Sentences with phrase «feel under siege»

This is admittedly hard to do when you feel under siege, but it is possible and its effects are miraculous.

It's hard to square the surroundings with the description in the book of how an entire academic discipline has been made to feel under siege, but Mann insists that it is a given.

Russell said that CRU did feel under siege from FOIA requests.

At a time when many scientists feel under siege by proponents of intelligent design, the Dalai Lama's championing of science provoked polarized responses.

Both militant lactivists and racists feel themselves under siege even when they're not.

Restaurant owners who spoke to Fortune stood in solidarity with their immigrant employees who participated in the nationwide «Day Without Immigrants» strike, which organizers hoped would highlight their importance to the American economy and daily life at a time when they feel under siege following the election of President Donald Trump.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

Whenever someone feels under siege they look to Galileo because he was right and persistent and his critics were both wrong and egregious.

CRU feels under siege because of how THEY stonewalled.

And, for you - well, let's face it: A happy child is a lot easier to get along with and discipline than one who feels under siege.

Not exact matches

A union - driven protectionist bent against foreign carmakers made Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s feel like a keep under siege.

Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

In an interview with CNN, former GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich, who is Catholic, said that Ryan would shore up support in a Catholic community that feels it is «under siege.»

Last week, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon warned that some communities felt «swamped» and «under siege» from migrants.

It doesn't help matters that the Capitol is increasingly feeling like a small country under siege, with poor ventilation, insufficient food stocks and overflowing garbage cans.

Tony Blair felt often himself under siege from Brownites; now Mr Brown feels besieged by modernisers in return.

That feeling of decay is Americana under siege and seething, bursting at its seams with malcontents in black leather (vampires or otherwise) and at war with the only marginally less appalling authority figures.

The best example is the climax of the film, where the city is under siege and all you can think of is how much it feels like the climactic battle in The Avengers, only with half - shelled heroes.

It seems that director Mark Pellington (Arlington Road, Single Video Theory) is so concerned with establishing the look and feel of the movie that he and adapter Richard Hatem (Under Siege 2) forgot to complete the adaptation.

Slate talked to more than 50 actors, directors, playwrights, and critics to tell the story of Angels» turbulent ascension into the pantheon of great American storytelling — and to discuss the legacy of a play that feels, in an era in which gay Americans have the right to marry but still in many ways live under siege, as crucial as ever.»

Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma, edited by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Marcelo Suárez - Orozco and Utrecht University Professor Antonius C.G.M. Robben, draws on the work of anthropologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts to look at the complex, overlapping ways that societies and individuals come to grips with the traumatic effects of violence, humiliation, discrimination, and feelings of historical injustice.

Right away we begin to get the feel of a town under siege, a town where life - birth to death - must go on, despite the gathering forces jockeying for pre-eminence in what will become a bloody civil war.

Invisible walls, a lack of jumping, and the famous «impossible to scale slight incline» make players feel like they're more on a predetermined ride than traversing the ruins of a planet under siege.

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Filipe Pina, the producer of the upcoming PS3 game Under Siege at Seed Studios, feels a little bit differently.

In this role, I must repeatedly attempt to defend my family from bad guys in an unpredictable dollhouse home — I feel what it feels like to be him in his home, one in which he is repeatedly under siege.

When a lawsuit strikes, it can feel as if the office is under siege.