Sentences with phrase «barbs from»

The online commentary, unlike personal email, is read by any who go to www.remonline.com and inevitably the postings turn into a debate between responders, frequently leaving my column gasping for air on the river bank, as opinionated barbs from regular readers ricochet around the Internet.

As the nation's most high - profile, most closely watched, and most widely respected reporter focusing on the issue, he's used to the barbs from all sides.

To test this, Prum's team gathered feather barbs from a blue South American bird, the cotinga (of which only males are that color), and magnified them up to 30,000 times with an electron microscope.

In one battle, they've had to put up with little barbs from players and fans of Auburn, a team that lost four games.

'' The expenditure is drawing barbs from the opposition, but the government defends the television and Internet campaign for the budget, which sees Alberta facing a projected $ 10.4 - billion deficit amid economic turmoil caused by low oil prices.

The rhetoric and twitter - barbs from Trump regarding the potential to paint China as a currency manipulator, along with the Taiwan phone - call faux paus, continue to agitate the situation.

And, after admitting that he had prepared for the session «in my slightly rushed manner» an intended barb from one MP - that Clegg is «famous for his humility» - backfired.

In this slide, an isolated barb from a vaned feather is visible trapped within a tangled mass of spider's web.

Not exact matches

Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.

Cousins» ongoing contract drama was a big story throughout the NFL offseason, with barbs traded from both the Redskins and Cousins» representation.

Still, it was an unexpected fig leaf from a man who last year traded barbs with Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney over his calls for better bank regulation in order to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis.

On Facebook and Twitter, reactions ranged from gleeful jokes, to political barbs, to conspiracy theories, to patriotism, to pleas for peace, to solemn reflections.

Do I detect a barb or two from you?

Father Joe is a memoir, to be sure, but in the midst of his other obiter dicta on politics and humor, it would have been gratifying to see Hendra begin to forge a few more barbs tipped with a little sub specie aeternitatis, even if they were tossed from left of center.

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So there you have it, you can take this area of craft as far as you like, go collecting fleece from barb wire fences and hills and go through the whole process from cleaning, carding and spinning the yarn all by yourself.

The two campaigns have traded barbs in recent weeks over a controversial amortization plan that Wilson characterizes as borrowing from the pension fund and DiNapoli's camp insists is merely «smoothing» to provide predictability for local governments and the state when it comes to contributions.

Though the race only recently got underway, it's already taken a negative turn, which Brindisi and Tenney, who also used to be a member of the Assembly, trading barbs on everything from Brindisi's father's legal representation of mobsters to a town hall the congressman is scheduled to hold this coming Tuesday.

There's one slight barb in the opening of the new ad, however, which flashes a television playing a clip from Corwin's recent negative ad: «Kathy Hochul trying to fool you?»

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and some county board members are trading barbs over Walker «s decision to shift money during the past seven years from the county's capital budget into the general operating budget.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) engaged in a nasty, lone radio debate in her Democratic primary against upstart Reshma Saujani on Tuesday morning, in which the two traded barbs — but managed to up the ante after the event, as the incumbent literally fled from reporters and the challenger said she might not vote in the general election if she loses.

No one is safe from the puppet's barbs — not even the media.

He secured no commitments from the State Legislature and traded barbs with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat and occasional antagonist.

The First Secretary of State made a number of barbs at the last person to hold thew same position - who has stood down from Parliament to run the Evening Standard

By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and some county board members are trading barbs over Walker «s decision to shift money during the past seven years from the county's capital budget into the general...

Valerie, in a lengthy article full of barbs targeted at both the former President Rawlings and Martin Amidu asked the former to resign from the party because he had «become a so - called crusader, sinking lower and...

Avella's entry into the race was widely speculated to detract from Peter Vallone Jr.'s base of support which led to some heated rhetoric and barbs traded between the two outspoken candidates.

Mayor de Blasio fought off one - two punch combos Tuesday night from challengers Nicole Malliotakis and Bo Dietl in a raucous three - way debate that repeatedly devolved into heckling from the crowd and personal barbs among the candidates.

Bloomberg's barbs, which came from an August 6 interview, were published four days after a Quinnipiac poll showed a surge in de Blasio's popularity among voters, with 43 percent of those polled favoring the public advocate over the other Democratic candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who captured only 18 percent of the votes.

More closely related species had a few barbs branching from a central axis.

The little «tree» in my hand is a dart head fashioned from creamy - brown chert and bristling with tiny barbs designed to lodge in the flesh of marine prey.

In a modern feather, the barbs branch off from a central stalk or «rachis» but at this stage of feather evolution, the rachis doesn't exist yet.

These barbs, in turn, have smaller flat structures dubbed barbules protruding from them.

The pale, tiny fish with long, whiskerlike barbs sprouting from its head (above) is a new species of loach, as yet unnamed.

According to the researchers, the lip mucus probably serves a double purpose, forming a seal on the coral's surface while shielding the fish from stinging barbs known as nematocysts.

Our egos in turn protect us from the metaphorical thorns, barbs and broken glass that may come our way as we navigate often too - busy lifestyles.

Dismantling your ego from the off can set a good first impression, yet too many barbs will make you seem less confident than you are or, if you're really like that, signal your accomplishments aren't even worth talking about.

At its best, Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good - natured, often silly spoof with a few cutting barbs and a comic showman's love of the well - executed gag.

Though barbs bounce off it like giant lizards off a Wakandan force field, one criticism has stuck: that the studio is loath to kill off characters with the potential to generate revenue ad infinitum, which means that nothing ever seems at stake except skyscrapers assembled from ones and zeros.

Calling Brolin «Thanos» is a funny little barb, but when Domino asks if it's derivative for Wilson to call his super-group X-Force, it's hard to know if she just means of the X-Men, especially since the crossed - arm gesture he's making feels more like it's ripped off from Black Panther's Wakandan salute — a reference somebody on the film surely could have, and should have acknowledged.

From its foggy, ash - covered small town to its rotting, mutating building interiors, Silent Hill is a spectacle of the grisly and gory highlighted by some truly repugnant armless / eyeless / faceless monsters (including a pyramid - headed villain who wields an enormous sword and a man hog - tied with barb - wire slithering across a bathroom).

Sure, there were a few clunkers in there (and one joke he recycled from Meryl Streep's speech last year), but his barbs at the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were doozies, and it culminated in a fun gag between him and Amy Poehler that involved reclaiming her wine and putting an end to mansplaining.

Until then, she was just an average divorcee» doing her best to shield a young son (Percy Hynes White) from an embittered ex-husband's (Paul Popowich) vicious barbs.

Chase was a prominent member of the cast of Community for four seasons, but and Community creator Dan Harmon traded barbs in public prior to Harmon's temporary ouster from the show.

Reeves and Common are dialed in, hitting the meticulously detailed choreography with precision and coming across both believable and effortlessly cool while trading pointed verbal barbs and eliciting «oohs and ahhs» from the audience.

From a fight between Star - Lord (Chris Pratt) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth), to the heroes trading barbs in the trailer and the introduction of Peter Dinklage to the MCU, there are plenty of things to look forward to seeing.

She takes especial pleasure from throwing barbs at the daughter of a scout volunteer, who gets it worse for daring to think that it might be a bad idea to have a convicted felon run a business that depends on child labor.

It's a whirlwind of barbs that range from underhandedly cruel to... well, just cruel, with some (brief) moments of human kindness peeking out.

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It's a friendly shot, with a barb, as you'll see from the full press release below.