Sentences with phrase «as the hammer of»

Left for dead in global markets as the hammer of the «rising dollar» pounded down on everyone, the country elected new leadership and began taking the...

The following season was more positive, at least fitness wise even if the team did not perform so well on the pitch, with Pearce playing in all but four league games and earning himself recognition as Hammer of the Year.

The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known and the most important treatise on witchcraft.

A magnificent courtroom drama / thriller that serves with the same extremities as the hammer of justice.

Not exact matches

The United States» brand - new ambassador to Canada found himself on the defensive as Frank McKenna, Canada's former top diplomat to the U.S., hammered him mercilessly on virtually every major point of bilateral contention, from the status of the Keystone XL pipeline to the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Lending Club's stock price and that of its competitor OnDeck have been hammered in recent months as well, as investors have begun to question the long - term viability of such companies.

Some net - neutrality experts wonder if Wheeler has taken things too far — saying the door is now open to more legal disputes as the parameters of net neutrality continue to get hammered out.

And as has been pointed out, the oil crash hammered energy companies, but cheap oil and the low dollar (in Canada at least) should have spurred non-energy exporters to take advantage of those ideal conditions.

By the 18th century, taco had migrated to Spain, where dictionaries listed its possible meanings as a ramrod, a billiard cue, a carpenter's hammer, or a gulp of wine.

As a result, since 1990, only about 1 million HECMs have been issued, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, with almost half of those originating between 2007 and 2011, when the financial crisis hammered Americans» retirement savings.

As I walked up to the threshold, I could hear the pounding of a hammer in the back and a baby blissfully playing in a stroller.

It's a giant hammer, and so it treats every member of the audience as a nail.

A large chunk of that optimism got vaporized this week, however, as most of the major TV - related stocks got hammered by investors: In just two days, the sector lost more than $ 50 billion in market value.

As U.S. stocks have taken a hammering this year, a score of American executives have lost the coveted three comma title, the New York Post reports, citing Forbes and Bloomberg data.

The judge hearing the case, Justice Sean Dunphy, sounds a bit puzzled as to why the case was brought before him at all, instead of hammered out in council chambers, according to reporters in the courtroom:

Patricia Harris, the CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies, has worked with Mike Bloomberg forever and has been affectionately referred to as his «velvet hammer.»

Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

Mr. Nanos said the Conservatives will exploit the payments once when the cheques are delivered, and then repeatedly throughout the rest of the campaign as a hammer against the opposition.

Indeed, the charts for GLD and TLT look awfully similar, as both got hammered amid expectations of rising rates in the summer, only to recover recently as those expectations diminished.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

«For as long as I can remember, veteran businessmen and investors - I among them - have been warning about the dangers of irrational stock speculation and hammering away at the theme that stock certificates are deeds of ownership and not betting slips.

And of course, then you extend that, as you said, to the public sector and they can't quite get it all because of the, you know, traditional notion from the 1980s of the $ 500 hammer that the government buys.

With the sentiment around lithium almost universally bullish, the recent hammering of lithium equity share prices can be traced back to one or two reasons: either as a sign that valuations had exceeded reality or a specific catalyst has injected a dose of reality into the markets.

The best buy pivots tend to occur when an ETF or stock forms a bullish reversal candles (such as a «hammer») that sharply undercut a key support level on an intraday basis, but subsequently recovers to close near the high of the day.

Nat shares his humble «hammer - swinging» beginnings, as well as the systems that today allow him to live a life of freedom while others manage his units.

Kouhaila (Ki) Hammer is Chairman and CEO of G - TECH Services, a leading WBENC - certified talent solutions firm that serves clients in fast - paced, high - tech industries such as automotive / manufacturing, chemical / petrochemical, energy, engineering, and information technology.

NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- Shares of major technology companies got hammered along with the rest of the market Monday, as Netflix (NFLX), Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) all lost significant ground.

