Sentences with phrase «little interest in»

Power's release made a big point that Android users had little interest in Apple CarPlay and vice-versa, as if that's news.

He added that Corvette fans show little interest in smaller engines.

Because there are so few manuals out there, many drivers who have just earned their licenses don't get exposed to them, and so they have little interest in learning how to drive them, he says.

GM told FCA to buzz off (in politer terms), saying GM's large investors had little interest in such a deal, and the idea faded away.

The American public has had historically little interest in wagons.

Dealer showed little interest in actually fixing the problem, more in getting me out of there.

That said, even an hour or two of ham - fisted efforts provide a vivid taste of what has already become a guilty pleasure for millions of car enthusiasts like us; people who otherwise have little interest in gaming.

It's designed to appeal to the new generation of «share natives» - younger people who have shown little interest in modern cars so far.

They're not a tire that allows the extermination of mosquito populations along on - ramps; they'll gives you enough slip - angle to go fast, and beyond that have little interest in keeping you out of the trees.

There was just one problem: Devin's race cars were embarrassing Porsche at Riverside International Raceway in California, and as a result Stuttgart had little interest in selling him engines.

Once again I was met with very little interest in selling to me.

«There seems to be little interest in the General Assembly to investigate, despite the fact the voucher school receives approximately two thirds of its revenues from North Carolina taxpayers,» Poston added.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners helps educators understand the cultural factors that contribute to the incorrect perception that Latino parents have little interest in engaging with their children's schools.

Some charter schools (such as Audubon Charter School and the new Lycee Francais of New Orleans) have pre-kindergarten programs that are only tuition - based, but ISL has little interest in that route, Ligon said.

At one end we struggle to engage parents who show little interest in their child's education and at the other, we can feel vulnerable and even under attack from the omnipresent eye of parents who demand high levels of involvement.

A large number of the Republican House freshmen have little interest in compromising with Obama.

... would require approval from the D.C. Council and Congress, which seems politically unlikely given a Republican - led House with little interest in helping teachers unions grow and strong bipartisan support for charter schools.

State legitimacy is present; district must comply with testing programs; little interest in other state policy, which is minimal.

Jack dad showed little interest in his son's news; not even looking up from the potatoes he was slicing.

Farm families had little interest in schooling their children, for young people needed only to watch and copy what their parents did.

The psychology community has demonstrated relatively little interest in Gardner's theory, perhaps because, in sharp contrast to the traditional IQ test, it offers no easy scale for measuring aptitude across the various intelligences.

In the four decades that Jonathan Kozol, now 70, has been writing books — 11 so far — his message has hardly wavered: minority children are unsuccessful because rich, white Americans have little interest in using their vast resources to help them.

In the context of rising tuition costs, there is too little interest in creating a less leisurely university calendar, in proposals such as requiring professors to work over the summer.

Education reformers tend to have little interest in history.

That's a method for hiring new leaders with little interest in building upon what came before.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

But how did a gearhead kid with little interest in school end up making public education the object of his philanthropy?

After nearly all states adopted the Common Core in an early rush, proponents exhibited little interest in making the case for its merits, responding to critics, or explaining what was in store.

One of the teenagers, listening to the pitch for Deeper Learning Collaborative — a consultant group that brings instructional leaders together to spread deeper learning through their school via coaching and teacher collaboration — pointed out that many systems have teachers with little interest in getting better.

Lucía (Lu for short) shows little interest in doing anything with either Dad or her 10 - year - old brother Federico (Joaquín Castiglioni).

The first half hour has the scheming zing of a better episode of Gossip Girl (a disastrous prank involving the bride's dress is shockingly callous); then you realize that Headland has little interest in exploring the obvious desperation at the root of their toxicity.

But Phoenix shows little interest in simply being the latest in a long line of Woody Allen surrogates.

2049 poses a lot of questions and has little interest in final answers, and it especially doesn't care about the Replicant Question that has haunted the universe since the 1982 original.

Queen of Katwe is a well - made and absorbing drama, but one that moviegoers unfortunately took little interest in.

He trades on his name to entertain his audience, but he has very little interest in making himself look good.

Each character, even ones I had very little interest in previously, is given a moment to define their personality.

I can generally watch Downey Jr. in anything, but I have little interest in watching either of his outings as the venerable Holmes again.

Gregory, whose casual promptings steer the conversation towards controversy and away from self - analysis, arguably holds the forthcoming Sherman back: when Sherman says he wanted to eliminate the colour red from the film, Gregory feigns little interest in artistic process, instead wanting to know why the gambit failed.

Del Toro shares his screenwriting credit with Divergent scribe Vanessa Taylor, and both show little interest in Disney - ed recourse to sublimation of strength and desire for their princess.

Since NBC seems to have little interest in comedy lately, consider this one fairly likely to end.

Cutting pages from a book and pasting them on screen may assure that fans of the novel will be pleased, but director Josh Boone displays little interest in making the film come alive beyond the words that are enacted.

But Davies, one of the leading lights of contemporary British cinema, is temperamentally incapable of doing anything ordinary, and he has little interest in advancing the reductive narrative of a troubled, reclusive genius.

It's actually a very small role, but the commissioner and, and the league is general, is shown as having very little interest in the well - being of their former and current players, which, many will point out, is factual.

Home video and cable turned Anchorman into a oft - quoted touchstone, but as recently as 2010 Paramount had little interest in making a sequel.

Consumed by his independently owned newspaper, The Daily Sentinel, James Reid (Tom Wilkenson) has little interest in parenting his only child.

As I don't travel much and I have very little interest in looking at a screen when I'm out...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings seems to think so, as he signaled that the company has little interest in continuing its dispute with the Cannes Film Festival during today's Lille Transatlantic Dialogues.

Lucas has shown very little interest in filmmaking outside his two big celebrated franchises, which will now continue without him, as he enjoys semi-retirement.

Me & Earl & the Dying Girl may be unafraid of confronting brutal realities but it has little interest in festering in sorrow and solemnity.