Sentences with phrase «faustian pact»

In a grotesque Faustian pact, we have done a deal with the carbon devil: for untold fossil fuel consumption in our lifetime, we are trading our children's place in an earthly paradise.

On May 21st he announced a Faustian pact with the online retailer.

But Vlad learns of a third choice: enter into a faustian pact with reclusive sorcerer Caligula (Charles Dance under all that makeup), gaining superhuman strength with which he can defeat the invaders single handed.

Dir Clive Barker (Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman, Doug Bradley) From the disturbed imagination of gifted British fabulist Clive Barker comes a Faustian pact with a difference, involving a mysterious puzzle - box, a painful rebirth and the diet of human flesh needed to put the skin back on the flayed muscle of jaded sensualist Frank's resurrected body.

And that season of discontents: that was nothing to do, we are supposed to suppose, with his own Faustian pact with the trade unions in destroying In Place of Strife, Barbara Castle's reforming White Paper, nearly a decade before.

Instead, he entered into a Faustian pact with the forces of finance.

«It's like a Faustian pact with the devil, with Flanagan trying to buy more time in power by giving Cuomo something that could devastate the state's economy while boosting the governor's standing with the unions, who want to organize higher - paid workers, and his prospects for president in 2020,» the source continued.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is close to a «Faustian pact» with Democratic Gov. Cuomo to raise the state's minimum wage to a national high of $ 15 an hour — boosting union power and possibly costing New York hundreds of thousands of jobs, The Post has learned.

He appears to have calculated, correctly, that a Faustian pact with the hard right of the Tory party would be a pact too far.

Alastair Campbell was proud of this Faustian pact at the time, and when I rang up the then editor of The Sun, Stuart Higgins, known as the «human sponge» to ask if it were true that his paper would be supporting Labour he said «No!»

Fred Dicker says Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is ready to enter into a «Faustian pact» with the governor, agreeing to a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage hike if Cuomo agrees not to help the Senate Democrats in this year's elections.

Perhaps Salmond should look very carefully at what happened to Nick Clegg when he was offered a similar Faustian pact.

Davies says that Lord Mandleson rejected the idea of a Faustian pact between New Labour government and Rupert Murdoch.

As the fallout from David Cameron's brave decision to veto the Merkozy attempt to force the rest of Europe into some sort of Faustian pact that would lead to full fiscal union of the 17 Eurozone members within the current institutions of the EU, the DPM has used this row to bury some very bad news.

Which looks a little too Faustian a pact for me.

I always suspected a Faustian pact secured this win, are we paying for that luck now?

Gail is well aware of how intrinsically linked to the poisonous empire of the Getty family she is, but in a world in which money talks, she has no choice but to enter into Faustian pacts.