| The connection with the past has been broken by the appointment of know-nothing placemen and sinecurists. |
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| High flat rate payments merely encourage the nomination of placemen who may have little or no connection with the areas they represent and whose attendance may be sparse. |
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| It also indicates that many Labour ministers aren't sincere believers in the Third Way, but are placemen and women interested chiefly in their careers. |
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| Purging suspect officials only to replace them with party placemen is not going to deliver these. |
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| Previous presidents have used placemen to keep an eye on the party machinery. |
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| This is fine in the pages of a polemical novel, and an excellent thing for democracy in a parliament that often appears full of placemen. |
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| However, a new way of appointing or electing its members is required which will effectively avoid both placemen and a mix of political views which mirror the House of Commons. |
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| Ukraine's real political split has always been between different industrial clans, whose placemen dominate parliament. |
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| Over recent years, Commodore Bainimarama has purged senior military ranks and over-promoted his own placemen. |
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| Formerly independent institutions have been scrapped, hobbled or taken over by placemen. |
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| I do not trust this place, which gives a veneer of democracy, but which is largely made up of placemen. |
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| But for Blairites to attack Brown for networking, briefing the press and installing placemen is a little like an alcoholic accusing a social drinker of dipsomania. |
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| Political placemen, journeymen, with no real understanding of the outside world at all, manically producing flawed and dangerous legislation, while we greedily suck at the public teat with our ludicrous posturing. |
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| The parliamentarians, politicians, aristocrats, and placemen moved to London. |
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| It is that I will not endorse by my vote government by unelected placemen. |
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| Harley supported a Bill to exclude from the Commons holders of government office and placemen in an effort to weaken court patronage. |
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| It is a corrupt and corrupting system: parties find eye-catchers so that placemen can ride to power on their coat-tails. As a foreigner, I'm not eligible to vote. |
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