Sentence examples for makes the academy from inspiring English sources
As Kelly endures rigorous boot-camp training and even a court-martial at the hand of her own stepfather, she begins to see the value of the military life - especially after she makes the academy's distinguished drill team and impresses Brad Shawn Ashmoree), the cutest boy in school.
"It makes the Academy look obsolete," added Laura Poitras, a past nominee and member of the Academy whose documentary, "The Oath," was nonetheless on the snub list last year.
The overwhelmingly unadventurous slew of nominations for Spielberg's War Horse and Scorsese's Hugo makes the Academy look like a toddler reaching for the comfort of its old, moth-chewed blankie in a year when most mainstream movies underwhelmed critically and commercially.
Perhaps Denzel Washington said it best in an interview included in the previously mentioned LA Times story, when he said the Academy needs to 'open it up,' and 'balance' its membership: "If the country is 12percentt black, make the academy 12percentt black.
Recent advances in quality, affordable educational technologies made the academy more viable as well.
In an interview, Mr. Rubinstein, 56, described his job as finding ways to make the academy more lively, "a fun place".
When the National Academy Museum sold two important Hudson River School paintings in 2008 to pay its bills, the Association of Art Museum Directors came down hard with sanctions, making the academy a pariah in the museum world and a symbol for the evils of deaccessioning.
It may be early days, but Plymouth's schools and its council are convinced they can make the academy model work as a system of collaboration rather than every school going it alone.
He was credited with making the academy "almost solvent" for the first time since King George III had to bail it out with a gift of £370 when it was barely a year old.
Secretary Roche has come up with changes designed to make the academy's procedures more in line with those of the regular Air Force and break up a secretive culture clearly intended to make female cadets feel that they do not belong.
In an effort to make the academy both more gender balanced and more diverse, more than 700 new members will be invited and the 70% male and 30% female makeup of previous years will shift to become 52% male and 48% female.
