Sentences with phrase «by foisting»

SourceForge and developers make money by foisting this software on you, just as practically every other download site and freeware distributor does on Windows.

«However an employer would be entitled to discipline someone for subjecting (as in this case) a junior colleague to unwanted pressure and unwelcome conduct by foisting their religion on them.

His answer was to create a more equitable and voluntary relationship with the colonies in the developing world, not to patronise them by foisting backwards technologies on them, to sustain their dependence on Western agencies and their basic lifestyles, to undermine their political movements, and sending in unaccountable, undemocratic, self - appointed NGOs.

They did this by foisting a new pricing model on all retailers — including Amazon's Kindle Store — that had the effect of raising «new release» and many other ebook prices by 30 % to 100 % over the $ 9.99 price point that Amazon had established and maintained since the launch of the Kindle in November 2007.

Corporations such as Apple, IBM, and Microsoft are portrayed as «self - interested manipulators» out to swindle «naïve» administrators and «gullible» teachers by foisting worthless technology on them.

«But Peter Obi reneged in that agreement by foisting Obiano who is from Aguleri in Anambra North senatorial district on the people of the state.

This is precisely why abortion advocates expend such vast efforts at international meetings pushing for abortion policies that do in fact seek to subvert the democratic process by foisting an a priori abortion agenda on nations around the world.

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The idea that «trying» is what counts — regardless of results — is a dreary commentary and a cheap excuse foisted on the real doers and the winners by sad sacks and also - rans who just can't cut it.

He stresses the simplicity of his devices compared with the unnecessary additions foisted on consumers by competitors, including Apple (aapl).

The start of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks this week — negotiations foisted on Canada and Mexico by U.S. President Donald Trump — provides a moment to marvel at how trade has emerged, unexpectedly, as a defining issue for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's still - young Liberal government.

The issue is the method by which it was rescued - who was protected, and who was not; why a consortium was not used instead of a single firm; why the claims of Bear's bondholders should be secure while the public bears the risk of the toxic waste foisted upon us.

Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.

I don't think that anyone's theology should be foisted on anyone else and that civil law needs to be decided by the general populace.

Teaching a child to be unrealistic, illogical and irrational through religion is outright child abuse, and not much different from the physical abuse foisted on them by the costumed purveyors of these heinous delusions.

When he left, the Republican right was «unleashed,» poised to drive the party in its own direction (and that of the Reagan presidency) by capitalizing on widespread hostility toward the cultural changes of the 1970s that many believed had been foisted upon America by ideological liberals.

All this is undeniably mythological, and Bultmann thinks it is senseless and impracticable to foist this mythical view of the world on modern man, whose thinking is «shaped for good or ill by modern science».

It is so much easier to condemn the sick and wounded (of body and spirit), than it is to take them in and proclaim their freedom from the oppression that is foisted upon them by people like you (as you did me in your post).

A mostly derivative pastiche of questionable musical integrity, the piece was roasted (backstage, of course» as professionals we will play as well as we can anything that is put on our music stands) by most of my colleagues, and we complained bitterly that the last minute programming of the piece (replacing Brahms» Third Symphony) was no more than a marketing ploy foisted upon us by Sony Classical in order to boost CD sales of the work.

Marx saw religion as a species of fantasizing, an «opium,» foisted by the ruling classes on the proletariat in order that the latter would not be able to identify its oppressors.

Not to do so is to remain captured by the superstitious morality associated with the terminology foisted on us by Christianity.

That wouldn't even cover the clawback payments — recently foisted on Murray Goulburn suppliers for FY2016 — owed by two average farms.

What new GM would want to have a guy foisted on him by the owner?

Oh well there is always the donkey kick to remember him by WHAT AN ARTISTE??? Another gem from the Arsene vaults of players he; s foisted upon us.

One day, I met my friend Joel for coffee and began our chat by enthusiastically foisting Tariku's pictures on him.

It was foist upon us by home monitoring companies who wanted to make thousands giving SQ terbutaline infusions at home.IIRC they only monitored contractions, not FHTs and you would get calls when your son was coming up for his first Little League at bat and the home health nurse would say, «Your patient is now having contractions every 7.5 minutes and the cut off is every 8 minutes and the terbutaline is set at blah, blah, blah... What?

