Sentences with phrase «up against the university»

Without legal counsel, I would have been up against the university and the criminal justice system without a single ally.

Not exact matches

When I speak on this topic, I start my presentation by showing a photo of me jumping up and blocking a field goal during an North Carolina State game against rival University of North Carolina.

Up against NDP and Liberal opposition parties both opposed to Gateway, Harper «can't afford to lose many seats» in B.C., observes Richard Johnston, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia.

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

CNN: My Take: McCain takes down Bachmannism and stands up for America Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» praises Sen. John McCain for defending Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, after accusations were leveled against her by some congressional Republicans.

Would that the editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education had held Professor Conn's essay up to the rigorous standards of rationality and attention to evidence that he says he wishes to enforce against the religious colleges and universities he regards as benighted.

And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against belief in and fidelity to any God.

One of the 12 men is a recent university graduate; all of the rest are still students in an era in which young people are locking arms and marching against the war in Vietnam, against racism, against authority, standing up and sitting in for Truth and Justice.

The former University of North Dakota star also picked up his first career game - winning goal against San Jose.

The University of the South did indeed have winter vacation instead of summer up to 1908, by which time certain social changes seemed to have somewhat weakened the obvious arguments against summer recess.

Kent State's self - proclaimed freaks attended the game against Ohio University to mock it but wound up cheering along with the squares

Hear directly from women who went up against Michigan State after violent or sexual assaults by athletes, as well as a former counselor at the university who says this could've been stopped — tonight on the 6p edition of @SportsCenter and Sunday at 9a ET on @E60.

Our team are warming up for Wednesday's Cup game on Monday evening, playing against Liverpool John Moores and the University of Manchester, before the Manchester Thunder vs Surrey Storm game at Wright Robinson College.

The captains that day, Heather Lawrence (nee Bunting) and Sophia Marchandani (nee Peggers), were keen rugby fans and were responsible for setting up a women's team to compete against «the Other Place» as at the time, there was no women's rugby at either university.

They picked up home wins against Boston University and Miami (OH) before treking up to Bloomington on Thursday night to take on Indiana.

Cambridge kick - off their BUCS campaign against Bristol University today after warm - up matches against Birmingham and East Anglia Universities.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

Femi Makinde The Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has set up a joint investigative panel with the senate of the institution to further probe the sex - for - mark allegation levelled against Prof. Richard Akindele by a female post-graduate student of Business Administration, Monica Osagie.

Schneiderman, in a television interview, called Trump University a «straight - up fraud» and predicted he would prevail in his lawsuit against the defunct for - profit program affiliated with the presidential candidate.

Marjean «Carrie» McLaughlin will leave her post as dean of students at Niagara University, although an investigation concluded she did not attempt to cover up a rape allegation against a member of the university's men's basketUniversity, although an investigation concluded she did not attempt to cover up a rape allegation against a member of the university's men's basketuniversity's men's basketball team.

Timothy Wu, a Columbia University law professor, is running against Hochul and is teamed up with Teachout in a campaign focused on what they contend have been Cuomo's failures to follow through on pledges to deal with corruption and campaign finance reform, among other issues.

«The only real advantage that Schneiderman's retreat gives Republicans is that it is now an open seat, and challengers always have a better chance when going up against a nonincumbent,» Lawrence Levy, executive dean of Hofstra University's National Center for Suburban Studies, said.

Researchers at China's Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University devised a CRISPR / Cas 9 technique to give cloned dairy cows a leg up against the bacteria behind bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis).

Agrillo, of the University of Padua in Italy, is finishing up several years of pitting humans against fish in trials of their abilities to compare quantities.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

The majority of university start - ups are registered as a limited [liability] company to protect scientists and other principles against personal financial liability.

There are no rules against it, but becoming an item with one of your colleagues can make others wary of you, says Simon Barker, a PhD student at Newcastle University who works in the same lab as his girlfriend, as well as running a start - up with her.

In a 2003 study psychologists at Northumbria University in England found much higher testosterone levels in soccer players preparing to play against a team they considered an extreme rival than in those matched up with a moderate rival.

