Sentences with word «nonstarter»

But the notion of paying teachers on the basis of their ability to improve test scores, often termed «merit pay,» while earnestly debated by education policy researchers, is strongly opposed by teachers unions and is a political nonstarter in many parts of the country.

The prestige pictures listed could, for a variety of reasons — even through no particular fault of their own — go the way of The Conspirator and the Crowne, becoming nonstarters with critics, audiences, and Academy tastemakers alike.

Oberg has made outstanding contributions to the dairy industry over the past 40 years, most recently in helping understand the physiology of nonstarter lactic acid bacteria and how they affect today's cheese manufacturing industry.

Yet in recent weeks, leaders in our school systems and teachers unions have declared that breaching the firewall is a political nonstarter because of fears of state centralization of teacher evaluations, privacy and other concerns.

Scathingly reviewed and a complete nonstarter at the box office, the movie took just two months to come to disc, debuting in stores the Tuesday before Christmas.

Paying science and math teachers salaries higher than those of other teachers is probably a political nonstarter, Vasquez said.

But what I see so far makes this program and its output an absolute nonstarter for me.

It's just a complete nonstarter thinking about the cash.

In the most recent bout of negotiations over the weekend, the deal reportedly sputtered out over the number of unauthorized immigrants covered under the deal, and certain immigration enforcement - related measures that Republicans wanted to include but Democrats considered nonstarters.

He also developed innovative methods for the enumeration of lactic acid bacteria in conjunction with nonstarter lactic acid bacteria and has isolated an organism responsible for slits and cracks in cheese, named Lactobacillus wasatchensis.Read more.

As Tuttle points out, increasing spending should be an utter nonstarter in any bill Congress passes.

In that sense these deferred annuities that are completely nominal, it would be a total nonstarter for me for exactly that reason.

For years Russia and China have pushed for the ratification of a legally binding United Nations treaty banning space weapons — a treaty that U.S. officials and outside experts have repeatedly rejected as a disingenuous nonstarter.

10-15-20 years» difference in a Russian / Ukrainian - Western relationship doesn't mean it's a definite nonstarter.

The magnetism between these stiff nonstarters wouldn't stick to a fridge, especially when the war - ex-machina forces them apart for years but the only credible passing of time is our own.

How much will the recent string of allegations of sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood darken the proceedings and render some potential contenders nonstarters?

More frequently a writer than director since that football drama, Yakin has dabbled in different genres, from writing and directing the Jason Statham vehicle Safe to contributing to the scripts of franchise nonstarter Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the sequel - spawning hit magician heist caper Now You See Me.

Zach Braff plays Aidan Bloom, whose nonstarter L.A. acting career is nearing its expiration date as a sustainable dream, with building concerns regarding his patiently supportive wife (Kate Hudson) and two growing children (Joey King and Pierce Gagnon).

Two cartoon vultures, from the 1967 Disney lm «The Jungle Book,» are perched on the letters in reference to Opération Vautour (the NSC's nonstarter plan to rescue French troops in Vietnam).

comes off as a consummate nonstarter.

Everyone has a personal set of factors that are firm nonstarters.

Shepherd was recently at a dinner party with a woman who kept on saying how tired she was, an unexplained feeling and a conversational nonstarter.

Fed up with the incessant repetition of buzzwords like viable analysis, multidisciplinary analysis, and nonstarter in CIA publications, two agency writers put together the Bestiary of Intelligence Writing.

In the latest round of negotiations over the free trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico, which concluded on Tuesday, US negotiators made a number of protectionist demands that Mexico and Canada consider nonstarters.

Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, of Rockland County, called it an «absolute nonstarter.»

That's not to say that emission taxes are a complete nonstarter.

That's an untenable role for a single agency, and the idea is likely a political nonstarter,» Mervis and Malakoff wrote.

For many, these deficiencies are nonstarters.

Don't shepherd a nonstarter and then just blame the investors.

This is a nonstarter.

That is greeted as a nonstarter by Microsoft Corp (MSFT) IBM (IBM), and Cisco.

Stephenson said during the press conference that a sale of CNN was a «nonstarter,» adding that the company was confident it would not have to sell any assets.

Sharing is a nonstarter without equal partnership and trust.

But some Republicans demand that any increase in that number be offset by reductions in other categories of immigrants, which is a nonstarter with Democrats.

If its annual returns are not in the top half of all funds in its category over most, if not all, of those time periods, this investment is a nonstarter.

«If they're only talking about the corporate rate and not helping small business, I think that would for me be a nonstarter,» Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a member of Democratic leadership, told reporters.

And so long as the legislation still increases the long - run deficit, it's a nonstarter in the Senate, which explains why that body has taken a different approach.

That concealed - carry legislation is a nonstarter in the Senate, and the background check bill has yet to see a vote.

Bown told me that based on conversations with former Canadian and Mexican officials, the US proposals are nonstarters.

The tortured topic of gays in the military is far from the «nonstarter» the late Bush re-election campaign, incredibly, assumed it to be.

This is misleading because it suggests that these historians lack faith, and it is a nonstarter because it implies that supernaturalism is a live option for academic historians.

Affirmations based simply on the claimed authority of scripture were nonstarters.

The nonstarter must be pastorally assisted to see what values this syndrome is yielding and what it is losing.

Or perhaps it's a simple matter of Kent's using 10 players to execute its 94 - foot style and starting its five best defenders while sixth man Trevor Huffman leads the Flashes in scoring and assists — the only Division I nonstarter to do so.

Maria Sharapova, the leading light in the WTAcast, was a nonstarter, out since August with a rotator - cuff injury.

Of the nonstarters the standout, of course, is Polaris, who has been the improving horse recently with five important wins in his last seven starts.

(God Save the Queen, the U.K. anthem, is always a nonstarter because of the Nationalists among the Giants» fan base.)

Diane Pratt - Heavner, spokesperson for the SNA, told me in an email interview that the SNA won't be asking for more funding because it's a nonstarter on Capitol Hill: