Sentences with phrase «political lines»

Though about 97 percent of working scientists agree that the evidence shows a warming trend caused by humans, public understanding of climate change falls along political lines.

Both men said they would make county government more «transparent» and inclusive and that they would reach across political lines to develop a consensus for moving the county forward.

All of this leads to the poignant observation that a sustainable food policy crosses political lines like no other issue.

No matter who wins, it's another sure sign of shifting political lines, in which political parties are shaped less by policy than identity.

This generation seeks a faith that is not drawn along stark political lines.

Along those same political lines, you're not going to love everyone you work with — and you'll just have to deal.

Key issues — such as teacher evaluations and student performance — cross the usual partisan political lines.

In politics, he stood out as someone that didn't just run along party political lines, rebelling against many Conservative policy positions.

In the 2012 elections, celebrities in the country were divided along political lines for the governing NDC and the opposition NPP.

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

Last summer, a group of academics organized a workshop about gerrymandering — the manipulation of political lines based on party, race or some other factor.

Second, because there probably have been other times in our history — before and immediately after the Civil War, plus the Depression and New Deal — when political lines were drawn as sharply and public rhetoric was as combatively partisan.

Avoiding being bluntly critical or channeling a particular political line of thinking, Wei created some disturbingly beautiful pieces like Purple Air and Love it!

Ackerman's district was redrawn as part of the once - a-decade redistricting process that adjusts political lines based on population changes.

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 U.S. Supreme Court has already heard a major case about political line - drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics.

All the groups — as well as Gov. Andrew Cuomo — have derided the current format for drawing political lines as little more than a system for protecting incumbents who hold the majority.

, 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.

In 2015, Jean - Marie Le Pen even told the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche that he would not vote for his daughter in 2017 if she continued with her current political line.

And while Millennials have a strong sense of fairness, believing that the burden of taxation falls too heavily on the poor and Middle Class and too lightly on the rich, opinions largely break along the expected political lines.

He adds that encountering fundamentalism on rigidly political lines is not enough; «alternatives have to be explored within the larger secular drives of neo-religious forms and philosophies» (p. 92).

Check out this very cool info - graphic breaking down America's eating habits on liberal vs. conservative political lines.

Instead of being able to make singular decisions, they find themselves members of a slow - moving legislative body where political lines are dug deep.

Senior figures from France's National Front party gathered for two - and - a-half days of talks about the party's political line last weekend.

Rice argued that political lines aside, there was no questioning that the country has a serious gun crisis, and that citizens of all political affiliations needed to band together to find a «common sense legislative solution.»

Deborah Warner, of Centerstate Corporation for Economic Opportunity agreed and pushed the point further, saying state leaders should consider setting political lines by industry influences as much as municipal ones.

Since he was appointed Supervisor of Clarkstown Gromack has been a protégé of the Conservative Party Chairman, Ed Lettre, who strives to keep Gromack in office by the use of the minor party political lines which magically appear for a couple of months at election time.

In June, 3 months after getting kicked out of the race, Mr. Babinec gained enough votes from the Reform Party (one of the smallest political lines available on the ballot) to re-enter the race.

The list shows political lines being drawn among Wyoming Republicans ahead of what could turn out to be the longest, toughest and most expensive political battle the state has ever seen.

is not ordered along left - right political lines.

A new post-election poll shows Americans (still) overwhelmingly support solar, wind, and other clean energies, crossing red - blue political lines.

Energy policy breaks down sharply along political lines at the national level, but the SolSmart program shows that solar energy can grow with help from state and local leaders.

But when it came to linking harmful climate change impacts to the need for a strong policy response, he didn't stray from the White House political line.

«Courts have been very divided on this issue; it doesn't fall neatly within political lines,» he said.

And a national poll released in January 2015 showed that 75 percent of Americans — representing all demographics — support raising the federal minimum wage to over $ 12 per hour.2 These facts demonstrate that a substantial increase in the minimum wage is needed and enjoys overwhelming support across political lines.

Breaking away from party political lines, he suggests that lessons can be learned on both the right and left of British politics from the destruction of the riots in August 2011.

When political lines are drawn and families are forced to scatter, Odenigbo (Ejiofor) and Olanna (Newton) find themselves in the middle of an escalating conflict that drives them from their university - town home and threatens Olanna's relationship with her sister, Kainene (Anika Noni Rose).

A state body made up of politicians and civilians, called the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, adjusts political lines to accommodate for population increases.

«It crosses political lines, we want to support students who haven't been born with all the advantages.

The statement also said that now that party primaries were over, Nwosu had always reiterated his position that the Foundation would continue to excel in innovation and service delivery to the people irrespective of political linings.