Sentences with phrase «partisans on both sides»

But I think partisans on both sides of the climate wars tend to exaggerate what's happening.

We are witnessing a very major policy shift, with partisans on all sides making high - octane moral noises, and yet with few people fessing up to what is really happening.

And you will find partisans on both sides — given the growing political homogeneity of large cities and rural counties — spouting the merits of local control.

Of course partisans on both sides will scream about and highlight the corruption of the other side while overlooking or minimizing the corruption of their own side.

The school choice debate has been painted in the starkest terms by partisans on both sides — especially during the contentious confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Public school activists charged that the three were part of a reform movement trying to privatize public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both sides.

At the same time, we also need voices and forums like Revkin's Dot Earth or the opinion pages of Nature magazine where critical self - reflection on strategy can take place and where there is a critical questioning of assumptions that make partisans on all sides uncomfortable.

It seemed to me that partisans on both sides of the school food debate — those in favor of healthy school meals and those wanting to blow up Obama - era «Nanny State» meddling — were equally guilty of overstating the import of changes announced by Trump's USDA.

In this style of «networked» knowledge journalism, Revkin combines his experience and authority as a veteran science journalist with the interactive tools of blogging, providing a «crosscutting discussion of science, policy and politics that challenges assumptions among partisans on all sides and widens the menu of options available to policymakers rather than narrowing them to just a few,» notes Nisbet.

The partisans on both sides, of course, have simple answers to these questions.

From the start, partisans on both sides of the aisle expected a win by New Jersey Sen. Jon Corzine (D).

Partisans on either side of the narrow Liberal centre on the issue immediately broadcast their outrage.

Nevertheless, the WRI created graphs showing U.S. emissions magically going down 17 percent by 2020 and nearly 80 percent by 2050; the New York Times duly reprinted them; and partisans on both sides of the debate tacitly agreed to pretend as if proponents» farcical claims about the bill's mandated emissions reductions were true.

It envisions a vast «American middle,» obscured by the din of partisans on both sides, filled with undecided, uncommitted, but fundamentally reasonable people who are just waiting to be spoken to in a «grown - up» way.