Sentences with phrase «as ironclad»

Just as an ironclad contract protects everyone involved, an ironclad resume protects you from the flaws and follies of a poorly executed job search.
The rules of a good resume are as concrete and tangible as an ironclad contract, combining an effective summary and job history with the support of searchable keywords and your education to create a complete portrait of your career in a single page.
Again: CoD on Wii stands as ironclad proof that larger install bases do not guarantee larger sales, and by your ridiculously ignorant logic, both Sony and Microsoft are ALSO better off trying to go third party and focus on mobile games, because apparently they'd make even more there than with the PS4.
New mortgage guidelines aimed at Canada's sizzling real estate market might not be as ironclad as Finance Minister Mark Carney may have hoped.
Here, Moses Crow watches Virginia and the United States government fight over school desegregation with the former represented by the CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimac) and the latter as the ironclad USS Monitor, the famous vessels that fought to a draw on March 9, 1862, in Hampton Roads.
I've said this before, but one of the problems with modern box office analysis is that it treats studio tracking numbers, which are supposed to be internal figures that can be used to adjust marketing in the run up to release, as ironclad box office predictions.
If this is accepted by the nation's editors as an ironclad law in the world of workaday reporting, how much more applicable it must be to that world which could not even exist without its own often artificial but nonetheless carefully tended rules of fair play.
For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.
And its coaches have a few unusual rules — such as an ironclad rule that no Gilman football player should ever let another Gilman boy — teammate or not — eat lunch by himself.

