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221 examples of Elementary in a sentence

I just rediscovered this show that I used to watch when I was in elementary school and have to say that it's held up really well.
Acting on par with that of my first play in elementary school.
While wandering on the street, David meets Judy who studied with him in the elementary school and they spend the day together.
My main focus was a young couple with an elementary school aged son, who find themselves unable to cope with his behavioral problems.
In the case of Sharkwater the ideas and ideals of the author were at the level of an elementary school student.
Humor, satire, and violence here exist on a very elementary level--the "plot" (college girl kills to become a teacher's assistant) has no link, in tone or character, to anything established in the first film or book.
It's unbelievable that a film made in the 21st century could be this elementary visually.
At the moment I left all of my elementary school books in Italy
But screenwriters John Lee Mahin (can this really be the same guy who wrote the lively, bawdy "Red Dust" 20 years earlier?) and Myles Connolly make elementary mistakes: They make Walker's secret ridiculously obvious without even telling us what D.C. department he works for, and they end scenes arbitrarily.
i've seen better acting in elementary school plays.
It opens with a portrayal of children at a Massachussetts elementary school planting a time capsule in 1959 that was to be opened 50 years later.
Particular attention should be given to elementary schools and libraries outside of cities.Afghanistan poses particular difficulties in reconstruction, as it is not a society with a strong political center.
In my new book The Republic of Beliefs, I show that the essence of his argument can be given formal structure using elementary game theory.
Indeed, the basic principle taught in the first weeks of any elementary economics course is to let bygones be bygones – don’t cry over spilt milk.
In a series of innovative papers, Stiglitz picked up some elementary facts about the economy that lay strewn about like jigsaw pieces, put them together, and proved why some prices were naturally sticky, thereby creating market inefficiencies and thwarting the functioning of the invisible hand.
In India, as in many other countries, the platforms are also rife with falsehoods, spread without even the most elementary fact checking.
To illustrate the role of recess on attention, consider the findings of a series of experiments conducted in a public elementary school, in which we manipulated recess timing, or the time children spent doing seatwork before recess.
He might have added that the business of business everywhere is to pursue profits, for lately some corporate leaders seem to have lost sight of that elementary precept.
That means investing more in education at all levels – in early-childhood education programs, elementary and secondary schools, community colleges, trade-school programs for specific jobs in specific sectors, and financial aid for higher education.
Preparations for the Brexit negotiations have been underway for some time, but they have so far been impaired by three elementary negotiating mistakes, and now must deal with the fact that the British government’s mandate to act has been damaged severely.
But the police made an elementary error that revealed the set-up: after supposedly receiving an anonymous tip about Ahmet A. (a pseudonym), they mistakenly searched Ahmet B.’s home – and yet somehow found the incriminating files among B.’s possessions.
Unfortunately, colleges, high schools, and even elementary schools are unlikely to mandate introductory courses in critical thinking on their own.
Declaring in advance - in defiance of the elementary rules of war making - that NATO will not use ground troops gave Milosevic the advantages of initiative and a sense of security.
Ms. Park once pledged to provide loans for working-class families from elementary school to college years, while contending that local universities should be empowered to have more autonomy.
Millions of sows must now have the elementary freedom not only to turn around, but to walk.
At a time when more and more Russians are being denied passports to travel outside the country, those tempted by authoritarianism would do well to recall the elementary point made by John F. Kennedy in his Berlin speech in 1963.
The initial approach was to link policy improvements in the borrowing countries not only with help from international institutions, but also with additional lending from the banks – which seemed to defy the most elementary canons of sensible bank behavior.
As early as elementary school, girls are discouraged from pursuing careers in math and science, and this bias continues into university, where fewer women study for PhDs, hold research positions, or join the faculty.
The media trial of my wife’s death, fueled by politically motivated leaks, was drawn out as long as possible and made into a spectacle, with voyeuristic TV discussion shows debating accusations and imputations based on zero evidence or even elementary research.
At a recent launch of a “school-to-school” link connecting an elementary school in the United States with one in Kenya, young children across an 8,000-mile divide shared a “read-aloud,” and then reflected in amazement and delight that they could share a story with kids in another part of the world.
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