Sentences with phrase «bogeyman for»

It's just become a kind of bogeyman for people.

While the populist parties of Europe will obviously tar & feather the EU bogeyman for their supporters» perceived ills, to also blame & repudiate the euro seems like a reach too far (but never say never when it comes to gullible / uneducated voters).

It now exists primarily as a none - too - scary bogeyman for Democrats accustomed to rolling up double - digit victories in statewide races.

They are the latest bogeyman for so many clubs who are either trying to beat them or to position themselves as closest contender.

That menace is a favorite bogeyman for deficit hawks in Congress.

Providing a mentally disturbed villain of the generic variety and the dangers of an all - powerful web of technology, I.T. gives us two, obvious bogeymen for the price of one, pretty dumb movie.

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Whether it was during the Let's Talk TV hearings last fall, where many Canadians said they wanted to be able to pay for only the channels they wanted, or the actual announcement of such rules, a spooky bogeyman has been invoked over and over.

With every passing quarter, however, that behavior becomes less of a bogeyman and more of a painful reality — and the latest survey of cable subscriber numbers has a little something for both sides of that debate.

NEW YORK, Feb 9 - The inflation bogeyman has reared its ugly head and sent U.S. stock investors racing for the hills in recent days.

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Watch out for multistate tax bogeymen.

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters)- The inflation bogeyman has reared its ugly head and sent U.S. stock investors racing for the hills in recent days.

For instance, James Comey, who heads the Federal Bureau of Investigation (and who is often painted as an encryption bogeyman), told the Senate last year that «it is important for our global economy and our national security to have strong encryption standards.&raqFor instance, James Comey, who heads the Federal Bureau of Investigation (and who is often painted as an encryption bogeyman), told the Senate last year that «it is important for our global economy and our national security to have strong encryption standards.&raqfor our global economy and our national security to have strong encryption standards.»

Trump, keep going, just be more careful with where you find your bogeyman, and the Mid-West will be the better for it.

No, I'm not looking over my shoulder, waiting for the bogeyman to get me — rather, I now rarely take anything anyone says to me at face value.

If, as I suspect, he lays a bit too much of the blame for our ills at the feet of that all - purpose bogeyman, capitalism, the story he tells is nevertheless a sobering and instructive one.

But on May Day today's politician's again propped up his name as a bogeyman and this time «dumped him in the drink» in order to use the notoriety they gave him as a tool for political gain.

Now I'll brace myself for letters from ardent free marketeers who will instruct me that consumerism is nothing but a bogeyman invented by the enemies of capitalism.

While I can understand that the 18 - certificate content may make a strong case for this approach, I'm again concerned that Christians neither wave placards at an imagined bogeyman, nor miss the opportunity to relate to one of the major cultural stories of the day.

Spectators looking for the bogeyman behind this green are invariably disappointed; there's nothing but close - cropped grass.

These are the words of a professional — not some bitter back - bedroom expert whinging about his own side's perpetual failure and looking for the most convenient bogeyman.

For Tottenham, Wembley is in danger of becoming the bogeyman that wreaks havoc on their ambitions to challenge for silverware at home and abroFor Tottenham, Wembley is in danger of becoming the bogeyman that wreaks havoc on their ambitions to challenge for silverware at home and abrofor silverware at home and abroad.

It's for these entirely emotional reasons that the Liberal Democrats have become the most absurd Army of Darkness in political history and Nick Clegg is the new national bogeyman.

Cuomo gives him a bogeyman to blame for failures in Albany.

But SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon suggested he needed to «put the bogeyman to one side» to enable people to «debate these issues for real and in substance».

Hounded by hitmen and hustlers, double dealing feds and double crossing accomplices, the Courier embarks on an impossible search for the bogeyman of the underworld, a search that unravels his own murky past.

It's likely that his stories would have once again drawn Myers out of hiding, for as Doyle himself said as a kid, «You can't kill the bogeyman.»

The daddy of all slasher movies, its formula has been mercilessly preyed upon by countless 1980s slice - and - dice imitations («Friday the 13th», «A Nightmare on Elm Street» etc.), fondly dissected by 1990 postmodern spoofs («Scream», «Scary Movie»)-- and of course its franchise of (largely inferior) sequels shows that that the bogeyman is still very real, with «Halloween 9» due for release next year.

