"To divide the lines" means to separate or create a distinction between different paths, ideas, or opinions.
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And while the ability to write software code is one
dividing line between most lawyers and most legal startups, I'd argue that it isn't the most important one.
There's an old myth in the credit scoring world that says the
magic dividing line is 30 percent — that if you keep your balances below that point, your scores are protected.
Race, money, religion, age, cultural heritage or chosen identity — we create so many barriers, so
many dividing lines.
He thinks he can do this because he has spent five years weighing his own ambitions, political strategy and
dividing lines against the long term national interest.
To claim something doesn't exist that is this well established and recognized across cultures, and any other kind
of dividing line you can come up with, is absurd.
In many mainline Protestant denominations, if the next generation does not find a way of establishing consensus, it may be necessary to
draw dividing lines.
Mr Simpson does warn that failure to draw
clear dividing lines between Labour and the Conservatives could spell disaster at the next general election.
Here the sharp
dividing lines on Europe and immigration may help bolster Liberal Democrat support, which will be reflected proportionately in seats.
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.
Middle school appears to be the chronological
dividing line for when African - American suspension rates escalate.
Of course, there are not always
sharp dividing lines between these three types of kale, and you can expect to find varieties that blend different features.
Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new
dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.
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campaign strategy itself, and follows fears by some that the party would run a «core vote strategy» or seek to recycle outdated past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.
Peter Mandelson today attempted to draw
new dividing lines with the Conservatives over public spending as he admitted a number of flagship government projects could be put on the back - burner as part of efforts to balance Britain's books.
Lasch had this to say: «I had better explain at the outset that I include myself in much of what I plan to say about them, not because I was born after the war but because the
real dividing line in recent American history — and this is one of the things that makes the demographical and essentially ahistorical concept of generations so treacherous — is the line between those who lived through the 1960s and those who didn't.
I am painting SW Sea Salt in living / dining / hallway / kitchen area since there is
not dividing line.
They blame the influence of Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary and Mr Brown's closest ally, who has long championed «investment versus cuts» as the
key dividing line between the two main parties.
There is no sharp
dividing line along the 2 000 km - long stretch between the east and west (1, 23).
In several works from 1972, Mr. Overstreet switches to an explosive, staccato drip technique, whose intimations of starry skies are regularly contradicted
by dividing lines or added segments of canvas, leaving us suspended between deep space and eccentric objects.
Talk to activists in Brighton and you'll realise the
old dividing lines of the 1970s don't hold as much significance to today's generation.
Today, there are no clear
dividing lines among physics, chemistry, and biology, and there is general agreement about how the physical world works.
Brexit will create new
dividing lines within the EU; the UK is already trying to bribe Poland and Hungary to help its case.
Unfortunately, the
important dividing line between liquidity loans and insolvency bailouts has disappeared under the pretense that we are going through merely a temporary downturn can recover if only the government agrees to give yet more, unlimited capital to the banks.
Book distribution is the
main dividing line between self - publishing and publishing with a traditional publisher.
Since the Jet Stream is the
major dividing line between mid latitude temperate weather systems and polar cold weather, how its gyrations are affected by external factors can have a big impact on mid to higher latitude weather.
They will see that the problem simply asks them to
divide a line segment of 1 3/4 units by a segment of 1/2 units.
It was also critical of Labour, because the passage
about dividing lines was all about Gordon Brown.
The longer
such dividing lines exist, the more difficult it is to have genuine and honest dialogue between those on opposite sides.
The pressing need to play
dividing line politics has dissipated but it seems he calculates that to maintaining credibility means sticking to a surplus timetable designed purely to put the opposition in a bind.
Writing in a pamphlet published this morning — entitled The Liberal Republic — to mark the thinktank's birthday, the Demos director, Richard Reeves, and former Blair speechwriter Phil Collins spell out their philosophy, arguing that a «Liberal line» runs through all the three main parties and is more interesting than
classic dividing lines of left and right.
Sex is one of many variable factors which combine in humans, not a
definitive dividing line between two species of persons.
Even if you've worked hard to create a gender - neutral atmosphere at your home, your young child may still see a
rigid dividing line between how boys and girls are «supposed» to act.
The next few weeks will determine whether this ends up in a vote which, at the very least, would help the Conservatives
identify dividing lines and make it a campaigning issue in the 2015 general election.
«I hate the scroungers versus strivers rhetoric that drives this stuff, and the use of legislation to try and force
artificial dividing lines,» she said.
Perhaps this is because to the extent that there is still an
ideological dividing line in UK politics, the Conservatives are one side while Labour and Lib Dems are on the other, however much Darling and Cable agree or disagree on particular points.