Sentences with phrase «other political side»

With the increasingly high stakes generated by inclusion under the Race to the Top, people have intensively searched the existing research evidence — sometimes with the intent of understanding the potential impacts but perhaps more frequently with an eye to supporting one or the other political side.

Not exact matches

In 2004 fully 25 percent of the US electorate consisted of persuadable partisans, Democrats or Republicans who might be lured to vote for the other side, according to figures from political scientists D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd Shields.

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

After years of the kind of debilitating economic and political warfare it took to remain on top, Carnegie was finally done fighting, finally free to pursue his charitable endeavors on the other side of perpetual strife.

«Any action at this point instead of just complete stagnancy and blaming the other side of the political aisle would be a step in the right direction,» he added.

As more business leaders take a stand on fraught political issues, some find they pay a price by angering consumers on the other side.

And consumers on both sides of the aisle say they're trying to make their political views known, too, by deliberately supporting some companies and shunning others.

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

Law professors write solely for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.

For many, perspectives are easily drowned in the political mix - up and the good versus evil narrative that both sides seem to plague on the other.

During this time, he has not said a word about the heavy political engagement of the churches on the other side of the conflict.

Then the same pastors suggested that we know what caused the attack and why we deserved it: either we, as a country, had failed to rid the world of poverty or, on the other side of the political ledger, we had tolerated lax moral standards.

But however you categorize yourself, I imagine that you have strong opinions about the violent actions of the people on the other side of the political aisle.

He's proven over and over again the postulation that «Political speech is that language in which one side gets the rhetoric and the other side gets the reality.»

Indeed, the entire affair illustrates how powerfully two separate levels of deliberation about racial matters» that of the American polity as a whole and that of blacks by and among themselves» can interact with each other, on both sides of the political divide.

Not the political kind of anger that produces angry Christians who demonize those on the other side of the isle.

As galling as one side's occasionally reckless and vulgar invocations of the sacred were the other side's patently partisan protests against religious language in the political arena.

I think one thing missing today by people on all political sides is the ability and willingness to sit down with each other and have long conversations about deep issues.

I also on the flip - side don't want to play according to others rules and demand either, like by political correctness, dismissing some real facts and truth, or being told by what I call liberal fascist and others how I should think, live, eat, read, or believe.

The other side of the picture, and at the moment the far more important side, is that, while there have been real wounds, there are today powerful men in our country who specialize in reopening those wounds, not to help them to heal more completely, but for quite other purposes — to gain a partisan political advantage or to secure personal publicity; but most often in order to discredit by insinuation, if not by direct charges, all who believe in some changes in the economic order.

Not only do the vast majority of teens surveyed think Americans are divided, but they basically embrace the divide: Three in four «already have a party preference,» and only around 25 percent think they have «a lot in common» with people on the other side of the political aisle.

Much like Murdoch herself, they wish to retain the liberal tradition's belief in the worth of individual moral action, yet find it difficult to do so in an age in which the enlightened individual is threatened on one side by cynical despair and on the other by the totalitarian excesses of political hope.

At least some Republicans of conscience tried to urge their political brethren to choose a plausible, competent alternative to a narcissistic vulgarian; I haven't heard anything analogous on the other side of the aisle, and the seemingly tongue - tied Catholic Democrats in the blogosphere are no exception to that default.

Rather, it is precisely those on the other side of the ideological and political aisle who devalue government, which Scruton describes well as «an expression of those extended loyalties over time, which bind generation to generation in a relation of mutual commitment.»

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

And people on both sides of the political aisle are blaming the other for everything wrong with the United States.

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

The sudden upsurge of Evangelical Christianity as a force in political life guaranteed that Richard's efforts to forge a path between «aggrieved fundamentalists» on the one side and «exclusionist secularists» on the other attracted an enthusiastic audience.

It's fine for Christians to have strong political opinions and for them to advocate for them, but slandering the other side only drives a deeper wedge between people who disagree, instead of building bridges to find areas of common ground.

And when this limit, which is God's honor, is reached by man, there is a twofold temptation, either on the one side to pass the limit, to take up God's cause, to try to avenge God's honor oneself, to use political means in the service of the living God in order to do this, or on the other side to remain within the limit but to continue political action as though it did not exist, in other words, to separate the two kingdoms, to argue that while God's honor is there at the limit of politics, and I can do nothing about it, nevertheless in my own sphere I can still act like a shrewd and effective man, pursuing politics to save what can be saved by human means.

It never ceases to amaze me how political extremists on BOTH sides act EXACTLY the SAME yet think they are so different from each other.

Corrymeela, in Ireland, is a community that creates space for those on opposing sides of political, religious and ideological differences to learn from each other so they can live well together.

This involves, for them, siding with some political programs and parties against others.

Whoops — the next to last sentence should have been, «Some things are obviousâ $ «if one advocates for instance something in opposition to the clear teaching of the Bible, things like that murder is good, that compassion is evil, or extramarital sex is permissible; but some other matters are less clear, such as which political party is on Godâ $ ™ s side, or whether consuming beverage alcohol in moderation is a sin.

We've been very courteous with folks on the other side of the political spectrum who approached us the same.

So if I put aside certain morons (Wengers a crook, Wengers too old, Wengers a fool) and certain political agitators who only ever write lop sided and myopic articles to try to undermine Wenger and wind up the morons (km is the most obvious), then others who make intelligent comments (there are many — both pro and anti Wenger) have in the past 2 - 3 years put the real issues in front of the owners, the board and the manager.

While one political side routinely points to massive, European - style budget cuts (known as Austerity) as the answer to our fiscal problems, others have argued that the best way to stimulate the economy is through a balanced approach which includes both cuts and revenue increases.

Little did he know that a new acquaintance that had joined us was a journalist with tendencies towards the other side of the political spectrum and a nose for gossip.

He's not the political guy who's in bed with the other side and doing deals.

Looking back, it used to be the case that political fortunes on one side of the Atlantic begat changes on the other.

Originally published January 15, 2007 In the political world, it's easy to demonize the other side.

What the left and right sides of the political spectrum have in common is the tendency to use Jews and anti-Semitism as a tool to get at each other.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

As a communication tactic, calling the other side «extremists» and «radicals,» or painting every political or legislative campaign as a struggle to «take our country back» simply works.

«On this and so many other issues, Ms. Gillibrand tries to play the political chameleon by taking all sides of an issue, but that's something voters can spot right away.

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, there is so far just one candidate — political newcomer and Bedford attorney Samar Khojasteh, who has formally announced a campaign, though others are reportedly still considering the race.

This was a considerable political victory by the strategists on the other side.

Slight quibble with «after a while people stopped caring about how true the claims were» and how that «was a considerable political victory by the strategists on the other side».

But when the issue transcends petty political rascality, and becomes a vicious war to roll back gains against corruption, corruption that has, for too long, under - developed the people, resulting in mass anguish and pains, then it is nothing but capital crime of political hue: one side must die for the other to prevail.