Sentences with phrase «divide along party lines»

Education doesn't always divide along party lines, but current differences between leadership of the two parties are vast.

While support does divide along party lines, nearly three in ten Democrats say they would support Republican challenger Giuliani.

Overall, 44 % of Americans are very concerned and 26 % are moderately concerned that withdrawing from the agreement will hurt the country's standing in the world, with that concern also dividing along party lines.

-- Makes it easier for the state Board of Elections enforcement counsel to launch an investigation, no longer requiring the commissioners, who are equally divided along party lines, to vote in order to launch a probe.

Opinion is not divided along party lines.

A proposal that could lead to the merger of the New York Thruway Authority and the state Bridge Authority has three local members of the state Assembly divided along party lines.

The federal legislature (Congress), the legislatures in all states except for Nebraska, and many county and city legislative bodies are divided along party lines and have whips, as well as majority and minority leaders.

Usually deeply divided along party lines, the subcommittee came together to lavish praise on ITER, with representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), chair of the full committee, and Representative Eric Swalwell (D — CA), the ranking member on the subcommittee, agreeing that ITER was, in Swalwell's words, «absolutely essential to proving that magnetically confined fusion can be a viable clean energy source.»

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Though the US Presidential Election is over, the nation remains deeply divided along party lines.

After closely following Common Core resistance for the last two years, my answer to this question until recently would have been that the anti-Common Core coalitions seemed basically divided along party lines with little communication between them.

War in the Middle East rages on, Washington D.C., and the entire country for that matter, remains fiercely divided along party lines, and for every threat that is quelled, it seems three more arise.

Views about climate change continue to be sharply divided along party lines.

Just as we've seen in political debates, sentiment around health care was clearly divided along party lines.

Not exact matches

Overall, the reaction seemed largely divided along partisan lines, with Republicans backing it and Democrats opposing it — with some exceptions — despite the fact that infrastructure was once touted by both parties as something that could be a bipartisan initiative.

Sentiment remains sharply divided along political - party lines, reflecting the deepening partisanship in Washington and growing polarization of the populace.

Pro-Corbyn party members believe their man's politics hold the key to defeating the SNP but Davidson's success (remember, the Tories were supposed to be extinct in Scotland) has surely proved that, north of the border, political parties are divided along constitutional lines rather than left v right ideological ones.

If the Senate was divided strictly along party lines, the Democrats would have the majority.

According to sources within the party, Anambra PDP is divided along lines of loyalty to more than five major godfathers, including but not limited to Chief Chris Uba, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Prince Arthur Eze and Dr Andy Uba, among others.

What's interesting is to see who's in favour and who's against, because the papers haven't divided along the usual party lines.

The responses were heavily divided along political party lines: the majority of Conservative Republicans were in favor of expanding offshore drilling (76 % in favor) and coal mining (73 % in favor) while only 26 % and 14 % of liberal Democrats supported increases in offshore drilling and coal mining, respectively.