Sentences with phrase «against crescendo»

I am writing to make clear the California Charter Schools Association's position on yesterday's board action to initiate revocation proceedings against Crescendo charter schools.

The last fifteen minutes were played out against a crescendo of noise generated by the home fans around the ground.

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From the first literary strictures against Judaism in ancient and early Christian times to almost any major manifestation of anti-Jewish animus in a later epoch, a crescendo in violence has unfolded, each grade of which has promised to be the upper limit but which unfailingly paled before what followed.

Seattle showed against the Giants it remains a team that knows how to build a game to a crescendo, that it can keep tightening the noose until opponents wilt, waver and succumb.

But it will be back when the two sides meet again later in the campaign and Dave Jones must hope that it also reaches a crescendo with the opening game of next season against Premier League opposition.

This came to a crescendo in the recent loss against Manchester City where United basically played for the draw instead of attacking their city rivals» brittle backline.

The allegations of wrong - doing are groundless, but certain shadow ministers were happy to brief the right wing press to create a crescendo of opprobrium against «union barons» etc..

When Michael Foot was leader, the internal drumbeat against him reached such a crescendo the party was forced to call a press conference in the middle of the 1983 election campaign simply to confirm to voters that he was still leader.

Attacks against the «Common Core» standards, led by Tea Party activists and conservative pundits and lately joined by some teachers» unions, have reached a crescendo of distortions that put students» welfare at risk.

Then the show crescendos with a vast room of Lucian Freud paintings that leave you swimming against a tide of tired, undulating flesh.