Sentences with phrase «middle ground on»

University of Minnesota law professor Dale Carpenter also sees a slippery slope at play here, but his is judicial rather than legislative and starts from the unstable middle ground on which the state based its defense of traditional marriage.

The heavier, browner palette is found in Wilson's Hammer and Tongs (1972) with its meticulously worked drapery study, and the architectural complexity of the workbench in Stretcher Pliers (1972), which is a damn sight more complicated painting than it seems at first because it balances several planes from foreground to middle ground to a second stage of the middle ground on a tilting shelf surface.

Maybe Bethesda can take a cue from Square Enix and come to some middle ground on the issue.

There doesn't seem to be much middle ground on this topic.

Which way the split is going to go is something that I'm not even going to try to predict, but the one thing I will say is I think that people will either love it or hate it — I see no middle ground on this one.

Strategic beta indexes represent a middle ground on the active - to - passive spectrum.

There's no middle ground on a car like this.

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

There is no middle ground on the parody bits, either you go all out or not at all.

February 28, 2011 • Congressional leaders have until the weekend to find middle ground on spending bills and avoid the blowback of a government shutdown.

But put in the efforts to cross the great divide and find your relationship middle ground on these fundamental issues.

The campaign is being prepared into the crucial conference season, and the left are beginning to believe that Cameron has left the safe middle ground on issues such as law and order.

He attempted to strike a middle ground on the controversial issue of development in The Bronx, stressing that both affordable housing and mixed - income housing are necessary to make the borough a better place to live.

Senate Agriculture Committee staff are seeking a bipartisan, middle ground on reauthorization and aiming to mark up a bill mid-September.

So allow me to introduce some middle ground on breastfeeding and alcohol.

There was almost no middle ground on Wake Forest's 2016 regular season slate.

He criticized the Anglican Church's recent Windsor Report and its effort to navigate a middle ground on the homosexuality question among Anglicans, insisting that a definitive decision on homosexuality «maybe the one process that really matters.»

Will we find middle ground on every issue?

The members of the committee — Gerard Hernshaw, Jenkin Riderhood, Rose Curtland and Gulliver Ashe — have all tried to find a middle ground on the contemporary moral battlefield.

Wilkinson's published dissertation, Between God and Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.»

Steering a middle ground on the inflation and interest rate outlook, the Jerome Powell - led Fed noted that the inflation goal was «symmetric».

Not exact matches

Buddemeier said that at his basement-less condo, he'd move to the center of the middle floor after a blast «because the fallout is going to land on the ground around my house, and that first floor would have slightly higher exposure than the second floor.»

Speaking to deployed Marines at a base in the Middle East while on a Christmas tour of deployed units, Gen. Robert Neller sought to temper their enthusiasm at the potential of a future ground fight.

While no entrepreneurs want to feel they have to put on a costume as a condition for doing business, experts suggest there's an easily navigable middle ground.

Smartphones are used namely as a research tool to help in purchasing things later online or when they actually go to the store, and tablets are sort of in that middle ground, because they provide the mobile experience but on a larger screen, which is appealing to many consumers.»

In a post laying out several tips for start - ups in the new year, Blumenthal separates the big data hype from the reality on the ground for many small businesses, and offers sensible - sounding advice on how founders can avoid being overwhelmed by walking a middle way.

That all grinds to a halt when Julian has a heart attack in the middle of a case, which sheds light on the damage he's done to his body.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

Finding the right balance depends on a variety of factors — the nature of the attack and how the facts develop, among other details — but striking that middle ground is key.

The White House has failed to find traction on a middle ground that would allow meaningful reform to thrive while protecting the constitutional right to bear arms — a compromise that would enjoy broad public support and still represent a practical way of regulating the firearms industry.

Inside the Edgewater section of Miami, several roofs were ripped off, power lines lay on the ground and a large truck was overturned on its side in the middle of the street.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada have been preparing the ground for a policy agenda focused on the problems of the middle class.

He wrestled the federal government's deficit to the ground, and he cut taxes on the middle class and job creators.

With no boots on the ground in mainland China, it would be difficult for me to determine whether or not the Chinese middle class speculators have learned their lesson just yet, but my gut tells me that the answer is no.

They're seeking the middle ground based on environmentally responsible energy production.

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

The ground is rumbling beneath you and the Postal Service that propelled thousands to middle class life is on the cusp of major changes.

Berkowitz: As a global bank, we have an on - the - ground presence in a number of developed and developing markets, including, for example, Russia, Ukraine and many of the Middle Eastern countries.

That is why equal rights is a middle ground most people should be able to agree on.

Isn't there a broad middle ground though, between the literalists on one side, and those who call themselves Christian but don't believe in the Incarnation, the historic creeds and view Jesus and his message as just a righteous human teacher dude.

It is the right of nations and governments to go to war and execute criminals, but Christians should always be pleading and seeking for a middle ground between Pacifism and Just War (For an excellent proposal on how this works, I highly recommend Walter Wink's book, Engaging the Powers.

I believe in the middle ground very strongly on many issues and when I saw the report on his compromise, my dislike for Obama as a democrat... I said to myself that is the exactly the path I would have taken on the issue.

«We are hearing from Christians on the ground in the Middle East that many wish to stay in their homeland, and we want to strengthen the Christians who remain in these volatile areas,» said Kristin Wright, advocacy director at Open Doors USA.

Preemptive Love Coalition has been on the ground in the Middle East for years providing families with emergency food and medicine, and the tools to start over through capital, job opportunities, and even life saving heart surgeries for children.

There is no middle ground to meet on or way to compromise here.

Sounds like we should be on the same page, as you keep harping on seeking a middle ground, yet we are constantly at odds.

I'm trying to stay on this middle ground, though it feels like being under crossfire.

Why don't u try plugging Tim Geithner's left earpiece up ur sphincter... its in the middle of ur butt and that way we see eye to eye on mddle ground!

I think there is room on the planet for everyone and a middle ground to be had where there can be peace.

Some negotiating will be necessary — but as with anything in a relationship, finding middle ground and compromising on some of your own desires for the sake of your spouse is essential.