Sentences with phrase «drawing political lines»

All the groups — as well as Gov. Andrew Cuomo — have derided the current format for drawing political lines as little more than a system for protecting incumbents who hold the majority.

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If I start suggesting that I will only purchase goods and services from a Democrat or a Republican, or only listen to your pitch if you agree with my political view, I have draw a line in the sand that doesn't really make sense.

«I used to tell presidents, you have to be very, very cautious about drawing red lines or issuing ultimatums,» said Gates, the only defense secretary to hold the job under two presidents for two different political parties.

«Our objective is not to diminish legitimate expression of political or religious views, but rather incitement to terrorism — and there is a fine line there that the legislation will try to draw,» Kenney said in an interview Tuesday.

In the United States, they have a process of redrawing lines on a map within a state to benefit the political party who is doing the drawing.

Second, because there probably have been other times in our history — before and immediately after the Civil War, plus the Depression and New Deal — when political lines were drawn as sharply and public rhetoric was as combatively partisan.

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

We must be careful and deliberate about where we draw the lines of political heresy.

There are reasons, for example, and reasons based on principles, that explain not only why classroom furniture should not be bolted to the floor, but why maps should not have political frontiers drawn in darker ink than other lines, and why epic poetry should be introduced by reading selections in their original language.

Known as the Eternal Derby in Serbia, this clash between the two Belgrade sides is drawn out along political and social lines and has lost none of its spark despite Red Star's recent financial troubles.

Plus, everyone in the political world is more or less proceeding as the state lines drawn now under the assumption that nothing will change.

By writing this memoir he is effectively drawing a line under his active political career so it is a natural time for reflection.

The U.S. Supreme Court has already heard a major case about political line - drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics.

«That move led by former Mayor Ed Koch to force candidates to pledge support for drawing of political district lines by an independent group — not by the state Legislature — wins solid support,» Carroll continued.

The M5S has repeatedly drawn a clear line between itself and established political parties.

Political battlegrounds are drawn along the lines of wards, districts and, in parliamentary traditions, ridings.

«As we look forward to a vigorous political agenda for 2012, including a Presidential primary, a US Senate race, and newly drawn line for Congressional and legislative districts, this leadership team, along with our tremendous staff in Albany and New York City, ensures that our State Party is fully prepared to meet the challenges ahead,» Cox said.

Political lines are being drawn as the Republican candidates battle for their party's nomination in New York's 27th Congressional district.

«Nothing in the judge's decision changes the fact that power is being taken away from legislators and given back to New Yorkers,» said Dadey, who says the amendment will «ensure that no lines, no districts are drawn for political advantage anymore».

Unfortunately for the governor, Preet Bharara apparently has a different interpretation of where the legal and political lines should be drawn.

Behar said redistricting in the state currently serves to «keep incumbents in office» and he wants Assembly and state Senate district lines to be drawn without any political affiliations.

The term gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to favor one political party, individual, or constituency over another.

And if Cuomo makes a bid for the presidency in 2016, they won't forget that he didn't use his considerable political capital to help push through a more favorable and partisan map for Democrats, but instead let a court draw the lines.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner said the current process rigs elections to benefit incumbents and political parties The last time the lines were drawn, only 25 district populations were close in terms of enrollment of Democrats and Republicans, he said.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long today released the line - up for his 44th annual Political Action Conference, which will draw Republicans and cosnervatives from across New York to the Holiday Inn on Wolf Road.

Elected officials and political insiders pay close attention to this arcane process of map - drawing, because they understand well that new district lines could result in major shifts of political power.

Before the campaign had officially begun, Espaillat also invoked racial themes when he told an audience in Harlem that «crackers» had unfairly drawn congressional lines, and there could be a «nuclear political war» between African - Americans and Latinos if they were forced to run in the same congressional district uptown.

State lawmakers are currently at work drawing up new district lines; what emerges from those sessions could have major ramifications for the Hudson Valley's political scene.

First, they were permitted to draw the new Senate district lines in a manner widely viewed as favorable to the GOP, after Governor Andrew Cuomo backed off on a threat to veto what he said were «hyper political, hyper partisan lines».

Republicans control the redistricting process and will try to firm up West unless a new ballot measure that passed this fall, which seeks to take all political considerations out of the line drawing process, makes such a move impossible.

It is therefore realistic politics devoid of hero - worshipping sentiments for the northern political elite across party lines to gather round the presidential drawing board once again but this time with a commitment to salvage the power and prestige of northern politics from national devaluation and possible rejection brought about by the shortcomings of its elected preferred candidate.

McMahon says lawmakers may think that if they agree with some of the governor's agenda now, Cuomo may allow them more leeway to draw district lines to suit their political interests.

The list shows political lines being drawn among Wyoming Republicans ahead of what could turn out to be the longest, toughest and most expensive political battle the state has ever seen.

This partisan pact, which would amend the state constitution to create a lawmaker - appointed 10 - person panel to draw district lines, keeps in place the hyper - political process of allowing politicians to draw their own districts, choose their own voters and serve their own self - interests,» read Kellner's statement.

Given the long standing resistance to enacting redistricting reform and the high stakes involved, we applaud them in finding common ground on an issue that is at the core of political power in Albany and results in the legislature giving up power in the drawing of lines.»

There are currently no prohibitions in the state constitution that prevent lines from being drawn to discourage competition or for the purpose of favoring or disfavoring incumbents, particular candidates or political parties.

It is explicit in state law that district lines can not be drawn «to favor a political party, incumbent, or other person or group.»

A contentious border separates India and Pakistan; political movements draw stark lines between India's Muslim and Hindu populations.

Kennedy's point is obviously that you can not draw a line separating the political activities of public sector unions from everything else they do.

Roberts, Scalia, and Alito pointed out that the union position rests on a false assumption: that you can draw a clear line between the political and nonpolitical activities of public - sector unions.

But the upside is that the normal political battle lines have yet to be drawn.

He proposed a series of policy reforms involving the state's budget, public employee pensions, the drawing of political district lines, and education.

Roberts, Scalia, and Alito pointed out that the union's position rests on a false assumption: that one can draw a clear line between the political and nonpolitical activities of public - sector unions.

In their haste to leave, they agreed to demands by the All India Muslim League (a political party led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah) and partitioned the territory into two countries — India and Pakistan — along an ill - conceived and carelessly drawn boundary known as the Radcliffe Line.

I draw the line when businesses use political power to exclude rivals.

On the upside, given the volatile nature of today's international political climate, there's a wealth of stories to draw from that could give Sam or a brand new protagonist a lot of leeway in exploring the fine line and moral ambiguities associated with political espionage.

Recent group exhibitions include Drawing The Bottom Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium, 2015; Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2015; Celebrate Life!

The Political Line will feature more than 170 works of art, including large - scale paintings on tarpaulins and canvases, sculptures, and a number of the artist's subway drawings.

While this feminine and political exploration draws lines between ourselves and the women we portray, it also destroys those lines, leaving the narrative to rest in the awkward reality of compassion and communion alongside abstraction and disconnect — a space that often constitutes foreign relations.

An official picket line was drawn in February 2017 during the offensive neoliberal Artist's Political Action Network meeting, which was established by the Los Angeles art world élite.