Sentences with phrase «between ironclad»

But author Richard Snow argues in Iron Dawn that Hampton Roads was among the most significant Civil War conflicts because it was the first sea battle between ironclad ships: the Merrimack and the Monitor.

Not exact matches

These «underclass» children had created an «ironclad link between illiteracy, disruption, truancy, exclusion and crime which we need to break», Mr Gove pledged.
I.D.C. conference leader Jeff Klein cut a deal earlier this year to align his conference with the mainline Democrats in the next session, but the deal is less than ironclad and the relationship between members of the I.D.C and mainline Democrats is fraught.
Breaking the ironclad link between residence and school attended will, proponents argue, force schools to compete for students and resources in ways that increase the quality of education provided.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.
A contrast in approaches between academic finance and FF is contained in the introduction to Brealey and Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (McGraw Hill 1991) a leading finance text, where the authors state «there are no ironclad prerequisites for reading this book except Algebra and the English language.
«Ironclad is a game of arena combat between opposing teams of massive, armored robots.
As CO2 and temperature are cointegrated, which means a virtually ironclad causal connection between the two.
And then, overnight, the USS Monitor, an ironclad herself, arrived and fought the Virginia to a draw in the world's first battle between iron - sided ships.
My first blog piece on Gelbspan's unexplained «Singer / Idso name switch» between the hardcover and paperback editions of his «The Heat is On» book told how his supposedly ironclad accusation had a significant problem from its inception.
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