Sentences with phrase «where 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.

Not exact matches

The ECB is perhaps the best hope of bridging the political and economic fault lines in a union where cooperation was supposed to be the hallmark of a new Europe.

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

On top of that, political opinion pieces on Medium will be getting fact - checked, thanks to a partnership between PolitiFact and the site that will see «annotations» or in - line comments added to those pieces where factual assertions are made.

The law is thus being interpreted and applied in line with the canons of political and cultural discourse that have emerged over the last fifty years, where oppression is increasingly a psychological category and ethics is increasingly aesthetics, a matter of taste.

We must be careful and deliberate about where we draw the lines of political heresy.

Bill, my point was, which I think you understood because you ignored it, is that what is being labelled persecution of Christians, is (with the exception of missionaries who are routinely disliked because of what they do and how they behave) part of a larger political situation where religion is used as a nationalistic demarcation line.

The recent events together with their political reactions - whether justified or not - have created an atmosphere where Trumps actions stand out from the «party line».

Unfortunately for the governor, Preet Bharara apparently has a different interpretation of where the legal and political lines should be drawn.

In such a fractious political landscape where party lines are commonly blurred, voters demand clarity on certain issues.

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.

That would lay the basis for future local races for municipal, county, state legislature and congressional races where the «political revolution» can continue, with independent progressive candidates using Green ballot lines.

In a city where unions are powerful political forces to begin with, Seabrook derived unusual clout from his position at the intersection of multiple lines of influence.

All six candidates vying for the new Queens congressional seat appeared at a tame forum at the Flushing branch of the Queens Public Library Monday night, where most of the political differences were along party lines.

«We have reached a point in New York where the political fault lines are no longer Republican vs. Democrat vs. Independent,» Balboni said.

«What I've done in my political life and what I am doing on the campaign is to bring disparate groups together where lines are clearly divided.

Samaroo, an Indian American, also said a special election — where nominees on established political party lines are chosen by the organizations» executive committees — would disenfranchise the district's minorities, which his suit claimed comprise 61 percent of the Assembly district.

Yet within political circles these words inspire feelings of loathing and distrust depending on where you sit on this imaginary (and ever - changing) line.

McCarthy, the Buffalo News Political Reporter, offered some thoughts on the race in the 60th Senate District where incumbent Mark Grisanti is now running on the Independence Party line.

The Tories would say that our much - repeated line that the NHS is «not safe in their hands» became an accepted truth after the Labour spin - machine kept on repeating it (there is a «grid» where party political machines try to control the daily news agenda, which naturally can have the effect of making broadcasters want to talk about anything but the parties» news agenda).

In this unprecedented election year where political beliefs and emotions are running high, it turns out that more people than ever aren't willing to date across party lines.

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.

With a studded cast just short of the entire screen actor's guild (including Gary Oldman as Oswald), and a style that straddles the unexpectedly thin line between pseudo-documentary and political cabaret, it's easy to trace where Oliver Stone's political allegiances lie: back, and to the left.

Painted on a larger canvas, The Bourne Ultimatum poses itself as an unavoidable political allegory (what with Greengrass fresh off the triumph of United 93), lending a lot of weight to its portrait of a completely broken world where one wrong word spoken on an open line can bring the whole weight of a rogue National Security Agency down on them like a concrete gargoyle.

That's where horror has become important, a new genre lined with violent, expressive images that open up all new realms of political, sociological, and cultural discussion.

But even if separate is not inherently unequal, it quite often results in inequalities, especially where separation occurs along lines of socioeconomic status, race and political power.

Then there are the ones where the pro in question starts out by condemning — or worse — anyone who doesn't fall in line with their political beliefs.

That seems to be a fairly standard line for most any Biennial over the last decade, where artists «working in many mediums present different and contrasting wares,» with emergent themes being «subtle rather than revelatory» and the political art «usually as subtle as a hammer.»

As artists respond to the possibility of global environmental chaos, Mark Rappolt examines Tomás Saraceno's Aerocene project, one of the artist's most ambitious imaginings yet The Truth about «Cultural Appropriation» With controversies over cultural appropriation regularly in the headlines, Kenan Malikargues that trying to control what culture artists can and can not use is bad news for political interaction and artistic imagination Power in Black and White In an America where the dividing line of race is now a cultural and artistic flashpoint, Jonathan T.D. Neil searches for a path beyond both pluralism and white privilege Carol Rhodes «Rhodes's landscapes are unlocatable because they are fantastical... They are «nowhere places».»

As we head into 2018 and the further political polarization likely to accompany the mid-term USA elections, we have quite a lot of ethical searching to do in order to figure out where indeed we do stand, and what we are willing, in the face of a conservative agenda to preserve oligarchic power at all costs, to do about our most bottom - line beliefs?

Deciding where to draw this line involves political judgments as much as a scientific ones.

The little I read of the emails gave me an unsurprising picture of life in a typically political, catty, conformist office where people toe a company line.

That political line can be sustained either through constitutional provisions (critical in the US0 or by fighting at a national level where (we hope) supporters of mainstream science are a majority.

Concerning your comment «That political line can be sustained... by fighting at a national level where (we hope) supporters of mainstream science are a majority», I don't see that that's really a solution.

Dan Kahan has researched the links between social and political identities in the USA and attitudes towards many issues, climate change included, where opinions sometimes divide along political lines and sometimes don't.

Where should we draw the line of defamation in the context of highly - charged political blog flame wars?

At Biglaw, the bottom line isn't brains but earnings potential, which is why large firms will hire former congressmen and well - known political figures irrespective of where they went to law school.

With the private data of billions up for sale to not only advertisers but political organizations, where is the line drawn between Facebook engaging in capitalist enterprise and the company abusing its power of influence?