It's an attempt to figure out how we got so much more worried for our kids in just one generation, and to separate the real dangers from the ones foisted upon us by the media, and by other folks with things to sell (like baby safety product manufacturers who have to scare us about a remote danger like «traumatic head injury from toddling» before we'll buy their products, like the «ThudGuard» — a helmet for kids to wear all day when they're learning to walk).

«The global crisis of 2013 led to a reduction of 40 % in receivables and the unilateral national minimum wages foisted on states increased expenditure by average of 70 %.

Since the mandates are foisted on taxpayers by NYC state legislators, a separate upstate would undoubtedly vastly scale back these programs and more than make up for any supposed benefit of being part of New York State.

«It is now abundantly clear to all discerning minds that the conspiracy of 2014 to grab power by all means hatched and executed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, succeeded in foisting a most disastrous government on our country.

«The illegal unity list is prepared by governors Wike and Ayodele Fayose to foist on the entire delegates», he lamented.

These were roundly rejected by the regional electorates (including Manchester, re an elected mayor — now to be foisted on them by diktat — with Andy Burnham all too keen to then foist himself on Mancunians via this unwanted post!).

Mbaka, who had in the past faulted the President for not appointing the right people and listening to the wrong advice, said the hardship in the country was foisted on Nigerians by a cabal that had «kidnapped» the President.

According to a statement issued by the Director Bureau of Communication and Strategy for the State Government, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, stated that, «the government has engaged the doctors, perhaps, more than any other category of workers in the state, on the need to equally be sensitive to the hardship foisted on the finances of the state especially since Nigeria as a whole entered into its trying period of economic recession».

An illusion foisted on the unsuspecting citizenry by craven special interests and their corrupt enablers, career Albany politicians.

Members are demanding that the mayor's next budget iteration, due out later this month, include a plan for $ 485 million in unfunded mandates foisted on the city by the state.

There may be no economic matter more urgent, difficult to unravel and more sensitive to the pursuit of the average person in Ondo State than the current indignity foisted on the people by poverty orchestrated by maladministration and priority misplacement by the current administration.

Paterson initiated the discussion by bringing up the tough choices foisted upon him as the accidental governor, after Spitzer left him with a yawning $ 14 billion budget gap.

Hospital executives, already challenging the rising taxes and Medicaid cuts foisted by Malloy and lawmakers in June, are likely to remain unhappy with the outcome, although some legislative leaders are trying to restore Malloy's September cuts to hospital funding, totaling about $ 60 million.

leaving it much later will prove annoying for those who have cumbersome selection procedures or those seats who have some Westminster darling foisted on them by surprise... the chances of the latter increase after June of this year..

With every issue I am awestruck at the no - holds - barred shattering of myths and distortions foisted on us by both mainstream and alternative sources.»

EVERY SINGLE HAPPY PERSON I KNOW is happy because of independent choices — not predetermined plans foisted upon them by overbearing parents.

For instance, when Lucy is first set up to be foisted into Mr. Jang's operation, Besson intercuts her impending danger with film of a gazelle being stalked by a cheetah.

But when Danny's manager and closest friend Frank Grubman (fellow «The Insider» alumnus Christopher Plummer) gives him a letter from John Lennon that failed to reach Danny forty years previously, Danny realizes that he has sold out, squandering his musical talent and ambition by performing songs foisted on him by record labels.

Directed with bland competence by Michael Gracey from a script by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, «The Greatest Showman» is both a fitful hoot and a remarkably upbeat con job, one that seizes upon Barnum's talent for hoodwinking his customers and tries to foist it in turn upon the audience.

«A lot of sociopolitical attitudes in America were foisted upon the public by «Dragnet.»

Dead Rising 2 foisted the same restriction upon its players, and even Dead Rising 3 upheld the tradition by allowing players to opt into «Nightmare Mode.»

As How to Train Your Dragon 2 begins, it is 5 years later, and Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel)-- that Viking Kid — is now a 20 - year - old wanderer, scared of the responsibilities his father — tired of leading — wishes to foist upon him.

Taking place entirely within a six - month window in 1940, the film sees Churchill foisted on his own party — and even his own country, to the annoyance of Britain's King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn)-- by a parliament tired of the tarnished Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (a very dignified Ronald Pickup).

That's why it's important that the things NNSTOY talks about here not be foisted on teachers by well - meaning advocates, but that teachers play a crucial role shaping and adopting them.

We have them draft «I can do X, Y, and Z» testimonials that foist an «adult - centric sense of personal agency on kindergarteners who really couldn't care less if they can «use and understand verbs and adjectives by knowing their opposites.