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Example sentences for: elementary

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As Finn rightly points out, a similar but narrower penalty provision in the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has never been used; although some states have received warnings, none has lost funds, as is permitted under the law.
Instead of reporting to the principal for putting down a colleague, the Fairfax, VA elementary school student took the subway to Reagan National Airport, walked on to a plane, and flew without incident or ticket to St. Louis, the hub of TWA travel.
Critics appointed the show to the pantheon of Zeitgeist landmarks, alongside I Love Lucy , All in the Family , The Mary Tyler Moore Show , and Dallas . The elementary spin: Seinfeld was about the things that really concern Americans today, e.g., parking spaces and low-fat lattes.
Even The Nation , famously defensive on the question of Hiss, calls the biography "an honest and indispensable book that goes a long way toward restoring to Chambers an elementary human plausibility" (gosh, thanks).
Millions of babies are being born to poor teen-agers so lacking in elementary skills, work habits, and self-discipline that they are unlikely to be either responsible parents or self-supporting providers.