Sentences with phrase «awful states of»

«Banks, who own properties through foreclosure, let homes languish in awful states of disrepair that devalue surrounding homes even though they must by law maintain these properties.

Hi, I have a lovely friend from Zimbabwe who is studying for pastor.I don't know if you are aware the awful state of his country under a dictatorship.

And few have spoken so frankly of the awful state of our politics.

Qadhafi manufactured a crisis around the issue so as to be able to «stand up to the West» and deflect criticism away from himself for the awful state of Libyan hospital care that resulted in children in Benghazi contracting HIV from contaminated blood.

The wicked irony of the situation leaves her in an awful state of mind, but she finds solace in the arms of her otherworldly android teammate Vision (Paul Bettany), who's feeling romantic butterflies in his semi-synthetic belly for the first time.

Given the truly awful state of the roads, I've had to tiptoe along or risk ripping off bodywork or dinging a wheel as the car drops into frost heaves and potholes.

«The entrainment rate is this parameter representing this really esoteric process, and it's the parameter to which the climate is most sensitive — that's an awful state of affairs!»

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For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

When I interviewed him in Nashville, he chided his gubernatorial colleagues for relying too heavily on federal stimulus money, saying, «An awful lot of states took that money and treated it as continuing money and not like one - time help.»

«An awful lot of states took that money and treated is as continuing money and not like one - time help,» he said.

After stock indices sleepwalked their way to record highs last month, blissfully oblivious to all the terrible, awful events unfolding in the world — the spread of both Ebola and the equally vile Islamic State, Russia's continued aggression toward its neighbours (remember that time Putin - backed rebels blew a passenger plane out of the sky?)

The issue of protecting the basic rights of persons from hostile or indifferent state governments was constitutionally resolved almost one hundred and fifty years ago in the Fourteenth Amendment, purchased with the blood of hundreds of thousands of American lives in the awful crucible of the Civil War.

These options were so awful as to be impossible to choose, and incidentally, we now know that c) was virtually impossible — by the time we captured Saddam, the state - of - nature chaos would have already been unleashed upon Iraqi society.

Edith Stein reminds us both of the demand of Christ and of the awful face of the state when it pretends to act in the national interest.

Atheism was declared the state religion, the conditions of things were so awful within 3 years the were essentially forced to allow the Bible back into France.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

The nonpacifist is more likely than the pacifist to believe that God participates in human conflict, using stern measures and even if necessary the awful destructiveness of war, to protect a State against its enemies and to enable a State to protect the helpless against aggression.

They highlight one awful reality of Putin's Russia — if you go against the State you'll join the cohort of detractors, and those perceived as threats, in the gulags.

That terrible awful game I had to witness alongside of my Penn State alum boyfriend.

Gangi had one last awful performance, throwing three picks against Boise State, but in the other six games of that late stretch, he had 18 TDs to three INTs.

While it's very unlikely to be as good as an Ohio State or Michigan in a given year, the odds of it beating them in a one - off championship game are not awful.

As Darwin Creek explains, «There is no way to figure the amount of poison that's put out illegally in the state of Wyoming, but it's something awful.

Arizona State was so incredibly awful at big - play prevention last year that it wrecked the scale of this chart.

Michigan and Ohio State still have to play each other and Washington has an awful OOC schedule (the committee already penalized the Huskies for in Week 2 of the rankings).

That wound up being an awful mistake and after a punt of their own, Penn State secured the ball on the Pitt 46 - yard line, where blown coverage gave up a 46 - yard strike for a touchdown.

Before people start wailing about how Inter should have kept him in order to provide Luciano Spalletti with another option in the wide areas, though, it's worth pointing out that Gabriel is not scoring these goals in the Brasileirão but in the local state championships that take place at the start of every year - and the standard in these regional leagues is awful.

spot on andy, @gunnercesc - i think no1s being critical of TV beacause he has been awesome this season and imo rosicky was awful on the post he never reacted... am saying nothing bout almunia but on sat i stated sund had 3 shots on target i was wrong they had 1... and scored.i mean no team who concedes at least 1 in every 3 attempts on their goal deserve to win a league

After so many poor results and awful performances, Arsenal are currently in that zombie - like state of trudging towards January, keeping in touch with the rest of the pack and hoping for reinforcements come then.

