Sentences with phrase «described as a contest»

Civilization has been described as a contest between homo seriosus and homo rhetoricus and elsewhere.

In May, the UFT held a mayoral forum that one newspaper described as a contest among the candidates to «prove that they despise former Council member Eva Moskowitz even more than the UFT does.»

Not exact matches

The blind entry in the hot sauce category was described as a «nightmare in a bottle» by another of the contest judges.

And the specter of canceling or disrupting one of only eight Panthers home games — unlike, in the case of the Baltimore Orioles, canceling one of 81 home contests in the wake of Freddie Gray's tragic killing in 2015 — would be described by some as a civic crisis.

Everything you describe here screams Dez Bryant 2.0, I am not sure this would be a good fit for Dak Prescott because as we've seen hes not a risk taker, does not like to throw contested balls and is just overall a pretty poor passer at this point.

LIVE COVERAGE As always, there will be free live audio commentary of Sunday's contest here on evertonfc.com, with Blues legend Graeme Sharp joining evertontv's Darren Griffiths to describe the action.

And each such custody arrangement when contested, whether described as joint or divided, must withstand scrutiny on its terms and conditions.

Yet, instead of accepting the reality and offering redress, the UK government chose to contest the High Court ruling, a decision described by the British lawyers representing the Kenyan victims as «morally repugnant ``.

Some analysts are describing this as the most important election in the last 50 years — not including presidential contests.

That's how one of state government's best - known lobbyists described the atmosphere at the Capitol as lawmakers face what is expected to be a series of bitterly contested and highly divisive reelection battles next year in the midst of a bitter and highly divisive presidential campaign.

Beckett has already described herself as a «moron» for having nominated Corbyn in the last Labour leadership contest.

And with many more of Ukip's big beasts yet to make significant interventions, including Neil Hamilton, who Farage today described as «disgraced», it's already shaping up to be another fun contest for Westminster watchers.

Willing to describe groups other than whites in pilloried language: Mexicans as criminals, for instance, gave Trump a massive salience in the contest.

Buhari commended all the participants in what he described as «keenly - contested primary,» urging them to uphold the values and philosophy of the APC by joining hands to support Fayemi in the forthcoming elections.

«I stand by what I said yesterday, and the virus that I'm referring to is the policies and the approach of the likes of Peter Mandelson, who seem to continually push these sweeping statements that what this contest is all about is about Labour winning an election, it's all about being credible, it's all about moving back to what he describes as the centre ground of British politics.

Elsewhere in the documentary Tory grandee Sir Nicholas Soames describes Tory leadership contests as «loathsome», «ghastly» and «hideous».

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

Additionally, Cherkasky described as «destructive to our society» the «issuance of investigative reports by prosecutorial and quasi-prosecutorial» agencies that don't offer their subjects the right to contest the findings.

It followed what some described as «pressure from Accra» on the former Asokwa Constituency Chairman not to contest the incumbent Regional Chairman, Chairman Wontumi, in the forthcoming regional chairmanship position.

If the day ends without any other person picking a form to contest the chairmanship, the battle lines would be drawn for Acting National Chairman, Freddy Blay, Stephen Ntim and Alhaji Abubakari Rahman (Alhaji Short) to face off in what many have described as a competitive position.

In possibly the quote of the decade, John Major's press secretary, Tim Collins, described John Redwood's supporters in the 1995 Tory leadership contest as the «swivel - eyed barmy army, from ward eight at Broadmoor.»

Corbyn will unveil what his team is describing as his «Vision for Britain 2020» after Kinnock issued a strong warning that the «Trotskyite left and the Telegraph right» were seeking to infiltrate the leadership contest in Corbyn's favour with «malign purposes».

Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has also demanded that the EC allow her to contest the 2016 polls as the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP) following what she described as her «illegal» disqualification from the race.

MPs are facing the prospect of what one has described as «musical chairs with machetes» as they seek to find a parliamentary seat to contest in 2015.

[13] King described the contest as «one of the dirtiest..

