Sentences with phrase «bastion of»

King Edward VI Aston School looks like a bastion of tradition, but it's taken a radical step to become more inclusive.

Without school choice options, the current system is not the bastion of equal opportunity it is often imagined to be.

It appears our education system is the last bastion of public funded services that haven't been co-opted by the for - profit sector; sadly, not anymore.

Is the school a gleaming bastion of educational excellence, or is it tainted by mould, vermin and dust?

Education Next's Mike Petrilli talks with Gene about his experience as a school board member — and now, school board president — and whether he sees a future for this last bastion of local control.

Furthermore, Columbine was a bastion of suburban privilege; it challenged stereotypes about inner - city violence.

Maika Monroe makes for an excellent leading lady, as defiant as she is terrified, a bastion of strength in the worst of situations.

Last generation's PSP was a bastion of great music games with titles like Lumines and Project Diva — in addition to re-releases of classics like PaRappa the Rapper and Gitaroo Man.

However, Ralph Fiennes is a highlight, showcasing an effete yet vulgar bastion of hospitality, something that is clearly lost to the ravages of war and time.

Spotlight follows a special investigative department of the same name of The Boston Globe, my area's major metropolitan paper, and honestly, the last bastion of real, old school news reporting in New England.

And then yesterday we had the San Francisco Film Critics Circle (which continued the Curious Case of Bradley Cooper), and the Chicago Film Critics Association, which used to be the bastion of the great Roger Ebert.

Once a bastion of arcade gaming, Capcom's arcade business fell 6.9 % to ¥ 8.8 billion.

Underground Town, home to the dwellers, is the last bastion of humankind after what is essentially an apocalypse.

What fails about the exercise is the idea that Behrani and his family are made to be the noble image of the hard - working immigrant, that last bastion of the American Dream, and the memory of the values of a community unencumbered by a sense of entitlement.

The featurettes included are «The Journey Back to Middle - Earth», «Riddles in the Dark: Gollum's Cave», «An Unexpected Party: Bag End», «Roast Mutton: Trollshaws Forest», «Bastion of the Greenwood: Rhosgobel», «A Short Rest: Rivendell and London», «Over Hill: The Misty Mountains», «Under Hill: Goblin Town», «Out of the Frying Pan: The Forest Ledge», «Return to Hobbiton: The Shire», «The Epic of Scene 88: Strath Taieri», «The Battle of Moria: Azanulbizar», «Edge of the Wilderland: Pick - ups and the Carrock» and «Home Is Behind, the World Is Ahead».

But they're just this documentary community / production company that is the bastion of Chicago documentary filmmaking.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the Marxist literature center at Peking University, long a bastion of patriotic student activism, in Beijing on Wednesday.

A sickly twist on nuclear morals and unadulterated, thoroughly punitive obsession, National Lampoon's Vacation etched a dark twist on small town American dreams, couching the woes of extended family, the thirst for adventure and the troubles of enclosed spaces in with themes of adultery, abuse, abandonment and totally warped family values; with a corporate theme park ironically standing in as a last bastion of joy.

Ken Loach, now 80, won the Palme d'Or for the second time this year and has for the past 50 or so been an absolute bastion of quality film - making.

Mario will always trump Luigi; there is never anything «final» about Final Fantasy; and Dragon Quest will alway be a bastion of tradition in the RPG world.

And finally, the coup de grace of his career was in that bastion of character actor bliss, HBO's Deadwood where he was the rival saloon owner who was the boss of the marvelous Ricky Jay as a dealer of cards.

The bastion of modern satire, The Simpsons, was ahead of its time when it dealt with a similar situation as the new film Mr. Deeds.

Their spacious apartment is a bastion of culture, a refuge — until it becomes a prison.

For a looooooonnngg time I've sort of held up the nomenclature of «geek» as a bastion of pride for myself.

The paper, which began the decade as just another local daily with little national prominence, concluded it as an important bastion of investigative journalism.

Pitchfork, that once bastion of objective reporting actually gives this a 7.8, proclaiming it the best since «Inverted World».

By chasing after him when he pulls away, you're undermining his I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston.

Usernames on dating sites are a bastion of privacy.

One notorious line in the film Cruel Intentions refers to the email format as the last bastion of «social recluses,» and numerous other media have lampooned the process of online dating at one time or another.Needless to say, times have changed, and opinions on this subject have shifted dramatically.

«Online dating is just about the last bastion of paid content on the Web,» Yagan said.

New York About Blog Call him the guardian of American jazz: Pulitzer Prize winner Marsalis has relentlessly played, composed, and taught throughout his career, and built Jazz at Lincoln Center into a bastion of the art form.

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Trend Micro is a bastion of technological support for consumers and businesses on the web.

So Venice — while admittedly also a bastion of thoughtless tourism — united both her interest in classical culture, and her penchant for taking a political stance.

Here is a brand that has brought suburban harshness right to the centre of the fashion conversation, grabbing the zeitgeist in what was once a bastion of the caviar - eating, chateau - living, chauffeur - driven happy fews, and having a laugh in everyone's face, of course.

It comes as no surprise then, that First Lady Michelle Obama selected the designer, a bastion of inclusivity in a typically exclusive industry, to design the dress she wore for her landmark speech at the Democratic National Convention.

No way!?!?! Not by a liberal, leftist business in the liberal, leftist bastion of Jefferson County, the armpit of the eastern panhandle.

The brain remained the last bastion of the dogma that lifestyle issues don't matter when it comes to health.

So until we can actually get the policy changes to make the world a healthier place, the family has to be a bastion of protection for children in the home.

The Mandarin Oriental's Journey Into Stillness treatment uses tuning forks and acupressure points to energetically balance the body, and the encouraged digital detox makes the spa, which overlooks the bustling Strip, feel like a bastion of serenity.

KNAW's headquarters, a palatial 17th century mansion on one of Amsterdam's oldest canals, is hardly the only bastion of male power among science academies.

Creating that bastion of research excellence brick by brick, however, can be a challenge.

This is not a description of a backwater; it is the last bastion of true adventure.

Will the misbehaving muon smash a gaping hole in the bastion of particle physics?

NIH, bastion of basic biomedical research, and the beneficiary of remarkably favorable appropriations action in the last two congressional sessions, is the major winner among R&D agencies, showing a 14.4 percent increase above FY 1994.

But it is the state Senate races that will capture much of the attention among New York's political insiders since it's the last bastion of political power for state Republicans.

The backing of Diaz is somewhat unsurprising as the Bronx has been a bastion of support for the Councilwoman.