Sentences with phrase «popularity contests»

«Delivering bad news is an essential skill, even if it won't win you any popularity contests,» Tumlin asserts.

School psychologists can win campus popularity contests by winning the Mini-Grant, also offered by the California School Psychology Foundation.

Trial Masters is a US organization headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that aims to bring objectivity to a field dominated by what it calls subjective peer review «old guard» rating services which are essentially «popularity contests».

While the big boys in this industry continue with their long - standing popularity contests, Trial Masters knew there had to be a better way.

Of course, popularity contests are necessarily flawed, and the ABA Blawg 100 is no exception.

Hopefully the application of Gail will encourage courts to take sentencing standards back into their own hands, rather than in the hands of men and women who are trying to win popularity contests.

Popularity contests and polls from a scientist?

I have no interest in popularity contests.

The «best science» awards you speak of are mere popularity contests ------ whoever gets the most votes wins.

This may not win me any popularity contests, but get moving, that is the best way to slim down for pets and people.

Which dogs are winning the popularity contests of late?

PS) I know there are some book cover contests out there that aren't just popularity contests — please share the ones you recommend in the comments.

That is compounded with the popularity contests behind some of the mega-reviewers who are apparently on a mission to hold the record for most book reviews, spitting out dozens of so - called reviews per day.

This kind of move certainly isn't going to win any popularity contests for AT&T, and may make them look like bullies in the long run — especially if they are the only carrier to lock users in to their service in this way.

If value - added analysis leads to popularity contests, as the author suggests, Ms. Caruso should have had the best value - added performance, which was not the case.

Study: Once - a-Year Teacher Evaluations Not Enough Associated Press, January 6, 2012 «Those surveys, also being piloted by the foundation in school districts around the nation, are not popularity contests, [Professor Thomas] Kane said.

Playing off the huge popularity contests on television that has everybody that watches them dreaming of that being them on stage being adored by millions, the Sims 3 provides that same level of daydreaming - of - stardom to individual Sims 3 players with The Sims 3 Showtime Limited Edition.

Studies evaluate the natural world, they are not popularity contests, I feel that you are not understanding this concept.

Or as county Republican Chairman Roger Rascoe noted in his address to the GOP caucus, «what we're looking at here is 23 popularity contests.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio won't win any popularity contests in Staten Island and southern Brooklyn — but he's still throwing his weight behind a Democratic candidate for their House seat.

In 1997, he lost out to Ken Livingstone, the former London Mayor, in a ballot for membership of the party's ruling National Executive Committee and he has subsequently steered clear of party - based popularity contests.

Taking a position against a new sex offender monitoring program, here or anywhere, will not help me win any popularity contests.

She wasn't winning any popularity contests, he said.

His geographicallyerroneous but catchy nickname for Michael Martin, «Gorbals Mick», is an example of the playing - the - mannot - the - ball approach that means Letts will never win popularity contests among MPs - though you can bet it's read by them.

Kids need clear structure, firm limits, and consistent discipline, which means there will be days where you won't win any popularity contests.

Some of your decisions about nutrition may not win you popularity contests with your kids, but establishing healthy eating habits early on will lessen the severity of your kids scorn later in life.

In a week that saw a four game ban for Granit Xhaka AND Arsene Wenger, Arsenal aren't exactly winning any popularity contests with the FA.

But as popularity contests go, the results of this one are, for the most part, hard to quibble with.

I like popularity contests as much as the next guy but they are far from accurate especially on the offensive line.

«I'm not here to win any popularity contests,» Kill said, adding he «doesn't treat our players any differently than I treat my two daughters.»

So it wont win any popularity contests.

Opinions are just bogus popularity contests.

Even over a period of a few years, the market can show about as much maturity as a middle school lunchroom, complete with pubescent gossip and inane popularity contests.

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, 60, probably won't win many popularity contests.

Doubling or tripling taxes certainly won't win any popularity contests; neither will financial default and plunging the global economy into chaos.

Why do those with besties end up better off than those who win high school popularity contests?

(After all, the pong of wet sneaker won't win you any office popularity contests.)

Social media can often be a bit of a popularity contest (surprise, surprise) and losing upwards of five percent of followers in a day definitely has its downside.

Social media marketing is far more than an online popularity contest, and the better business owners understand that, the better they can use it for their companies.

Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's former mentor, once suggested that the stock market is a popularity contest over the short term, but over the long term, it's a weighing machine.

LinkedIn isn't a popularity contest where the person with the most connections wins.

It's also not a popularity contest.

Name aside, the Rock Hall of Fame has long been a popularity contest with only a vague tie to genre (NWA was the fifth rap act to be inducted when it joined this year).

Liss - Riordan argued that, «this isn't a popularity contest, this isn't about what people want.»

Make no mistake: This isn't a popularity contest, nor is it a one - dimensional listing based on a single factor like revenue or growth.

Indeed, it's akin to a popularity contest, but we added the element of predicting Fortune's team, and predicting which execs our 41 hand - picked experts would choose, which became crucial to your success.

It's easy to say «yes» and be part of the crowd; but your education and your future isn't a popularity contest - it's your life in the making.

It's a worldwide popularity contest conducted minute - by - minute.

I'm not asking for a popularity contest.

All too often people use the analogy of linkbuilding being a popularity contest.