Sentences with phrase «bogeymen do»

The speakers trotted out the bogeymen du jour — high - stakes testing, school closures, corporate and private involvement in education, etc..

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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.

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

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?

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.

The devil, who is a bogeyman, doesn't figure into it.

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.»

Did 74 percent of white and 94 percent of black female Democratic mayoral primary voters follow the lead of some phantom misogynist bogeyman?

Hell, Raymond Briggs» «Fungus the Bogeyman» did a better job than this film does in playing around with ideas of death and decay, and holding the Bogey world up as a mirror to our own absurdities!

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..

Do the policymakers have to focus on a villain, in this case, teachers and unions as the bogeyman?

«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.»

I don't believe in bogeymen.»

Childress holds up the military and international banks as bogeymen but then does little with these themes the rest of the novel.

The company is seen by many as a tax - avoiding bogeyman that is destroying not only publishers and wholesalers but independent bookstores in particular and Main Street in general, and while there are major economic forces at work here that would probably lead to the same conclusion without Amazon at the head of march, Amazon has to realize that it should do everything possible to avoid being seen as the online version of Walmart.

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

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..

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

Or did you just throw in a bogeyman in order to lmake it look like this topic has some scientific relevance?

Care to explain why I shouldn't classify this as yet another «Now children, if you aren't good and do what I tell you, the bogeyman will come and get you»?

What most skeptics, I believe ARE saying, is that I don't want to pay 4 times as much for electricity and fuel to fight a bogeyman.

How does one confront the bogeyman?

Independent comparative analysis would do much to establish facts and allay the bogeyman at least some of the resistance to change.

That mission is done a great disservice by scaremongering headlines from Bloomberg and sound bites from Kent Zimmerman saying that the bogeyman comes in the shape of LPOs.

For the few holdouts who still had doubts, the old shopworn bogeyman was trotted out: «If we don't do it, then somebody else will do it for us.»