Sentences with phrase «leaving the rest to fend»
«They must not be the preserve of the privileged few - creaming off the best pupils while leaving the rest to fend for themselves, causing problems for and draining resources from other nearby schools.
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Mr Clegg added that free schools «must not be the preserve of the privileged few - creaming off the best pupils while leaving the rest to fend for themselves, causing problems for and draining resources from other nearby schools».
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I was put on bed rest and my poor husband was left to fend for himself.
«I am doing this for the men, women and children that have been left behind and continually see Congress and the Washington elite take care of their own needs first and leave the rest of us to fend for ourselves,» Smierciak said in the news release.
Clueless about the politics of the place and ill - served by his commanding officers, Hook is left to fend for himself in an unfamiliar, unforgiving city after a routine house search descends into a chaotic riot and he is separated from the rest of his unit.
The rest of us, with more jagged profiles or idiosyncratic strengths and weaknesses, are left to fend for ourselves,» writes Professor Howard Gardner.
«Better» students go to schools like KIPP, while the rest are left to fend for themselves.
New players are left to fend for themselves somewhat when it comes to the combo controls but the basics are intuitive and the rest will only come, as with all fighting games, with time.
The client is then left to fend for herself through the rest of the labyrinth, encountering all of the difficulties described [above].
With the exception of the poorest and most desperate civil and criminal defendants, the rest of us have largely been left to fend for ourselves in America's courts.