Sentences with phrase «smallest political lines»

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The bottom line is that every organization and institution — whether political, economic, or religious, from large corporations and entire nations to small country churches and individual households — have a «tenor» or a «way of doing things» that define, characterize, guide, and even justify the actions and attitudes of that particular structure.

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.

While it easily could be forgotten and overlooked in City affairs primarily due to its very small size, Staten Island politicians have worked across party lines to promote Staten Island's interests and political profile.

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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.

It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 % increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.

Pushing a message as frothy as this one with points scored along political lines and with an almost complete lack of syrupy sentimentality to gum up the works, the film's inevitable box - office victory (penguins are more of a sure thing nowadays than Harry Potter) is cause for celebration, in no small part because Miller is one of the few directors who deserves the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.

The disillusion was siphoned off to political thrillers of the period, leaving car chases, hot vehicles and anti-authoritarianism as key elements and adding country & western soundtracks and a small - business, individualist streak, in line with their appeal to the southern and midwest markets where these films were proving highly successful in drive - ins.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

Oxford University Press has a line of small books — each somewhere around 150 pages in length — known collectively as «Very Short Introductions» and, well, introducing you to 173 subjects, such as Engels, Atheism, Feminism, American Political Parties and Elections.