Sentences with phrase «plagued by a culture»

Our sector is plagued by a culture of compliance.

The analysis concluded the District's schools are plagued by a culture that encourages educators to hand out diplomas to meet lofty graduation goals, even if that means giving a high school degree to a student who missed half of the academic year.

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Bharara had harsh words for New York's legislature, which he said has been by plagued by a «rancid culture» of bribery and kickbacks.

Bharara said New York's Legislature has been by plagued by a «rancid culture» of bribery and kickbacks.

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The real horror of Fargo is that many of the characters have thoughtlessly bought into the «sunny» veneer of American culture and the empty promise of «the American Dream», but at the same time they seem unable to reconcile those impossible visions of optimism with the persistent troubles that plague their lives — often caused by their own lack of self - awareness.

Culture shock and loneliness plague Eilis when she leaves Ireland for America in the 1950s, but when her new homeland really does present new opportunities, represented not just by her new Italian - American boyfriend Tony (Emory Cohen) but also by the accounting classes she takes at night (where she is the only woman), she begins to embrace her little corner of Brooklyn.

In Los Angeles, in the gang - plagued neighborhood of Watts, teachers and principals are already deepening a culture of restorative practices they believe is key to improving academics by changing the atmosphere in school.

Selected as one of the first evaluation specialists employed under Tennessee's Race to the Top grant, Pryor envisioned and created a culture of respect and empowerment for her teachers in an era plagued by distrust.

The symptoms of tularemia are similar to the symptoms of other bacterial diseases such as pseudotuberculosis and plague, so a definitive diagnosis requires the bacterium to be identified by either culture or by antibody testing.

Just as it seems we may be moving back toward some sort of food culture in a nation plagued by the side effects of big Ag, red tape chokes another small producer out of business.

This culture was fostered by doctrinal and practical difficulties plaguing the analytical framework then applicable to the right of accused persons, guaranteed under s. 11 (b) of the... [more]

This culture was fostered by doctrinal and practical difficulties plaguing the analytical framework then applicable to the right of accused persons, guaranteed under s. 11 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to be tried within a reasonable time.