Sentences with phrase «along racial lines over»

A Virginia town has split along racial lines over a stiff jail sentence meted out to high school basketball star Allen Iverson

Not exact matches

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

Internal Pentecostal relationships are more complex — with splits along racial lines, according to commitment to the Holiness doctrine of sanctification, and even more deeply over the issues of the «Jesus only» doctrines of the Trinity.

In the wake of unrest over a grand jury's decision not to bring an indictment in the Eric Garner case and the murder of two police officers, Mario Cuomo, who had governed during the days of strife in Benonshurst and Howard Beach, had become concerned with division in the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo said.

Over the years, I have watched a growing intolerance at universities in this country — not intolerance along racial or ethnic or gender lines — there, we have made laudable progress.