Sentences with phrase «stacked against families»

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= > well good to see you understand that the odds of being right about the family are stacked against you based on your evidence and best tools available for testing.

... In an age when equality is expected, and even demanded of dads, it's a tragic footnote that the family courts seem stacked against them.

As they try to get on with their lives in the days that follow, both witness and victims find more trouble coming their way, from families, police and a system stacked against them.

Ernie Davis had the cards stacked against him completely, yet he was able to accomplish great things through perseverance, courage, diligence and his own grounding though his family and his faith.

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

Educators sometimes lament a lack of partnership with families and note that unless the theory extends to learning at home, the methods don't always hold in the classroom and learners continue to struggle against stacked expectations.

Check out how the 2018 Honda Odyssey Touring stacks up against the best family vehicle offered by Volkswagen, the 2018 Atlas SEL Premium.

How does it stack up against the previous iterations of the Kobo e-Reader family?

Are the members of this family making poor choices — or is this world stacked against them?

No dog deserves to end up with the cards stacked against him - especially one who was once cherished as a family member and stalwart companion.

Sierra Club: «This Committee's leadership is trying to stack the deck against Appalachian miners, families and businesses.»

After State Farm refused to allow the Pielhaus family to stack coverage, the couple filed a lawsuit against their insurer and their insurance agent.

They accurately perceive the deck to be stacked, and the rules always changeable against them: a woman who sacrifices a part of her career for her children loses that part of her career, but gets to «keep» the family; a man who does the same does not, and that inequality is becoming more commonly noticed, despite academic and elite consensus that it would be best if that reality went not only unresolved, but unaddressed.

When I began practicing law, I noticed very quickly that the cards were stacked against innocent accident victims and their families, in favour of large, deep pocketed insurance companies.

But Kerstin Beyer, a German - British divorce lawyer at the International Family Law Chambers in London, says the tables are often stacked against the poorer (and usually less knowledgable) spouse.

For instance, there's a new Fitbit Leaderboard app that allows you to see how your fitness goals stack up against family and friends, and it lets you «cheer and taunt them» for added motivation.

What happens in most cases is that fathers must agree to having a very limited role in their children's lives because they don't have the tens of thousands of dollars (or more) necessary to fight for shared parenting in family law proceedings which are heavily stacked against them.»

However, I will say that at home, when I have the occasional constituent come to talk to me about divorce law and family law problems, without exception, the problems have been fathers feeling that they are not getting fair representation through the courts and that the whole system is stacked against fathers having access to their children.

«Our annual list is a fun way for families to see how their neighborhood stacks up against others when it comes to trick - or - treating.

Set it on a grey - toned, weathered console table in the living room in front of a striking geometric wall mirror to reflect light and play against this design's turquoise base, then complete the vignette with a stack of art books and family photos.