Sentences with phrase «call the shots in»

Who really calls the shots in corporate Canada?

What began as a conference devoted to honoring excellence in advertising has morphed into a gaudy business meeting for the technology and sales people who call the shots in the industry.

Yet in Mexico, some say that it's Ismael Zambada, nicknamed El Mayo, who calls the shots in the Sinaloa cartel.

(Don't be intimidated by the 69 pages of footnotes; while meticulously researched, this is a captivating read for anyone seeking clarity on why Wall Street can collapse, get bailed out by the taxpayer, cause a Great Recession and still call the shots in Washington.)

Ingle was supposedly demoted to «adviser» by Hamed, but he was still calling the shots in the Prince's corner on Saturday night.

Turns out that person was in the audience, because both the chair umpire or line judge called the shot in.

If I was in charge and calling shots in the Arsenal board, I would've let Wenger go after his FA Cup win in 2014.

This isn't news, but Sports Illustrated's Tim Layden did an absolutely masterful job of calling his shot in January 1996 in his piece titled Headed for a fall?

A fancy term for this is institutional racism, which is what we get when well mannered racists are calling the shots in an organisation.

Sammer was central to that with Vogts explaining that «he called the shots in defence.»

Rumours were pretty much that Terry and Lampard were calling the shots in that time.

Then, there is social control as in who gets to call the shots in the situation, which would be the individual midwife at home (with no oversight) vs. doctors, nurses etc in the hospitals (with institutional policies in place and a lot of oversight).

If one truly wants to call the shots in the delivery room, a home birth may just be what the doctor ordered.

That Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy are calling the shots in the attempted salvaging of the eurozone economy — with Merkel the dominant of the duo — is not new news.

The Lib Dems have many virtues, but Orange Bookery is a philosophical step backwards from our point of view, and it is this tendency which is now calling the shots in social and economic policy.

Speaker Boehner and the radical right have been calling the shots in the House and Gibson is going right along with them promoting policies that are hurting our children, hurting our seniors, hurting our veterans and people with disabilities, hurting our hard working families and hindering our ability to get America working again.

«This belief people have that the governor is calling the shots in Central New York — nothing could be further from the truth,» she said.

Then the third cabal in the party is said to belong to Atiku, who has a leg in each of the other factions and still calls some shots in the PDP.

«The anti-government Tea Partiers who are calling the shots in the House demanded a ransom they knew they would never get: killing the Affordable Care Act.

Donors, lobbyists and other assorted power brokers have called the shots in his administration.

The Chancellor George Osborne this morning attempted to ram home the message, claiming that every family would be left # 350 worse off if the SNP is left calling the shots in a Labour government.

Latest polls suggest the SNP will gain dozens of seats in Scotland, depriving Labour of a majority and able to call the shots in Westminster.

You can handle difficult tasks, on your own terms, you are the one that calls the shots in your research.

Michael Hackett knows he's taking a risk, but being able to call the shots in his lab and pursue something he believes in makes the risk worthwhile, he says.

BY EVOLVING a «shield» for their genitals, female red - backed water striders from east Asia can call the shots in the mating game.

I am calling the shots in my life!

As much as we all might want to say that we call the shots in our own careers without any regard for the judgements and opinions of others, that's not always true.

By calling the shots in your own life, you ensure that you will get the most out of it.

The lady always calls the shots in every close encounter.

Whether it's sending that first smile on eHarmony or asking that handsome barista for his number, women are increasingly taking the initiative and calling the shots in their dating lives.

Dr. Lauzen directs research at the Center and teaches classes including The Women of Prime Time: From «That Girl» to «Saving Grace» and Film Directors: When Women Call the Shots in the School of Theatre, Television and Film.

Let's return to the original question: Could NCLB work as intended with the right people calling the shots in Washington, making good decisions and acting wisely?

Many individuals on Capitol Hill and in advocacy groups appear sincerely to believe that with the right people calling the shots in the U.S. Department of Education, making good decisions, and acting wisely, the law could work as intended.

Under ESSA, the long - delayed revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, state departments will be charged with more of the hands - on work in a variety of policy areas where the federal government increasingly called the shots in recent years.

For years they've been accused of calling the shots in our nation's classrooms.

Alongside the larger Panamera, Porsche will also introduce a new entry - level model with a new 330hp V6 turbocharged engine which is more powerful and yet more efficient than the V6 that called the shots in the first - generation Panamera.

The likes of Apple and Samsung are calling the shots in Sony's own backyard.

-- Beth Gainer, author of Calling the Shots in Your Medical Care, bethgainer.com.

Apple will be calling the shots in its e-commerce environment (see how pernickety it has been already) and Apple will almost certainly be adding Tablet - specific functionality for books / magazine Apps which customers will expect to see in their purchases.

I appreciate the fact that Dr. Danworanun let me a call the shots in making a diagnosis and prescribing treatment.

You don't get much closure or view towards the future of Caroline's life, but you are calling the shots in the present.

This probably involved new artists, different people calling the shots in Sonic Team, and different types of fans coming on board so it's an irreconcilable split.

As your family settles into the basement, an auspicious array of monitors, and an even more perilous telephone, takes centre stage, a dark conduit between Carl and the government, which is really calling the shots in this game of control and conditioning.

The French star on playing a Bond villain, learning from Spielberg and calling the shots in his erotic thriller The Blue Room

The firm's LA digs were described as «exactly like the office in Suits» by one interviewee, who went on to lament that fact that the West Coast was sometimes overlooked by those calling the shots in the East — «on a couple of occasions I've got the impression that they think of us a bit as those cowboys out West,» one joked.

I work in England under the rule of accountants and they call the shots in business here.

A report from Telecoms.com adds to the many, already documented, instances of Apple calling the shots in its relationship with carriers.

A recent article on Slate.com, by sociologist Mark Regnerus at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses how males are becoming underrepresented on many college campuses and in the workplace, and are thus likely to call the shots in their (heterosexual) relationships when it comes to sex.

Based on the principle of least interest, men have more power to call the shots in their relationships.

There's nothing you can do about this because it's creditors who usually call the shots in this case.