political firmament

Meanwhile, he congratulated the newest star in the political firmament.

In still others, the barren political firmament is punctuated by vibrant local clubs.

As the political firmament shifts, events on the social calendar have suddenly acquired an urgent status.

The world took notice of a new star in Pakistan's political firmament, dominated for decades by a handful of the richest families.

In my opinion, Britain's long-term economic difficulties have been overstated, and its political firmament has been misinterpreted.

The stars in New York's fractious political firmament are in unusually close alignment at this time of emergency.

The meeting appeared choreographed so that Mr. Schwarzenegger, the most visible star in the political firmament, would not outshine the president.

Church would go on to help found the National Rifle Association in 1871; he and his newspaper remained fixtures in the political firmament for decades.

And in New York's political firmament, one union stands out as the superstar in getting out the vote: 1199, the giant health care workers' union.

Just now there was much in the political firmament that caused the novelist anxiously to wish that his own fortunes and those of Eve were indissolubly united.

Mr. Marlin, the author of "Squandered Opportunities," is an unusual figure in New York's political firmament.

Phaeax: A rising star in the political firmament, his abilities are said by Demos to be admired by effete dandies (line 1377).

Zhu Rongji, a former rightist who has spent more years in disgrace than in power, is the fastest-rising star in China's political firmament.

The Times editorial said, "[T]he French political firmament ... has abruptly darkened with sinister portents."

His subsequent re-election in 2006, overcoming a State-wide pro-LDF wave, saw him firmly established as a rising star on the political firmament of the State.

A series of speakers followed Browder, each lending support to the predetermined change of party name and shift in conception of the organization's role in the American political firmament.

Soon his name was on all their lips as someone who bore watching, and that buzz, as much as anything else, placed him as a new star in the city's political firmament.

The crosssection of the New York population at yesterday's memorial service was evidence of how thoroughly Jewish and Israeli issues permeate the social and political firmament of the city.

If the oddsmakers are to be believed, the results in the mayoral race and the nine City Council races are not likely to alter the political landscape greatly nor inject any new stars into Newark's political firmament.

One measure of Johnson's achievement is surely that Republicans, who have gone from reviling Medicare to enacting its costly new drug benefit, have accepted the program as part of America's social safety net and political firmament.

Long a leading liberal in the California political firmament, Senator Roberti now boasts of his backing of three new bills in the Legislature to toughen penalties for looting and arson, and he eagerly poses with police officers.

And the successes of tax-cutting and tough-on-crime Republicans in last year's New Jersey gubernatorial race and the New York City mayoral race have given those traditional Republican concerns new prominence in the state's political firmament.

In the two months since the Rev. Al Sharpton stood at a Harlem pulpit and announced his intention to run for mayor, many in New York City's political firmament have speculated on whether the Baptist minister was truly serious about becoming the city's 108th mayor.

The fact that a man who admires General Pinochet, called Mormons scum and filth, promised to shoot criminals and describes himself as a semi-democrat is regarded as a moderate nationalist in the Russian political firmament, shows the worrying drift of politics in Russia.