Sentences with phrase «go by reputation»

«We don't go by reputation, we go by the evidence,» explains panel chair Adam Gamoran, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, about Culberson's assertion that Thomas Jefferson should be the sole model for NSF's study.

Going by the reputation of the Taiwan based company, it's likely to be a formidable opponent.

Going by their reputation, the Sony tablet will also be one hell of a device.

Not exact matches

This came in handy: Virgin became known as the brand that could go into sectors with troublesome reputations and shake them up by applying our values.

As years went by the airline offered powerful incentives to gain attention from travelers, which further improved their visibility and reputation.

And in terms of reputation, the anything - goes strategy seemingly suggested by some idealists is likely to be fatal to just about any charity.

If they haven't been fired by now your tirade isn't going to accomplish anything and you won't be there later to defend yourself when that person makes it their life work to poison your reputation in retaliation.

When Kalanick declined to go away quietly, as he recalled in a 2011 interview, Ovitz responded by sending an associate to approach Kalanick at a public event where he intimated that if Scour did anything to hurt Ovitz's reputation, the consequences would be dire.

We have built our reputation throughout the golf course, resort, municipal and country club industries by providing reliable, outstanding customer service that goes far beyond individual transactions.

«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

There was an aunt who, alone among the many relatives, had a reputation for selfishness, and who had kept a grown - up son as handy - man around the house but was finally persuaded by another aunt to let the son go to Labrador to take part in a philanthropic project there.

It has a reputation as one of the wildest places in Cambodia, an anything - goes town ruled by drugs, gangs, gambling and prostitution.

There his reputation as Saul goes before him, and he is treated with understandable suspicion by the followers of Jesus, whose lives he had so brutally persecuted previously.

Paul's reputation, gained by this incident, went before him.

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has built a reputation as a movie lover's oasis not only by combining food and drink service with the movie - going experience, but also introducing unique programming and high - profile, star studded special events.

Kupper goes on to say that «manufacturers can build good will and brand reputation with consumers by meeting their desire to know more about the food products they purchase and consume.»

This book has built their reputation by being the first to post lines, but if they are simply going to void bets when they rush an inaccurate line many bettors will choose to stay away.

Despite failing to impress his former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Pogba has gone on to earn himself a world - class reputation at Juve, and Red Devils supporters will certainly be excited by the apparent friendship between the midfielder and newest Old Trafford arrival Depay.

Finances in football are only going to continue rising and if the Gunners want to be able to sign players with the quality and reputation of Alexis and Ozil, then Arsenal not only need to be willing to pay the demanded figure, but we also need to put the club back on the map by winning major honours.

Despite umpteen denials by Arsene Wenger and Benzema himself all the way through summer, the story just refused to go away, with journalists and insiders seemingly putting their reputations on the line as they were SO sure that the deal was going to go through.

What other reason would a multi-millionaire have for sharing his gambling secrets with the masses, risking both his reputation and his ability to place bets by going public with a system that sports a supposed near - perfect record and is «guaranteed» to make you rich?

But if someone is going round swapping dressing room stories they're not a Gooner, they do not stick by team members, and they have damaged our reputation further.

gooner lad world class tag goes to master of their positions they are the best players in their position and they get this reputation by performing at the highest level for at least 3 seasons coquelin is massive defensively and is improving offensively vice versa for bellerin so for now let them keep their head down and work harder they both will reach that elusive list of players.

Arsenal's reputation for playing progressive, attractive football is well - deserved, and if the evidence of their performances in the Europa League is anything to go, they will be proudly maintained by the next generation of players to pull on the famous red and white shirts.

I think we will win tonight by a couple go goals but you never know... and if we do lose then wenger has no option but to go he has staked his managerial acumen and reputation on getting in to cl... this has nothing to do with loss of giroud... We are amongst the richest half dozen clubs on planet besiktas survive on a wing and a prayer and I have no idea the salary gap between wenger and bilic but obviously huge... So no excuses wenger win or resign and take the yank with you too

Well the Alex have a reputation for being a bit of a soft touch when it comes to transfer negotiations by if they let him go for any less than  # 3.5 m they are really stupid.

