Sentences with phrase «most embattled»

Stefan Borson joined Quindell in August 2014 with a mandate to turn around one of the most embattled public companies in recent years.

The teacher wars: a history of America's most embattled profession.

-- Dana Goldstein, author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

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This article is adapted from Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession.

The most notable counter-example comes from Milwaukee, home of Wisconsin's largest and most embattled school district.

One of the most embattled sites of antiquity, Megiddo has another name: Armageddon, the place the book of Revelation says we will savage each other in the last days of Earth.

Nevertheless, the new boost to the Labour leader's popularity in the wake of the party conferences will be a welcome relief to Miliband, given he went into the season as the most embattled of the three leaders.

The only competition for the «most embattled person in Westminster» award this week was News Corp's own James Murdoch - or, as Tom Watson would have it, News Don Corp - leone.

Chad Johnson has been one of the most embattled receivers in the NFL.

The issue has been out for a few weeks (you have until next Monday, when copies of the April issue start to arrive, to grab a copy at the newsstand), but right now the cover image looks extra prescient, with its deeply evocative photo - illustration of the man who is suddenly the world's most embattled major CEO.

Not exact matches

April 10 - Embattled blood - testing company Theranos Inc laid off most of its remaining workforce to preserve cash and avert or at least delay bankruptcy for a few more months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

While Sony's controversial comedy The Interview is the embattled studio's most watched online film ever (complete with an $ 18 million opening weekend), piracy certainly is still alive and well.

The embattled political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica announced yesterday that it would cease most operations and file for bankruptcy amid growing legal and political scrutiny of its business practices and work for Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, the New York Times reported.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

On January 21, three bearded, robed monks from Kyiv's Monastery of the Caves, one of Russian Orthodoxy's most holy sites, unexpectedly stepped into this embattled zone.

(CNN)- One of the nation's most prominent evangelicals has entered the debate over whether Anthony Weiner will benefit from therapy, encouraging the embattled Jewish New York congressman to try Jesus instead.

After a mistake - filled first half, Washington's embattled quarterback led the most unlikely of comebacks.

But in these most abnormal of times, today's Queen's Speech went further: it set out the already embattled government's policy - making plans for the next two years, with — much as expected — a heavy focus on Brexit.

The University of Rochester and embattled professor Florian Jaeger both exercised poor judgment but ultimately followed most policies and laws regarding sexual harassment, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said in a widely anticipated report that largely vindicated the university's actions before and after the matter became public.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

The candidates, which also include Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, former federal prosecutor Sean Coffey and former state insurance superintendent Eric Dinallo, were also given the chance to weigh in on two of the parties most contentious figures: embattled Congressman Charles Rangel and disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Mayor Bill de Blasio remained one of the most prominent leaders expressing support for Silver, calling the embattled speaker a «man of integrity» last week.

If it is, they'll most likely acquit the embattled New Jersey Democrat.

Embattled California Rep. Duncan Hunter spent more in the most recent fundraising quarter on legal fees than he raised.

Most Labour MPs initially stayed silent while privately distancing themselves from their newly - elected colleague, but after a few hours Corbyn ally Richard Burgon broke ranks to support his embattled comrade.

Most public school teachers are feeling embattled these days, with public criticisms of their effectiveness and calls for tougher evaluations and promotion criteria.

Legal experts say the next few days and weeks could be the most dangerous yet for the embattled administration of Gov. David Paterson.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, hosting for the third and what they maintain was the final time, skewered Hollywood vanity, ageism and the film «The Interview,» saving their most cutting jokes for last when they laid into Bill Cosby in a bit that began with an «Into the Woods» riff («Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby») and ended with the two imitating the embattled comedian's trademark cadence.

The film actually focuses on the police themselves, going inside an «embattled urban police department struggling to rebuild trust in one of America's most violent yet promising cities.»

Pete Nicks (director), Lawrence Lerew (editor) and Linda Davis (producer) / The Oakland Police Project (U.S.A.): The Oakland Police Project takes you inside an embattled and understaffed police department struggling to improve community relations after decades of eroding trust in one of America's most violent yet promising cities.

Some eyes rolled, as most of the group knew Eva Joseph, the embattled superintendent of Albany Public Schools (APS).

«When I ask teachers to name the biggest obstacle to good teaching, the answer I most often hear is «my student»... Criticizing the client is the conventional defense in any embattled profession and these stereotypes conveniently relieve us of any responsibility for our students» problems - or their resolution.»

While most contemporary readers of this will probably remember Fisker for the embattled gasoline / electric hybrid luxury sports sedan bearing his name, Fisker's automotive career goes back much farther.

Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way.

Their work is exhibited at Eigen + Art's stand alongside painters who hark back to the German Romantic era — most notably Martin Eder, whose paintings of bloodied, embattled women dressed in armour are a comment on the tribulations of contemporary feminism; and Jörg Herold, who paints crepuscular scenes as mournful as any Caspar David Friedrich.

THE OPENING THIS MONTH OF THE 2000 BIENNIAL EXHIBITION — the latest installment of the Whitney's flagship show and the most - talked - about event on the museum's calendar — also marks a closing of sorts: that of the moderately embattled first chapter of Maxwell Anderson's tenure as director.

«The world's most high - profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is» undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today» and» a challenge humanity must confront», in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.»

In 1984 Seitz, Jastrow and Nierenberg founded the George C Marshall Institute, a Washington think tank initially devoted to defending President Ronald Reagan's embattled Strategic Defense Initiative, or «Star Wars» program, panned by most experts as unworkable and a massive waste.

Embattled spouses sometimes put their children in the middle of their dispute and abducting a child or children is arguably the most hurtful example of putting your own interests ahead of your children.

An embattled Donald Trump urgently rallied his most visible supporters to defend his attacks on a federal judge's Mexican ancestry during a conference call on Monday in which he ordered them to question the judge's credibility and impugn reporters as...

What a sad ending for the embattled Galaxy Note 7; a smartphone described by many analysts as one of the most beautifully designed devices money can buy.

I am trying to embrace the creativity of my children — pictures taped on their walls that they drew, one of their paintings flung in among other original art in the dining room and most especially their playset outside which is at various stages of «house» «fort» «mud pie factory» and «embattled ship.»