Sentences with phrase «much consternation at»

This is causing much consternation at NEA, but not much among young teachers.

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This includes being treated with respect and dignity, reducing conflict, improving cooperation and collaboration, and even going as far as enforcing civility (at Micrel I banned swearing, much to the consternation of the rough and rowdy semiconductor sales teams of the late twentieth century).

Schaeffer created much consternation among fellow evangelicals by threatening not to appear at the rostrum of the International Congress on World Evangelization which convened in July of 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Len Hutton, agileYorkshireman who became England's greatest living cricketer and firstprofessional captain, much to the consternation of diehard amateurs, found hisailing back too great a handicap, announced his retirement at 39.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose ongoing rift with the NYPD has caused much consternation, will be in the audience at the Empire State Convention Center today.

The expert hesitates, looks at the ceiling, crosses his arms, looks at his shoes — he appears to have no clue how he made his diagnosis, much to the consternation of the student.

At 16 Grace finds her way into a life she would have never imagined when arriving in NY from Trinidad She becomes a nanny to Ben who much to his mother's consternation, loves Grace unconditionally.

His large sepia - toned acrylic and silkscreen 1966 portrait of Marlon Brando in a scene from «The Wild One,» Lot 12, sold well over its high estimate of $ 2 million to a private collector for $ 2,642,500 (including the buyer's premium), but a small 1962 casein and pencil on canvas of a Campbell's Chicken With Rice Soup Can painting, Lot 13, that had been estimated at $ 600,000 to $ 800,000 soared to $ 1,652,500 (including the buyer's premium, much to the consternation of the determined underbidder, a woman in a black suit, high heels and wearing large earrings, who immediately got up from her seat and left with her companion after the lot was knocked down.

But as the hypocrisy continues on at an astonishingly relentless pace, you will not find much consternation among the skeptics concerning the non-Myrrrhhh wacko ideas.

Clearly the battle against the service needs to be carried on or, as a book of quotations so thoughtfully given to me at Christmas by an anonymous admirer suggests: nil carborundum illegitimi — which I keep muttering to circuit judge Kevin, much to his obvious consternation.

I don't know if this helps but I wish you much success and share your consternation at the situation we find ourselves in.

The Huffington Post reports: «At the Venice Film Festival premiere of To the Wonder — Terrence Malick «s second film to debut in the last 16 months, but only sixth since 1973 — audience members reportedly booed the romantic drama, much to the consternation of some critics in attendance.

She said it was the reason she took a couple of weeks off from filming the show for Oprah Winfrey's OWN network (a decision that caused much consternation about her unreliability at the time).