Sentences with phrase «often sparred»

The 55 - year - old school chief had often sparred with Gov. Tommy G. Thompson over education issues, yet the Governor praised Mr. Grover last week for his service to the state.

Cuomo and de Blasio often sparred over the terms of a renewed 421a.

Cuomo said as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary in the 1990s, he often sparred with then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who envisioned a «home - centered society» where people conducted all of their affairs online.

During the campaign, the candidates often sparred through mailings and lobbed numerous accusations at each other.

At the zenith of his power, Barbato along with Montauk lobsterman Perry Duryea, onetime Assembly Speaker, and Southampton dairyman Edwin «Buzz» Schwenk ruled over the 10 town GOP organizations which often sparred for control.

Lewza and Kerr, both Republicans, often spar at Town Board meetings, where the supervisor once referred to Kerr as «peaches and cream.»

Labour and the Lib Dems often spar over their progressive credentials.

In fact, they often spar and parry over what school choice should look like, how to hold players in education accountable for student achievement, even over whether the NEA and AFT should even have a role in education decision - making.

Not exact matches

While often the black boys unload freight or work on the docks during the day, then spend long dreary hours in the gym at night, the white fighter is «romanced» — no job, no fights over his head, the best equipment, expensive sparring partners.

De Blasio and Cuomo have been sparring on homelessness for weeks, often trading blows in the form of policy roll outs as both men seek to assume control of the crisis.

«I do not know the source of that original document, but I assume it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it,» said the scientist who has sparred often with Heartland and others who do not believe in the scientific underpinnings of man - made global warming.

It's not often you see two people relishing sparring together and pulling off such expertly - executed grace notes.

Like a lot of adolescent protagonists in modern coming - of - age films, Christine talks too often and too blithely, but Marion is a formidable sparring partner: «How did I raise such a snob?»

It's great to see Nicholson and Keaton sparring again, 22 years after their last collaboration in «Reds» in 1981 and how often do you get a film that has veterans such as these two great actors sharing screen time with the successful names of today, like Keanu Reeves and Frances McDormand?

The young males enjoy sparring, often in the shallow rocky areas off shore.

This game is fun as hell, the exhibition mode is fun (with friends), classic fights are a good way to get someone who wasn't into MMA interested in it (e.g. me) Career mode is fun but the problem is that you don't age is kinda dumb to be honest, you're «CRED» has no real purpose other than to get you new equipment, sponsors, sparring partners and opportunities to increase your «CRED» the controls are confusing to someone who's never played a game like this A.K.A me but I'll give it credit for innovation, you can go to training camps which upgrade you're striking and grappling which gives you new moves, their is a few exploits in the game No. 1 if you manage to get all the sponsors you can use them in create a fighter (which by the way has a decent enough amount of options) you can put all of the sponors that give the most cred and get everything easily and I mean everything No. 2 when you go to a training camp all you have to do is watch two demonstrations by the camp fighter and you have full stamina No. 3 any fighter you can beat within a minute of the first round you can beat a few times and shoot up the ranks, the music is good but you'll soon get sick of it and turn it off cause it repeats itself soo often, they didn't add intro walks, music and cage entries which would've made you feel more like an actual UFC fighter, but overall its a fun game but there's a few missed opportunities and not many fighting styles to choose from but rent it if you are curious about the game.

This is because buzz hovering above the smartphone competition has largely clung onto Samsung and Apple, two companies often subjected to sparring, egged on by a number of trusty reviewers on the web.

Unfortunately, all sorts of accusations are often hurled between sparring exes during ugly custody battles.