Sentences with phrase «when political lines»

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.

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Do we have to passively agree when the Church teaches about subjects that cross the line into economic or political territory?

When one watches their political system get destroyed and others suffer because of a group of people's belief that is the line.

The Declaration of Independence points to the sovereignty of God over the collective political society itself when it refers in its opening lines to «the laws of nature and of nature's God» that stand above and judge the laws of men.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

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.

The site's a lot of fun for researchers and political junkies to play with, and the statistical analyses provide a nice confirmation of what an eyeball survey will often tell you right away — when district lines look funny, they probably are.

But to some critics it sounds like Mayor de Blasio was blind to the very lines one can not cross when it comes to political fundraising.

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.

perhaps along the lines of «Gordon is an autocratic little sod, who never let us have any money when he was chancellor, and is surely leading the labour party into the political wilderness for the next 20 years, so he should really do the right thing and bugger off»

«When a big item like that comes up, no matter what political affiliation, they're voting against it, you're bringing that volume of people out and jump on that Democratic line and voted right across and that's what they did,» said current Legislature Chair John Mills.

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

Three days later, the WFP «said they didn't really mean it» when political director Bill Lipton suggested the party would take her off its November ballot line if she loses the Democratic primary to Gov. Cuomo so as not to play the «spoiler.»

The move falls in line with the message Sanders had for his supporters in a June address, when he urged them to continue the «political revolution.»

These measures stand in stark contrast to the previous votes, and demonstrate that when a clear political will is evident to conduct an election in line with OSCE commitments, much can ultimately be achieved in a short time period.

Before the campaign had officially begun, Espaillat also invoked racial themes when he told an audience in Harlem that «crackers» had unfairly drawn congressional lines, and there could be a «nuclear political war» between African - Americans and Latinos if they were forced to run in the same congressional district uptown.

When he's on the line with a reporter, under ground rules that allow him to gossip freely, Cuomo is funny and acerbic, and the conversations are a fascinating window into one of the country's sharpest political brains.

Ms. Throne - Holst said she was not registered with a political party when she was elected to town office on the Democratic line.

The perception of those outside of the Party's membership is that Corbyn only took a «proper» line when dragged to it by the press, public opinion and the views of most of the world's political powers.

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).

Gibson, when push comes to shove, will hew to the Republican line — which, in the past two years, has been solely obstructive toward any progress in government, sandbagging for primarily political reasons the recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s.

As China's economic might grows, Beijing is leveraging that power to coerce foreign companies to advance its political narrative and punish them when they step out of line.

Political insiders expect James to push the WFP - labor agenda when she becomes public advocate, and possibly tangle with a Mayor de Blasio, if he takes a hard - line with unions in contract talks.

There could also be (apologies for the pun) a political silver lining to the recent flurry of corruption headlines: The unions lost a huge ally when Shelly Silver was ousted from the speakership, and his replacement, Carl Heastie, is an unknown quantity when the deal - making comes down to three men in a room.

History was made on Friday 8th September 2017, when the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar, in line with the direcrive of the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai held a stakeholders peace meeting of traditional, religious, political and youth leaders of the conflicting communities of Azuofia Edda, Okpuitumo, Ofomana in Osofon of Abakaliki Local Government Area, Ebonyi State and their counterparts in Ogorunde and Ofumuna communities in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State.

In the Town of Chester, incumbent town board members won the Republican line by a large margin — Michael G. Packer received 263 votes and Michael G. Packer won 248 votes while political newcomer Ava Ashendorff, got 107, and is knocked out for November, when Lauren Pereau joins this race as an independent.

A situation that began with Peter Mandelson creating a communications machine to respond to Thatcher's political success in the eighties has ended with party representatives often behaving like robots (and many would say we now select robots)-- and voters pick up on it when politicians robotically simply tow a party line and so they distrust us.

When plans to build North Dakota's largest transmission line in three decades were unveiled, it seemed as though the political, legal and economic stars were in alignment.

