Sentence examples for formidable teachers from inspiring English sources

Even Randi Weingarten, the president of the city's formidable teachers' union, has abandoned her longtime opposition to mayoral control.

Born in California to Korean parents, Kim studied with three seminal figures in 20th-century music who were also formidable teachers: Schoenberg, Block and Sessions.

Born in Queens in 1951, Mr. Tsontakis was influenced as a young man by two formidable teachers, Roger Sessions and Hugo Weisgall.

With the arrest on embezzlement charges of Esther Elba Gordillo, the head of the formidable teachers' union, Mr Peña has proved them wrong just three months into his presidency.

Visions of stardom may not dance through the heads of most academics, but if they want to reach and inspire audiences inside, or outside, the classroom, they'd do well to follow the example of these three formidable teachers.

As New York City's formidable teachers' union prepares to endorse a Democratic candidate for mayor as soon as next month, one thing is abundantly clear: Mark Green, the city's public advocate, will almost certainly not be the union's pick.

But it made clear that Mr. Bloomberg's educational philosophies fall somewhere between those of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the United Federation of Teachers, the city's formidable teacher union.

Hunter's other key stage performances included the formidable teacher in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Big Mama in Williams's Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Tonks, a formidable teacher (and a historical figure who trained as a surgeon before becoming an artist), is disappointed with Paul's skilled but emotionally detached sketches of nude women.

As an increasing number of people are discovering, anyone trying to bring about effective change in a typical school district quickly runs into opposition from two formidable foes: teachers' unions and the "educrats" who run school districts.

Spearheaded by a formidable composer, teacher and polemicist, Arnold Schoenberg, it inspired controversy and occasional concert hall riots.