The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the things they were elected to do, and the more time they will have to cross party lines and erase the divisions that pollute our national dialogue.
I had to start all the way down the divisions and that is really difficult. You might be playing well and having great performances – but nobody ever watched us.
Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
In 1996, Muhammad Ali and I co-authored a short book about bigotry and prejudice that was keyed to religious and racial divisions. To spread the message, we visited schools in a half dozen cities across the country, talking with students about the need for tolerance and understanding.
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base – essential in any successful revolution – but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
Some people actually pay bills with their win bonuses. If you don’t win, there isn’t anyone in the dressing-room smiling or joking or saying, ‘Oh, there’s always the next game.’ In those lower divisions, losing actually hurts people and affects lives.
Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.
To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.
Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions – everything.
As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within and between nations, we need to set global foundations back on track.
The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.
Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
I’ll fight in both divisions, 185 and 205. I feel good. That’s a choice for the boss, where Dana wants me to fight. It’s no problem.
You can’t work across party lines when there aren’t many of them. So I’m going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.
The Internet was supposed to bring people together, but it’s created big divisions.
One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.
Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren’t divisions of labor. Don’t have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
In addition to deep divisions on issues such as trade, climate change, Middle East peace and nuclear weapons, Trump’s attacks on leaders such as Trudeau and Merkel and disrespect for NATO and other institutions are prompting a reassessment by allied governments and publics.
There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.
Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone’s co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
The goal is just to get better and better and expand in different weight divisions and continue to be successful.
There’s always been deep divisions in this country – we had a civil war – and there’ve been regional and cultural and demographic. They’ve always been there.
My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.
Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions.
Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best ‘championship’ for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa – lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions – become professionals of a high standard.
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.
The E.U. referendum didn’t cause divisions, but it certainly did reveal them. Many people are shocked at the result, but they really shouldn’t be. What I would like to say to them is, please, don’t be afraid.
The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world’s finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions that reveal themselves in our voting.
The spread of communications technologies – social media, TV news channels – aggravates societal divisions and discord. All that online snarling is making us jittery.
We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
The apparent strategy of Pfizer is to take over AstraZeneca, dismember it, and put the different parts of it into its three new divisions, with the ultimate aim of selling off one or more.
A lot of people forget that I played for seven years in the lower divisions; it wasn’t always ‘this glittering career.’ I had to wait a long time and even in the early days at Man U, for three years we didn’t win anything.
From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case – one disputed trial – plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
In taking a very sober view of where this president is taking this country, the divisions, the catering to our adversaries, the undermining of national security interests, that I am absolutely a never-Trumper.
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