Sentences with phrase «political lines at»

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.

Not exact matches

Last, Bombardier's product lines are sensitive to macroeconomic and political environments, so recessions and terrorist attacks, for example, will at times take a toll.

Are we at at the dawn of an era where we'll consume along political lines?

As a vice-president of parent company China National Petroleum Corp. explained at an oil and gas industry conference in Calgary, the company felt it was being shut out of Canada's oilsands by political pressure from the U.S. and had lost confidence in Enbridge's ability to manage aboriginal opposition to the line.

Much of this coverage focuses too much on the political rhetoric at the expense of the people who actually perform the work of financial regulation; the ones who will be the best and last line of defense against another financial crisis.

, 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.

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Reading between the lines: what to watch for at China's most important political event South China Morning Post

Dali Yang, a Chinese - born political scientist at the University of Chicago, points out that supporting off - line retail helps preserve domestic jobs, which pleases employment - conscious Chinese government officials.

It's put him in the political firing line at times.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

It has, on the one hand, become more in line with the American way of life, while at the same time increasing its commentary and critique on specific social and political issues.

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

I take it that Christian realism accepts the fact and reality of the two realms but dedicates itself untiringly to an inquiry into political behavior at the boundary line separating the two.

At this point, concerning controverted moral issues, political manoeuvring became a major, if not the major concern of the Church, and magisterial proclamation has tended to be seen as nothing more than a slightly frustrating bottom line of what can be got away with.

If I sound cynical about the redistricting process, I have a right: my first substantive political experience was working for a member of the Texas House of Representatives during a special session devoted to redrawing those precious political lines in 1992, during which at one point I quite literally walked into a smoke - filled room.

Political pundits have wondered why such front line executives of the party at the grassroots level can be suspended when it is barely 4 months to the general elections, and also when all hands are needed on deck.

Andrew Cuomo, then running for governor in 2010, at the last minute agreed to run on the WFP's ballot line, thus saving them from spiraling into the political black hole that swallowed up the now - defunct Liberal Party.

Of course, if income inequality is much more amenable to political control than you suggest, then we clearly have some reason to be critical of New Labour's record - even while acknowledging its achievements in terms of reducing poverty and at least holding the line on inequality.

Mayer has no new job lined up, but might take yet another stab at entering the political arena herself.

In line with the growing socio - economic and political significance of immigration, Europe has seen a wide range of policy measures aiming at either halting migrants from reaching Europe or deterring them from settling in their preferred countries of destination (Gibney 2004).

My current work extends my former focus on left - wing ideologies along three lines of thought situated at the crossroads between the study of ideologies and applied political theory.

For a look at one of the real stories of the 2008 campaign, check out this NY Times article about attempts by the top Democratic presidential campaigns to cut back on the amount of money siphoned off by political consultants, bringing them more in line with their Republican opposites.

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.

McDonald was one of four Republicans who crossed party lines to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage at Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's urging in 2011, and he ended up paying a steep political price as a result.

Batra, a controversial appointee of Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, at one point asked if there was a problem with political campaigns that «launder» money through 501 (c) 4 groups, a line of questioning that was cut off by JCOPE Chairwoman Janet DiFiore, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Barron, who hopes to receive at least 50,000 votes on the Freedom Party line, establishing a new third party that will have automatic ballot status in the 2014 elections, told me the vast number of signatures he has amassed should serve as the equivilent of a political «no trespassing» sign to any of his detractors.

It can not be excluded that those structural deficiencies, instead of being considered as mere obstacles, may have been looked at by the fathers of the Euro as the opportunity to inscribe between the lines of the Maastricht Treaty an even deeper political project.

According to Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola University, «American attempts to tailor district lines for political gain stretch back to the country's very origin.»

The contentious redistricting process that changed political representation in Queens came to a close Monday when a federal judge signed off on the new congressional lines, days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo did the same at the state level.

There is no suggestion of these things at the moment but it is a line of argument that may open up were there to be political support for those sorts of activities.

