Sentences with phrase «yanks call»

No, not that European tomfoolery we Yanks call soccer.

Something was already wrong in the U.S. wizarding community, leading to hostilities between witches and wizards and No - Majs (what the Yanks call Muggles, or nonmagical people).

It's a musical culture clash between stone and bronze age, as played on the field of football (or soccer as we Yanks call it), quite wonderfully tag - teamed by Brit composers Harry Gregson - Williams («Shrek») and Tom Howe («Professor Martson and the Wonder Women»).

The story of cave men who discovered what we Yanks call soccer, it quite literally drops the rock... er, ball.

I prefer the model (I heard it from Frost n Hirsch) of the Aussie cattle properties (I think Yanks call»em ranches) where there are no fences but instead deep wells.

I reckon If Wenger pulls in the same Bacon??? before the season ends then the Yank called Stan will give him the nod of approval to continue.?

Not exact matches

With just your voice, you can pull up photos from your Google Photos library, make video calls with the Google Duo service, and, notably, play YouTube videos — potentially a big selling point for these devices, given Google recently yanked support for YouTube from Amazon Echo and Fire TV devices.

In recent years, other large companies, including Microsoft, General Electric and Accenture Consulting, have dropped the practice — often called stack ranking, or «rank and yank» — in part because it can force managers to get rid of valuable talent just to meet quotas.

Wright runs the Prime Minister's Office and, with the odd phone call, will yank the steering wheel in any minister's office that needs it.

Programs like these are called safety nets for a reason — yank them away and people get hurt, today more than ever.

Bet if we tried a show called «Tried & True Americans» it would get yanked because it would be insulting to other nationalities, religions, etc.... we're not even suppose to say «Merry Christmas» because it's insulting to others... that's BS... this was OUR country long before it belongs to others... if you want to come to our country then you respect our beliefs and our traditions, DO NOT make us change them because you don't agree with them..

In this week's edition of Last Call: Allagash begins canning; a Louisiana lawmaker yanks a bill to allow younger adults access to alcohol; and more.

As long as the Yank, Ivan the Terrible and Le Whatever are calling the shots @ the Emirates Arsenal will never provide this opportunity to WC players.

Very sad, almost unbelievable, that a club like Arsenal is going to end up on the garbage tip because of a greedy Yank a weak board and a traitor called Wenger.

I wonder if the Yanks will invade the Emirates, nick all the Oil and drag Wenger off to Guantanamo Bay or whatever it's called????

xhaka and ramsey is a none midfield,,, neither dominate nor create... our idiot frog so called manager persists with this combo even when it obviously does nt work... nothing to do with the greedy yank

And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends, For I will not have that Shit.

The GOP effort to make an issue of the Working Families Party line has reached new heights today, with a Republican congressional contender calling on his Democratic target to reject Row E despite the fact that it has been very publicly yanked from him.

Republican Sen. Bill Larkin's campaign has written to cable providers and a national ad buying firm calling on them to yank ads by a super PAC backed by the New York State United Teachers union which claim he received a 47 percent pay increase.

Transportation activists and political opponents called for City Hall to yank state Sen. Marty Golden's parking placard after a cyclist reported Golden waved his placard and claimed to be a cop in an effort to clear the bike lane, but de Blasio has remained silent.

Trump has pledged to yank all federal funding to so - called sanctuary cities.

After a heated debate and slow roll call voted, the bill was yanked from the floor yesterday just before it was about to fail.

Brooklyn state Sen. Marty Golden's bike lane of trouble is widening to freeway proportions — with transportation activists and political opponents calling on City Hall to yank his parking placard...

While the agreements slightly raised the thresholds for removing an apartment from the rent stabilization program and for passing along the costs of building improvements to tenants, it did not eliminate a landlord's power to yank a unit out of rent control once it becomes unoccupied, a reform Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo both called for.

According to astrophysicist Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, something from way beyond the edge seems to be pulling powerfully on galaxies in our universe, yanking them along in a motion he calls «dark flow.»

The trouble is that one of the metabolites, a specific estrogen quinone, latches onto and rapidly yanks out a DNA building block called adenine.

Well, since the FDA crackdown in 2004 there have been two types: Ones that don't work and are just another supplement industry rip - off of your money, and what I call legal loophole prohormones, which are essentially compounds that the FDA hasn't caught up with and yanked off the market yet (remember, anabolic steroids themselves were legal until the 1980s - still are in some countries - and until late 2004 so were the previous generation of prohormones).

For just a minute, in the 5th century sequences, Stanley Tucci yanks a few laughs out of some bizarre line readings calling attention to the fact that nobody else providing comic relief in «Saturday Knight Fever» or whatever it's called is remotely funny.

If the Footloose remake had its own signature dance, it'd be called the Push - Pull, as this hip - to - be-sorta-square movie, much like the small - town teens within it, has a mind for propelling itself toward a progressive future while continually being yanked back by cherished hallmarks of the past.

This slice of British football sports history won't have any cultural resonance for us Yanks, who still insist on calling the sport soccer, but the portrait of ambition and hubris run amuck resonates in any arena, even if the script boils down his motivation for jumping ship and taking over the league bruisers and longtime champions Leeds United (the «Damned» of the title) to a grudge against their longtime coach and the sport's most successful manager Don Revie (Colm Meaney).

While that certainly resulted in interesting scores for an array of obsessive Anderson characters, these soundtracks often called attention to themselves in a way that yanked the viewer into the hauntingly weird music itself as opposed to watching the movie — which is the case again with Anderson's typically confounding, if more accessible «Phantom Thread.»

«Yes, of course I remember you,» I heard Hugh say into the phone, yanking me back to the call, the bleary morning.

Don't yank him forward to you, just stop and call him toward you.

In a happy manner, being praised and played with, not being yanked in on a lead, or the owner calling them in a threatening manner, and the dogs coming back hesitantly.

Don't yank him back over to you with the leash, just call him over and praise him when he comes.

If some of the Yanks or the Brits want a different breed than the internationally traditional GSD, let them call theirs the Alsatian or something else, rather than the German Shepherd.

Nestled in the heart of midtown at 153 West 57th street, the hotel is situated just opposite Carnegie Hall and a short stroll from Central Park — what the Yanks would call prime real estate location.

Halasz writes: «this show has a number of paintings that yank the artist out of his stately cubo - surrealist orbit of the 40s and situate him far more certainly in the tempestuous ensuing decade... they situate their creator far more persuasively in the turbulent 50s and justify his claim to be called an outstanding member — if not of the first, certainly of the second abstract expressionist generation.»

In my experience Brits have a hard time concealing their contempt for Yanks as they call the Americans and American politicians of a conservative inclination are at top of the list in a Brit's pantheon of the «damnable Yanks».

But he put out a call to readers asking if anyone had saved the decision before it was yanked.

To yank those sky high rates back to earth, investigate so - called multi-line discounts (insuring your auto and home through the same carrier, e.g.).

Hogg and several other students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School responded by calling for an advertising boycott of Ingraham's show and tweeting a list of companies people could contact to demand they yank their ads.

There have been calls for Apple to yank BMW's license or otherwise intervene to stop the jackassary being perpetrated under one of its brands.

The buyer must have yanked some strings, because after three telephone calls, the relocation person finally left me a message saying I could go ahead and work with the buyer — no referral fee would be charged and there'd be no loss of benefits to the employee.