Sentences with phrase «gambit does»

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

The gambit doesn't work, however, since Funny Games is so obviously art - with - a-capital-A.

Kotick's online gambit doesn't make the need for consoles obsolete; in fact Activision is working with Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE), both of which sell Internet - connected systems, to ensure that Activision's web - based applications can be accessed on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

But this time, the gambit didn't work.

The gambit didn't work.

The Tyrion gambit didn't pan out the way you wanted.

But a risky screener gambit didn't pay off for Selma, which scored merely two nods of its own.

Aleksandr Kogan, a psychology professor at Cambridge University, told The Guardian how the Mechanical Turk gambit didn't limit the data collection to the people who sold out for a dollar.

Not exact matches

In a sense, getting Netanyahu to be the front guy for this dangerous gambit is yet another way that, in the end, the West really does find Israel and the Israelis expendable.

It's a bit of a strange gambit for a treaty that has a six - month escape clause for any participant; while all parties currently seem reluctant to make any hasty decisions, the idea of tearing the bandage off over five excruciating years doesn't seem to hold much appeal either:

His most amusing gambits include making sure you visibly flinch at the other side's proposals, and that at the close of a negotiation that you feel you've won, you should say something like, «Wow, you did a fantastic job negotiating that.

The Union's opening gambit in what Tusk said would at times be a «confrontational» negotiation with May's government also rammed home Brussels» insistence that while it was open to letting Britain retain some rights in the EU during a transition after 2019, it would do so only on its own terms.

The physical weakness does not make it possible for me to be as powerful as I need to be, and this makes your decision something of an understandable gambit, does it not?

Afterward he hinted that if Martin (who leads the standings) tried such a gambit again, he just might put him into the wall, but then Montoya admitted with a smile that he «would have done the same thing» had he been in Martin's position.

While Louis van Gaal may have been rebuffed with his opening gambit, it would be a surprise if the club did not formulate another offer for the 29 - year - old [Daily Mail].

It may just be an opening gambit to ensure he doesn't fall behind early, but there's a point to be made that it's not a viable strategy in the Premier League anymore.

Ah, I see what you did there: the irrefutable» minion» gambit, closely related to the» pharma shill» gambit.

If the Biafra fiasco (1967 - 1970) didn't curb land hunger, by making the East retain its best within its homeland, what guarantees a future Biafra gambit — success or failure — would?

It wouldn't be wrong to call this a political gambit, given that Cuomo offered it far too late in the session for the Legislature to act, and given, too, his steady habit of claiming control when it suits him and shirking stewardship when it doesn't.

Cameron's gambit, trying to unite politicians together against the media, didn't appear to be working.

unless you count the revelations that other Secretaries of State have been doing the same thing for quite some time and the one where Kevin McCarthy, house majority whip, admitted it is being kept going as an election gambit.

As an opening gambit, Ed Miliband's party funding proposal doesn't look too bad.

I don't think anyone is in a position to know at present whether the Prime Minister's gambit will work.

If you don't have the talent or flair for it, then all you can really do is keep it simple, memorise everything, and offer plenty of opening gambits.

What Mr. Linklater does best here is to come up with conversational gambits that have just the right fancifulness to suit this situation.

His stylistic gambit of unbroken close - up arias just has a strangely confining and laborious effect, like he's trying so hard to do something groundbreaking that he forgets to simply tell the story.

In an interview with Hey U Guys, he explained that recent comic book adaptations that stepped outside of what we normally see will help their case to do something unique and worthwhile with the gambit movie:

It's a risky and exciting gambit but using the biggest marketing stage of the year is the way to do it.

I wanted to see what this great gambit was all about, and I also didn't want to experience the FOMO of seeing other people on my twitter feed talking about the film before I got a chance to see it.

While the No Child waiver gambit hasn't exactly helped on this front, largely because they don't have the force of law that comes with legislation passed by Congress, a new version of No Child can do so if the focus is on expanding accountability.

And, for the most part, it didn't reflect well on the gambit.

The waiver gambit also failed to coax states into expanding choice and didn't push them into passing Parent Trigger laws that would allow families to take control and overhaul the failure mills in their own communities.

The fact that the gambit has resulted in 35 different accountability systems — the very thing Duncan deceptively accused No Child of doing — has led to an even bigger mess that can not be fixed easily; the evisceration of No Child has also made it easier for traditionalists and Kline to push to ditch the law altogether because the administration has all but done so for them.

Especially in light of the waiver gambit's questionable status, and the political battle over the implementation of Common Core reading and math standards (which the waiver gambit helped support), the Obama Administration can do little more than be all talk and no action.

In any case, the Obama Administration lacks much in the way of leverage against California's move (and similar steps that could be taken by other states still under No Child) because it has effectively shredded the law, both through the waiver gambit and by blessing moves by states that are, in substance, little different than what California has done.

What these reformers should do now is call upon the Obama Administration to call off the waiver gambit, fully embrace the approach to accountability put in place under No Child, and begin negotiating with congressional leaders on a reauthorization of the law as it should have done a long time ago.

Thanks to the Obama administration's own effort to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions through its waiver gambit, the president (and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan) have done more to weaken the very reform efforts centrist Democrats embrace than any opposition from traditionalist circles.

It would be great if the Obama Administration would abandon its No Child waiver gambit and enforce No Child's accountability provisions as it should have done in the first place.

Arguing that the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions (as well as the less - than - worthy accountability systems launched as part of the Obama Administration's waiver gambit) do little more than «test and punish» the NEA - AFT coalition is demanding new accountability systems that «support and improve ``, whatever that means.

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).

Whatever the case, Harkin and his colleagues don't seem like they are going to ask any hard questions about the efficacy of the process by which the Obama administration is granting the waivers, the consequences of the gambit on the systemic reforms needed to help all children get high - quality education, or whether the waiver gambit is legal in the first place.

Add in the fact that in some states — most - notably Virginia — the accountability measures, along with proficiency levels on state tests, are secondary in importance to shoddy accreditation processes, and suddenly, the waiver gambit has done little more than create even more mess.

Few senators seem concerned with the fact that the administration's gambit takes away real data on school performance (making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and making it more difficult for researchers to do their work), and lets states and mediocre districts off the hook for poorly educating black, Latino, Native and poor white and Asian kids in their care.

After all, the committee didn't invite civil rights - oriented reformers who have steadfastly criticized the waiver gambit from the beginning.

[Update: Katie Haycock of the Education Trust (which has gotten into trouble for its role in helping the administration define proficiency down as well as developing the Plessy v. Ferguson - like Cut the Gap in Half approach that is subjecting poor and minority kids to the soft bigotry of low expectations), is now going to say that she doesn't like the direction of of the administration's gambit; EdTrust has also released a report criticizing the effort thus far.]

In any case, Obama and Duncan owe our children nothing less than to do something other than continue this waiver gambit.

Media Blasters isn't exclusively a manga publisher, and they don't have a lot of books, but the ones they did license ran the gambit of genres.

They had done a similar thing with the iPhone, and with the iPad now within the gambit, Yahoo mail users can have unrestricted access to their inbox at all times.

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i didn't obtain this strategy from anybody's gambit.