Sentences with phrase «stacked against working»
I saw how much the deck is stacked against working class kids before we even started.
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Gibney also explained how the fund's investment in Facebook stacked up against its principle of backing entrepreneurs doing valuable work.
With the odds stacked against them, how can entrepreneurs achieve the dream of work - life balance?
The country is upside down stacked against those that want to work hard in favor of those that take.
AR has played there the last 4 games — 3 wins and a draw against Chelsea does not properly stack up with the assertion that it «doesn't work».
The thicker bag is also nice if you'll be freezing stacks of milk or carrying them back and forth to work or daycare as it's less likely to get a hole in it from bumping against something.
Despite a market stacked against them, however, startups like Moxxly are innovating to build better breast pumps and / or accessories that work with existing pumps (see «Pump 2.0» below).
Casey Legler Hinds I applaud the hard work that has gone into the improvements to school meals and they have helped level the playing field when the deck is stacked against teaching kids to learn to love foods that love them back.
Trump on Wednesday morning tweeted that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore worked hard in the Alabama special election, but that the «deck was stacked against him.»
De Blasio said there is still a lot of work to be done, and his mission in his second term would be to make sure New Yorkers no longer feel the deck is stacked against them.
This is a tried - and - tested formula that has worked wonders for the party in the past but the odds are stacked against it this time.
Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries was equally dissatisfied with the outcome, saying that the «system is rigged» under Republican rule and that the «deck is stacked against hard - working Americans.»
Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!»
Yet despite this ostensible victory, the odds of going to university remained as firmly stacked as ever against working - class women — not only on the basis of their gender, but on the basis of the class they were born into.
A rising number of research studies document how the odds are stacked against students and faculty from working - class backgrounds.
Despite all the odds stacked against him, he studied every speed book religiously, trained obsessively for 7 years and through his hard work, he accomplished the impossible; he became an Olympian in the 100 meters.
The unfortunate thing is, online dating doesn't work for men as the odds are stacked against them.
Key to the narrative is a focus on the chips being stacked against Tonya as a working - class girl competing in an upper - class sport.
Despite the odds stacked against her, Helen works tirelessly to earn the respect she deserves.
After 14 career nominations, Deakins finally won the Best Cinematography Oscar this year for his stellar work on Blade Runner 2049, which got me thinking — how do past winners stack up against each other?
When: May 29th Why: Over the past ten years or so, Cameron Crowe has found it difficult to make a movie that stacks up against his earlier work, but he may have finally done so with this romantic dramedy, which features what is arguably the director's best cast ever assembled.
For those of us who do this work because of our deep concern for the way the deck is stacked against the «have nots,» we probably should start getting used to the idea that winning the hearts and minds of suburban soccer moms and dads is going to be the best way to win the political fight once and for all.
Such goals, however well - meaning, make those who do the work feel like the game is stacked against them and that they're being played for fools.
So each time I am presented with hopelessness, a new case or student with the odds stacked again, I am reminded of my own story and the hundreds of students with disabilities I have worked with who have defied the «insurmountable odds» stacked against us.
It was shaped the work of the Consortium on Chicago School Research and by research on «resiliency» — which says, among other things, that when the odds are stacked against children, and you look carefully at the lives of those who make it, they have reservoirs of social capital to tap.
Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, which opposed the organizing bid, told Automotive News the union and Volkswagen's German management «colluded for over two years to stack the deck against the workers» and allow a rapid - fire unionization election in the plant.
How «Mad Max: Fury Road» Turns Your Writing Advice Into Road Kill — another thoughtful piece on what works in the film and how that stacks against standard writing advice and tips.
A thorough book proposal evaluates the audience for the work, how it will stack up against the competition, and why the book will succeed in the marketplace.
Self - publishing a book well means you'll have to take real financial risks and work very hard to get noticed in a market still stacked against all micropresses.
