Sentences with phrase «as hired guns»

Collaborative lawyers do not act as hired guns.

Collaborative Practitioners do not act as hired guns.

At the same time, I don't see how Yoo acted any differently than either (1) the way that we train lawyers to think in law school (i.e., to cleverly create arguments like «torture is self - defense») or (2) the way that some of us want lawyers to conduct themselves — as hired guns, rather than naysayers who are too willing to put the kibosh on new ideas.

He attacked my expert witnesses as hired guns.

Too often, public affairs professionals are portrayed as hired guns.

The cover of the relaunch issue, dated September 1977, sported an illustration of a gunslinger carrying a briefcase under the heading, «The management consultant as hired gun. . .

Even more extraordinary is that the perpetrator recruited a male orangutan as a hired gun to help her corner and attack the victim.

Trying to stop him are Jodie Foster as a government official and District 9 lead Sharlto Copley as a hired gun.

You Were Never Really Here follows Joaquin Phoenix as a hired gun recruited on the down - low through a simple but secretive operator service to deliver pain to people who have done some bad things.

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Joe, a PTSD - suffering veteran working as a hired gun, tasked with rescuing the teenage daughter of a New York state senator from a powerful sex - trafficking ring.

Another member of the gang we know from the original Red Dead Redemption, in 1911 Javier has returned to his home country of Mexico and can be found (and captured or killed) working as a hired gun for the authoritarian rule of President Sanchez, Colonel Allende and Captain DeSanta.

Working for the organization, he served as a hired gun stepping into high profile cases in which the NAACP believed that black suspects had been wrongly accused.

Pity a historian wasn't contacted for a rundown of the film's genesis; Carol Reed's walking off the picture after losing patience with Brando's ego, and Lewis Milestone taking the directorial reigns as a hired gun; nor a separate featurette on the film's cinematographer and composer; but what has been assembled is a good smattering of contemporary and archival productions about the impressive Bounty replica built from the ground up for a major studio production.

Frears, Cusack's director on The Grifters, paints himself in this instance as a hired gun, brought on late in the process and trusting the script to take him in the right direction.

The apparent leads are fresh creations: The striking and self - possessed Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) hangs with an older, distinguished - looking father figure named Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), and the two of them recruit New World sharpshooter Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) as a hired gun to help them scour the English underworld for Malcolm's kidnapped daughter, Mina Murray.

When: April 4th Why: It's been nine years since writer / director Richard Shepherd burst onto the scene with the hugely entertaining black comedy «The Madator,» and with the exception of his underseen 2007 follow - up («The Hunting Party»), he's spent most of that time as a hired gun for various TV series.

Emmett is obviously pissed, and that's to put it mildly, as anyone would so rightly be, and now acts as a hired gun for anyone having trouble with the Outcasts, the root of all his pain and suffering.

Working as a hired gun on behalf of ExxonMobil at the Washington, DC PR firm DCI Group, Saul was listed as the contact person on a press release that denied that global warming is intensifying extreme weather events:

I agree that Tribe is stating his honest opinion that happens to be of use of the polluters and is not acting as a hired gun for the coal companies.

Tanya then worked for a large Chicago insurance defense firm as a hired gun to defend Fortune 100 and 500 companies against personal injury claims.

If this is not possible, the next step is to complete the legal team by retaining counsel who will, of course, act as your hired gun.

Yoo acted as a hired gun.

His evidence was a classic example of a highly qualified doctor with a pre-existing bias, appearing as a hired gun to discredit Ms. Montero.

Not exact matches

Though a management team of hired guns manages day - to - day operations, Harrison's son Mark is active as deputy chairman of the board.

SM is such a critical part of every business's business today that it really can't be left to the alleged professionals — hired guns at old - line agencies who generally know almost as little about this stuff as you do — or simply delegated to employees who have the attitude, aptitude, and interest in creating some of this.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

Many of these hired guns act as public relations lobbies for global financial interests, often by joining think tanks that serve as advertising agencies to promote these interests.

