Sentences with phrase «divided as political parties»

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What's more, as the current election season shows, there's a sharp political divide (even within the two major parties) that makes the idea difficult to ever come to a vote.

CNN: My Take: When it comes to «God» in our political platforms, less is more Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» discusses how the Republican and Democratic parties have used God as a ««prop» of our politics» during the 2012 presidential race.

CNN: My Take: Counting the Bible's words doesn't yield a Republican Jesus Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» responds to angry emails he received after writing a Belief Blog post in which he takes issue with evangelicals using Jesus as a political tool to benefit the Republican Party.

However, as a representative of a political party from a divided country (though he disagrees with this assessment too), he certainly did not come to Oxford with any surprises.

And the responses suggest a growing divide between the nation and its highest court on constitutional questions that have moved to the heart of the American system, as the advent of super PACs and the abandonment of public financing by both parties in presidential elections have enabled wealthy donors, corporations and unions to play a greater role in political fund - raising.

With political parties jostling for headlines, Labour's energy price freeze is picked out as the dividing line.

Settling the election campaign team is seen as a precursor to settling campaign strategy itself, and follows fears by some that the party would run a «core vote strategy» or seek to recycle outdated past political dividing lines between Labour investment and Tory cuts.

From Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» as adapted by Kushner and directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie «Lincoln» focuses on one principal activity, which was the president's role in convincing a sharply divided House of Representatives to vote for the Amendment already passed by the Senate because Lincoln's party had the numbers there.

And, in my dispassionate outsider's view, as a fairly moderate sort of guy who fits no political party well, but finds the modern Left worryingly authoritarian and totalitarian... The US is more divided than I've ever seen in my twenty odd years of watching.

This has driven the political divide on this topic within the American public, as regular citizens have taken cues from ideological and party leaders they trust.»

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