I have a hunch that, as history looks back on the twentieth century, the most chaotic of all centuries, certain Christian artists will be remembered simply because they hammered in a few firmly embedded nails.

And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment... at this time, a friend shall lose his friends's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o'clock

He caught there what we would see played out, with a venomous, unbending force a year later, as the votaries of same - sex marriage would seek to bring down the hammer of the law on such luminaries as bakers and florists.

Instead of looking at a universal definition of the poor as those who have been deprived, stereotyped and discriminated against, they are on a mission to make the cripple to walk; the blind to see forcibly; the deaf to hear by knocking their ears with sledge hammer; the dumb to speak by inserting tube in their esophagus and the list goes.

Numerous conventions between States which turn out to be geographically interdependent have been hammered out, a few before, but most since, that date, covering such matters as the prevention of the pollution of the seas in general, or of particular seas, or common rivers, the reduction of air pollution and latterly the safeguarding of flora and fauna».

There is an old saying that history is but a series attacks upon the Word of God, like a blacksmith hammering away with great force against the anvil, there are times when it looks as though the church will not survive another strike.

But as I reflected on your comments and on my own insecurities and fears, I realized that what you're really asking for (and what I really need) is not an end to the theological construction zone, but rather the assurance that the structure remains habitable, that life can go on in the midst of all the drilling and sawing and hammering.

, «If I Had a Hammer,» and «Turn, Turn, Turn» (best performed, if I may say, by the Byrds), Seeger did as much as anyone to popularize the folk music renaissance of the late «50s and early «60s.

For both Williams and Lovelace, the evidence of contemporary culture is to be: - considered secondarily, if at all, as a general theological statement concerning homosexuality is hammered out.

No doubt the church has been right in acknowledging the deity of Christ and the Incarnation as the fullest measure of the divine revelation of which human nature is capable; though it should be pointed out that the church as a rule undertook to stand fast and to hold the ground of the traditional, historical faith, enshrined in the New Testament, and — as the histories of dogma make clear - only took over metaphysical definitions which had already been hammered out on the anvils of logical and exegetical disputation.

Their witness could be called «catechesis with a punch» - the outstanding content of their teaching is hammered home by the enthusiasm and energy of the teachers who as college students are usually seen as «cool» in the eyes of their youthful audiences.

There can not be an indefinite line of intermediary causes with no first cause, just as a nail can not be knocked into a wall by an unending series of hammers, each knocking against the next.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

«Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child - psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out «allegories» to embody them.

As to this Morris Markey magazine article, Bill Wilson said: «To our great delight, Morris soon hammered out an article which he titled «Alcoholics and God»» (Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age [New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1958], p. 177; see also Dick B., The Golden Text of AA., pp. 70 - 71).

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

One of the crucial assumptions Pascal makes, one that is not really defended so much as pounded out with a rhetorical hammer, is that we all must wager, and that the stakes are set ahead of time.

But I hammered her as if she was one of the guys.

Thus the Bible uses one historical event as the clue to others, and thereby hammers out its concepts of God on the same anvil.

Go ahead and practice whatever religion makes you happy, just don't use it as a hammer to beat people over the head, and especially don't commit acts of hatred in the name of religion and don't be a hypocrite, the lowest form of life in the universe, like Hannity, Palin, Beck and the schmucks at FOX News.

As comic nerds know, Thor's hammer Mjölnir is only his so long as he's worthy of holding onto iAs comic nerds know, Thor's hammer Mjölnir is only his so long as he's worthy of holding onto ias he's worthy of holding onto it.

The Russian bear has not carried a Hammer & Sickle for quite some time but the «west» — as you put it — is constantly trying to deny that Russia is just another capitalist country like most of the rest.

You recall that the SABC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the exclusive state monopoly for radio and television, had the night before run an American Defense Department film version of their latest report on «Soviet Military Power,» with Secretary Casper Wineberger issuing dire warnings as animated hammer - and - sickle emblems marched menacingly down the coast of Africa.