I'm not happy paying $ 8.99 or $ 9.99 or $ 12.99 for a paperback (especially considering that when I first started buying paperbacks, they were 15 cents), and I'm not happy paying nearly thirty bucks for a hardback (somewhere shy of ten bucks back in the day); I'm not happy paying anything for an ebook because at least for me, I've purchased nothing (can't hold it, can't stack it, smell it, riffle its pages, can't throw it against a wall)-- but if I want the work and that's the only format it is available in, I spend the money.
While the price certainly seems right, many bibliophiles wanted to know how well the beagle works for reading ebooks — and how it stacks up against the Kindle.
With the job market still stacked against recent graduates and entry level workers, we're used to working on low salaries (or else struggling to get into the workplace in the first instance)- frittering away oodles of cash is neither realistic nor desirable.
I'd weigh all of the work against the stack of dollars in my hand at the end of the night.
Spend a little time finding members that can work together and you'll find the real estate investing game isn't so stacked against you.
These applicants tend to be extreme outliers so if you're counting on this working for you, know that the odds are definitely stacked against you.
You'll get scoring bonuses for working together as a team, and specialized co-op leaderboards will let you see how well your teamwork abilities stack up against the competition.
Assuming the storyline and characters is a focus of EA's Star Wars project and BioWare's Anthem (if not, that's a whole other issue), as long as I can pause my game (in some fashion) at any time, not lose progress mid-way through a mission because of internet connection issues, and don't have my odds stacked against me while playing alone, I can see it working as a fantastic traditional single - player experience.
However this was one area where some more work was needed as some classes (particularly the Huntress) don't seem to stack up well against the competition.
For comparison's sake, we thought we would see how Silverstone currently stacks up in all three titles from the work - in - progress screenshots released so far: Assetto Corsa rFactor 2 Gran Turismo 6 All three look like faithful reproductions of the iconic British circuit and are pretty evenly matched when stacked up against each other.
First off, I had no understanding of how wedding fairs work (tip: nobody buys at a wedding fair, and 90 % of success is follow - up), so the odds were already stacked against me.
Hanging too many pieces on the walls or stacking art against the walls on the floor isn't pleasing to the eye and doesn't give viewers a visual break before they are confronted with your next work of art.
In a 1992 letter to Rosen, he described one of his stack works as «a chance to alter one's life and future, an empty passport for life... A simple white object against a white wall, waiting.»
These works were the heart of the Dia show; they were placed in stacks around the gallery space against the backdrop of his woodland wallpaper and his mute, solemn sinks.
A Maciunas work — drawn from the Museum's recent acquisition of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection — features hundreds of empty containers from products that Maciunas consumed during one year, systematically stacked in tall columns and displayed against the wall.
For this exhibition, Maltz will present a suite of new layered plywood works that will be suspended from the wall by metal pins, propped up and leaning against the wall, and arranged into a shifting stack on the floor.
The book turns what you consider advantages and disadvantages on their head, showing that even when the odds seem stacked against you, they could work in your favour and lead to success.
There can't be many others remaining, and few more obscure than Mr. Spillenger, who left scant traces... When Mr. Spillenger's two sons, Paul and Clyde, started cleaning out his apartment a few months ago, they found the remnants of a career even they hadn't fully comprehended: hundreds of paintings and drawings stacked against the wall or stuffed under the bed, works that probably no one except their father had ever looked at.
So voracious is the presence of the twelve works in this focused retrospective of Al Loving's work, set as they are against the inert framing of the white cube, that they might be better described by the activities that resulted in their making: stack, weave, layer, tear, cut, drip.
On the mezzanine level, the three hundred stacked cardboard cartons in Box Sculpture engage the majority of the space, but if one explores around all sides, one finds a haphazardly placed series of nine framed prints, some leaning against the sides of the large sculpture, which offer selected images of the artist's earlier work.
The seller knows one property - their own - where a realtor knows how the seller's property stacks up against other alternatives and been through this process hundreds of times... whereas both buyer and seller will be working with much less experience.