Chelsea is infront of us, the top 3 is already out of reach and watford buzz won't last and Chelsea will finish 4th... We will finish 6 behind Liverpool... The big 4 doesn't count us anymore... Spurs are solid as Chelsea who will actually fight for 3rd place with Spurs... I hope that you are pleased and sure you won't be mad if we finish 12th... Chelsea did a century ago with mourhino help and went right back on top of table... Oh, maybe we will do great next year, or the one after as long has it makes you happy... You should go and i'm sure you will get hired as Per... Please don't ever send comment, we real fans are in pain... Maybe you one of owners hiding or in another planet than football, just like them... Don't ever post comment, i felt to get a gun and shoot myself!

Dorsey is coming in as the new hired gun with skins on the wall.

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

The senator's ordeal started after two suspects allegedly fingered him as giving them guns and hiring them to be his political thugs ahead of the 2019 general election.There was mild drama yesterday as the Nigeria Police arraigned the senator representing Kogi West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, before a Magistrate Court in Wuse 2, Abuja.

Next, let's assume for a second that as a campaign manager or online campaign director, you are a hired gun from out of town and don't know anything about the district you are in.

Former Racing & Wagering Board Chair John Sabini on the rapidly escalating casino battle: «As it moves forward, there'll be no shortage of bad blood, sniping and hired guns.»

Because of an «unfit for purpose» system, their claims take years to resolve, wasting untold amounts of taxpayers» money as other bureaucrats and Johnson's hired gun lawyers fight them to the bitter end despite the mountain of evidence that Iraq is a death zone for gays.

A man concealing a loaded gun in his underwear told Bronx cops he'd been hired as a hitman to kill Borough President Ruben Diaz — but police believe he's just...

The attacking female used a male orangutan as a «hired gun» to help corner and attack the victim in what scientists say is the first observed incident of lethal aggression among orangutans

Even more surprising is that the attacking female used a male orangutan as a «hired gun» to help corner and attack the victim, the scientist said.

Years later he returns, hired as a hitman by the same criminals who gunned him down.

The Equalizer had its passionate fans, and tended to be shown late at night: it starred Edward Woodward as a former covert US intelligence agent who attempts to atone for his many and unspecified sins by offering himself out as a gun for hire to desperate citizens.

The always compelling Joaquin Phoenix stars as a weary gun - for - hire who will perform any task for a bundle of cash and who is plagued by traumas from his past.

The story follows a pair of brothers (Ethan Hawke's Hank and Philip Seymour Hoffman's Andy) as they collaborate on a scheme to rob their own parents» jewelry store, although the whole thing quickly goes awry after their hired goon (Brian F. O'Byrne's Bobby) brandishes a gun during the heist.

Aiding Chisum in this historic battle (known as the Lincoln County War) are a young gun nicknamed Billy the Kid (Geoffrey Deuel) and respected lawman Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett); batting for the opposition is the vicious gun - for - hire Dan Nodeen (Christopher George, a long way from his heroic turn on TV's The Rat Patrol).

Yes, there are the colorful cast of characters the player encounters along the way, but they all feel underutilized if they aren't eventually used as a «Guns for Hire» partner (we'll talk about that later in the review).

Edge - of - the - seat thrills as a gun - for - hire (Edward Fox) paid by French dissidents nearly assassinated French president Charles De Gaulle in Paris with a specially built rifle 13 months before JFK was killed.

Typically, Marvel movies in the past have used directors that seem as guns for hire, where the material is more important than the auteur.

He shows up as the local drug dealer - turned - gun - for - hire, and his scenes are good.

Harris plays Virgil Cole, a hired gun who, along with his friend, Everett Hitch (a restrained Viggo Mortensen), are employed by the town of Appaloosa as Marshall and Deputy to get rid of local thug, Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons).

Lee can be tight and focused as a gun - for - hire, but he's always viewed personal projects as irresistible invitations to self - indulgence and overreaching.

«Like a growing number of black opportunists, he served as a cheap «gun for hire,» willing to assassinate those blacks seeking equitable distribution of political...

Whether Lucy is living as a man or a woman, working as a music teacher or a hired gun, I was utterly absorbed in her adventures.