Sentences with phrase «taken hold among»

However, a toxic culture of misunderstanding and mistrust had taken hold among the school board, district administration, and the teachers union.

This should shed a bit of light on the charter school craze that has taken hold among parents outside of Ward 3 — there are no public charter schools within Ward 3.

Several myths have taken hold among market watchers lately.

The Great Awakening took hold among the Presbyterians as well.

But they really took hold among the Irish.

The tone is sometimes over-the-top, but the message is that conflict can't take hold among people who deal with each other in trust, good faith, and common cause, and that no sacrifice is too great for people firmly dedicated to peace.

A few years after these actions got underway, a desire to gain freedom of expression «from overt racial presentation» took hold among African American artists whose art was defined by color and abstraction.

«In Down Times, Depression Taking Hold Among More Lawyers.»

Across South Florida, an unusually passionate grass - roots gun control movement is taking hold among high school students, who are clamoring for bolder government action to prevent future mass shootings.

Not exact matches

When McChrystal took over command of JSOC, he held a daily update among 50 or so top leaders in the organization.

Even the most eloquent among us can be reduced to spewing verbal garbage once the sheer anxiety of public speaking takes hold.

Their portfolio simulation approach: (1) is restricted to the technology, industrials, health care, financials and basic materials sectors; (2) assumes an extreme sentiment day for a stock has at least four novel news items (prior to 3:30 PM in New York) and is among the top 5 % of average daily positive or negative events; (3) makes portfolio changes at market close; (4) holds positions for 20 days, subject to a 5 % stop - loss rule and a 20 % take - profit rule; (5) constrains any one position to 15 % of portfolio value; and, (6) assumes round - trip trading friction of 0.25 %.

There were notable exceptions, of course, such as the Council of Trent's repudiation of the idea that «the Jews killed Christ,» but that official teaching never really took hold, and the general trend among many Catholics and other Christians was to ostracize and persecute Jews.

But October 22 came and went like any other day, and as soon as the sun set the devastation among Miller's followers took hold.

Some of this has to do with the enduring quest to make history resemble a science, a vision that took hold in earnest in the nineteenth century and has never entirely lost its appeal among academic historians.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

Article 19 bears quoting in full: Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven (see Acts 1:1).

[3] Among the objections to this is one which cites the definition of St Isidore of Seville quoted in OTWTL which is translated more precisely by the Dominicans as: «an article is a taking hold of divine truth that leads us to that truth in itself.»

She lights a crumpled piece of newsprint tucked among the wood, and the kindling takes hold.

FIFA vice-president Jeffery Webb was among the seven taken into custody, but Sepp Blatter is not involved, which was confirmed in a press conference held by the world football governing body a few hours after the news surfaced.

There were quite a few candidates among the Arsenal players for the Man of the Match award, for me, with Ospina, Bellerin, Giroud, Rosicky, Cazorla and Alexis all having big games but I have gone for Francis Coquelin because he held the team together as we needed to stay firm before and after taking the lead.

This idea that voters are being lulled into a false state of consciousness by the government and the wider political «establishment» is increasingly taking hold of the Leave campaign, particularly among Tory MPs.

Among the letters tucked under their armpits is one dated 19th August 2016, where Woyome's consultant, Albert Essamuah Associates Limited, wrote to the then Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, asking him «to issue an urgent directive from your august office, to SSNIT through its Board Chairman, to take up the 24 % stake holding of the Government of Ghana in the Project SEZ on behalf of the people of Ghana.»

It will be recalled that due to the concerted efforts of the military quite a number of towns and villages hitherto held by the Boko Haram terrorists were liberated, this brought about an unprecedented influx of IDPs to the camp which the terrorists took advantage and infiltrate in order to wreck more havoc among the society.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

«There was some hesitation among my colleagues who wanted to unnecessarily hold the item, but I pushed for this vote to be taken today and not delay the implementation of these crucial funds any longer.