«As long as Republicans hold power in the State Senate, New York can't stand up to President Trump and pass laws to protect our families from the awful policies coming out of Washington,» the fundraising email states.

Take the ETS case of R (on the application of Bilal Mahmood) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, where the president laid out all the awful things he could do to those who had not shown full candour in their judicial review.

«We've been able to do an awful lot of things that we as a group feel are very important, not Republican or Democrat, but how to move the state forward and make the state more stable and do a better job for years to come,» said Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano of North Haven.

As terrible as the Senate GOP conference is on a long list of issues and despite it being something similar to a cult in how it forces it members to stay together on the most awful legislation, Republican control is still preferable to the Democrats taking over the state Senate.

If Cameron would just show that he really supports a smaller state by dropping his God awful support for the extension to state funding of political parties, there could be a glimmer of hope that Brown could be booted out.

In his press conference, Astorino blamed Governor Andrew Cuomo for a «terrible» rollout of the standards, saying that «Cuomo's Common Core has been an awful mistake in this state.»

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

It said, «As long as Republicans hold power in the State Senate, New York can't stand up to President Trump and pass laws to protect our families from the awful policies coming out of Washington.

[The IDC] is conferencing with the Republicans, and these are Republicans who have blocked an awful lot of legislation from the state senate in the past and continue to do so now.»

I look at that map, and I see an awful lot of State Senate districts awash...

With more than four million immigrants in New York State (three million in New York City), that's an awful lot of people to protect.

Granted, he's coming off a pretty awful week, but Pedro Espada did not exactly help his case this weekend, as the State Senate majority leader angrily fled the set of Channel 2's Eye of New York mid-interview when Espada — facing state and federal charges for stealing $ 14 million from his Soundview HealthCare Network — was pressed about allegations that he really lives in Westchester (as opposed to in the Bronx district he represeState Senate majority leader angrily fled the set of Channel 2's Eye of New York mid-interview when Espada — facing state and federal charges for stealing $ 14 million from his Soundview HealthCare Network — was pressed about allegations that he really lives in Westchester (as opposed to in the Bronx district he represestate and federal charges for stealing $ 14 million from his Soundview HealthCare Network — was pressed about allegations that he really lives in Westchester (as opposed to in the Bronx district he represents).

The economy is awful, the Democrats are corrupt and taxing and tolling businesses and residents out of the state at an alarming rate and the Paladino campaign's strategy to win votes by employing smears on Cuomo.

Random Thoughts: Once again, a film is able to show me how awful war is, especially the current state of it.

Everything about xXx: State of the Union is awful, from its stupid prologue on some dairy farm to its stupid epilogue, in which another sequel is set up in as many words.

Making things even stickier, his brother, Billy (Benedict Cumberbatch, struggling with an awful Boston accent), is one of the most prominent politicians in the state.

In these tasks he is aided by an unlikely trio: the No - Maj Kowalski; Porpentina «Tina» Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), a sympathetic investigator for the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA, which whether or not by coincidence is pronounced an awful lot like «yakuza»); and her kind but flighty sister, Queenie (Alison Sudol).

«It's an awful lot to try to get accomplished in the short amount of time that is left,» John Barge, Georgia's state school superintendent, said at the time.

One study, by Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution, predicted that the standards would have little or no effect on academic achievement; he noted that «from 2003 to 2009, states with terrific standards raised their National Assessment of Educational Progress scores by roughly the same margin as states with awful ones.»

The effect of charter school choices «depends an awful lot on the details of the regulations» set by states, says Richard Murnane, an economist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Mass..

In our most recent review of state science standards, published just a year ago, the Fordham team determined that the clarity, content, and rigor of most state K — 12 science standards were mediocre to awful.

Not only will this put in place an awful evaluation system that we oppose for the reasons stated in our letter, it is also an affront at collective bargaining and our ability as educators to have meaningful input into the governance of our schools.