And against a Blackpool side loved by everybody, a team with absolutely no fear or care in the world for reputations, we must be made to go anywhere near the Merseyside underachievers.

Home secretary Alan Johnson rejected claims that Britain's extradition reputation was «going to hell in a hand cart», as he was grilled by MPs over the potential extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.

Tony Blair's reputation «bled to death in the sands of Iraq» after he unleashed «chaos» by going to war in the country, senior Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott has said.

Quizzed by Tony Wright, chairman of the public administration committee, on why he had chosen to act now, Mr Brown said that with damage to Parliament's reputation over the past year «it seemed to me that we had to reach a conclusion on where we could go».

Perhaps more worryingly for Labour, since Blair himself will be gone by the next election, the party's reputation for competence dropped sharply during the week of «Black Wednesday» and has not staged any sort of recovery.

Research suggests that by the time kids go to elementary school, they're thinking critically about their reputation.

«If you think about the way reputation works, you can get a bad reputation for being selfish, but things that don't involve a cooperative element — like signing up for a promotion offered by your utility that has no effect on others - aren't going to affect your reputation.»

By reputation, OKCupid is where you go if you want to hook up.

Some of the agencies do have the reputation of «milking «their clients by not providing a way to contact the ladies by any other means than to go through their site.

What this means to you is that by not allowing the users to go unnoticed if they break the rules your site earns a reputation for integrity which helps encourage use and popularity.

The going was rugged for a while, but by 1981 Carvey had built up enough of a reputation to earn second billing on the Mickey Rooney TV sitcom One of the Boys.

When Robin Knox - Johnston won the overall competition, Crowhurst and Nigel Tetley went head - to - head to win 5,000 pounds for the fastest voyage; Crowhurst recognized that a victory would yield scrutiny of his logbooks and unveil his deceptions to the world; he thus intended to preserve his reputation by coming in second.

Top honors were earned by Bad Reputation, a snarling, propulsive look at Joan Jett — ever going her own way, ever loving rock»n' roll.

If «The Master» is anything to go by, then it looks like his reputation is more than secure.

Lucas was preceded by his reputation as a ladies» man whose wife allegedly left him for his best friend and who had witnessed horrors like watching a pal get blown up in Iraq from a land mine and who went to Darfur and also to post-Katrina New Orleans only to conclude that he accomplished nothing.

MICHAEL BUBLE has shattered his good - guy reputation - by confessing he goes online to watch «rotten» videos of vicious fights.The clean - cut crooner...

The real Mannix was a «fixer» who made problems go away, though reports suggest his life and reputation were much darker than the fiction provided by the Coen Bros. here.

Named «the best theater ever» by Time Magazine, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has built a reputation as a movie lover's oasis not only by combining food and drink service with the movie - going experience, but also introducing unique programming and high - profile, star studded special events.

With dark, dour subject matter forcing possible rewrite by the school bureaucrats, a former student who would rather see it unproduced than see it altered to blunt its impact, and a meddling father who insists his son focus on his future instead of folly, Ms. Sinclair is going to have a heck of a time keeping it, as well as her own reputation, intact to the end.

Li makes her way from county to city, enduring one trial after another, until she decides to make her appeal in far - off Beijing, but 10 years go by, and the cases of Li's divorce and her ruined reputation have not been resolved.

The reputations of both the film and late - career Losey went into decline in Britain (if not elsewhere) by the mid-1990s — in 1994 The Independent's Anthony Quinn, typically, thought this film «overrated» and part of Losey's decline.

The tests must also be able to evaluate the validity and reliability of future questions because if the state is going to mandate the dismissal of teachers and principals based on student test results, or ruin their reputation by posting their scores in the newspaper, then it must also require that the tests be designed to stand up in court (whether or not they ultimate do stand up is still an open question).

Just by electing these three candidates to the school board, Riverside went from a county with a reputation of being hostile towards charter schools to one that is viewed as much friendlier.

they have a million ways to damage your reputation by putting false reviews if they do not get their way with you that's why most good mechanics work for themselves buy and fix cars or just go work for a local dealer, mechanic work is too hard to be doing for nothing.