Sentences with phrase «bogeyman of»

Heck, LegalZoom, the bogeyman of law, has been around for 15 years, and for all the panicky rhetoric it has a pretty small slice of the legal market.

For example, it could be pointed out that the bogeyman of «Global Warming» or «Climate Change» provides grist for a number of different mills.

In an Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, the authors of the text, including well - known proponents of abortion and population control like the UN's Jeffrey Sachs, make an attempt to conflate the bogeyman of extreme anthropogenic global warming with the very real problem of environmental pollution.

Cancer has always been, and remains, the ultimate bogeyman of environmentalism, a fixation that reflects how the environmental movement arose from our 1950s fear of nuclear weapons and the carcinogenic radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.

As heat waves move across the U.S. from the northeast to the southwest and in much of western Europe, climate alarmists are responding predictably by blaming hot temperatures not on true meteorological causes but on the nebulous bogeyman of «climate change.»

I suppose the real bogeyman of internet - driven marketing is that it will make so many location - specific, but functionally redundant jobs (i.e. pluggers, payola - whores) unnecessary.

«Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending traditionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch» s bogeyman of late).»

Instead of simply reflecting on the heroism of teachers and school leaders such as Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of late).

Let's not be distracted by the political bogeyman of private schools.

The ghosts of James Whale, Maya Deren and Peter Weir smoke a blunt as Griffen becomes a sort of spirit - hero in a town worm - squirming with self - laceration, incest, S&M, and the killer bogeyman of failing machismo.

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.

Since then, the rogue planet has become the bogeyman of multiple doomsday predictions, including the 2012 Maya apocalypse, which was based on the supposed end of the ancient Maya calendar.

One reporter wrote that Taylor was «the big bad bogeyman of the brewing business» who lacked the sense and grace to «realize that you can do many things to an Englishman — raise his taxes, heft shop prices, even steal his wife — just so long as you don't interfere with his beer.»

If the bogeyman of religion is alive and well on formerly church - related campuses, imagine the terror that stalks public university faculties!

But James gave Royce's idealism a pragmatic twist by pushing Royce to ask not what the source of thought is — the old bogeyman of epistemology — but what purpose thought serves.

So the bogeyman of elitism has more rhetorical force than explanatory power.

Such exploratory questions about core Christian teachings reflect an Emergent trait that disturbs critics who see the bogeyman of theological liberalism at work.

with the bogeyman of «Reactionary Thomists» still latent in the minds of academic theologians who otherwise know little about the debates involved.

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

It unsettles IT guys, who fear the bogeyman of legacy integration (and may wonder what happens to their fiefdoms after the integration is complete).

Black holes are the bogeymen of the modern imagination.

Law enforcement agencies are often stigmatised as the Orwellian bogeymen of internet freedom (and in places like Belarus, Uzbekistan and Burma, they are), but the reality in the liberal democratic world is more complex.

Not exact matches

Thanks to its humane response to the crisis, Suncor will be very hard to cram back into the caricature of a Big Oil bogeyman.

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.

The common thread that runs through all is the aim of deepening divides within countries that are members of NATO, Russia's traditional bogeyman, and the EU.

Not that long ago, cord - cutting was seen by many in the pay - TV and cable industry as a bogeyman, a spooky ghost dreamed up based on fringe behavior by a small number of millennials and other malcontents.

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.

This week, Germany's business pages have been full of little warnings about the Return of Inflation, the biggest bogeyman in the Teutonic economic lexicon, all because the annual consumer price index rose to its highest level in over three years in December, a shocking 1.7 %.

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.»

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 can we ever convince the key moderates that «economic individualism» was more of a bogeyman than a reality of American history?

Yep, the * idea * of a god (bogeyman) is quite effective in controlling folks... that doesn't mean that it is real.

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.

What evidence do you have other than something anecdotal or rhetorical to show that this is prevalent and the pretext not a lie to make women feel afraid of the bogeyman so to speak?

Christians who work in the natural sciences are dogged by a persistent bogeyman: a singular creature called the God of the gaps.

Wars by U.S. forces or by proxies — resulting in the death of 50,000 Iraqi civilians, 2 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Guatemalan peasants — don't make a dent in our self - image as long as we make «religious violence» the bogeyman.

I used to scoff at the idea of a single entity that was in the evil business, thinking those people weak of mind as to need one bogeyman to distract from their own weaknesses.

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.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West has struggled to find a new bogeyman.

It appears to me that Professor Dawkins is presented as some kind of «bogeyman» to frighten those with faith.

Islam is the same all about control, the use of 72 virgins was a way to motivate people and tbh the only reason you beleive in such nonsense is because your parents lied to you just like they lied to you about santa claus just like the tooth fairy and the bogeyman.

The New York Yankees are the classic bogeyman, though they've waned in that department because of recent austerity.

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.

The Yankees were the bogeyman under the bed of every small - market team.

«The players like to say I'm seeing the bogeyman again,» Calipari said last week while sitting in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel.

And just this week we have two dire warnings about what could happen to Arsenal if the board was to pull the trigger, with the problems of Manchester United post Ferguson held up like some sort of bogeyman to frighten the Arsenal fans.

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

Bogeyman Noun An imaginary evil spirit used to frighten children - A person or thing widely regarded as an object of fear There was once a story that was told all across world.

Mike Formento, executive director of the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce urges board members to deny the project that comes with a «benzene bogeyman.»

No talk of bogeymen.