Sentences with phrase «in the hostile environment of»

Frederick Hess and Chester Finn charge that those entrepreneurs who succeed in the hostile environment of public education do so by compromising and accommodating in order to win friends and allies in the locales that comprise their markets.

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So if a guy living inside a giant, high - tech tin can floating in the most hostile environment imaginable for a year can find the funny in his everyday life, certainly most of us can do the same despite our mundane professional challenges and personal annoyances.

SoFi is only the latest in a string of Silicon Valley companies facing accusation of sexual harassment and hostile work environments.

In the past, models and celebrities who worked with the photographer accused him of creating a sexually hostile environment on set, encouraging provocative poses, and sexual assault and harassment, according to a comprehensive list of the allegations leveraged against Richardson compiled by Complex.

In many cases, a lack of diversity can create an unintentionally hostile environment for those who feel like they don't fit iIn many cases, a lack of diversity can create an unintentionally hostile environment for those who feel like they don't fit inin.

A 2015 report from researchers at Kent State University and the University of Texas at Tyler found that the «prevalence of male norms in the male - dominated environment may result in a more hostile workplace for women who are perceived by men as violators of the gender norms.»

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

Canadian businesses, FINTRAC and police and national security agencies all have a role to play in creating a hostile environment for those who seek to abuse our financial system or threaten the safety of Canadians.

The Crash of 1987 came on the heels of a spectacular stock bull market that started in 1982 that was fueled by a supercharged business environment that included hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts and merger mania.

At present, we continue to identify one of the most hostile market environments we've observed in a century of historical data, not only because obscene valuations and extreme «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes are in place, but also because our measures of market internals remain in a deteriorating condition.

An environment of compressed risk premiums coupled with increasing risk - aversion is without question the most hostile set of features one can identify in the historical record.

Sources who have seen parts of it said the report chronicles an aggressive and fast - growing startup, resulting in a frequently chaotic and «hostile work environment» without adequate systems in place to ensure that violations such as sexual harassment and retaliatory behavior were dealt with professionally.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

«In a hostile environment, we're going to do everything we can do within the parameters of the law to ensure our freedom to continue to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, protect and defend the sanctity of life, help couples with their marriages, help parents raise their children, and find forever homes for orphaned children,» he said.

Collectively, we were able to withstand the school's administrators, its lawyer, and a good portion of the parent community calling us bigots in the media, censoring our comments to the school board, and accusing us of creating a «hostile environment.»

Having learned to survive in a sometimes hostile environment, many gays and lesbians have learned to take control of their lives, and they don't want to be dependent on others.

Though Mariz recognizes a great diversity among Pentecostal denominations, and admits that some of the criticisms are valid, she thinks that even neo-Pentecostals and autonomous Pentecostal groups often provide the poor with experiences and values that help them confront their daily problems and survive in a hostile neo-capitalist environment.

You can not be a Christian in a hostile environment like that and not know that your life is forfeit at any time, and no Christian who has a clear idea of what is at stake will ever recant their beliefs.

Attempting to redress such problems all too often simply compounds the difficulties of certain groups, and even of entire populations, in their efforts to maintain or improve their standards of living in the face of a hostile political or economic environment.

Their churches exist not in the context of Christendom but in a «hostile» environment.

Both Yehoshua were just expressing the prerogatives of kings and priests: Exodus 19:6 The first by securing a first step of sanctification by the slaughter of even innocent victims, and the second by bringing salvation to a great number in a less hostile environment.

You were in a hostile environment in which lots of people thought you were just getting your just deserts.

He had no money, no arms, no military experience; he had no formal schooling, and he lived in an environment of anarchy and cruelty under an aggressive and hostile government.

Not only must churches assume more of the teaching once performed by other institutions, but they must do so in the face of an increasingly hostile and seductive environment.

But more generally, Postman is worried about why young people «turn away from civilized speech,» and in his view, the right answer is that «the electronic information environment, with television at its center, is fundamentally hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression, so that both writing and speech must lose some of their power» (TCA 74).

Daniel, along with his three friends, set a brave example of living for God in a hostile environment.

They're about the pursuit of their own happiness in what is, by nature, a pretty hostile environment.

