Sentence examples for freshmen from inspiring English sources

If you wanted to be very cynical, you could see the same "insurgency" scheme at work with the other big name that's called for Boehner's ouster – David Brat, the freshmen House member and former economics professor who unseated Eric Cantor.

The new Congress just turned seven months old and already "some of the 87 freshmen who helped the Republicans win back the House last year are bracing for a challenge from within the party".

But by selecting over-doctrinaire and gaffe-prone candidates for several Senate races, they scuppered their chances of winning control of the chamber for the second election running.In the House, Democratic challengers do seem to have unseated some of the Republicans' most outspoken freshmen, such as Allen West of Florida and Joe Walsh of Illinois.

Mr Plott, who is a graduate student, reports that computer games are going the same way: for freshmen studying Interactive Media at his university, "the stigma around video games is more something they've heard existed in the past than something they've experienced themselves".

Latinos fared somewhat better, with 900 freshmen, but that left them behind the 1,100 Asian-American entrants and Latinos outnumber Asian-Americans 12 to one in Texas.

Another poll, by the University of California at Los Angeles, found that 45% of freshmen supported an increase in military spending, more than double the figure in 1992.Why this upturn in conservatism?

A prudent move: Mr Patrick may dispute the lieutenant-governor's position on taxing businesses, but Mr Dewhurst is also the president of the Senate, assigning freshmen to committees and arranging the order in which bills are introduced.Mr Patrick seems to relish his insurgency, though, and most expect him to keep bashing away.

Yet the JRP's freshmen will all be green and, with skeletons not yet out of the cupboard, scandal-prone.

NOT so long ago, Matsushita freshmen lived four to a room in company dormitories.

The percentage of freshmen who believe that abortion should be legal declined for the fifth straight year, from a high of 65% in 1990 to 54% in 1997.

Only one in four college freshmen said that keeping up-to-date with political affairs was an important "life goal"; in 1966, more than half thought it was.