Sentences with phrase «arms against the book»

The second story seems to have the Hindus up in arms against the book, looks like they (hindus) somehow feel that they have a free pass at criticizing others here but when it comes to their own are very closed minded and fanatic.

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Similarly, the Sunday Telegraph quotes «a senior MoD source» as saying: «We have balanced the MoD's books and can now get on with ordering major pieces of equipment for the armed forces to protect us against future threats».

Rallying against publishers is opening your arms to all of the atrocities that the internet has to offer and closing off the books that many people (in one of the most underpaid industries around) have spent their careers nurturing and making the best they can be.

Hamlet features a lot in This Private Plot (although the book's title comes from Henry VI Part 2), including a scene where a third - rate amateur drama group, rehearsing «To be or not to be,» run headfirst into one of Shakespeare's finest mixed metaphors: «to take arms against the sea of troubles.»

Colbert urged his audience to buy the book through independent booksellers, rather than Amazon, as a protest against the company's strong - arming publisher Hachette as part of their terms negotiations.

After staunchly defending his book, «Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture,» against criticism of his research and findings, Bellesiles offered his resignation when an academic investigative committee «researched the allegations of scholarly fraud and concluded that Bellesiles was guilty of both substandard research methodology and of willfully misrepresenting specific evidence in» the book.

There's a story I recall about some famous and brilliant mathematician — perhaps Norbert Wiener — who rarely took his nose out of a book and who didn't like to waste time: he would read while walking to and from the classroom (or perhaps his office) but have his arm out such that with a small part of his (very big) brain he could count the doorframes as they were ticked off against his hand; at the right count, his wrist would stiffen, and with his arm as a lever, rotate himself into the room still reading.