Sentences with phrase «like jabbing»

That reads to me like a jab at Cuomo and the business - backed Committee to Save NY, which has launched TV ads of its own to support Cuomo's plan.

Like a jab of Botox, or a nip here and a tuck there, the car's updated exterior design gives the ageing mid-sizer a fresh lease on life and looked right at home in LA, where facelifts and implants are as common gridlock on the 405 freeway.

Even the very fact that zombies were chosen to star in the game feels like a jab at the current trend of having zombies in freaking everything.

Not exact matches

In that regard, the night belonged to the three Senators on stage, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who circled each other like prize fighters, jabbing and swiping and also taking their licks like pros.

Also, I probably shouldn't have used the «aspergers - like» term, as I'm not a doctor and that's a too personal jab to make in hindsight.

«This is for building real long - term relationships, not just hookups,» Mr. Zuckerberg said, in an apparent jab at dating apps like Tinder that have a reputation for stoking casual romantic behavior.

Just this weekend, he echoed that statement, with a more direct jab at Facebook, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, telling the audience at a conference in China, «The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist.»

«This is for building real long - term relationships, not just hookups,» Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, said in an apparent jab at dating apps like Tinder.

Newcastle's award - winning «If We Made It» campaign was a playful jab at American beer marketing, while its Independence Day «If We Won» campaign showed comedian Stephen Merchant rhapsodizing on what America would be like if the Britons won the Revolutionary War.

Nonetheless, an entire industry of bankers and lawyers, «mercenaries like Goldman Sachs», as Icahn puts it, has sprung up to protect CEOs and corporate boards from Icahn's stinging jabs.

His stories are like banter among friends, or the humor of a political cartoon that takes a humorous jab at an opponent.

But, the truth is the bible is far from fantasy, but you've never really studied the history, culture, of the bible have you, you just like to jab.

Like a sign that had a big Crescent on it and said «Mohammad is a myth» would be a jab at Muslims.

The «dictionary» comment, is a satirical jab at atheists based in reductio absurdum... intended to provoke a passionate response (like cheese on a mousetrap, as I said).

Though it sounds like you might be taking a jab at Christian speakers who travel and stay in hotel rooms?

If attentions are turned to pumping a dry well like this Rationalism vs. Religion false dilemma, no matter which way it's flipped, ahem, then people will clump into opposing camps and the jabs, barbs or slams of one sort or another increase.

An example might be where one sports opponent jokingly verbally «jabs» the other with a comment like, «We're going to kill you!»

It was like the flu jab — it gave you a wee dose so that you wouldn't get the real thing!

My head is still reeling from the jabs of manipulation and my mind still isn't clear on what a healthy church looks like.

They'll burn cigarettes into my skin, jab me anyplace they like, bloody my nose, blacken my eyes, laugh at my tears, hold a gun to my head, cut me, tattoo me, as their eyes grow large and excited.

He also took a jab at Tony the Tiger, saying cereals like Kellogg's sugar - laden Frosted Flakes are why the U.S. has a major childhood obesity problem.

It feels like an intended jab at our situation.

Yes he has his faults and I take a jab or two at him aswell when I see something, but I kinda feel for his because whether we like it or not he is apart of us.

With each squad in the bottom five of the league in terms of pace, the game figures to play like an even boxing match with each opponent trading jabs until the later rounds.

again with the wenger moan everyday u be whining like augustus gloop when he got sucked up willy wonkas chocolate suction tube... (that wasnt a jab at your weight cupcake)

I did kind of like him poking the bear and making comments at Saban with the «we are the true National Champions» jab after they beat Auburn and went undefeated.

Liston also fabricated quaint metaphors to describe phenomena ranging from brain damage to the effects of his jab: «The middle of a fighter's forehead is like a dog's tail.

It would cost him; the jab is the one weaponForeman still throws like a young man.

«I haven't had anybody jabbing at me or asking dumb questions like, Why'd you fumble that ball?»

Every single person watching that fight was probably curious as fuck when Khabib was jabbing like crazy.

And it's not like he was the random, temporary kind of postseason hero that October likes to jab in your eye: he was a young player, and getting better.

He landed 1000 fairly standard jabs, whiffed nearly every other punch he threw, and his defence consisted of pinning his chin to his chest and leaning back like he was in a wind tunnel.

The second looked pretty much exactly like the first fight SHOULD have looked, that is to say, Rose still slipped JJ's jab and countered to the eyes, while JJ leveraged her robotic pace and relentless pressure to rack up the fightmetric statistics.

From glancing over at my 240p download it looked like Hughie was jabbing his face off.

Like two prized fighters, these two giants of European football sized each other up with gentle jabs before Robin Van Persie delivered a knockdown in the 78th minute.

Had his jabs today and like every time does nt make a sound.

«All of this felt like a punch to the stomach, but the jab that hurt the most were the numbers around children,» said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which supplies about 600 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.

But rest assured that there is no bad meaning to your baby ever moving inside your tummy, even if it feels like a painful kick or a strong jab from your baby.

The president joined in on the verbal jabs and roasting of political figures — even himself — joking that it was «another calm week at the White House» and adding: «we finally have it running like a fine - tuned machine.»

Ed Miliband knows what it must have been like for Jesse Norman to encounter David Cameron in finger - jabbing form.

«This governor and the mayor of New York City have taken political jabs at each other and at the same time, even on an issue like this, neither has shown the willingness to put muscle behind the positions they have taken,» Martin said.

Khan took a jab at Corbyn and Livingstone's record with Jewish Londoners last year, telling the Jewish Chronicle that Labour had to move away from its «unacceptable anti-Jewish» image, adding: «I want to reassure you I'm not like the last guy».

The attempt by the NPP and its surrogates like Mrs Samira Bawumia to wage a personal war against President Mahama would be met with equal jabbing from GOYCA; this is not a threat.

And he proceeded to blast the conditions at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex in 10 years as too long of a timeline — both clear jabs at de Blasio — and said he would like to see an end to cash bail.

His standard rhetorical technique when talking about Her Majesty's Opposition is the finger - jab of doom, a gesture of condemnation which was again and again inflicted on Labour like some sort of ultimate weapon.

Paladino is a loose cannon but if you watch the video, the reporter Dicker (that's his real name) was not acting like a reporter and in fact was jabbing his finger in an aggressive manner toward Paladino.

Writing for the Blairite Progress magazine in 2013, Johnson described trade union officials as «fat, white, finger - jabbing blokes on rostrums shouting and screaming» [38] and said in 2014 that «A perception that Labour is in the pocket of the unions is damaging to the party... The precious link between Labour and the unions becomes a liability rather than an advantage when it is allowed to look like a transaction.»

Computer networks may never float like a butterfly, but Penn State information scientists suggest that creating nimble networks that can sense jabs from hackers could help deflect the stinging blows of those attacks.

There I was, feeling like a cross between a superstar chef and a crack addict, madly jabbing a needle into a scrunched - up pouch of freeze - dried NASA shrimp cocktail, injecting a bit of water, and watching the water dribble uselessly back out.

That emotional excitement triggers the memory - enhancing cycle all over again, making the traumatic memory even stronger, like a spinning tire deepening the muck hole it's stuck in with each jab on the accelerator.