When Survivor was initially proposed, I thought it sounded fascinating: A group of people isolated in a hostile environment, learning to survive together.

It represents the Irish people struggling up in a hostile environment, using the Roman system of authoritative power to compensate for an inner sense of insecurity which still seems to survive from the days when Irish Catholics were a despised immigrant minority.

A hostile environment awaits in Memphis, where the Grizzlies will try to hold serve on their home court and build off of their improved effort in the last game.

Does he have a role in — or knowledge of — this hostile work environment?

What do u expect when we have the most patheticc fans in d history of football, all they know is to insult every player that wears d shirt, no English winger presently has scored more goals than Walcott yet he's always an idiot, their latest target now is xhaka, soon will stop being adventurous to avoid mistakes and start playing side ways and back passes bcos of fans abuse, giroud donkey, ozil has more assists, hss created more Chances, has made completed more passes in d final 3rd, has made more successful crosses than any other player in d league since he came to arsenal, yet they will always call him lazy, its ridiculous we v decended to this sorry state, no player will flourish in a hostile environment like ours,

Ten months later Cox sued the NFL for undisclosed damages for forcing him to play in a racially hostile environment; the sides eventually settled out of court, with the league paying Cox's legal fees.

5 teenagers got minutes and yeah we did nt play well but the goal was out of this world and we got 3 points in a hostile environment..

Pepper also found examples of actions by University administrators that directly discouraged complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes, or that contributed to or accommodated a hostile environment.

Based on a high - level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012 - 2013 through 2014 - 2015, Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.

Even bigger names at the Bernabeu have been shown the door in recent times, with the likes of Mesut Ozil and Angel Di Maria not surviving the chop in the incredibly hostile and expectant environment of the Spanish capital; with Bale becoming such a scapegoat this season for failing to do it in the big games, he is surely one of the first on the list to be sent on his way.

It was the fact that the save came in the 28th minute of a Concacaf Champions League semi-final in one of the continent's most hostile environments.

They are a tremendous team but had a light squad, played in a hostile environment yet held their nerve, shape and sense of purpose.

However he seems to have come to terms with playing in hostile environments while retaining a level of composure.

A series of unpopular decisions has added to the hostile environment surrounding the Hammers, with fans clearly unhappy at the direction in which the club is heading.

This morning as I watched the news, it occurred to me that a blitz of mail would lift the spirits of those serving in the Middle East, 8,000 miles from home in a hot and hostile environment.

The camp experience offers a nurturing environment away from the distractions and, in some cases, the hostile environment of the city.

The parents of a young Brooklyn boy who dresses like a girl filed a lawsuit last week with the NYC Commission on Human Rights that says Public School 107 in Park Slope created a hostile environment for their son, in violation of his rights.

New laws passed in 2016 restricted access to banking, ID, and expanded stop, search and seizure powers; NGOs and activists started to challenge parts of the hostile environment; and the media started reporting the effects on everyday lives — something Politics.co.uk has been at the forefront of.

It is the only way that the rights of the Windrush migrants, and everyone else who may unwittingly be caught up in Theresa May's hostile environment, can be protected.

The report goes on to say that the government has no targets in place against which to measure the effectiveness of the «hostile environment».

The impact of Theresa May's «hostile environment» for undocumented migrants is particularly visible in healthcare.

«Of the 40 reports that I have produced since I have been doing this, the one that has caused me the most irritation was the report into the hostile environment and the response that I got from the department, where I believe they do need to do more to understand the effects of the provisions that have been brought in through the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts and to be able to give an account of the effectiveness of those measures, or not,» he saiOf the 40 reports that I have produced since I have been doing this, the one that has caused me the most irritation was the report into the hostile environment and the response that I got from the department, where I believe they do need to do more to understand the effects of the provisions that have been brought in through the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts and to be able to give an account of the effectiveness of those measures, or not,» he saiof the provisions that have been brought in through the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts and to be able to give an account of the effectiveness of those measures, or not,» he saiof the effectiveness of those measures, or not,» he saiof those measures, or not,» he said.

Those of us who aren't in regular interaction with the Home Office might find it hard to believe that «hostile environment» isn't a campaigner's term.