Sentences with phrase «political dividing lines»

That can only be healthy if it provokes debate and scrambles the political dividing lines and challenges the stale tactics deployed in the endless warfare of environmental politics.

On Thursday morning, a relieved Tony Blair's plan would be to focus on the «big picture» - in particular the reform of the public services - in order to create clear political dividing lines with Michael Howard's Conservatives.

Settling the election campaign team is seen as a precursor to settling campaign strategy itself, and follows fears by some that the party would run a «core vote strategy» or seek to recycle outdated past political dividing lines between Labour investment and Tory cuts.

The febrile political atmosphere around Westminster ahead of next week's pre-budget report, as the political dividing lines of the next general election start to take shape, has seen our old friend «the snap election» back in the game, as commentators ask whether the government might now go to the country by the spring.

He had also become disenchanted with Brown's interest in constructing political dividing lines with the Tories, arguing that such politics alienate the electorate.

All this means that the political dividing lines are set more clearly than they have been in years.

The new surplus rule makes that error permanent in return for a political dividing line.

It's a rare sight — Miliband on the popular side of a political dividing line — but somehow he's clambered into place.

I don't like some of the welfare reforms in the Budget, but to make it the political dividing line is to fail to recognise the views of most people.»

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.

Not exact matches

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

Sentiment remains sharply divided along political - party lines, reflecting the deepening partisanship in Washington and growing polarization of the populace.

The problem today is social issues have become polarizing topics, often divided along political and religious lines.

Unfortunately, American Christianity seems to be divided along our political ideological lines.

This is seen most clearly in Faith and Order's emphasis on reconciling the churches and the alternative talk about «a partisan church of the poor» which would divide Christians in a new way along social and political lines.»

Political leaders understood and acted to overcome dividing lines in the EU — bigger and smaller member states, northern and southern views on trade, budgets or human rights.

Opposition forces were in the ascendant, and the proposed switching of roles with Medvedev — with the sitting president lined up as the next prime minister — divided his political allies.

Pro-Corbyn party members believe their man's politics hold the key to defeating the SNP but Davidson's success (remember, the Tories were supposed to be extinct in Scotland) has surely proved that, north of the border, political parties are divided along constitutional lines rather than left v right ideological ones.

... What the 53/47 dividing line says, to the direct contrary, is that income status is a permanent political condition, defrocking all Americans of agency and independent thought.

This fits with Brown's love for political «dividing lines».

When the tax rate was first announced back in 2009 it was a political trap for the Conservatives, a classic Brown dividing line.

Just days before lawmakers are set to vote on seven members of the board that drives state education policy, WNY delegates remain divided along political and ideological lines about who might best represent the area's students.

The debate marks a rare shared experience for a country deeply divided along political lines and fragmented in the media they consume.

With some nine months to the holding of the general elections, Nana Akufo - Addo admonished all Krobos not to pay heed to those who, whenever elections come up, seek to divide them along ethnic and political lines for electoral gain, stressing that «we are all Ghanaians and are one people».

With political parties jostling for headlines, Labour's energy price freeze is picked out as the dividing line.

«What I've done in my political life and what I am doing on the campaign is to bring disparate groups together where lines are clearly divided.

It would redraw the dividing lines in British politics, moving the political conversation on from debt to Labour's positive agenda.

A sense that Westminster has become so much about point - scoring, positioning and political dividing - lines that people and their real - life problems are completely left out.

The representative survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults finds consistent divides on this topic along political and generational lines.

Many Serbians see the new academy as part of a campaign for increased Bosniak political power in a region long troubled by civil wars and divided along ethnic and religious lines.

The responses were heavily divided along political party lines: the majority of Conservative Republicans were in favor of expanding offshore drilling (76 % in favor) and coal mining (73 % in favor) while only 26 % and 14 % of liberal Democrats supported increases in offshore drilling and coal mining, respectively.

Rich and allusive (the divides the film slowly reveals are not just along gender lines, but political and ideological ones too), this is a movie to experience rather than simply consume — baking in the heat, shivering in the cold and aching at the frustration of being lost in an environment that's hostile in every conceivable way.

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.»

Seemingly improbably, Lone Survivor can be viewed in all of these ways and thus looks set to divide audiences, perhaps along national lines, perhaps along political ones.

In other words, the current board is sharply divided along ideological lines, with members too often focused on scoring political points and talking as though they're channeling either UTLA leadership or the most rigid of reformers, rather than thinking independently to come up with rational ideas that advance the cause of sound education.

And the other great moral and political questions of the great debate on salt and iron — the need for profits, the rights and obligations of nobility, aid to the poor, the importance of a balanced budget, the appropriate tax burden, the risk of anarchy, and the dividing line between rule of law and tyranny — have all remained unresolved issues.

«I found out that it is not just political - party line and religion that divides us,» Rivera Aquino said.

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».»

This outside dynamic highlights the shortcomings of labeling and dividing lines of cultural, spiritual, and political judgment.

Alice Gaskon focuses on dividing lines, such as political borders and social barriers in her works.

I believe that for the majority of people — who are not all familiar with history and methods of science — belief or disbelief in global warming does divide strongly along political lines.

Opinion about one new approach on the horizon — solar geoengineering, which seeks to lower the Earth's temperature through broad - based changes to the atmosphere — divides strongly along political lines.

These are complex questions, the answers to which often divide down political lines.

If our political betters in Canberra don't get a grip and line up to kill the LRET very soon — in less than a decade — Australia will have created an entrenched energy underclass, dividing Australian society into energy «haves» and «have - nots».

The reason that we are having these mud wrestling contests, primarily divided along political lines rather than scientific lines, is because while the data hasn't cooperated with the premise (TOE up, down and sideways while CO2 increases monotonically), one political faction has proceeded exactly as if the «causality was settled» decades ago and, conveniently, provided justification for the political actions that have been and continue to be taken to advance its agenda while citing the «settled causality» as justification.

Dan Kahan has researched the links between social and political identities in the USA and attitudes towards many issues, climate change included, where opinions sometimes divide along political lines and sometimes don't.

Just as we've seen in political debates, sentiment around health care was clearly divided along party lines.

«It would be a great tragedy if we had our two major political parties divide on what we would call a conservative - liberal line.

Critics raise a range of concerns, with the U.S. post-9 / 11 conflicts typically Exhibit A: the line dividing «armed conflict» and not is no longer clear or stable enough to provide meaningful guidance; current definitions may compromise humanitarian interests, prospects for criminal justice or both; perhaps most important, the «armed conflict» classification no longer reflects current moral, political, or strategic sensibilities about the role of lethal force in an age in which global threats have changed.

One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday.