Sentences with phrase «rejected by the rank»

An initial five - year contract was rejected by the rank and file.

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He also stunned the ranking Tory moderates by finding that many party elders and former MLAs (leadership delegates, all) reject the idea that Tories should refashion themselves as a principled centrist party.

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

Children's worries about their peer relationships rank high — they worry about being rejected or excluded by their classmates, and they worry that their close friends will betray them.

-LSB-...] for comment on the fact that 19 past SNA presidents have taken the rather extraordinary step of publicly breaking rank with the organization by urging Congress to reject the waiver amendment.

His instruction to his MPs to reject the idea now will be interpreted as rank hypocrisy by Tories.

Today, for example, the contract he negotiated with the Public Employees Federation's leadership was rejected by a large margin by the rank and file.

Rank and file activists, who are more left wing than Mr Clegg, reject many of the more right wing policies adopted by their leader since he entered into coalition with the Tories.

The candidates supported by Reda, Ballard and Sparaco to become Republican Committee Persons were rejected by an overwhelming majority of the rank and file Republican Party members.

Those who had not washed their hands increased the ranking of the one they had chosen to keep by two places compared with their original ranking, and pushed the rejected CD down by two places, on average.

Fainter objects had been rejected because the color estimates were less precise; now they were objectively ranked in descending order by the fact that a star, when that faint, could end up having the measured colors of a quasar.

How items are ranked, evaluated, accepted or rejected by various institutions and individiuals matters.

So for anyone who has, however briefly, played that reviled gatekeeper role, a darker question arises: What happens once the self - publishing revolution really gets going, when all of those previously rejected manuscripts hit the marketplace, en masse, in print and e-book form, swelling the ranks of 99 - cent Kindle and iBook offerings by the millions?

And, she wonders, what will happen when all of those «previously rejected» manuscripts «hit the marketplace,» swelling «the ranks of 99 - cent Kindle and i - book offerings by the millions.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Nonetheless, I understand that the IPCC initially closed ranks in rejecting these critiques by demonstrating a flawed understanding of the difference between PPP and market exchange rate based comparisons.

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

«We felt rankings had become counterproductive, and were being used by too many people as a main or the sole reason to select or reject a provider.»

Once the system «weeds out» the data that doesn't fit the keywords submitted, those applications are ranked and then either looked at in an abbreviated form by HR personnel or automatically rejected.

Children's worries about their peer relationships rank high — they worry about being rejected or excluded by their classmates, and they worry that their close friends will betray them.