Sentences with phrase «with gamesmanship»

No expert there, but they seem rife with gamesmanship and potential for distortion.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

What Duncan continually fails to acknowledge is that the underlying reason for that had to do with the gamesmanship by states that didn't make their standards and proficiency targets more - rigorous in the first place, then ramped them up just a few years before the 2014 target would come into play.

I am not into playing games with boys or men nor do I care for the bullshit going with gamesmanship these days.

Not exact matches

Netherlands goalkeeper Tim Krul has defended his behaviour in the penalty shoot - out, in which he appeared to engage in some gamesmanship with the Costa Rican penalty takers:

Its just a shame that the Patriots have tipped the playing field so far that the only way to compete with them is through underhanded Belichickian - style gamesmanship.

everything I try to do with my teams» incorporates his philosophy of gamesmanship and movement.

In this case, with a full investigation underway and counter complaints against New York now part of the mix, there's obviously something more happening here than the usual case of gamesmanship between teams.

Real talk: If the Dodgers were a sporting team, and if they were interested in gamesmanship at all, they would have replaced Kershaw with a starter that had half the strikeout rate last year, too.

Mourinho can have the title this season with his negative tactics, his attempted mind games, the gamesmanship he has drilled into his teams and the huge lack of class he shows to other clubs, managers and the sport we love.

I would not even think of gamesmanship with casual acquaintances.

Rumor has it that with this show of political gamesmanship, Speaker Carl Heastie has outsmarted everyone and has made off with the candies.

His presidential flirtation had ended very badly, with the governor claiming that budget gamesmanship by state senate Republicans was the reason he'd left a plane idling on the runway instead of flying to New Hampshire to file primary petitions.

In answering that question Tribble provides us with a provocative and disturbing glimpse into the gamesmanship of getting orphan drug status; using Medicare as a cash cow to the tune of $ 11 million - a-year; that cozy relationship between Pharma and patient advocacy groups mentioned above; and how a pill goes from $ 80 to $ 550 and can cost a patient $ 180,000 annually.

He devised the story — about a Niagara Falls couple (Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos) whose young daughter is abducted and held prisoner for eight years by a foppish psychopath (Kevin Durand)-- and his screenplay, co-written with TV - movie vet David Fraser, employs his usual structural gamesmanship, leaping to and fro in time and withholding crucial details.

Their scenes, and Johnson's scenes with J. Edgar Hoover (Dylan Baker) focus on the political gamesmanship required to bring about change.

As written by Matt Charman and Joel & Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies is an intellectual exercise in political gamesmanship that is constantly being messed with by real people.

Director John Curran also struggles to contain the film's tone as it veers from re-creation of a tragedy to political gamesmanship; there are laughs to be had in watching a team of people try to create a sympathetic version of Ted Kennedy, but with the memory of Mara's Mary Jo Kopechne so vivid, does he really deserve it?

Without him, the movie would be merely a series of earthly delights from the Food Network, A.D. 1671, even with Mr. Roth's sly gamesmanship and a few other notable performances, including those of Mr. Glover and Timothy Spall, who plays an adviser to the court.

, but looking at the way that both of Marber's pictures flag in the third act while most crucially failing to un-flesh the sympathetic humanity in his icy necropsies highlights the brilliance of Nichols's (an acclaimed theatre vet making his debut here, with his next stop The Graduate), merciless dissection of the intellectual's disease of ennui and gamesmanship.

Buying into the traditionalist thinking that middle - class families already have school choice — and conflating the housing gamesmanship that typifies life in D.C., New York, and Boston, with what happens in the rest of the country — Amundson declares that those families «are never going to be the drivers of this innovation» because choice seemingly exists for them.

This gamesmanship, along with the lack of explanation, makes Eden's analysis even less reliable than it already is.

There is the gamesmanship that goes with crypto - bits like «PPPPPPP.»

His entire work can feel like gamesmanship of a high order, with others writing the rules.

With lifelong terms for the justices, the Supreme Court is rightly designed by our founders to not be as easily affected by political gamesmanship as Congress or the Executive Branch tend to be, however, as we saw with its handling of Citizens United, this current court with its 5 - 4 conservative majority is not afraid to take radical actWith lifelong terms for the justices, the Supreme Court is rightly designed by our founders to not be as easily affected by political gamesmanship as Congress or the Executive Branch tend to be, however, as we saw with its handling of Citizens United, this current court with its 5 - 4 conservative majority is not afraid to take radical actwith its handling of Citizens United, this current court with its 5 - 4 conservative majority is not afraid to take radical actwith its 5 - 4 conservative majority is not afraid to take radical action.

Now, there could be a number of reasons for this: a) he's genuinely unsure how best to navigate the political waters to get climate legislation passed, and is cautiously gathering data, b) curbing emissions and fighting climate change truly does not rank among his highest priorities, c) he's slyly implementing political gamesmanship to push the issue through external forces like imbuing his EPA with the ability to regulate greenhouse gases, or d) a combination of all three.

The principle is that the only reliable way for a law firm to build a lasting positive presence on the web is through the steady and timely production of relevant content: no amount of SEO gamesmanship will outperform good content that builds links with other websites.

First, the Rules expressly charge the judge and the parties with the obligation to work toward a just and efficient outcome, which embraces the concept of cooperation among counsel to avoid gamesmanship and unnecessary delay.

Health care providers argue that lawmakers have to restore some sanity by cutting the gamesmanship that is toying with women's lives.

After years of experience both inside and outside the courtroom, Tim believes that «The collaborative law process promotes a more respectful, honest and fair alternative to divorcing couples, who wish to avoid the time, expense and gamesmanship often associated with the litigation process clients experience through the courts.»