Sentences with phrase «as white knights»

The practical lesson that I draw from all this is that it is a mistake for No Kill advocates to see the traditional shelter industry as the enemy, and it is an inaccurate view of history to see No Kill advocates as white knights who had to fight and defeat an industry full of lazy, incompetent people who liked to kill animals.

Yet many self - proclaimed hackers are evolving a new role for themselves as the white knights of democracy.

But Ackman now finds himself planning a proxy battle, because CP's board and its chairman John Cleghorn have so far resisted the notion of Harrison as white knight.

During the recession of the late 2000s, he served as a white knight - at - large, coming to the rescue of Goldman Sachs, General Electric and Swiss Re, while rejecting pleas from Lehman Brothers Holdings.

As the name suggests, Brodsky casts himself as a white knight, capable of protecting voters» finances, the environment and security.

Adan — I like Andrew's post, though I get a little flinchy when arguments are boiled down to superlatives to advance the thesis (for example, I think few authors who have really studied the situation think of Amazon as a white knight riding in to save indie writers» bacon.

Hugh is making a big mistake to view either of these forces as the white knight vs. Malificent.

«I think David Simon thought he could make GGP feel like they needed him as a white knight,» says Sullivan.

Not exact matches

A white knight as well as a green one, Surace bought Republic's crippled assets out of bankruptcy and pledged to restore the factory and eventually rehire all the workers at their old pay levels.

Teva could also become an unlikely white knight for Perrigo as it seeks to fend off Mylan, because Teva's proposed acquisition of Mylan hinges on the Perrigo deal's collapse, Teva said in its presentation.

Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday for trying to portray himself as the «white knight» of the New York City Housing Authority,...

Jeb may be considered the white knight of the Bush clan; but his little brother's POTUS terms have been described as a POTUS that there was no there there... either through incompetence, or corruption, or both.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — David O'Halloran, who resigned last week as vice chairman of the Ulster County Republican Party, said the lack of GOP support for his plan to bring video lottery terminals to his Kerhonkson resort shows the party is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's economy.

Later that week, at almost the exact moment that Mr. Cuomo was in a Manhattan ballroom condemning the city's public housing as «disgusting,» Mr. de Blasio was on the roof of a New York City Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.»

I didn't envisage myself as princess Diana, I never had a fantasy of a white knight.

A gaming experience utilizing a variety of classic FINAL FANTASY job classes such as the knight, black mage and white mage to aid Chocobo in his fight against evil.

And Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch, who described Vallas as a knight on a white horse and complained that people were throwing mud on the horse explained;

There is no knight arriving on his white horse, as Mayor Bill Finch put it during a rally in Vallas» support.

The publishers did see one white knight on the horizon, in a fashionable black turtleneck, with technological know - how as strong as Amazon's, a proven track record of selling artistic products digitally, and infinite resources: Apple.

I don't hate the big publishers, but white knighting them is at least as silly as blind adulation of Amazon.

I'll talk about Google and Apple as possible white knights a bit later, but for now I'm predicting that Amazon is just going to keep growing and taking market share from bookstores in 2016.

Play as the mysterious knight, White Shroud.

Malcolm Morley: Painting, Paper, Process brings together works that have rarely been seen together and includes such diverse images as idyllic beach scenes; the artist's beloved black and white border collie, Elsa, in play and repose; and knights in armor, WWII flying aces, and their present day inheritors, the sports stars who carry on the legacy of derring do.

Especially when that white knight is in fact sitting atop a Trojan Horse — a vehicle for the delivery of disinformation, denial and systematic downplaying of what might very well be the greatest threat we have yet faced as a civilization, the threat of human - caused climate change.

The New York Times does a disservice to its readers when it buys into the contrived narrative of the «honest broker» — Muller as the self - styled white knight who must ride in to rescue scientific truth from a corrupt and misguided community of scientists.

The various new competitors are supporting the CB's flanks as the knights on white horses saving the consumer from evil conspirator agents when it is really their smokescreen to steal a valuable money - making asset.

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