Not exact matches

As Instacart's U.S. rollout has proven, however, it's difficult to make ironclad predictions about who these services will appeal to most.
Here's an ironclad, take - it - to - the - bank prediction: As of Tuesday, Barack Obama will be the most popular president in U.S. history.
Mr. Stamos pushed to disclose as much as possible, while others including Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president of communications and policy, recommended not naming Russia without more ironclad evidence, said the current and former employees.
As Josh Brown said this morning, «If there were ironclad rules, we would all be following them.»
But to approach the investigation with the ironclad presupposition that God does not exist, and to maintain that as inflexibly as atheists do despite the necessity of a transcendent cause for the universe, seems a bit disingenuous.
The peace process for the Middle East must have ironclad deadlines and fixed objectives: a rapid and phased end to occupation, the complete removal of settlements, Palestinian self - determination and statehood with Jerusalem as a capital for both Palestine and Israel, and a real security framework for all nations of the region.
My failure as finance minister was due to the ironclad determination of an authoritarian EU to continue with its failed Greek economic program.
The ironclad notion that obesity leads to disease and early death is wrong: In a 2005 report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the CDC showed that people classified as overweight live longest, with the moderately obese achieving longevity comparable to that of people at «normal» weights, and acknowledged that this finding «is consistent with other results.»
As a critic who complains about painless and brainless action movies, I hoist a glass of mead to the men and maidens of Ironclad.
Director Breck Eisner has the basic feel for action movies down as he sends Dirk and wacky sidekick / homoerotic love interest Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) off in search of a lost Confederate ironclad buried in the Sahara sands.
'» And when she switches gears, the sheer absurdity of the scene isn't only funny but illuminating, carrying its own message about the arbitrary nature of nearly all edicts and absolutes as the teacher, exuding ironclad authority, walks through neat rows of obedient students while they work, pausing only to offer corrections or suggestions in the form of Dogme principles.
His ironclad routines, such as guessing secret numbers, hypnotizing patrons, and locating a stash of hidden cash in the audience, are so old school they're practically antediluvian.
John Malkovich plays a mentalist whose ironclad routines, such as guessing secret numbers and locating a stash of hidden cash in the audience, are so old school they're practically antediluvian.
Jessica Lange is really quite amazing as Babs, the sorority girl lampooned in Animal House but with depth and an ironclad sense of honour.
As a father, if I ever found out that my son or daughter was in a «prom sex pact,» I can provide an ironclad, 100 % guarantee that he / she would not be attending that prom.
As a matter of fact, with his silly haircut (yes, I know it was fitting for the time period) and his lack of a consistent English accent, he adds to the shitty mess that is Ironclad, a film that purports to tell the untold story of King John and his mad dash to reclaim power after the signing of the Magna Carta.
As Sam Adams at CriticWire notes «the problem lies in foisting one ironclad interpretation upon the film and then praising or damning it for its point of view, without acknowledging that the argument says much more about the person making it than Frozen itself.»
In terms of sheer violence, Ironclad's micro-skirmishes are just as satisfying as the epic battles in The Lord of the Rings.
March 30, 2018 • A singer of ironclad capability, creative drive and irrepressible panache, she has emerged as the breakout new talent in a formidable jazz - vocal tradition.
Contrary to the nearly ironclad custom that sees competition entries filtering through to French cinema screens in the months following the festival (with each one, no matter how lukewarm its critical reception may have been, invariably touted by its promotional campaign as «la sensation de Cannes»), Netflix supremo Ted Sarandos brazenly declared his company's impatience with the requisite three years for his productions to make their plodding way from theatrical distribution, to DVD, premium cable and even free - to - air television before being allowed to air on the platform that had funded them in the first place.
Ironclad (R for graphic violence and brief nudity) Historical epic, set in 1215, highlighting the Knights of Templar's noble defense of Rochester Castle against the onslaught of the forces of King John (Paul Giamatti) as a consequence of the tyrannical monarch's repudiation of the Magna Carta.
Much as we might wish otherwise, state empowerment is more likely, not less, with the ironclad certainty of formal federal regulation.
As per a recent article in the New York Times, «nine public school students [emphasis added as I use students loosely] are challenging California's ironclad tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructorAs per a recent article in the New York Times, «nine public school students [emphasis added as I use students loosely] are challenging California's ironclad tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructoras I use students loosely] are challenging California's ironclad tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructors.
As a reminder, plaintiffs included nine public school students (backed by some serious corporate reformer funds as per Students Matter) who challenged five California state statutes that supported the state's «ironclad [teacher] tenure system.&raquAs a reminder, plaintiffs included nine public school students (backed by some serious corporate reformer funds as per Students Matter) who challenged five California state statutes that supported the state's «ironclad [teacher] tenure system.&raquas per Students Matter) who challenged five California state statutes that supported the state's «ironclad [teacher] tenure system.»
The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.
Certainly, the big Goodyear Eagle 1 tires helped a bunch — 255/35 WR22 (99W) front, 285/35 WR22 (102W) rear — as did the ironclad vented Brembo performance brakes that stopped us consistently all day.
It seemed as though Nook lost their creative spark in 2013, and have done nothing but release lackluster products and try and make their ecosystem ironclad.
Thus those who are suspected, but have no ironclad case against them walk, which is as it should be.
(MoneyShow.com: Apr 25, 2016) MoneyShow.com contributor Jimmy Mengel recommends Dividend Aristocrats — companies that have raised their dividends consistently for long periods — as «ironclad investments in times of uncertainty in the market.»
Be prepared to lose, and lose a lot, as you get used to the many mechanics in Ironclad Tactics.
As a child playing Nintendo's expansive RPG, you weren't concerned about the graphics on display (in the days long before 1080p and 60 fps became the seemingly ironclad threshold).
He continues, «As world conditions became increasingly complicated and the war spread over the world, the Northwest artists began to question the old ironclad conceptions.
The knotted fists of each metal - worked sculpture reflects the natural light of the surroundings while the ironclad grip of the sculptures are a visual query hanging in open air as surrounding trees stand rooted in soil.
As CO2 and temperature are cointegrated, which means a virtually ironclad causal connection between the two.
Rather than saying «The IPCC predictions are ironclad», simply include them as one of the boundary condition sets (toward the low end).
Public opinion polls indicate that concern about global warming has been going down, even as the evidence (giant forest fires, drought, floods, record setting hot days etc) becomes so ironclad that it's almost a joke.
(Laughter) So the basic physics of magnetism undermined the usefulness of the ironclad vessels, even as the Confederates were stocking up on them.
«As the climate - change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad... Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree»
I'm only suggesting that Dominic Ford's simulation is not an ironclad proof of isothermal equilibrium in a gravity field, as FOMD implied.
However ironclad the interpretations those who come at such experiments as experts seem to them, there will be plausible (to others) alternate views that may hold debate for years.
(You may never see a more perfect example of hypocrisy than the climate - change movement's ironclad belief that their vast funding is one hundred percent pure and noble — even when, as Curry notes, it comes from those eeeeeevil fossil fuel companies, who donate enormous sums of money to universities and environmental groups.)
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