Sentences with phrase «under prodding»

The District and at least 25 states, under prodding from the Obama administration, have adopted or are developing value - added systems to assess teachers.

Cuomo has made several recent high - profile appearances with Mangano — including one in Oyster Bay on Saturday — under prodding from D'Amato and from Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos.

The new effort - meant to fix that - is the product of the ideas and determination of the group and a new sense of creativity and flexibility by the park district, under the prodding of Supt. Robert Penn..

In Brookline, TheCountry Club, under prodding from such distinguished members as ArthurHunnewell and G. E. Cabot, appropriated $ 50 for the construction of anexperimental six - hole course.

Under prodding he deduces that, because it lacks the simple symmetry of the Platonic solids, it could be «an inflorescence or flower.»

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It's clearly the atheists attempting to prod and poke Christians to get under their skin and vice versa.

I'll poke and prod under every page looking for the elusive key, and just maybe in my diligence the mighty one will reward my persistence.

If civil rights activists could march from Selma to Montgomery under the threat of dogs and cattle prods and water hoses, can not you and I take a slap in the face without slapping back?

Welbeck prods the ball under Muslera from the Alexis pass.

My baby was poked, prodded, scanned, cathetered, and put under general anesthetic several times.

This means you will have more antenatal appointments, be under a consultant and generally be prodded and poked a bit more than low risk single pregnancy.

Under Cuomo's prodding, the site agreed to ban such ads.

The aim was to gather a range of public opinion about immigration under one roof, and press and prod its skinfolds.

That finding prods EPA to clamp down on industry sectors» emissions under the Clean Air Act.

The Cosmic Cube — an interstellar MacGuffin / source of infinite power that just handily happens to fit inside an attaché case — is being poked and prodded by SHIELD scientists under the beady eye of Sam Jackson's Agent Nick Fury.

One incautious prod too many and the Cube springs to life, causing a rift in space - time that allows malevolent Asgardian demi - God, Loki (Tom Hiddleston, in a continuation of his role in Thor), to pass through into Earth, nick the Cube, smash up the lab and cast archery mad SHIELD toughnut, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), under his spell in order to make good his escape to — purely for the sake of a later Captain America quip about Nazis — Germany.

For instance, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R - Tenn., who served as U.S. secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, extolled the benefits of teacher pay - for - performance programs — and prodded one of the nation's top teachers» union officials on the topic.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Other system - wide investigations under Title VI prodded school districts to adopt racial quotas in school discipline when minority parents argued that an individual teacher or principal had improperly disciplined their child.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan would have $ 5 billion under the stimulus bill to back new approaches to improve schools, a fund that could prod states to raise standards and reward top teachers as the Obama administration presides over a massive infusion of federal education aid.

Either a little lift or prod of the throttle depending on the situation can have the rear of the car moving, and such is the beautiful poise of the V8 Vantage with its engine tucked all the way back up under the dash that it feels like an easy, fluid transition of the load from front to rear.

They call them mules and, while these mash - ups usually give little outward clue to what's coming up, their swollen and mutated shells are as perversely fascinating as any prod - spec test car hidden under false panelwork.

In the reception room, under the gentle but insistent prodding of trained Assimilation Facilitators, Turks and Kurds called a truce, Tutsis queued patiently behind Hutus, Serbs chatted up Croats by the demilitarized water fountain.

Her blog is so often the fire under my feet, the prod in the back to be and to write authentically and courageously.

The effort to understand the dynamics of the mortgage business comes as the administration is prodding lenders to do more to help borrowers under its Making Home Affordable plan, which gives lenders subsidies to lower the payments for distressed borrowers.

For the sake of satisfying curiosity alone, under no circumstances should you poke or prod at newborn puppies to determine whether they are girls or boys.

A version of this story originally appeared in the October 2014 issue of ARTnews on page 68 under the title «Pinched, Poked, and Prodded.»

On Friday, Todd Stern, the lead United States negotiator in climate talks, prodded China sharply in a speech at the University of Michigan Law School, criticizing its negotiators for backtracking from commitments that he said were clear cut under the Copenhagen Accord that emerged from the chaotic talks last December.

It is pushing for new oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat while biologists for Interior Department, prodded by legal action, recommended the bear be given threatened status under the species act because of the warming of the Arctic and summer retreat of sea ice.

UPDATE, 10:30 p.m.: As a backstop should legislation falter (and / or prod to move things along), the Obama administration expanded its actions to curtail greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act today, as well.]

Last week, they took steps to make sure SoCal Gas cleans up its mess, and Governor Jerry Brown says he'll force the company to offset its emissions by support projects that reduce emissions elsewhere — essentially prodding them to do in an ad hoc way what they would have have been forced to do automatically under cap - and - trade.

The knowledge that self - represented litigants are — almost by definition — under - funded can often prod opposing lawyers to engage in litigation practices that would otherwise be considered as vexatious or as an abuse of the court's processes if conducted against a fellow Member of the Bar.

pg 144 - 146 — «Preparing for Court» — Only with his prodding did I take a closer look and was shocked to see that the signature was not mine although the typed name under it was.

It doesn't take much prodding to imagine what might happen if your apartment was destroyed in a fire, or your valuables were stolen right out from under you, and you had no Savannah renters insurance to fall back on.

The spike in popularity of 3D content might have prodded Microsoft to introduce this change under file Explorer.