

Mr Kennedy's not-so-private flaws made him a less effective politician.

This transformed her from back-room steward into a politician with vote-winning credibility.

He too was a naturalist, as well as a farmer, inventor, historian, writer and politician.

He could end up being Russia's most powerful politician for a quarter of a century.

The politician wanted to wash his hands of the scandal.

CAMERON: Look, I've never met a politician who's happy with his poll ratings, and I never am.

One of the best paid managers in the world, Mr Wiedeking was accused by one politician of "cashing in big time" .

Even as a politician on a four-year elected cycle, you can't morally leave someone with that problem.

But one American politician, more than any other, showed there can still be a different, democratic way of doing politics in America.

Ministers saw Mr Obama's rhetoric for what it was: the flailing of a politician in a desperate fix.

"You two sissies, " said the politician. "I'll sleep in the barn. "