Sentence examples for that potomac from inspiring English sources

Critics of achievement testing contend that Potomac and similar scandals suggest that basic education is being subsumed by a process of relentless testing and ranking of schools based on material values that veer far from scholarship.

Maryland education officials said that the Potomac incident is an aberration in such an affluent district and that the tests, one of the early drives for credible statewide school standards, have been well policed.

Without even saying it, we understand the thrill of this little town on the Potomac that just makes so much sense to us.

Among relatively few heroes is Herman Haupt, the Union Army's rail strategist, who in just nine days rebuilt a bridge over the Potomac that the Confederates had destroyed.

Why should conservative activists trudge into battle for Mr Bush once more when he is expanding the very "puzzle-palaces on the Potomac" that St Ronald preached against It has also alienated many swing voters.

But he did so on Sept. 2, by putting he put McClellan in charge of a reorganized Army of the Potomac that incorporated the remnants of Pope's Army of Virginia.

Max describes his childhood as surprisingly normal, but the reality must have been painfully complicated: a soft kid in a chaotic, fatherless home, surrounded by the framed reminders of Camelot and so allergic to the pollen blowing in off the Potomac that he couldn't be without an inhaler.

The withdrawal to the Potomac that could have been a disaster was handled masterfully.

For the federal Army of the Potomac, that was a 27percentt casualty rate.

We are all emotionally spent from the debacle on the Potomac that played out recently over raising the debt ceiling.

No significant progress was made by the Army of the Potomac that fall, and the 22nd settled into a camp near Brandy Station, Virginia which they named "Camp Barnes" after their division commander who had been wounded at Gettysburg.