This year, a bot called Libratus designed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University played heads - up (two - player) poker against four highly ranked professionals and was convincingly victorious.

«For someone to go up against alectinib, it would be nice to know earlier if there might be an improvement,» says Robert C. Doebele, MD, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and associate professor of Medical Oncology at the CU School of Medicine.

Planting a large - scale seaweed farm would likely come up against stiff opposition from those who are not used to seaweed farms in their backyards, agreed Mike Graham, an ecologist specializing in seaweed at the California State University - associated Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Improved population estimates could help resource managers to weigh up the economic benefits that forests provide in terms of water purification, soil conservation and other functions against those of harvesting or clearing trees for farmland, says ecosystems - services ecologist Becky Chaplin - Kramer of Stanford University in California.

«This is definitely promising,» says Karl Skriner, an immunologist at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, «but they still have to show that antibodies don't eventually build up against the hybrid molecule and make it ineffective,» which has hampered similar attempts.

The studies support the concept of using natural exposure in combination with malaria - fighting drugs to help people build up protection against disease, says malaria vaccine researcher Robert Sauerwein of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

With up to 50 nations around the world developing military robots, says physicist Jürgen Altmann of Dortmund Technical University in Germany, opposing aerial drones could ultimately square off against each other.

Thanks to the participation of patients in Sweden, Spain, France and Germany, we can now predict the risk of suffering a serious side - effect of medication against toxic goitre,» says Pär Hallberg, chief physician and associate professor at Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, Uppsala University Hospital (Akademiska sjukhuset) who also set up the European Drug Induced Agranulocytosis Consortium (EUDAC).

One of the most common insecticides used in the battle against the Aedes aegypti mosquito has no measurable impact when applied in communities where the mosquito has built up resistance to it, a study led by Emory University finds.

And the National Sea Grant College program pays for university - based efforts to shore up coastal economies and communities against the ravages of climate change and extreme weather.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge (UC) have allowed an embryo to grow in the lab for a full 13 days, brushing right up against the legal limit.

Insulin benefits of exercise «One previous small study found that trained and untrained people who dose up on antioxidant supplements impair important exercise training adaptations such as improved insulin sensitivity and production of special proteins that actually help defend the body against oxidative stress caused by exercise,» says Tim Crowe, Associate Professor in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University and founder of Thinking Nutrition.

Beetroot contains the bioactive agent betaine, which clinical studies from the University of Maryland found may protect against the fatty build - up associated with liver disease.

Fish oil protects for up to seven years against psychoses Fish oil offers protection against psychoses, concluded psychiatrists at the Medical University of Vienna a couple of years ago after doing a small study in which they gave young people at risk fish - oil capsules for 12 weeks.

This was surprising, says first author Jessica Salvatore, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University — since it goes against commonly held beliefs that divorce runs in families because children watch and learn from their parents and grow up to mimic their behavior.

Whether you're for or against this form of «facial intercourse,» as coined by sexologist Dr. Ava Cadell at Loveology University, kissing can be a highly erotic and playful activity that can enhance the attachment and bonding process of new dating partners (not to mention hiking up the horniness factor with those raging hormones and adrenaline!)

And - we need to stand up against the potentially increasing fees that universities may impose.

Competition was fierce with George being the youngest there and many of those he was up against already studying at conservatoires and universities.

It draws on recent research on antisemitism and focuses on two examples: a student who spoke up against antisemitism at the University of Birmingham (UK) and then was attacked online, as well as a young man in Sweden who is committed to standing up against antisemitism and xenophobia.

The union is «up against a wall,» said Terry Moe, a Stanford University professor whose work focuses on teachers unions.

Howard Smith, a professor of bicultural - bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, explained: «One of the arguments levied against African - American children, especially in the poor areas where the dual - language programs are springing up, is that, «Well, these kids don't speak standard English anyway, and we need to work on their standard English.

Madeloni's leave of absence was extended by two years, in exchange for giving up all employment rights and claims against the university.