Sentences with phrase «much bigger attempt»

Those who are watching the education reform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elections.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

Not exact matches

Mark Britt of iflix says the firm's latest effort is an attempt to reach a much bigger audience by offering content for free.

I care about the life people like you are attempting to force in to this world, you care about what appeases your god - big difference when you really don't care or consider the child only what your imaginary friend god wants and yet your god cause abortions all the time... you care about a clump of cells, not the actual life of the child and that's much worse than me supporting the rights of a woman to have control over her body, especially if the clump of cells couldn't survive outside of the host.

I just don't see much danger created from his attempts on the flank, which combined with his brain dead defending has made him a pretty big disappointment.

Adds U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, whose attempt to win as many as eight gold medals figures to be one of the Games» biggest stories, «It's pretty much going to be like Fort Knox over there.»

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

I very much doubt whether the attempt by Arsene Wenger to curtail the planned protest from Arsenal fans today will have any effect, unless his ill advised decision to suggest that the Gunners» failures at home were down to the atmosphere created by the fans rather than their lack of grit, ability, spirit or tactics actually make the protest bigger and louder than it would have been.

that is the big question.How long do you want to keep on living with problems in the team without attempting to solve them.Without a doubt you and I know this and we know what we must do.You must ensure that you have the right players before talking about cohesion and injuries.As at now I look at the arsenal team and say if arsenal do nt solve their problems it will be worse and continue to haunt them.We need quality in the team as much as cohesion and staying injury free is important.Quality is however the most important.That differentiates a bigger club from a lesser club yes «quality».

Regardless of how your child navigates both the final year of high school, the transition to college and his or her first year there, you can be certain that much of what is happening is their best attempt to step into shoes that are big and unfamiliar.

However, its never - before - attempted engineering would take some time... a little too much time, and anxious astronomers sought a «quick and dirty» big telescope to span the wait.

They are mostly promoting diets, pharmaceutical creams and drugs, as well as many different dietary supplements that are not only potential dangerous but offer nothing more than a costly band - aid fix in an attempt to cover up the MUCH bigger and more serious problem.

It may simply be a case of attempting too much, and the first couple of big action moments look pretty awful, featuring some appalling examples of blue / green screen.

So while the attempt to capture Bucky may be the thing that drives Captain America to defy The Accords, there's a much bigger picture for the film.

For instance, a sexual relationship between Diana and Big Chuck (a bearded Eric Stonestreet) simply settles for a crass attempt at humor as Chuck spends much of his time stripping for Sandy after Diana convinces him that Sandy likes to watch.

When: September 21st Why: I don't remember much about the 1995 Sylvester Stallone action vehicle «Judge Dredd» other than the fact that it was terrible, but that's surely enough to raise some eyebrows regarding the latest attempt to bring the popular antihero of the British comic «2000 AD» to the big screen.

It's music video director Bille Woodruff's (Barbershop 2) first big screen attempt and the results are probably much less satisfying than the rap and R&B joints he sells on BET.

«Divergent,» on the other hand, takes a big step forward with its final theatrical trailer, a cut that finally doesn't feel like a hollow attempt at cramming in as much backstory as possible.

The humor, drama and suspense leading up to Philippe's grand attempt feel much like waiting in a long line to ride the biggest roller coaster you can imagine.

Two of the bigger problems with the some of the previous films have been either A) the filmmakers» attempt to cram too much from the books into a too brief running time — Goblet of Fire — or B) the total exclusion of necessary plot points and scenes to fit said running time — Alfonso Cuaron's Prisoner of Azkaban.

Could the once «democratic» society the Author's Guild created back in the 90's be creating a revolt against big time media companies such as Google and Amazon, have they really got true premise to contend that Google and Amazon are harming the book publishing industry much like the RIAA is attempting to do with P2P companies and their users.

I think I would use the bridge connection for email as having a larger screen and big on screen keyboard is much better than the small phone screen but for reading larger word documents or PDF files I would have to download them before attempting to read as otherwise it was just painful waiting for the pages to render.

If Bush, Jr., got smacked over his all - too - cautious attempt at Social Security reform (it would have done almost nothing, but listen to the squeals), can you imagine what true reform of a much bigger problem might entail?

While there is much that remains unknowable in financial markets, what we do know is that Graham's «big idea» — that a common stock represents a fractional ownership interest in a business and that the essence of investment is to attempt to exploit discrepancies between the intrinsic value of a business and its price in publicly traded markets — has empirically and practically worked over the long term.

- devs originally thought online global matches would be impossible - pretty much everyone at Camelot is a big Mario fan - developers made sure that every single character was well polished, including the minor ones - Nintendo was against having Boo as a playable character, since he would be unable to hold a racquet in his hands - Camelot thought his ability to disappear really gave that character a «Mario» flavor - character balancing was a challenge - if fans did not approve of something, then the developers also wouldn't - there were many failed attempts at character balancing, but things eventually came together - the way the devs picked characters for the roster went as follows:

There is a limit to how much you can use this ability in any given battle, and as a result the challenge stays alive while making the player more willing to attempt big plays.

The biggest, and probably the most obvious, is that an arcade type racing game will play more freely; simulation racing and driving games are much more structured, and literally attempt to «simulate» real racing and driving via game physics and variables for almost every part of the cars and environments.

Though it never enters true open - world territory, levels involving the jeep are much bigger than anything the series has attempted before.

Chris V. attempted to refute it @ 22:40, but his answer was much too provincial, limiting the discussion to only the U.S.. It's a big world out there, and he may be unaware that China is currently building an average of two new coal fired power plants every week, and plans to continue building at this pace until at least 2024 [source: the Economist].

The climate wars at the big end of town fascinate me as, although I lean toward the inevitability of agw, it is clear the prominent personalities on that side of the debate have destroyed much goodwill and credibility with activism and attempts to hide uncertainty.

The government's attempts to buy out up to 2000MW of coal fired generation are being frustrated because the big power stations they targeted were offered so much in compensation that they don't want to shut down.

These strategies were not radical, and they attempted to address a variety of much - brooded - about problems among the big firms, including client billing revolts, associate dissatisfaction, peripatetic partners and an unsustainable economic model.

Someone who has personality and temperament issues who doesn't admit that those are issues is a much bigger concern than someone who has issues but is aware of those issues and demonstrates a conscious attempt to work around or cope with those issues.

Far too many attorneys get caught up in renting a much bigger or nicer space than they can afford in an attempt to «keep up with the Joneses» or give off the appearance of being more successful than they are.

In addition to logging concerns, an even bigger concern is the type of VPN protocol and encryption they use (as it's much more probable a malicious third party will try and siphon up your traffic and analyze it later than they will reverse engineer your traffic in an attempt to locate you).