Sentences with phrase «over political lines»

There are cultural greens that cross over political lines perhaps unwittingly.

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, a vice-chairman on the House Financial Services Committee, has sent a blistering letter to Federal Reserve Chair Yellen telling her in no uncertain terms to stop cooperating with other central banks and insurance supervisors over global rules of conduct, at least until the new administration has given her a clear political line to follow.

The political cloud over Attorney General Jeff Sessions» decision to step back from any investigation touching the Trump campaign may have a silver lining for a law enforcement officer who appears preoccupied by violent crime, drugs and immigration.

Netanyahu's office has repeatedly denied wrongdoing over the investigations, portraying the accusations as a witch hunt against him and his family by a hostile media opposed to his hard - line political views.

On the EU side, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso must summon the political courage to carry his 28 member states over the finish line.

Because of Saudi Arabia's status as a regional political leader and an exporter of over 15 percent of the world's oil, the country's Gulf neighbors — Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — tend to fall in line with the kingdom's geopolitical arguments.

The law is thus being interpreted and applied in line with the canons of political and cultural discourse that have emerged over the last fifty years, where oppression is increasingly a psychological category and ethics is increasingly aesthetics, a matter of taste.

The Declaration of Independence points to the sovereignty of God over the collective political society itself when it refers in its opening lines to «the laws of nature and of nature's God» that stand above and judge the laws of men.

I agree 100 % the LDS church steps over the line time and time again on political actions.

Because one measure of political gerrymandering is the relative «compactness» of a districts, since complicated demographic juggling often yields boundary lines that drift all over the map.

The state representatives and state senators elected 15 months from now will preside over the rawest political act in America: the redrawing of congressional and legislative district lines based on the results of the decennial census.

Cuomo in this morning's interview insisted he wasn't concerned with political insider debate over the ballot line and instead wanted to successfully push the women's agenda next year.

He needs countless other political hacks to maybe - possibly - cross-your-fingers drag his portly ass over the finish line.

In 2014, he was still a new mayor, one who had ridden into City Hall on a hard progressive platform and a 73 percent electoral tsunami, who had installed the Council speaker of his choice and built a line of political credit with Gov. Andrew Cuomo by securing him support from liberal groups over the summer.

In 1998, 348,272 votes for Governor George E. Pataki were cast on the Conservative line, over 20,000 more than in 1994, an anomaly in political history.

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

«David... believed in constant political campaigning as the daily style of politics and in exerting control - freak discipline over his colleagues, with steady injunctions about the use of set policy lines and slogans on all public occasions, of the kind which has given a talking clock style to many politicians.»

The political editor of the Daily Mail, James Slack, has been lined up to take over as Theresa May's official spokesperson.

As CBS 2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported Wednesday, Mangano is the top dog Republican in New York State's wealthiest county, but decided to cross party lines to back Cuomo over Republican Rob Astorino.

«So you start with these corrupt political machines like Tammany Hall, and over time the problem replicates itself as the next generation figures out how things work and how much corruption will be tolerated, and so on down the line.

Some believe the coordination meetings are necessary to prepare for a possible fuel shortage over the Easter break, but others have accused the government of embracing the potential strike as useful political dividing line with Labour.

Political observers say the ability to tweak district lines is crucial to the Republicans» ability to stay in power, and they have been loath to cede any control over the process — their reform bill, which passed the Senate in March, sets in motion a constitutional change that would not take effect for a decade.

On Monday, the largest public workers union, the CSEA, suspended all political endorsements and campaign contributions over the pension package, saying lawmakers traded the retirement security of future workers in exchange for new district lines, which were also passed in the all night session.

Race is a political grouping created to support slavery and colonialism, and its boundary lines have shifted over time and across nations to suit political ends... For the last three centuries, science... has been instrumental in justifying the concept of biological races — and this century's genomic science is no different... Despite the scientific and political evidence, some scientists are attempting to modernize the myth that race is a biological category... What's new is that today's racial science claims to divide human beings into natural groups with more accurate precision and without the taint of racism.»

Entitled Shelf Life — read between the lines: a visual poem, a family portrait, a collision of mementos, this expansive and thoughtful photographic piece spans a 63 - foot wall presenting a sequence of images that poetically address increased anxieties over the current political climate.

That seems to be a fairly standard line for most any Biennial over the last decade, where artists «working in many mediums present different and contrasting wares,» with emergent themes being «subtle rather than revelatory» and the political art «usually as subtle as a hammer.»

As artists respond to the possibility of global environmental chaos, Mark Rappolt examines Tomás Saraceno's Aerocene project, one of the artist's most ambitious imaginings yet The Truth about «Cultural Appropriation» With controversies over cultural appropriation regularly in the headlines, Kenan Malikargues that trying to control what culture artists can and can not use is bad news for political interaction and artistic imagination Power in Black and White In an America where the dividing line of race is now a cultural and artistic flashpoint, Jonathan T.D. Neil searches for a path beyond both pluralism and white privilege Carol Rhodes «Rhodes's landscapes are unlocatable because they are fantastical... They are «nowhere places».»

Farmers all over the world are throwing down political and environmental battle lines over the cultivation of genetically modified (GMO) crops.

When scientific organizations claim there's a consensus, they step over the line into political advocacy.

In an interview in La Jolla, Dr. Keeling's widow, Louise, said that if her husband had lived to see the hardening of the political battle lines over climate change, he would have been dismayed.

The next challenge is to mobilise the political will to get the COP24 outcomes over the line in Katowice.

Despite a pattern of consistent, and even retroactive extensions, the uncertainty created by the political fight over extending the Production Tax Credit for wind power has caused nearly complete cessation of new wind facilities being brought on line each time the credit wasn't extended well in advance of expiration.

To make it clear that this is entirely a political witch hunt, the Times explains that «the company published extensive research over decades that largely lined up with mainstream climatology.

Germany's recent decision to shut down its nuclear power — brought about by heavy political pressure from the Greens, kingmakers in German politics - was accompanied by an undertaking to replace the resulting 20 - 25 % shortfall by bringing on line massive amounts of renewable energy over the next decade.

The ariticle referenced, while still towing the standard political line, states clearly that no matter how you look at it the temperature trend over the last decade is flat or negative - in direct contradiction to the assertions of this blog and further pointing out the incorrect stance of the blogger.

The Maltese and Montenegrin judges — whose language, incidentally, hardly gives an impression of objectivity: («the blinkered political correctness of the Borough of Islington which clearly favoured «gay rights» over fundamental human rights», «the doctrinaire line, the road of obsessive political correctness»)-- seem to have grasped at a distinction that backfires on their position.

Following Richards» opening comments, Chaffetz opened a rapid - fire line of questioning, verbally running over Richards repeatedly as he painted a picture of one Planned Parenthood organization dedicated to political work and abortions, not health care.

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