Sentences with phrase «dividing line along»

There is no sharp dividing line along the 2 000 km - long stretch between the east and west (1, 23).

Not exact matches

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.

The hearing quickly divided along partisan lines, Democrats pressing for details on the status of the FBI's investigation while Republicans focused on news coverage and possible improper disclosures of classified information developed through surveillance.

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.

In last June's 5 - to - 4 Hobby Lobby ruling, which was divided along ideological lines, the high court said closely held companies have a right to special religious exceptions when it comes to the benefits they're required to offer their employees under the ACA.

In 2014, the court's 5 - 4 decision in Hobby Lobby was divided along ideological lines.

Throughout the 1950s and the early 1960s, the music industry was sharply divided along racial lines.

Chicago - area congressmen divide along unusual lines on an amendment to allow some passengers to rebook elsewhere if their airline messes up.

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

The world from San Francisco to the Ural Mountains seemed permanently divided into two hostile, ideologically opposed, nuclear - armed camps, along a fault line defined at the end of World War II.

The problem today is social issues have become polarizing topics, often divided along political and religious lines.

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Christian denominations in the world divided along lines of doctrinal difference.

I'm a bit reluctant to bring up the subject of baptism here on the blog because I think it's such a shame that something as beautiful and important can so quickly divide Christians along denominational lines.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

The two versions of American civil religion appear to have divided along a fracture line long apparent in discussions of civil religion.

I once read something along the line that the problem with speaking across theological divides was that conservatives take everything too literally even when it wasn't meant to be literal and liberals forget that there is literal meaning within the metaphorical.

While many of Bok's prescriptions in this area, too, seem obvious, engaging faculties in efforts along these lines, given their divided loyalties and diverse commitments, is not always easy to accomplish.

Unfortunately, American Christianity seems to be divided along our political ideological lines.

Other topics will likely cause predictable divides along pre-drawn theological and denominational lines.

While worship issues often divide churches along generational lines, many congregations are finding ways for computer technology to bridge generational divides.

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.»

Paradoxically, when it comes to this «new evangelization,» those who are sanguine and those who fear it are not neatly divided along lines of membership and non-membership in the Roman Catholic Church.

Sharply divided along class and racial lines, it is emerging from a 36 - year civil war.

Much of the dialogue following the Charleston killings has focused on the Confederate flag, which has long been considered a symbol dividing the South along racial lines.

«More than 30 years after explicit sex - based classifications in family, employment, and benefits law were held to violate the Constitution or statutory prohibitions on discrimination, the vast majority of different - sex couples still divide responsibilities along gendered lines,» she notes.

-- 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.

Last spring, after Kufra was divided along tribal lines, nearly 150 died in violent clashes, carried out with the discarded weapons from the Qaddafi regime.

The boundaries of my district are pretty straightforward, except in the case of the city of Fall River, where the boundary line seems to meander arbitrarily along different streets, dividing the city between the 9th and 4th districts.

And while the two groups aren't anything like formal alliances, the economic interests within each group are more closely aligned than those across the divide, and hence it's easy to imagine the major disagreements about how to manage the European economy over the coming years falling more or less along this fault line.

Wolf's comments quickly opened a divide, largely but not entirely along partisan lines, over the limits of comedy and comity under a president who rarely hesitates to attack the press.

Opinion on whether Bercow was right or wrong has largely divided along the lines of whether we should be holding Trump close or making a stand.

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.

And we need a more consensual approach at home, not one which constantly seeks to divide us along ideological lines.

The picture confirms claim from The Herald's insiders in the Rawlings household that, the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings, are equally divided along parental lines.

Although WWII was allegedly the most racially motivated war, the belligerents were actually not divided along racial lines.

Kelly has a sky - high approval rating, with 66 percent of those polled stating they like the job he's doing, though there is a clear divide along race lines, with 78 of white voters saying they approve, versus just 51 percent of black voters.

Opinion is not divided along party lines.

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

Buhari therefore called on religious leaders to work towards the broader goal of building a strong and unified nation, and avoid insinuations that could divide the populace, especially along religious lines.

Just days before lawmakers are set to vote on seven members of the board that drives state education policy, WNY delegates remain divided along political and ideological lines about who might best represent the area's students.

The debate marks a rare shared experience for a country deeply divided along political lines and fragmented in the media they consume.

With some nine months to the holding of the general elections, Nana Akufo - Addo admonished all Krobos not to pay heed to those who, whenever elections come up, seek to divide them along ethnic and political lines for electoral gain, stressing that «we are all Ghanaians and are one people».

The current rift appears to be following along the lines of the PFP, UNC divide.

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.

People were bitterly divided along religious and ethnic lines that they overlooked the salient issues.

Stop dividing us along ethnic and race 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.

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

«The leader we want is a detribalised one, and not the one who would come and divide the country along ethnicity and religious lines.