Sentences with phrase «one's contentious relationship»

The board will likely now have trustees that are willing to hold charter schools accountable, looking to bridge contentious relationships with local school districts.

When you combine that with already contentious relationship between opposing parties, that can be a recipe for disaster.

I want these kinds of contentious relationships in the paintings.

Instead, it offers a wide - ranging overview of the often contentious relationship between diverse religious views and new scientific knowledge.

Like most things under the sun, contentious relationships like these are nothing new.

It's not uncommon for sales and marketing departments to have complex, and far too often contentious relationships.

During his eight years in office, the Democratic governor has had a sometimes contentious relationship with state lawmakers, but in his parting address to them he made light of it.

But critics say targeting the youths could seem anti-gay in a neighborhood that is nationally important to the gay rights movement — and has an historically contentious relationship with police.

Roberts plays Barbara, who shares a most contentious relationship with Violet and has inherited her mother's nasty bark.

In God of the Rodeo, Daniel Bergner describes an increasingly contentious relationship between himself and Burl Cain, Warden of Angola Prison in Louisiana.

He will face off against Scott King, who is the incumbent and garnered criticism for his allegedly contentious relationship with town employees.

The commentary is particularly interesting in light of Sharpton's famously contentious relationship with Rangel.

The issue surrounding the purchase as exacerbated an already contentious relationship between Cuomo and DiNapoli.

De Blasio has been a frequent critic of charter schools and has had an especially contentious relationship with Success Academy and its founder and CEO, Eva Moskowitz.

Another example would be the previously contentious relationship with the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority since it was created in 2005.

Focusing on the highly contentious relationship between Israel and Palestine, Maggie Gyllenhaal accurately captures the frustrations of those desperately trying to build bridges and bring some stability to the region.

Then it piles things on — Joanna's sole living relative, her aunt, Ramona [Sigourney Weaver], seems to have had an equally contentious relationship with Marni's mother, Gail [Jamie Lee Curtis].

Weeks ago I dreamed a dream where all the particulars of my presently contentious relationship with Anne Hathaway, a typically smart and endearing performer who was robbed of an Oscar in 2009 for Rachel Getting Married, were manifest.

Phillips himself stars as Shawn, or Shonzi as he's often called (because of his fondness for the Fonz from Happy Days), a mentally challenged amateur filmmaker whose contentious relationship with his self - absorbed brother, Todd (Timm Sharp), routinely threatens Todd's new romance with the sensitive Lindsay (Melanie Lynskey).

Unfortunately for Rhee, she also happens to have a fairly contentious relationship with Bill Turque, the Washington Post's education reporter.

In a similar situation, some authorizers might dictate prescriptive mandates infringing on a school's autonomy, or not help schools navigate the complex and at times contentious relationships with district staff who hold unfavorable opinions of charter schools.

«I have a very contentious relationship with abstraction, at least in early notions of abstraction being «pure» or unadulterated form, so I go in knowing that I'm not entirely going to get that, or maybe not entirely interested in it, but it's an interesting place to start for me...

The other reason, depending on how contentious your relationship is with your co-parent, can be a sense of competition over who gives the children more / better presents.

However, as we dug further into our music catalog, the speaker's rather contentious relationship with a ballooned lower register began to generate concern.

In extremely contentious relationships where the parents want to share physical custody, exchanging the children on alternating weeks can cut down on their contact and opportunities for bickering.

Stringer blamed some of the city's failures in addressing infrastructure concerns on the administration's sometimes contentious relationship with Albany lawmakers, who must often give the city the OK to move ahead on projects, such as congestion pricing.

Join Erin Dunn, Assistant Curator at Telfair Museums, for a lecture on Watershed, exploring how contemporary photography depicts the often contentious relationship between humans and the environments we inhabit.

That attitude is a far cry from the historically contentious relationship between the 262,000 - student Broward County district and the 95 charter schools that operate there, said Robert Haag, the president of the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools, who nominated Mr. Runcie for inclusion in Leaders to Learn From.

Ironically, the most contentious relationship the rideshare company has is with its employees.

In God of the Rodeo, Daniel Bergner describes an increasingly contentious relationship between himself and Burl Cain,...

How the mayor works with the legislative branch of government has become an issue in the campaign, in light of Miner's sometimes contentious relationship with the common council.

Trump has had a contentious relationship with the Times throughout this election cycle.

It developed a contentious relationship with the beachfront city of Santa Monica, California, soon after launching its service there in September as its first market.

The purchase concerned NATO members and underscored the contentious relationship between Ankara and the West, but Turkey said this week that it had been completed.

Trump has had a contentious relationship with the press since he first launched his White House bid last summer.

Its contentious relationship with its drivers is well - documented, with many filing lawsuits to be considered employees in order to receive better pay and some benefits.

Jones joined Uber from Target last summer with an explicit mandate to soften the company's public image and improve its contentious relationship with drivers.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Germany's new foreign minister on Monday urged the Palestinians «not to tear down bridges,» an apparent reference to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's contentious relationship with the US.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has had a contentious relationship with authorities in his home country for a long time, and he quickly implemented a workaround plan that involved using major cloud services by the likes of Amazon and Google to continue to serve users.

Ever since their introduction to the United States over a century ago, credit unions have had a contentious relationship with the banking... Read More

It's a complicated, nuanced and often contentious relationship.

The two had a contentious relationship throughout the campaign.

The world's most populous nation has what could be a labeled a contentious relationship with the sport at best.

I don't think I've heard of many dads - to - be pushing for their own mothers to be included but I have heard from quite a few who have their own strained / contentious relationships with their MILs and thus would prefer to keep ALL mothers and other family members waiting outside.

While the Alvarado Muñoz campaign has denied any involvement with the episode, it has had a contentious relationship with the press for a while.

And a digest of the response of blogs to not just the video, but also the organization, points to a contentious relationship (as always) within the activist community about the best way to bring about change.

In their first joint appearance since the presidential election and since Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer bowed out of the race, the field of hopefuls criticized Bloomberg's emphasis on testing and his contentious relationship with the teachers union.

Mangano and Nassau Democrats have had a contentious relationship throughout his time in office.