Rather than casting aspersions on your opponent's character, how about telling us what your policies will be?

I read a news story about a French elementary school teacher whose entire body was tattooed. He lost his job because his bizarre appearance scared some students.

"No" was the brusque answer the teacher gave to the students who asked for an extension on the assignment.

The chorus teacher cajoled the 8th grade boys into joining high school chorus with the promise that they would be in a class with upperclassmen girls.

I know what I did was wrong, but did you have to castigate me in front of my friends?

The students quickly contrived a plan to have their own homecoming celebration since the official proceedings were cancelled.

The demagogue was able to fool voters the first time with his false promises and his appeals to people's prejudices, but it might not work twice.

If you think you can easily get something for nothing in this world, allow me to disabuse you of that notion.

I get the feeling that some virtual students (okay, and some face-to-face, too) are afflicted with ennui, finding it hard to be engaged or to care about topics being taught from a distance.

The prisoner was fettered as well as handcuffed to keep him from escaping during his transfer from one prison to another.

Because the crime was especially heinous, the prosecuting attorney asked for the maximum sentence allowable.

One immutable fact of nature is that heat will cause ice to melt (except in that one poem by Sir Edmund Spenser).

The insurgent forces and their attempt at revolt represented no real threat to the government's army and its massive forces.

The department chair suffered from megalomania, mistakenly believing that he possessed special skills and talents just because he had been given a job no one else really wanted.

I had a job in college I would call a sinecure; I frequently took two-hour lunch breaks and would ride the bus around the whole UGA campus when running a simple errand. And my supervisor didn't care!

The student made a surreptitious attempt to glance at the test of the kid next to him, but the teacher saw it anyway.

There are legal consequences for company's and individuals who transgress the rules set out for paying taxes and reporting income.

Alchemists devoted their studies to attempting to transmute common metals like lead into precious ones like gold.

Sports fans experience the vicarious thrills and anguish of the wins and losses of their favorite teams from the comfort of the stands or their sofas.