Sentences with phrase «union sympathizers»

In Myers» fast, clever novel, a Civil War project in a Harlem school divides a class into Confederate and Union sympathizers — and a group of student slackers are tasked with mediating peace.

Some see them as obstacles to change, and even union sympathizers agree that their voice in the education debate has been muted.

Critics see them as obstacles to change; even union sympathizers agree that their voice in the education debate has been muted.

Indeed, many teachers union sympathizers have even expressed only lukewarm support for Obama's re-election.

Moreover, the unions face pushback from some Democrats typically known as union sympathizers and friction with the Obama administration, which has placed greater demands on teachers to show student progress in ways the unions oppose, such as frequent testing.

Times reporter Howard Blume won't say, but given the large number of union sympathizers and others who received advance copies, one might well ask: Who didn't leak it?

Bishop Leonidas Polk, the principal founder, a West Point man and the man who helped select Sewanee's location, «by merit of... railway contiguity... [and] mountain air and pure water... beyond the reach of epidemics,» accepted a Confederate commission partly because Union sympathizers burned Sewanee buildings after Lincoln's election.

Neither unions or union organizers or union sympathizers are permitted to disrupt the business of the employer (Just Us!).

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U.S. popular media echoed the European right by trying to frighten Greeks and their sympathizers into believing that the vote is whether or not to remain part of Europe — as if Britain does not have its own currency while remaining part of the European Union.

When tensions begin to rise, Mobray decides to split the room in half, sending Confederate sympathizers to one corner and supporters of the Union to the other.

Still, one must take the rhetoric of union leaders and their media sympathizers with a grain of salt.