Furthermore, they have found that neural stems cells can be culled from the patient's bone marrow, thus circumventing ethical and political obstacles to neural stem cell therapy as well as problems with immune rejection that sometimes arise when researchers must employ embryonic stem cell lines.

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.

Bipartisanship was the order of the day, although all three Democrats noted how far the two sides had come since last year when sharp political divisions on an earlier version of the bill resulted in tense party - line votes in committee.

When it comes to political acceptance speeches at the Academy Awards, it's a fine line between awe - inspiring and awful, so we check in with some pros, including Barack Obama's speechwriter, about how to nail them.

Each has reasons to recommend it, but they also show signs of what happens when a show tries to be everything to everyone who upvoted it — an analogy more in line with Alpha House's political movers - and - shakers.

When Kozol asked Cuba's education minister why political propaganda filled Cuba's adult - literacy - course texts, he got the standard Marxist line: «All education has forever had a class bias.

I draw the line when businesses use political power to exclude rivals.

But one thing that I have learned in my years in animal welfare is that kindness to animals is an issue that cuts across all political, economic, social and racial lines — especially when it comes to our dog and cat animal companions.

There was a line used in a popular 1980's political sit - com that read «never believe anything until it's officially denied» and, while that line referred to the shenanigans that go on in politics, it would seem it's equally as appropriate when considering what loyalty programs and their executives have to say.

Alÿs confronts issues of globalism through Sisyphean episodes: pushing a block of ice down the streets of Mexico City until it is melted completely (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, 1997); walking the streets of São Paulo and Jerusalem with a dripping can of paint to mark national borders (The Green Line (Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic), 2005); and shoveling a mound of sand from one side of a dune to the other in Lima, Peru (When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002).

If you take the older artists in Line — Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Tom Marioni and Fred Sandback — their visual language is stripped right back; they were working when the dematerialization of the art object was the most important political act for an artist.

When the shortlist was announced in June 1997, some critics asserted that the all female line up was an act of overt political correctness in response to the 1996 all - male shortlist, which provoked fierce criticism.

Recent publications include Hopelessness Freezes Time, a study of earthworks, drawing, Detroit, urban warfare and guerrilla historiography, co-authored with artist Edgar Arceneaux (Kunstmuseum Basel, 2012); «Earth Beneath Detroit,» an essay for the catalogue Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2012); «Attitudes and Affects,» on the 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form (CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2013); «Urban Fragments» in Keith Haring: The Political Line; and «After the Production of Space,» forthcoming in Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (UC Press 2015).

When scientific organizations claim there's a consensus, they step over the line into political advocacy.

Already, when the Governors» Forests and Climate Task Force — the political body responsible for lining up a supply of REDD credits for California — gathered in Aceh, Indonesia in 2010, they were met with protests (see video at 1:25).

Must be big when Drudge gives 8 col - lines to climate: Reid: Kochs «main causes» of climate change (For Reid to say that the Koch brothers are «Not a cause, one of the main causes» shows major political desperation and and ignorance of climate and its major drivers.)

When Gore says: «There needs to be a political price for denial», read between the lines!

That said, partisanship in this debate doesn't necessarily fall along political lines: For example, when someone like Willis, who has gained some attention for his technical analysis in the «skeptical» blogosphere, posts a ranting screed attacking Muller personally.

Though there is nothing wrong with scientists being political as everyone has an opinion on political issues, the line is crossed when that political idology dictates what the scientist does in their research when it biases their data and conclutions.

But when it comes down to it, we don't care to peer into Marshall's head in search of psychological peculiarities that contribute to his political inclinations, his self - delusion, his low opinion of his fellow humans, his willingness to toe the green party line, to reinterpret cautious scientific findings as a sign of the imminent eco-Rapture, to fail to distinguish science from politics, or, indeed, his creepy habit of peering into the heads of anyone who disagrees with him.

As the records show, Exelon does not hesitate to fund front groups and aggressive political lobbying to advocate for its interests and eliminate pro-clean energy policies when those policies conflict with Exelon's bottom line.