He had not received a fair trial, he said; he would have continued to contest the charges had he not run out of resources and the will to subject his family to what he described as further pain.

He criticises the party's election rules, suggesting union levy payers should automatically be registered as party supporters, describing the 9 % turnout in last year's leadership contest as paltry.

One senator described it as a close contest between Mr. Flanagan and Senator John A. DeFrancisco, who represents the Syracuse area.

The organisation further described Umeh's action as a propaganda calculated at deceiving the general public that Ekwunife had been disqualified by the Appeal Court from contesting the senatorial election for Anambra Central district.

Diane Abbott has described as «ridiculous» a demand from a senior fellow Labour MP to halt the party's leadership contest.

How exactly does this square with even having an option on the ballot paper for taking no position on a leadership contest it described in May as «an essential opportunity for the party» to think «long and hard about how it renews and transforms itself in the years ahead»?

He said he also withdrew from the contest because of what he described as insult on the Yoruba people.

The National Democratic Party (NDP), has threatened to go back to the court over the matter, describing it as an «oppressive tactic» by the EC to ensure its presidential nominee does not contest in this year's election.

Sarwar's campaign received legal advice regarding Unite's sign - up processes, which it described as bringing the leadership contest into «serious question».

The X Prize is often described as a technology contest, but on close inspection, the winning achievements do not seem all that revolutionary, technologically speaking.

Therefore, for purposes of clarity, and to be consistent with a vocabulary used by others describing the math wars, I will use the term «educationist» to refer to those who promote the contested theory of math education known generally as discovery learning.

The following describes a photography contest for students that will be studying abroad this summer as part of the DC Public Schools Global Education department's study abroad program.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareLast week, I started hearing from writers who'd entered a contest sponsored by an outfit called Bookbzz, which describes itself thus: Bookbzz.com was designed as a simple but powerful book marketing engine to... -LSB-...]

At times, Iditarod has been described as an exciting contest of man against nature.

Rather than simply banning them from Titanfall altogether, they'll instead be allowed to continue playing, except that now they'll only be placed in games with other cheaters, in what Respawn happily described as,» the Wimbledon of aimbot contests.»

This juried contest will examine work that is musically - inspired from a preview of one of the tracks featured on this release, Archive 01: Cognitive Architecture, as well as Giorgio Gigli's artist statement describing the Forgotten Stories Archives: «In a post apocalyptic world, a squad of heroes fight to save what remains of humanity.

As I did the other day, I described the excitement surrounding an engineering contest I judged this week in which middle - school students from around the country presented their sustainable and energy - smart urban designs:

Roberston and other super PAC donors are described as «a rarefied group of millionaires and billionaires acting as kingmakers in the GOP contest, often helping to decide, with a simple transfer of money, which candidate might survive another day.»

Nigel Lawson describes the GWPF as an «all - party and non-party think - tank and a registered educational charity which, while open - minded on the contested science of global warming, is deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated.»

For some analysts, Australia's 2007 contest could rightly be described as «the world's first climate election».

He describes the person / people who released the latest batch of CRU emails as: «agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

One of my partners once described this as a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie.

In F (A child)[2013] EWCA Civ 1277, [2013] All ER (D) 295 (Oct), Black LJ highlighted the issue of lack of public funding for parents who wish to contest an application for a placement order, a situation she described as «wholly unacceptable in proceedings which may lead to the permanent severance of the relationship of parent and child».

Earlier this month Dr Christine Gill successfully contested her late mother's will on the grounds that her father — described by Judge James Allen QC as a «bully» and «domineering» — had forced her mother to leave the family's # 2.34 m Yorkshire estate to the RSPCA.

42 Firstly, with regard to the applicant's argument that the word «doughnuts» is regarded by the Spanish public as descriptive of the goods in question, the Board of Appeal addressed that argument by stating, in paragraph 18 of the contested decision, that for the average Spanish consumer (excluding those who speak English) the word «doughnuts» did not describe the goods or their qualities.