Sentences with phrase «much consternation for»

Google's review filter has also been the subject of much consternation for business owners.

For example, the mathematical practices, which have caused so much consternation for parents and some of our colleagues, are based on giving students opportunities to work through project - based learning, rather than simply words and numbers on a page.

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Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

The following commentary also appears on The Globe and Mailâ $ ™ s Global Exchange blog: What Obamaâ $ ™ s Corporate Tax Proposal Means for Canada Last week, there was much consternation in Canadaâ $ ™ s business press that some modest reversals of provincial corporate tax cuts and President Obamaâ $ ™ s proposed corporate tax changes could erode our competitiveness.

This has been happening for the past couple of months, much to the consternation of some looking to get rich too quickly.

Beck, possibly the least controversial musician of all time, took home a surprise Grammy for album of the year, much to the consternation of Kanye West, who was not shy about his feelings about who the award should have gone to.

I had an opportunity for a sabbatical between posts and had chosen to go to Bethel Church, much to the surprise (and even consternation) of some of my friends.

The A-list which Cameron tried to impose on his party only lasted for a brief while until it caused so much consternation among local Conservative Associations that it was abandoned.

This will cause much consternation among particle physicists and much awkwardness for the LHC's boosters.

When the summer began, there was much consternation about the lack of visible or substantive roles for women in this year's crop of films.

After the duo single out a viral video featuring a young man's violent accident in Manitoba, Wallace decides to pay the guy a visit for a segment on the show, much to the consternation of his needy girlfriend (Génesis Rodriguez).

To the consternation of much of the book industry, the online giant is again offering digital titles for less than major publishers think books are worth.

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.

As for tobacco executives, none of them did go to jail (much to the consternation of anti-tobacco fanatics), and for good reason.

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).