Sentences with phrase «drawing lines in the sand around»

Latest in the Legislature It's all transportation, all the time these days in the statehouse, with some elected officials calling for solutions while others are drawing lines in the sand around no new borrowing.

«It's time we start drawing lines in the sand around our charter schools,» she said.

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There don't seem to be lines in the sand drawn around natural phenomena in the world.

I'm 100 % in agreement with David Keith's point above — if you are going to draw a line in the sand, draw it around emissions which are easily reduced at lowest cost, and for which the next best alternatives are ALL lower carbon.

Back in 2009, at the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, nations around the world drew a hypothetical line in the sand, pledging to do everything in their power to prevent the world annual average temperature from warming an additional two degrees Celsius (3.6 °F)- known as the Copenhagen Accord.

Those who choose the Galaxy S9 over the S9 + shouldn't feel like they're missing out on too much by going with the smaller of the two phones, but it is interesting to see Samsung draw a bigger line in the sand this time around.