Sentences with phrase «political class lines»

Thus will the United Federation of Teachers maintain its hammerlock on the city's $ 26 billion - a-year public - school shipwreck while the political class lines up for its cut every campaign season.

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Filial allegiance is broken; class lines crossed; racial and political difference transcended.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

This is why I believe that the creation of the 99 % as a related group with global reach, superseding but not ignoring the old lines of class, race and gender, is our single greatest hope for a future political, social and economic organisation worthy of its constituents.

Paradoxically, nationalism — be it civic, ethnic, or a combination of these two — can be extremely unifying across gender, class, or even political lines, while at the same time identifying the fault line along the idea of national unity.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

Illeana Douglas, for example, has a perfectly observed role as the art teacher of Enid's summer make - up class, who has fallen for political correctness hook, line and sinker, and praises art not for what it looks like but for what it «represents.»

When Kozol asked Cuba's education minister why political propaganda filled Cuba's adult - literacy - course texts, he got the standard Marxist line: «All education has forever had a class bias.

In a chaotic and hostile election season — rupturing political parties, incessant name - calling, and growing dissention along racial and class lines — it may be tempting for educators to discourage political talk at school.

Luke Willis Thompson's practice explores sites and objects that embody a sense of historical, political or social consequence to trace the fault lines of race and class in his chosen context.

Apart from the fundamental scientific advances of the breakthrough papers, there is an hierarchy of classes of lesser papers, along the lines of those which — • Confirm or deny the main thrust of a breakthrough paper by arriving from other angles • Provide an alternative or improvement to the main findings of breakthrough papers • Contribute more observation to the breakthrough paper and discuss its relevance • Seek to set a complementary base for a breakthrough in a related aspect of science • Report the views of a clutch of authors about a topic they deem to have political importance • Ditto for educational importance • Write papers that are knowingly lacking good science to place authors in one camp or another • Lambast an author or authors for being on the «wrong» side of a polarised topic • Perform meta analysis Etc..

Moreover, high prices alone, whether due to geological depletion or plain old gouging, line the pockets of (and magnify the political power of) the energy industry and ravage the poor and middle class.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once wrote that «the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts.»