Sentences with phrase «new schoolmaster»

The question, in Afrikaans, had the tone of a surly boy addressing the new schoolmaster.

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European banks have been preoccupied with shrinking their balance sheets and restructuring debt in preparation for a new round of stress tests at the hands of their newly empowered schoolmaster, the European Central Bank.

Now, writes his biographer, «Mann was about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.

Under the firm leadership of a handful of pastors, and a more numerous group of schoolmasters, they kept one hand on the Bible and the other on the hoe, one eye on Geneva and the other on the New Jerusalem of the heavens above.

Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent), a grotesque, half - blind schoolmaster, is willing to take Nicholas as a new teacher at his boarding school for boys.

The guide, which has been created by the NLA and supported by National Union of Teachers (NUT), National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), and ourselves, aims to help teachers and other professionals looking for a central and objective source of information about materials (books, software, new technologies and multi-sensory resources) for supporting and encouraging children's literacy.

Disguised as a peasant, she attends the village school as the smart new girl, «Pat,» and attracts friends and the attention of the handsome schoolmaster.