Sentences with phrase «crosses political lines»

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Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

«If we feel he crosses a line, we'll fire back,» said Ed Rollins, chief strategist of Great America PAC, the political arm of the group airing the Comey ad.

If this happens, to the extent that more countries with a wider range of political goals and institutions join the system created by the Bretton Woods conference, and to the extent that geopolitical tensions rise in Eurasia, it seems to me that the flat or mildly upward sloping line that represents the benefits to the US of the global trading system and the steep upward sloping line that represents the costs, if they haven't already crossed, must cross soon.

Do we have to passively agree when the Church teaches about subjects that cross the line into economic or political territory?

Filial allegiance is broken; class lines crossed; racial and political difference transcended.

I believe that the churches should be taxed and if they cross the line between religious organizations and political organizations they should be labeled a lobbying organization and be governed by those regulations.

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Ruth Wisse's Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

No, not private assembly unless they are not tax - exempt — which, they now should not be, seeing the preacher crossed the line into political speech and inciting hate.

McDonald was one of four Republicans who crossed party lines to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage at Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's urging in 2011, and he ended up paying a steep political price as a result.

But to some critics it sounds like Mayor de Blasio was blind to the very lines one can not cross when it comes to political fundraising.

The Maine Constitution mandates that state legislative districts be «compact and contiguous, and that they cross political subdivision lines as few times as possible.»

A political novice, Bruso faults the legislative process because of the reluctance of legislators to cross party lines, but he commended the bipartisan effort behind the county's war on opioid addiction.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has crossed party lines and offered a political endorsement to Republican state Senator Roy McDonald, who lost a primary this month after voting to support same sex marriage in 2011.

Regular memo readers will recall an item last week on Oneida County Executive Tony Picente, a Republican who crossed party lines in 2014 to endorse Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election bid, but was wondering whether the political fallout from that move was worth it.

That's a fuzzy line, to be sure, but Cuomo has clearly crossed it, according to political scientist Gerald Benjamin of the State University of New York at New Paltz.

As CBS 2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported Wednesday, Mangano is the top dog Republican in New York State's wealthiest county, but decided to cross party lines to back Cuomo over Republican Rob Astorino.

«This definitely crosses the line into the political realm.

K - 12 online learning is vast and varied, crossing both political and ideological lines.

In other words, it feels to me like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental issues because they think they may be controversial and divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu, like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in climate change or the need for our change).

There are cultural greens that cross over political lines perhaps unwittingly.

«applicants should know better than to bring their political views into a scientific discipline» Never crossed a picket line have you.

However, there is a fine line that one can cross into political advocacy.

Though there is nothing wrong with scientists being political as everyone has an opinion on political issues, the line is crossed when that political idology dictates what the scientist does in their research when it biases their data and conclutions.

A new post-election poll shows Americans (still) overwhelmingly support solar, wind, and other clean energies, crossing red - blue political lines.

Modern juries have protected their communities by refusing to convict individuals prosecuted for victimless licensing violations in cases related to raw milk, for conveying political messages in chalk on public sidewalks, for victimless violations of gun regulations inadvertently committed when crossing state lines, for victimless cases of medical and recreational use of drugs, and much more.

«There are times... when legitimate political speech crosses the line and becomes hate speech designed to stir up hatred against groups in our society,» Facebook said in a statement.

«I've blocked a lot of the blogs that I usually follow when they've started getting political or they cross the line in their tone — OK, you're outta here,» she said, adding that she'll probably unblock them after Election Day.