Sentences with phrase «hardly bastions»

Upon further inspection, this dietitian was a consultant for clients such as Coca Cola, Steak N'Shake and the National Pork Board — hardly bastions for healthy eating.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

They are, after all, hardly bastions free speech.

NPR is far from the worst news outlet, but it's hardly the bastion of high minded sophistication some of its toadier fand have made it out to be over the years.

This NPR report (hardly a bastion of conservative right - wingism) cites numerous studies; none of which establishes causation.

But to also have an article in the Daily Mail - hardly the bastion of environmental radicalism - is dynamite.

Google is hardly the bastion of privacy and other OEMs are also collecting such data and sending it to servers in China, as is the case with Huawei and ZTE.

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However, this was hardly surprising coming from that great bastion of West Country non-conformity, which elected an independent candidate as its inaugural mayor.

Nonetheless, they hardly point to anything other than a difficult general election for the party in its strongest historical bastion.

KNAW's headquarters, a palatial 17th century mansion on one of Amsterdam's oldest canals, is hardly the only bastion of male power among science academies.

So more than a decade later, when she met boisterous, charismatic Charlie Blackwell, she hardly gave him a second look: She was serious and thoughtful, and he would rather crack a joke than offer a real insight; he was the wealthy son of a bastion family of the Republican party, and she was a school librarian and registered Democrat.

That said, since I'd hardly call myself an expert at Bastion, I'm not going to pretend to be able to give you a terribly good guide for it.

The tobacco industry and their representatives are hardly renowned as a bastion of dispassionate scientific inquiry.

OK, so the Business and Media Institute is hardly likely to be a bastion of objective, detached journalism, and you are welcome to make your own minds about how low Kennedy was actually stooping with his analogy, by reading his piece for Vanity Fair on which the above report reports.

Netflix is the only other bastion of top - quality content, with BT's own BT Player lacking next - gen content, and Netflix is hardly unique: a Chromecast Ultra would do just as much, but your smart TV probably already has that app.