New York state legislature leaders have been discussing whether to hold a special session this month and take up, among other issues, pay raises for lawmakers.

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

The soul searching among Tories came as Nick Clegg hailed the Liberal Democrats» success after Mike Thornton held the seat with a majority of 1,771, taking 13,342 votes to Ukip's 11,571.

Teachers, firefighters, librarians and council staff are among those taking part from several trade unions, with rallies due to be held across the UK.

S: Because among all the planets, it is the one world where we can imagine life as we know it taking hold.

«We don't know if it's women holding on, guarding their domain — especially among the older generation with very traditional views of the division of labor — and only letting go if they really can't do it or if the male partner is getting away with not taking over for as long as possible,» Geist said.

And you are holding back something special from your kids as well, for while these films take themselves seriously and should perhaps be screened before being shown to some younger, more sensitive audiences, they are among the most powerful animated tales being told today, and they deserve to be allowed to wow you.

The original script draft was co-penned by Guillermo del Toro shortly after he made Pan's Labyrinth nine years ago, but the project was put on hold while del Toro worked on a couple films (Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim), a TV series (The Strain), an At the Mountains of Madness adaptation that stalled in pre-production, and The Hobbit before Peter Jackson took over... among other things, that is.

Our members celebrate every imaginable liberated woman among their choices of our top 55 women characters, including a factory worker who demands her rights from her employer, a widow who founds her own successful company in the very unequal 1940s, a woman with no legal property rights who schemes to hold onto her family home, and two friends who take «Give me liberty or give me death» quite literally.

After the U.S. recession took hold in 2008, support for increases in teachers» salaries among both uninformed and informed groups of respondents declined sharply.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (April 16, 2018)-- Renaissance ® a leader in pre-K — 12 learning analytics, today announces that CEO Daniel Hamburger and Vice President and Chief Academic Officer Dr. Gene Kerns will be among the world's top educational technology leaders to take the stage at the 2018 ASU GSV Summit, held April 16 — 18 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.

Among its promises are that Democrats will support free community college for all, make it easier to repay student loans, allow borrowers with student loans to discharge their debts in bankruptcy if necessary, strengthen higher education schools that serve minorities, crack down on «for - profit schools that take millions in federal financial aid,» and continue to work to improve public schools by holding teachers and schools «accountable.»

And although there are a handful of parent - led groups working hard in the state, what strikes us about the «movement» is that it has taken hold everywhere, in bigger, county and district - wide groups, but also in small, school - centered groups like ours, and among individual parents across the city and state.

According to the former editor of Motor Trend magazine, before BMW took «The Ultimate Driving Machine» moniker for itself, American Motors dubbed its high - performance model that could hold its head high in fast company simply «The Machine» and it deserves to be considered among the Greatest Cars of All Time.

The pros among these gentlemanly thieves understood each other perfectly: where amity ended and commerce held sway; where commerce took a backseat and long loyalty asserted its claims.

I found that it held its own among the great post-colonial novels and even took the genre in a new direction.

Among the books arriving next week with waiting holds queues, is Debbie Macomber's next, Rose Harbor in Bloom, (RH / Ballantine; RH & BOT Audio; RH Large Print), released in time to take advantage of the Hallmark series based on Macomber's earlier books, starring Andie MacDowell.

That is why I focus on longer term valuation measures among short - term valuation measures that are neutral at best at present, Mean - reversion eventually takes hold.

If you want to find the best stocks for dividends to fit into a high - quality stock portfolio, consider their past history of dividend payments, the amount of risk you're willing to take, and the geographical diversity of your holdings, among other important stock characteristics.

It is well diversified among many preferred stocks but let's take a look a closer look at what this ETF actually holds.

Furthermore, while investing in a single mutual fund provides diversification among the basic asset classes of stocks, bonds and cash (funds often hold a small amount of cash from which to take their fees), the opportunities for diversification go far beyond these basic categories.

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