Sentences with phrase «along partisan lines in»

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We've really not come far from those days, sadly, in our locker room talk or our propensity to compartmentalize our moral outrage along partisan lines.

This is seen most clearly in Faith and Order's emphasis on reconciling the churches and the alternative talk about «a partisan church of the poor» which would divide Christians in a new way along social and political lines.»

The Ryan budget, which has proved once again to be a lighting rod in the national debate over taxes and spending, passed in the House of Representatives along largely partisan lines 228 to 191.

But rather than cleaving along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans — incumbents and challengers alike — came down on both sides of the issue depending on their states and districts, suggesting national party committees aren't likely to take up the vote in their national messaging.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton acknowledged this morning that Mayor Bill de Blasio may have lost the trust and confidence of «some officers» in the police department — but said the tension surrounding the mayor's role in the murder of two cops is falling along partisan lines.

Thirty - six percent of voters approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling his job in his first week, according to a new Q poll that reflects a sharp divide along partisan lines.

While the district was made slightly more Republican in the 2001 redistricting process, it's still relatively evenly divided along partisan lines.

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Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

Leutkemeyer said in a press release that his amendment, which passed 244 to 179 largely along partisan lines, represented «a victory for taxpayers.»

In a legislative body with record levels of polarization, the science committee is even more polarized along partisan lines than the House as a whole.

The divide along partisan lines was stark, with 24 percent of Catholic Republicans agreeing that global warming is caused in part by humans.

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.

Amid the agonizing delay in identifying the winner of the 2000 presidential election, one thing seems clear: Whoever the next president is, he will enter the White House without a sure direction from the voters and with a Congress nearly split in two along partisan lines.

In other words, a broad consensus remains with respect to national standards, despite the fact that public debate over the Common Core has begun to polarize the public along partisan lines.

is trying to piece together a compromise at a time when the various sides appear to be digging in along more Republican - Democratic partisan lines as opposed to scrambling for common ground (See «Teacher Eval Reforms Being Sent To «Summer Camp,»» 6/18/15).

The Senate Budget Committee signed off on the bill (SB 1718), already passed by the Florida House, largely along partisan lines with a single Republican — Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach — joining Democrats in opposition.

The business - backed, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has crafted model bills similar to the one (SB 1718, HB 1191) now on its way to the Senate floor in Florida; the House approved an identical measure last week along partisan lines.

The bill creating the committee passed in June largely along partisan lines with most Republicans backing the legislation and most Democrats opposed.

In other words, a consensus remains with respect to national standards, despite the fact that public debate over the Common Core has begun to polarize the public along partisan lines.

Thus, while polls continue to show that the standards are drawing less public support and views are increasingly divided along partisan lines, the substance of the Common Core are well entrenched in American education.

THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

Environmentalists believe the likelihood is that Democrats in the Senate will not allow the riders to pass but it is further evidence of green issues being used along partisan lines as negotiators in wider discussions in Congress.