• We want to challenge the opposition and stretch them and Brian will be at the forefront of that.

    BBC: Flood applauds new Johnson regime

  • And some parents teach at home because their children are brilliant and public school fails to stretch them.

    ECONOMIST: The growth of home-schooling

  • During two- or three-week residential courses they are exposed to university-level tuition in an effort to stretch them further and broaden their academic interests.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Gifted schools 'getting better'

  • The back of my throat went on tightening, and other muscles lower down my neck joined in, tugging at my lips, trying to stretch them over my teeth.

    NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

  • Some prospects didn't stretch them out far enough.

    FORBES: The Race To Embrace

  • Mr Johnson, speaking at a press briefing, said this could provide a more "transparent" form of testing, highlighting when children needed to be given extra support to catch up or given harder work to stretch them.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | School tests to face shake-up

  • Back then a hacker was simply someone who liked computers who was interested in them, who wanted to stretch them to their limits and wanted to develop new things for them, and help expand the technology in the community.

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  • Setting out a "rapid response" to the data, Sir Michael promised the watchdog's survey would investigate fears that some of the brightest secondary school pupils are being let down by teachers who fail to stretch them to get the best exam results.

    BBC: Ofsted chief voices fears for brightest pupils

  • So it feels a bit odd to tell you about yet another stretch for them into the media player market.

    ENGADGET: Minox DMP-2 media player and MPEG-4 recorder

  • Love is what drives innovation, because it is what brings people together, makes them stretch beyond their usual comfort zones, and allows them to trust each other enough to take a chance and build something novel together.

    FORBES: The Key to Growing Innovation Ecosystems Is... Love?

  • The global health and economic issues Barfield raises are important and sincerely intended, even if it's a stretch to plunk them so personally into the living room of a pair of well-meaning, liberal American yuppies.

    WSJ: Review: 'The Call' is a touching adoption saga

  • The Dodgers' Delta Air Lines private charter, where each player gets a row of three seats to himself, lets them stretch out while enjoying a menu of grilled swordfish, beef fillet or stuffed pork chops, along with salad, fresh fruit and assorted cheeses.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Dodgers' Delta Air Lines (nyse: DAL - news - people ) private charter, where each player gets a row of three seats to himself, lets them stretch out while enjoying a menu of grilled swordfish, beef fillet or stuffed pork chops, along with salad, fresh fruit and assorted cheeses.

    FORBES: How To Travel Like The Pros

  • Under the old law, surviving spouses could roll the 401(k) money into their own individual retirement accounts, allowing them to stretch out distributions and tax deferral for decades.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Lord Jeffs scored the first 10 points, and while Mary Hardin-Baylor never allowed them to stretch that lead much, the Crusaders never managed to trim into it, either.

    NPR: FINALS WATCH: Amherst Wins Division III Title

  • He does this by giving them opportunities to stretch and take on new challenges.

    FORBES: Lin-Sanity and Nurturing Talent

  • But when you let a team get confidence and they start making shots, it's tougher and tougher to guard them down the stretch.

    NPR: Georgia Tech Rallies Past No. 6 Miami 71-69

  • Universities have complained that the current A-level system does not stretch pupils sufficiently or give them the intellectual independence and curiosity needed for degree-level study.

    BBC: A-level students facing shake-up

  • Only a handful of planning inquiries last more than a few months but some involving major projects can stretch over years, making them expensive for all the participants.

    BBC: Planning shake-up unveiled

  • Obese people are at greater risk of heart attacks, diabetes, strokes and a host of other ailments that not merely hurt them, but stretch America's already overtaxed health-care system.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • On Saturday, two other Derby contenders, Vyjack and Normandy Invasion, threatened his lead in the stretch, but he held them off to win by less than a length as the odds-on favorite.

    FORBES: Can Verrazano Make Kentucky Derby History?

  • The bad tastes comes as the Red Storm (15-10, 7-6 Big East) have lost three of their last four during a stretch they knew would show them where they stood in conference.

    WSJ: No. 12 Louisville outlasts St. John's 72-58

  • At night: As I sit quietly in the dark and stretch my arms out between them, while my boys fall asleep, I ask myself: Should I close my eyes or should I think through our next email campaign, or sales tactic?

    FORBES: The Right to Choose: Work and Motherhood

  • Nets center Brook Lopez, who was the centerpiece of the team's efforts to trade for Howard last season, responded by hitting a jumper and a foul shot at the other end, but the Lakers overpowered them down the stretch, scoring the final 10 points of the game.

    WSJ: Bryant's Late Show Upstages Nets

  • The Knicks hung in, but their inability to rebound Miami's misfires hurt them tremendously down the stretch.

    WSJ: Knicks Overcome by the Heat

  • Even ordinary users will flock to a mouse that snaps onto an Internet hyperlink and lets them feel a window stretch (the sensation you get when resizing a window on your desktop).

    FORBES: Desktop fingerprints

  • But when you try and load them, a banner will stretch across the screen, telling you the app won't run on your device.

    ENGADGET: Microsoft Surface with Windows RT review

  • If Obama really threatens to encroach on traditional Republican states, McCain would have to protect them, forcing him to stretch a campaign budget and staff that are dramatically smaller than Obama's.

    CNN: Obama bets big with 50-State Strategy

  • But even when the workers get up to stretch their legs they take their laptop with them.

    BBC: A targeted message from Obama 2012

  • That is a stretch of seven games four of them losses.

    WSJ: Brooklyn Nets: The Nets Snooze, and Lose

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