Wright scoffed at that suggestion, again noting that all state lawmakers are up for re-election themselves this year, and so anyone who challenges Rangel would have to (again) put it on the line in an uphill battle against a political legend — no matter how scandal - scarred he may be.

So on one hand we have an incredibly detailed litany of rehashed innuendo regarding the minutiae of canvassing operations and supposed irregularities at the level of timesheets, with the implication that someone is cheating; while on the other hand we have a blithely cynical sketch of how two billionaires own a political party, with one of them forthrightly buying its ballot line for himself.

Akin to the saying that every cloud has a silver lining, a lecturer at the Department of History and Political Science of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology, Dr Edward Brenya, has said President John Mahama can make political gains out the imprisonment of the Montie FM coPolitical Science of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology, Dr Edward Brenya, has said President John Mahama can make political gains out the imprisonment of the Montie FM copolitical gains out the imprisonment of the Montie FM contemnors.

He has run on the Democratic and Conservative lines throughout his political career, but now also finds himself heading the New York State Democrats at the request of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

But these comedians managed to mix urgent political messages of the liberal left with crafty, irreverent punch - lines that had their audience laughing, often guiltily, at their riffs on the welfare state, immigration and Communist granola.

A declaration that the statements that Plaintiff is «managerially and administratively inept» because Plaintiff has no respect for the organisational structure of the Electoral Commission, «has poor human relations not befitting of any leader in public space», has «unilaterally transferred District Electoral Officers perceived to be pro-NPP», ``... polarized the Commission along political lines» and disunited its members out at paragraphs 11, 12, 13, 20, 21 and 26 of the petition attached to Defendant's letter conveying the petition to his Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana are defamatory of Plaintiff.

With a tight election on the line, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton will meet in just hours to face off at their first presidential debate, a battle 18 months in the making that is emerging as the most hotly anticipated moment in modern US political history.

Cutting the deficit is plainly at the front and centre of the political agenda, and it was mentioned in the first line of the speech, despite not needing a piece of legislation per se.

Agreed, that is the problem right there - though at least the sniggerers can see the obvious absurdities of relativistic liberalism, and the blind alleys one will have to walk up if one were to try and mould a political system upon such lines.

That's a fuzzy line, to be sure, but Cuomo has clearly crossed it, according to political scientist Gerald Benjamin of the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Nevertheless, to put the issue beyond doubt, and in line with our practice at the last general election, we had already started a «close» period, during which no new self - signups or member referrals to YouGov will be invited to take part in political polls.

State lawmakers are currently at work drawing up new district lines; what emerges from those sessions could have major ramifications for the Hudson Valley's political scene.

While most of the political world was still focused on Hillary's e-mails and the FBI last Friday night, an extraordinary story was unfolding in Las Vegas, where the polling place at Cardenas Market had to stay open for three extra hours to allow everyone in line during the last night of early voting to cast ballots.

At the height of his influence, Mr. Percoco, whom Mr. Cuomo had once described as his father's «third son,» was known as the governor's enforcer, responsible for everything from keeping lawmakers in line and intimidating Mr. Cuomo's political rivals to making sure chairs and thermostats were in order for the governor's public appearances.

East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito, who was not at the rally, has accused Quinn of altering the lines to curry favor with the Bronx political establishment for her run for mayor.

Political parties in New York State need at least 50,000 votes on their line for governor to maintain their position on the next cycle's ballot.

Anthony King in The British Constitution (2007), for example, considered a line of argument that briefly came to the fore during the turbulent 1970s when adversarial politics and the extremism of party political rides on the «ideological big - dipper» occurred, alleged to have led to economic stagnation, political chaos and a society at odds with itself (270).

Political activist Howie Hawkins in the coming weeks will announce he is running for governor again on the Green Party line, our colleagues at Spectrum News in Syracuse report.

Alan Crane President of the CIOB said, «Construction might not always be at the front line of making political choices but we are certainly on the front - line of implementing them.