Sentences with phrase «of alphabet soup in»

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There is now the alphabet - soup of four major sanctioning organizations (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) bestowing boxing «championships» to fighters in 17 weight divisions.

This is only the latest in the alphabet soup of armed groups in Eastern Congo (ADFL, UPC, RCD, FDLR, ALIR, CNDP, and so on ad nauseam).

Gov. Cuomo and state legislative leaders have brought pork back big - time, wrapped in a dense layer of bureaucracy and with a side of alphabet - soup misdirection.»

The governor says there has been a «whole alphabet soup» of hurricanes that have hit various regions of the country in recent decades, and there has been a «long history» of federal bail outs to help those affected.

This unusually compact cloud of dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius is energized by a hot young star at its core, and it's a veritable alphabet soup of molecules.

Steve: You have this article in the August Scientific American about the EPA and DDVP, and a whole bunch of alphabet soup.

Mental pictures of words are mixing in your head and your tongue tastes like alphabet soup.

This initial flurry of expansion culminated in 1979, under President Jimmy Carter, with the establishment of the federal Department of Education as a separate, cabinet - level government agency that would coordinate what West calls the «alphabet soup» of the federal government's various initiatives and requirements.

Other than the PLDD crowd in their alphabet soup of reform organizations, who will advocate for and sustain meaningful performance pay for teachers where performance is defined as compliance with centralized mandates?

Is your head swimming in an alphabet soup of this year's trending abbreviations?

These days my special education students participate in an alphabet soup of standardized testing, participating in REACH Performance Tasks, the NWEA, ANET, and PARCC.

Known as the STAR Program, for Standardized Testing and Reporting, it's an alphabet soup of separate assessments, covering various subjects and administered to 4.7 million students in grades two through eleven.

Today's consumers are faced with an alphabet soup of terms and technologies, especially in the key area of safety.The most recent major safety breakthroughs for car buyers: air bags and anti-lock brakes.

To stay at the alphabet soup level of analogy, V competes in the same league as RS, AMG, and M.

In the alphabet soup of car names, the Infiniti Q50 evolved from the G35 and G37, the brand's first major 3 Series fighter.

Today's consumers are faced with an alphabet soup of terms and technologies, especially in the key area of safety.

Day - to - day, it can feel like we're spinning our wheels in the mud: like no one is reading our work, like the words we type up flow worse than a bowl of alphabet soup.

Probably I would, but I couldn't quite bring myself to go that far — all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had.

That's because — unlike the alphabet soup of bonds, like CDOs and MBSs, that have been causing all the trouble in the credit markets — defaults in municipal bonds are practically unheard of.

When it comes to selecting mutual funds for a defined contribution (DC) plan's investment menu, plan sponsors can encounter an alphabet soup of different share classes with varying fee structures sprinkled in — and that's ultimately what sets them apart.

And remember, they have reached this stratospheric levels despite the Paulson rescue package, despite an alphabet soup of new Fed facilities that accept GSE paper as collateral (as the discount window did) now in place (although there were raspberries all around for the bailout bill, due to its failure to make any changes in the operation, management, or policies of the GSEs and its lack of specificity as to triggers and what mechanism would be used).

If I Could Talk: Based on the popular PBS show Martha Speaks, this interactive presentation tells the story of Marsha, Martha's long lost twin sister, who has not been adopted yet and sits in the shelter awaiting her forever home (and the opportunity to eat her alphabet soup).

I had never heard of this festival before, but I was one of those kids that made words in my alphabet soup and drew smiles on my pancakes with whipped cream, so naturally I was intrigued by the idea of creating art out of food.

Points of View: Our writers on what's happening in the artworld and beyond: J.J. Charlesworth on whether artworld boycotts are turning biennials into a political battleground; Maria Lind on the case for quality rather than quantity; Sam Jacob on the cult of normality; Jonathan T.D. Neil on art's greater good; Andrew Berardini on how LA is witnessing an evolution in collective thinking; Mike Watson on an aesthetics of emergency in Naples and Rome; Mark Sladen on the «alphabet soup» of Jean - Michel Wicker; Jonathan Grossmalerman on the premiere of The Grossmalerman Show; Louise Darblay on off - space La Salle de Bains, Lyons, France.

And it's been examined in minute detail by the NAS, AGU and a veritable alphabet soup of scientists.

In addition to papers quoted in the article, Tamino's «Open Mind» blog provided the concepts required for the development of this tool; in particular the posts Autocorrelation, Alphabet soup 3a, and Alphabet soup 3In addition to papers quoted in the article, Tamino's «Open Mind» blog provided the concepts required for the development of this tool; in particular the posts Autocorrelation, Alphabet soup 3a, and Alphabet soup 3in the article, Tamino's «Open Mind» blog provided the concepts required for the development of this tool; in particular the posts Autocorrelation, Alphabet soup 3a, and Alphabet soup 3in particular the posts Autocorrelation, Alphabet soup 3a, and Alphabet soup 3b.

Over all, many experts conclude, advanced climate research in the United States is fragmented among an alphabet soup of agencies, strained by inadequate computing power and starved for the basic measurements of real - world conditions that are needed to improve simulations.

If you're familiar with the alphabet soup of agencies duplicating each other's work in Washington, you know inter-agency coordination is a big deal in every domain that's concerned with not wasting taxpayer money.

A recent microtwittering that Eli became involved in made it clear that there is considerable uncertainty amongst the bunnies and lambs about the relation of various letters in the alphabet soup to each other.

The natural causes of climate variations that have time scales (century, decadal; e.g. Schwabe sunspot cycles, average solar output during the satellite measuring era,, ENSO / PDO / AMO and the rest of the alphabet soup of «oscillations», volcanism) either don't capture energy over multiple cycles — if I push a child on a swing, his average position doesn't move away from me — or are going in the wrong direction.

It is critical that the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees not get lost in all this regulatory alphabet soup.

The group administers, negotiates, and / or generally provides advice in the full spectrum of the alphabet soup statutes enacted to govern employment, including ADEA, ADDA, Title VII, FLSA, FMLA, ERISA, Sarbanes - Oxley, 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1983, and 1985 (3), USERRA, etc..

It's also worth pointing to the radios: in addition to the usual alphabet soup of connectivity the Galaxy S9 is the first device in Europe to support Gigabit LTE, which we'll start to see networks offering this year.

Military work involves an alphabet soup of terms that mean nothing in the civilian world.