By its very existence it begs the question of whether this (or the upcoming Kevin Costner vehicle Dragonfly) would even have been considered if not for the success of the supposedly non-influential The Blair Witch Project: a mainstream horror film that flies in the face of conventional genre wisdom (at least since The Exorcist) in refraining from gore as steadfastly as it refuses to show its bogeyman.

They give us bogeymen to rally against, heroines and heroes to root for.

Inserting themselves into the story as unkind spoiler - avatars in the piece (a gay, white couple acts as Quinceañera's bogeymen)-- the set for their tasteful duplex serves as Glatzer / Westmoreland's real - life digs — is as thorny a po - mo entanglement as these two otherwise successful guys interpolating themselves in their neighbour's lives, homes, and rituals with movie cameras and an evangelical mission.

The film opens in 1943, with title cards that attempt to contextualize communism in the 1940s for generations that grew up with the word as a shadowy bogeyman.

Josh Brolin's Lt. Det. Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen emerges as another product of bogeyman / mythological figure: the stoic representative of law and order who, at one point, plays a mean trick on Doc by making him think Shasta's been found dead, while at another he's seen as henpecked and small as his wife (Delaina Mitchell) berates Doc for the shrink bills he's inspired.

Red Pyramid Thing (Red for short) is a womanizer with a sharp tongue (pun intended), Bogeyman is the unloved pyramid who feels out of place, Valtiel is the serious one who's just trying to do his job, etc etc..

Both candidates oppose for - profit schools, which comprise just a small fraction of charters in California but have become the unions» bogeyman in this politically charged election season.

«It is becoming clearer all the time that the current UTLA leadership isn't threatened by charter schools or other bogeymen — they're actually threatened by the notion that parents in these communities, whose kids have gotten a crappy deal for a generation or more, should have any real power to do something about it.»

Kozol has been beating the more - money - will - conquer - all - things - educational drum for 45 years now while blaming poor student performance on bogeymen like poverty and racism.

A great companion animal for humans, the pit bull wasn't always viewed through the media - created bogeyman lenses of today.

As they lament the tragic death of low - and mid-level gaming and blame gamers for not meeting their insane expectations, they're erecting a bogeyman to place the blame somewhere — anywhere — besides where it belongs: on themselves and their Hollywood-esque reliance on smash hits to make any money.

Gamergate, even for the internet's bogeyman, doesn't have it easy when it comes to organising discussi...

Struggle for your final gasps of air as the Bogeyman smashes everything in his path with his murderous hammer.

Silent Hill: Downpour saw Murphy, a convict, survive his way through a thick corruption for an ultimate showdown with the Bogeyman, the symbol of hatred.

Red Pyramid Thing (Red for short) is a womanizer with a sharp tongue (pun intended), Bogeyman is the unloved pyramid who feels out of place, Valtiel is the serious one who's just trying to do his job, etc etc..

The Sega Genesis classic, Toejam & Earl, is coming back to our screens, so grab those Bermuda shorts and watch for the Bogeyman...

Osgemeos's comic character with a yellow face, painted on top of a tableau of portraits with partially hidden physiognomies, looked like a funny bogeyman rather than the agent of any particular menace, and as such provided commentary on how terrorism is being exaggerated for political gain.

As for the «greying population» bogeyman, just imagine as the older generation start to pass on, younger generations will NATURALLY have more children to compensate and therefore get to have more sex and more happiness as opposed to being stressed out of their minds by sardine can living conditions mandated by rich people who live on multiple, vast, totally uncrowded estates!

Enviornmental changes have had little role in the great disaters such as Rwanda or the Balkans, stop trying to create the Global Warming Bogeyman as an excuse for criminal governments.

Armed with chainsaws, they are the bogeymen typically blamed for doing away with not only our forests, but also the biodiversity which inhabits them.

I also say yes to those despite being something of a scoffer, believing since ’07 that CO2 is not the climate bogeyman the IPCC says it is, that the case for catastrophic AGW has absolutely not been made.

More in keeping with the discussion is to talk about Uncertainty Monsters, Delinquent Teenagers, T - Rex (McKitrick / Essex / McIntyre name for temperature devouring the planet), Sky - Dragons, the Iron - Sun, and all these bogeymen wielding hockey sticks threatening to club us over the head with.