Sentences with word «bedfellows»

But the NSLP, established by Congress in 1946, has a dual purpose that makes strange bedfellows of farmers and school lunch programs.

A defensible e-discovery process will make strange bedfellows of attorneys and IT professionals.

Yet, at its core, IB makes an unlikely bedfellow for public schools in the age of No Child Left Behind, with the federal law's mandated focus on reading and math scores.

ARTnews May 2012 «In A Rodin / Turner Sandwich»: Tracey Emin Finds Common Ground with Two Unlikely Predecessors in an Erotic Exhibition By Elizabeth Fullerton Tracey Emin finds herself with odd bedfellows in an erotic new exhibition at Turner Contemporary, located in her childhood hometown of Margate, on the southeastern coast of England.

On the BBC's Daily Politics show, two MPs who are not natural bedfellows of the current Labour leader insisted that Wilson would be on their side:

If Mario and friends seemed like strange bedfellows with Ubisoft's nubby little rabbids, weirder still is the type of game they're starring in.

Meanwhile, confrontational Aries and evasive Scorpio do not make good bedfellows for Venus.

«The campaign to defeat the convention referendum has created some of the oddest political bedfellows in recent memory.

We talk about all of Nintendo's recent announcements, the Ace Attorney 5 trailer, Yoshitaka Amano and Nobuo Uematsu's strange new bedfellow.

Social mobility and the STEM subjects are not easy bedfellows in the UK.

For the past six months, New Democracy and PASOK have been uneasy bedfellows in a coalition government cobbled together under technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos.

Retail makes for strange bedfellows at times — and in this week's odd annals is the pair - up of putative rivals Best Buy and Amazon.

As far as words go, they are very strange bedfellows indeed.

But the proposal is raising opposition, and has brought together some unlikely bedfellows on both sides of the debate.

Silliness and sexiness are comfortable bedfellows from the outset of Bridesmaids, in which Annie (Kristen Wiig) has wild goofball sex with callous booty - call Ted (John Hamm), and is then conspicuously depicted the morning after (via a va - va - voom from - behind shot) in Victoria's Secret - skimpy underwear.

Siri on iOS just became bedfellows with a major voice assistant competitor.

Interestingly enough, however, fancy graphics tend to be poor bedfellows in the early days of PSVR.

Both of these make great bedfellows when they work, but it can be tricky to get the balance right in the middle of a firefight.

In many of Aldrich's paintings, the grand scale of Abstract Expressionism and the ensuing post-modernist takes on the genre come together as awkward bedfellows.

They are not good bedfellows when it comes to representing the interests of an electorate.

While it seems natural, presently, that the fields of art and comedy make familiar bedfellows, there wasn't as robust a conversation about this in 2007.

CNN: Strange religious bedfellows unite for letter against hotel porn A letter penned by two notable scholars — a Christian and a Muslim — and sent to a number of different hotel industry executives has asked those hotels to remove pornography from their company's in - room movie selections.

Destructoid 60 Sundered is a collection of ideas and genres that on paper blend together well but, in this case, made for uncomfortable bedfellows.

Over at WaPo, and notice the support for the idea from all kinds of different bedfellows, from progressives like myself, Darity et al, to centrists like former Clinton Treas sec» y Rubin, to Trump's chief economist!

At first sight, Rupert Murdoch and Alex Salmond do not make obvious bedfellows.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday said it was clear that the APC remained an ideologically empty movement and a special purpose vehicle put together by «egoistic strange bedfellows just for the purpose of winning political power and not for the good of Nigerians.»

But now, a week of art deluge later, and I'm more distracted by the fact that this style of work, which not only pops up in the Design District, but finds bedfellows at the Dallas Museum of Art in the Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily show, wasn't noticeably present in the more than 70 booths at last week's Dallas Art Fair.

Strange religious bedfellows unite for letter against hotel porn

Only the boards lack of ambition and fiscally ruled bedfellow relationship and admiration with him has kept him here this long.

His Brookings colleague Russ Whitehurst showed in 2009 that states with weak content standards, as judged by the American Federation of Teachers and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (not ideological bedfellows), had about the same average scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests as states with strong standards.

Interestingly, anti-intellectual fundamentalists are joined in their climate change denial with unusual bedfellows: corporate interests that stand to gain from the rejection of sound science on climate.

Technology and the public sector have rarely been happy bedfellows in the UK, where every government technology project seems doomed to arrive late, unperform and come in over budget.

It's a huge coalition, and it really illustrates the old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows because you have the New York Civil Liberties Union, some reform groups, some environmental groups, and then you have the Conservative party, gun rights groups, they're all together on this, saying that they don't want a constitutional convention.

To me, the Lib Dems and Labour are more suitable bedfellows, and the glimpse of proportional representation was enough for me to cast all other considerations to one side.

But even if love and money are not perfect bedfellows — and they're not — both are essential, to some degree, for most people's happiness.

Critics Consensus: PTSD and comedy make strangely endearing bedfellows in Barry, which proves more poignant than its sketch show premise.

Hopefully Demme's film will be a success and it will encourage industry figures not to see politics and Hollywood as incompatible bedfellows.

The harmonious comingling of life and death is the just first and weightiest of the many strange, beautiful bedfellows to be found in filmmaker Jorge R. Gutierrez's The Book of Life, as the spectacular festivities honoring the Mexican holiday Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) provide the backdrop for childhood friends Maria (Zoe Saldana), Manolo (Diego... read more

Traits that make a sports car fun on the track make for interesting bedfellows on the street.

Now, in a strange - bedfellows twist, Ms. Rhee has named Mr. Parker as the first senior fellow of Students First, the national group she formed after stepping down as chancellor last fall.

In choosing him, Obama — whose education policies have sparked backlash from a strange - bedfellows alliance of tea party conservatives and teachers unions — is choosing continuity.

Apparently, Google and Microsoft were not consenting bedfellows and made Asus cancel the... [Read more...]

The works of Wanda Koop and Josh Callaghan make for beguiling artistic bedfellows at Night Gallery.

An eye for detail and a heart that searches for connections across cultures and humanity found complimentary bedfellows when Jeanette Martone picked up a pencil.