Sentences with phrase «gamesmanship by»

Case management, which is standard practice and conducted by the arbitral tribunal that will eventually hear the merits of the case, leads to much efficiency and less gamesmanship by lawyers.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

What Duncan continually fails to acknowledge is that the underlying reason for that had to do with the gamesmanship by states that didn't make their standards and proficiency targets more - rigorous in the first place, then ramped them up just a few years before the 2014 target would come into play.

«Doing so would remove any appearance of unfair gamesmanship by the Democrats while affirming their belief that voters, and not party bosses, should be the final arbiters of elections.»

His presidential flirtation had ended very badly, with the governor claiming that budget gamesmanship by state senate Republicans was the reason he'd left a plane idling on the runway instead of flying to New Hampshire to file primary petitions.

Both officials were egged on to dismiss Mills by the home support, tired of what they viewed as gamesmanship by Forest's players.

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«Down one road — a road defined by the commission's failure to put in place meaningful open internet rules — is an internet that looks more like cable TV, one characterized by legalized discrimination, carriage disputes, gamesmanship, and content blackouts which harms consumers.

«But I think a soft hand by the CSA will enable gamesmanship.

By attacking Corbyn on student debt, the Tories have not only improved their tactics but also shown that they are prepared to resort to gamesmanship and play the man, not the ball.

New York's Republican conference remains solely in power thanks to terribly gerrymandered districts rubberstamped by Cuomo in 2012 and the IDC's gamesmanship.

Guaranteed to fan antigovernment sentiments among its audiences, Dinosaur 13 is less about paleontology than it is about prosecutorial overreach, political gamesmanship, dinosaur swindlers and true crime — if in fact crimes were even committed, and / or committed by the people accused.

Yet Desplechin's wildly discursive style calls so much attention to itself that even his heroes are overwhelmed by the aesthetic gamesmanship, left to flounder as the director skips from Leda And The Swan to breakdancing to a Hong Kong - style action sequence at a convenience store.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

He devised the story — about a Niagara Falls couple (Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos) whose young daughter is abducted and held prisoner for eight years by a foppish psychopath (Kevin Durand)-- and his screenplay, co-written with TV - movie vet David Fraser, employs his usual structural gamesmanship, leaping to and fro in time and withholding crucial details.

As written by Matt Charman and Joel & Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies is an intellectual exercise in political gamesmanship that is constantly being messed with by real people.

Nor did Duncan admit that one reason why states and districts complained about No Child's accountability and proficiency goals was because of their own gamesmanship, failing to elevate (and in some cases, deliberately lower) standards and proficiency targets more - rigorous in the first place, then moving to ramp them up just a few years before the 2014 target would come into play, aided and abetted by Duncan and his predecessors.

Considering them both to be transformative figures, Steinberg located a particularly significant moment of transition in contemporary art at large in Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing from 1953, a seminal piece of conceptual gamesmanship that the artist created by asking Willem de Kooning for an intricate layered work of ink, graphite, crayon, and charcoal and then meticulously erasing it.

The sole reason I am still targetting you though is not for the reasons «mike» put in his sadly departed comment, but because by putting on multiple personas such as Stirling English you are unhelpful to my cause (of finding out what sceptics really think) because in the back of my mind I will always be wondering whether (to use a bit of «mike» - style psychological gamesmanship) you really are just a bored and perhaps lonely man, or whether there is more to your method.

Yet to support their plans for emissions taxation Western governments, including ours, are still propagating scientifically juvenile greenhouse propaganda underpinned only by circumstantial evidence and GCM computer gamesmanship.»

With lifelong terms for the justices, the Supreme Court is rightly designed by our founders to not be as easily affected by political gamesmanship as Congress or the Executive Branch tend to be, however, as we saw with its handling of Citizens United, this current court with its 5 - 4 conservative majority is not afraid to take radical action.

In a strictly worded memorandum, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown says «tactical gamesmanship» by parties has no place in courtrooms funded by public resources.

Delays, gamesmanship, get - out - of - jail - free cards to recidivists, queue jumping by illegal immigrants, and the increasing complexity and impact that laws are having on our lives.

You'll also save your client money by avoiding gamesmanship and comeuppance while encouraging compromise and settlement.

I was particularly appalled at the blatant political gamesmanship represented by the «RiotTV» notion.

But, parties can not use the basically free public service offered by this court as a playing field for tactical gamesmanship,» he added.

Health care providers argue that lawmakers have to restore some sanity by cutting the gamesmanship that is toying with women's lives.