Sentences with word «cudgel»

Jeff Bezos, the Amazon chief executive, and his e-commerce juggernaut have already overturned many industries: book buying, retail shopping, groceries and Hollywood, using fierce customer loyalty and enormous reach as cudgels against incumbent players.

But the encyclical's generalizations and «isolated passages» could too easily furnish partisans with cudgels with which to censure certain books and theologians, to say nothing of any number of merely half - baked ideas that were not mentioned in the encyclical itself.

The result, these experts say, is tantamount to a nuclear weapons standoff: Companies with formidable patent portfolios can use them as cudgels against rivals, while those with fewer patents risk being eaten alive in court.

Demographic quotas for charters in the name of equity are the latest policy cudgel of choice pushed by teachers union bosses in states all over the country.

The remarks overshadowed the event with Foley and served as a reminder that the Bridgegate scandal could continue to be used by critics as a political cudgel as he tries to turn his attention forward.

It's interesting that religion has become a Republican cudgel when it was Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, that first emphasized faith - as - a-factor to the presidency...

I would like to take up this man's cause, wield a couple of cudgels on his behalf, and express my conviction as to how «just being a church» could provide the key to programs that work — that multiply and meet people's needs more comprehensively than seeds, heifers and agricultural innovation alone.

Likewise, being May, there was no snow or ice anywhere, which would have been a perfect surface on which to try out the X part of the X6 M. Instead, I was left to only imagine power - sliding around the empty streets, flinging snow cudgels in every direction and practicing my dorifto.

Very rarely I have seen somebody taking cudgel against a really very giant institution called HDFC Group.

«They were also throwing burning firewood, stones and cudgels at the convoy as it was leaving the venue after the successful rally.

Then the system and its 175,000 apartments became a political cudgel wielded by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo against his downstate nemesis and fellow Democrat, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

And while each article hits many of the same themes — Mr. Cuomo's unspoken presidential ambitions; his complicated relationship with his father; his sometimes cudgel - like political operation and oratorical styles — what's more notable is their seeming obsession with the governor's skull.

The book America got gives a media - hating president a new cudgel with which to batter honest reporters seeking to unearth inconvenient truths.

Some Yoruba terms for God are startlingly suggestive in the Christian context: the «One who came whom we have put to death with cudgels causelessly»; the «One who is mightiest among the gods and prevailed to do on a certain occasion what they could not.»

Great Britain, between 1945 and the end of the 1970s, was a classic case where repeated and often ingenious attempts were made to cudgel capitalism into a system of national redistribution of wealth.

None of the bigwigs who are out today with cudgels aimed at the jugular of the Buhari administration could be exonerated from the unenviable position Nigeria finds herself.

Whether Obama uses his list to cudgel Congress or not, somebody will — plenty of politicos (and radio hosts and bloggers and Tila Tequila) are building up their own independent networks of supporters.

But Mr. Flanagan's remarks seemed to do little to quell the questions around the stipend deal, which Senate Democrats have seized on as a powerful cudgel to attack the Republicans and their partners in the Independent Democratic Conference, an eight - member breakaway group that helps the G.O.P. maintain leadership in the Senate.

«Be a champion for a smaller federal government, except when Washington can be used as a cynical cudgel against your political enemies,» the editorial said.

After he actually became governor, Cuomo reiterated his threat, using it as a verbal cudgel with which to beat legislators into passing his ethics reform package.

Politically, the Republicans have lost the use of an effective cudgel.

The U.S. sensors continue to serve as a diplomatic cudgel, as well.

Jakob phasmid enfaced accredits nauseously cudgels.

By weaponizing public opinion, Jeff and the skating gatekeepers destroyed Tonya and turned their audience — us — into a willing cudgel.

For sword - and - cudgel aficianados, there are certainly worse ways to while away the time, especially given that easy - on - the - eyes Natassia Malthe also stars.

In fine clothes and dirty fingernails, he's got a palpable menace and a murderous gleam in his one good eye that cudgels men into subservience with only occasional shows of violence.

A parallel problem, as if this film needed one, is that Luhrmann's direction of his actors cudgels every instinct of naturalness out of them and pushes everyone, even as instinctively genuine an actress as Mulligan, toward overblown characterizations and stilted line readings.

A jittery Two - Blades began to reach, and Shlomo the Pin rolled the fingers of his right hand into a tight cudgel - like fist.

The Bazelgeuse flew off and the Deviljho turned its focus to the newest monster, grabbing it in its jaws to use as a makeshift cudgel against us.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle still used it as a favorite cudgel through the 1990s and 2000s, but as Dooms Day predictions about Grand Theft Auto - warped teens failed to come to fruition, many abandoned the issue.

With no tower shield to keep your Hunter's supple flesh from the business end of myriad giant axes, fangs, and bloodied cudgels, you'll have to stay highly mobile to stay alive.

According to the latest GM note released by Daum Korea, Beast Master's weapon changes from a short sword to a long stick which is very similar to golden cudgel used by the Monkey King.

Zyk, Abakanowicz's colossal cudgel of a sculpture, is defined by the implied violence of its battering ram / unlit - torch form, which works in tandem with the raw and rugged natural materials of a felled tree trunk, steel and burlap.

Brains get cudgelled and books get consulted.

With clear conviction and a sense of purpose, Dr Pirie and his St Andrews comrades, Eamonn and Stuart Butler, took up cudgels on behalf of the ideas propagated by one of the Scottish Enlightenment's greatest sons.

Mr. Cuomo, known for his savvy and sometimes cudgel - like approach to negotiating, has said he is powerless to make the Senate's Democratic factions get along.

You'll have to know intimately what matters to the people who buy your products, and then be their cudgel when it's time to fight the power.

These days companies routinely use the cudgel of jobs to extract huge offers from desperate states — a process that can resemble a shakedown.

Instead, Romney would use federal money that now pays for the uninsured as a cudgel for states to deregulate their health markets.

The issue has at times become a political cudgel — just Google «Obama» and «food stamps,» or, better yet, don't — but this week's report shows the pace of improvement is finally starting to accelerate.

A deal like that would help Notley, send an important message to international investors, allow Trudeau to be seen to be taking action on the economy and take away a cudgel from Kenney.

Mr. Trump used his threat of stiff steel and aluminum tariffs as a cudgel to extract the concessions he wanted, helping produce an agreement that had stalled amid disagreements this year.