Sentences with phrase «against the head of»

The series, from executive producer David E. Kelley, stars Billy Bob Thornton as Billy McBride, a washed - up lawyer whose professional life is turned upside down when a young lawyer who has just been fired from his old firm brings him a wrongful death case that pits him against the head of his former firm.

This culminated in our first debate elections, which pitted the head of the conservatives against the head of the liberals, while party members on both sides peppered them with questions.

I remember a small dog I saw groomed that was so matted and dirty the dog couldn't hardly walk, the ears were matted against the head of the dog, you couldn't tell if the dog was a male or female, and dog poop had caked and hardened around the dog's tail.

His end note # 105 is for a Vanity Fair 2007 article hit piece against the head of a think tank... containing apparently an obligatory swipe from Ross Gelbspan concerning the funding and thus the reliability of any scientists connected with such think tanks.

Heads of Chambers may well be conflicted from deciding such matters, as a finding in favour of a member of chambers could well lead — and has led — to a fresh complaint by an aggrieved ex-client against the Head of Chambers.

They took the doors off and positioned the back against the head of the bed, then covered it in fabric to match the blinds and cushions.

Not exact matches

Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia - Pacific at futures brokerage OANDA, said new sanctions against Tehran «could...

Not surprisingly, Trump's remarks triggered outrage among the media because it amounts to a head - on attack against the principle of a free press — a fundamental element of the U.S. democratic system.

From there, we will look at whether these cases warrant an administrative posture or criminal investigation,» said Benner, acting head of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations, which oversees cases against employers.

It's why, for example, someone like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, as the head of the largest asset manager in the world, has felt compelled to take a stand against short - termism.

«Given the strength of the currents, it is preferable to head north to Mobile, rather than attempt to tow against them,» Carnival president GerryCahill said in a statement.

In response, Nick Ciubotariu, Amazon's head of infrastructure development, responded on LinkedIn, defending his company against accusations that he claims are wholly misinformed.

There is widespread opposition across the euro zone against Jens Weidmann, the current head of the German Bundesbank, as the debate grows over who's going to replace ECB President Mario Draghi next year.

A coalition of smaller lab companies in Ontario — headed by former Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy, who now serves as CEO of Ontario's Alpha Labs — fought a noisy battle against the LifeLabs - CML merger.

Force 47 has worked pro-actively against distorted information, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing Nguyen Trong Nghia, deputy head of the general politics department under the Vietnam People's Military.

A statement to commit violence against a vulnerable person or group such as «heads - of - state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists» counts here too.

They call it a «four position» carrier because in the chest face - in configuration you can use a neck and head support flap or fold it out of the way, so really it's more of a three position carrier, but that's not really a strike against it, just a matter of semantics.

David Meister is planning to step down as head of CFTC enforcement, even as big battles against financial titans have yet to play out.

Tesla filed a lawsuit in January against Sterling Anderson, its former director of Autopilot, as well as Chris Urmson, the previous director of the Google self - driving project, and their startup Aurora Innovation — a new venture the men launched with Drew Bagnell, the former head of the autonomy and perception team at Uber's Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh.

Daniel Klier, HSBC's head of strategy, told the FT that HSBC would «disclose [its] carbon footprint and stress test [its] lending book against carbon pricing.»

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

Novartis's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Vas Narasimhan, has a piece up on Fortune exploring the strides that have been made in the fight against malaria, including the development of an experimental Novartis treatment called KAF156.

«We would urge caution against EU - only measures that could run the risk of creating double taxation,» Chas Roy - Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), a group representing accountants worldwide, said.

Top allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Bannon, the head of the far - right website Breitbart News who pledged to run opponents against McConnell - backed candidates whom Bannon deemed not sufficiently conservative.

The U.S. dollar rose to a two - week high against a basket of currencies on Friday on rising U.S. yields, while sterling extended a decline in the wake of dovish comments from the head of the Bank of England.

Alper has a handful of death threats sitting in his Facebook inbox, and has decided against heading to an upcoming tech conference in Moscow, Russia.

Heads of six U.S. intelligence agencies are warning Americans against using products made by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei.

The heads of the CIA, FBI and NSA warned consumers against purchasing Huawei phones due to security concerns in February.

In that note, John Dowd, head of Trump's legal team, reportedly said of Lee and Washington: «You can not be against General Lee and be for General Washington, there is literally no difference between the two men.»

Tillerson, who when he was head of Exxon Mobil was deemed close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, described Assad's regime as «murderous» on Monday and vowed to dedicate his work to «holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world.»

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

«The NDF has moved a lot more than the spot,» said Nizam Idris, head of currencies at Macquarie, noting that the one - month NDF is at 3.8720 ringgit against the dollar.

At a Television Critics Association event in January, network heads spoke out against Netflix's shroud of secrecy.

Krasner: I have — like a lot of civil rights lawyers, like a lot of activists — been beating my head against the wall of the DA's office and the [Philadelphia] police department for a long time because the DA's office in Philly was not enforcing the law against police.

«It's the weaker dollar, it's the inflation focus and it's also to some extent the market is continuing to look for a hedge against a world that's becoming incredibly complacent with stocks at record highs,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen.

The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $ 1.4 billion in bets against the stock.

«We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.»

Instead of spending three months bashing your head against the wall trying to come up with «the perfect idea,» just start testing and sharing things on social media and see what people respond to.

«There's underlying demand for gold as a hedge against political uncertainties on both sides of the Atlantic,» said Ole Hanson, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.

Whatever you think of tariffs being right or wrong, they are rearing their head in the headlines, and both the United States and China have enacted new punitive tariffs against each other.

«All of us had been national, progressive advocates, leading organizations that needed urgently to solve big problems, and we found ourselves banging our heads against a brick wall.

That's on top of other Republican senators who have recently warned against a hasty Obamacare repeal sans a replacement (albeit for a range of reasons) like Kentucky's Rand Paul, Arizona's John McCain, Arkansas» Tom Cotton, and Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, who heads the influential Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee in the Senate.

«A lot of these guys are going to pull the rip cord and get out of the trade when the price goes against them with all this intraday volatility,» said S3 Partners» Head of Research Ihor Dusaniwsky.

Sessions, who was confirmed as Attorney General and now heads the U.S. Department of Justice, has spoken out against marijuana legalization in the past.

Here's some of what's going on in the health care world as we head into Easter weekend: payers are pushing back against PTC Therapeutcics» controversial Duchenne muscular dystropy drug; insurers are cautiously lauding new rules for Obamacare's marketplaces; a fascinating lawsuit in Arkansas explores the ethics of drug making; and a new test for Zika virus can produce results within an hour.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

However, you can't afford for new hires to bang their heads against the wall asking themselves how they can rise to the top of the team.

The time it has taken investors and traders to wrap their heads around Trump's industry tariffs and the pyrrhic victory of two solar companies in a case against cheap Chinese imports has seen stocks rally in a big way, and then fall just as hard.

Conservatives unfurled a series of «in over his head» ads against Justin Trudeau within 24 hours of his leadership win in 2013, though Canadians ultimately chose to define Trudeau as the charismatic idealistic prime ministerial type — after some handy corrective work from the Liberals» own messaging efforts.

Notley has earnestly tried to cast herself as much of a champion of oil as any Tory premier was — she's heading to British Columbia to talk energy and pipelines later this month, and Alberta has once again bid to intervene against a legal bid to thwart the Trans Mountain Pipeline in the westernmost province.