Sentence examples for a hoop that from inspiring English sources

The current method of assessing practical work is a hoop that too often results in a rushed experience for the students and no real development of skills".

At the Arcidiacono home in Langhorne, Pa., about 30 miles from where Ryan would eventually lead the Villanova Wildcats basketball team, there was a hoop that would spur Arcidiacono to envision incredible feats and stardom.

"Outreach" is just a box-ticking fetish; a hoop that every Arts Council-dependent music group now has to go through.

Choose a hoop that reaches your chest or waist when you stand it on its side.

Shooting a ball into a hoop that high isn't easy, and it takes a lot of practice.

But the England and Wales Cricket Board will be cock-a-hoop that none of their bowlers in this game were snapped up by the Indian Premier League.

Or "Discgate", about which senior Conservatives are so cock-a-hoop that they jokingly offered to pay for the letters sent to the 7m families whose details were lost in the post?In fact, British politics may well have tipped in 2007.

The Government is cock-a-hoop that 85 per cent of pupils aged between four and seven have apparently taken advantage of free school meals (about the only known policy that the benighted Deputy Prime Minister has actually managed to have stick during his reign), but that also reveals that quite a lot of kids are sticking to the old crisps, apple and sandwich formula.

In the words of one correspondent who telephoned Norway immediately afterwards, they are 'cock-a-hoop' that they have escaped punitive duties.

"The self-assembly relies on a folding 'figure 8' structure - a fiberglass hoop that can fold into two smaller rings.

The salako, its origins lost somewhere in French Indo-China, is a wide circle of cotton stretched across strips of bamboo attached to a bamboo hoop that sits on the head like a raised crown.