Sentences with phrase «coddled by»

While her puppies were being loved and coddled by foster families, Danica was under the watchful eyes of our medical team.

But seriously, they have been coddled by their publishers for so long it seems they've each lost their ability to do business.

Many traditional authors, having been coddled by publishers or prodded to do this or that, don't approach it that way, whereas most self - published authors do.

A private sector that is coddled by the Fed.

The bold exterior commands your attention and inside you'll be coddled by roomy, comfortable seats.

So is this evidence teachers are coddled by their education professors and then their professional evaluators?

Camille is very fragile, suffering multiple health issues and being incessantly coddled by his mother.

Polite, charming in his own way and a dedicated straight A student coddled by his overprotective Jewish parents, Marcus is sent to college in Ohio as a means to avoid being drafted into the Korean War, a conflict that has claimed the lives of many of his peers and cousins in his neighborhood.

Instead, he opts for competent but superfluous voice - over, and we feel coddled by it.

A pubescent Spider - Man (that looks 22) coddled by a Tony Stark that seems to be getting tired of the same old schtick.

«Rebel» starts in 1939, when Salinger is an unknown, coddled by his mother (Hope Davis) and scorned by his father (Victor Garber), a prosperous merchant who says things like «Meat and cheese have been very good to this family.»

Coddled by his loving father, Chef Mark, the miniature pinscher has been renamed «Stiva the Diva» by wicked Aunt Jennifer, who enjoys being walked by Stiva down New York's sidewalks, where bystanders can often see them arguing about just who is in charge.

He is coaxed and coddled by his advisors, by his eunuchs, by Hamen, and ultimately by Esther.

the third: kids graduating from elementary school are coddled by delusional parents haven't seen anything about this either, but seriously, why would you celebrate that you have 8 more years of school left?

Sorry you love to be coddled by the liars of this world.

«If I'm investing in a company that was created and coddled by a big company early on, my presumption is that their market is going to be limited,» says Harden, whose firm has invested in YouTube, Practice Fusion and InternMatch.

Was I molly coddling her by not leaving her to «get over it»?

Not exact matches

But the liberal label is effective in pressuring journalists to prove they do not coddle liberals — by doing the exact opposite.

The fact that Prentice let the corporate sector off the hook and the corporate sector, as represented by the Monopoly Men, had a meltdown at the suggestion they should pay 2 points more in taxes convinced us that the business sector had been coddled for far too long.

I though jesus was a gay white male with blue eyes who coddled and protected child molesters from the law by shifting them from church to church.

This «coddling» culture, a term coined by Haidt and Lukianoff, has been criticized by conservatives — as would be expected — but also liberals, including President Obama.

One of the NFLs stronger arguments could be that the prejudice against concussions is actually a symptom of participation trophy culture where everyone gets a healthy brain - by coddling our kids mental health we're actualy doing them a disservice and leaving them ill - equipped for the real world when their brains eventually stop working altogether.

When they are given chances they are on a ridiculously short leash by Valverde when players like Gomes are coddled and given various chances to prove himself & failed miserably.

I don't blame Sanchez AT ALL; I'd be looking for eject button also surrounded by these soft and coddled «players»

Evertonians must like tension, the years we spent on the razor's edge of relegation, years of fraught nerves and throttled match - day programmes, weren't able to be healed by warm coddled midtable safety for long; now we have a different set of reasons to grab every point that we can get.

Even a player as coddled as Oxlade - Chamberlain, stubbornly force - fit by Wenger into the starting XI until the very end, has lost faith.

I sort of get what you are trying to say here, but I am struck by the almost pathological tendency of some women to be hurt or offended by A, B or C and the sense that we have to coddle people.

If we coddle them, protect them from anything that could ever be triggering by policing what everyone says in public, then we are not really being respectful or helpful, IMHO, however well intentioned we are.

This session examining coddling in youth sports will be led by Dr. Brian Greenwood, an associate professor in the Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (RPTA) department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in California.

«I'm increasingly struck by the sense that lots of parents, educators and administrators feel that there is something missing in education — with low - income kids in particular — but really with kids from every background,» says the 45 - year - old author and journalist, coddling his herbal tea in an East Village café on a wintry New York morning.

This strict and rigorous style of parenting resembles the ideologies of Locke, who believed that children should not be coddled or raised tenderly, and that each aspect of the child's development should be determined by the parent.

Refusing to be diverted by manufactured issues such as «tiger moms versus coddling moms,» Levine confronts the real issues behind the way we push some of our kids to the breaking point while dismissing the talents and interests of many others.

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

He continued by discussing Cuomo's coddling of the top one percent — «They need to pay their taxes, so we can fund the public sector.»

Sheltered as we are by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which deflect lethal radiation from space, we are like coddled children who have never ventured into a tough neighborhood.

The villains in this story are the psychiatric cabal that protects their own kind with a shield of neurological folderol (highlighted by the weird, palpitating Ennio Morricone music that accompanies every brain scan scene) and coddles the prisoners with insanity defenses.

Gary Oldman, aided by many pounds of extremely convincing prosthetics and makeup (designed by the brilliant Kazuhiro Tsuji), plays the portly, gin - blossomed, 65 - year - old Churchill in May 1940, when he's appointed Prime Minister following the resignation of Hitler - coddling Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup).

The film is effective in the moments when her trauma shines through, but at the same time does struggle to fully flesh out her character and arguably diminishes her character by presenting her in a way where the people around her, with the exception of her friend Nancy Tuckerman (Greta Gerwig), were always trying to coddle her.

Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future By Michael Barone Crown Forum, 2004, $ 22.00; 188 pages.

Ill - prepared by coddling helicopter parents and grade - inflating schools, my generation is entering the workforce with unrealistic expectations about promotion and responsibility, and, according to Levine and Dean, we are in for a fall.

However, Malloy's successful effort to coddle the super-rich was never openly discussed by policymakers.

BMW's 3 Series infamously lost the sport sedan plot a couple of generations ago by coddling the premium car crowd, leaving the tiny enthusiast segment with an opening big enough to accommodate everything from the Cadillac ATS to the Jaguar XE to the Alfa Romeo Giulia.

Climbing behind the wheel of the 323i Sport Wagon, we were immediately greeted by the familiar 3 - Series dash - smooth and flowing in design, with a soft - touch upper section and customary high mounted gauge pod, clean center stack, inlaid wood trim and coddling Montana leather.

Further, your family will be coddled in luxury while protected by one of the highest rated cars for safety in its class.

This is where the luxury car vibe comes in once again by coddling passengers and keeping the outside on the other side of the glass rather than letting it intrude into the relaxing interior.

The Lexus ES is whisper - quiet at all speeds, continues to coddle occupants inside its roomy, comfortable cabin, and it provides the kind of reliable, luxurious daily transportation that is favored by those regularly facing down a long commute.

The Mercedes - Benz C350 surprised me, this is a car I could see owning, it was both sufficiently sporting and comfortable — a nice cocoon of an interior to coddle the driver and passenger as the miles fly by; a good car.

What's more, if they're coddled too much by their humans, they may end up taking on a guard dog role and developing «Napoleon Syndrome.»

Remain Calm, when your pet is stressed out it can be hard as pet owners not to want to coddle or baby our animals, but by doing this, we are just reinforcing their stressed out behavior.

We are backed by more that 20 years of experience coddling pets and we want to expand our services for the almost 1000 clients that we already have, including a Medical Vet to provide the best quality of service.