Sentences with phrase «cudgels causelessly»

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.

Anand believes in developing the next generation of criminal lawyers to assume the mantle of counsel and take up the cudgels to preserve due process.

Subsequently, Advocate General Maduro in his Opinion of January 2008 took up the cudgels for the autonomy of the Union legal order and for the effective protection of fundamental rights.

But now it's time for me to once again take up the «Spot the Recycled Denial «cudgels to tackle Chris» New Years Eve 2008 rant, entitled «As the planet cools, check the science `.

a) We need our scientists to do science, and if they sometimes choose to take up the cudgels, I'm glad... but

This leads to what Jonathan Rauch, a contributing editor at this magazine, calls the «offendedness sweepstakes,» in which opposing parties use claims of offense as cudgels.

Then he cudgels you with the uncanny power and presence of his 1966 Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, a painting that somehow reveals its subject's beauty by tearing her face to shreds and reassembling it like a drunk putting a broken ornament back together.

Porter, you are so ding - dang REASONABLE, amidst the cudgels and the curtsies of publishing's courts.

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.

Calling down thunder with a modified axe like Marvel's Thor is a treat the first few times, but even the vast array of fantastical swords, guns, and cudgels can't carry Dead Rising 4's conceit for long.

Jakob phasmid enfaced accredits nauseously cudgels.

This is not the first attack on these areas of science, but this time mainstream science organisations are taking up cudgels to defend them.

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

Yet the debate has broadened in recent years with more mainstream groups taking up the cudgels.

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.

Homebirth advocates, including Gaskin, wield shame and guilt as cudgels to discipline members.

However you choose to do it dear fellow Gooners, pick up those cudgels and fight, fight and fight again to beat the cancer consuming our club, before our eyes.

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.

It is against this position that Martin now takes up the cudgels.

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.

Maudoodi took up the cudgels on behalf of Islam.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Instead of fighting to give us the chance to nurture our children during the irretrievable, precious years of childhood, the activists promise laws to cudgel our bosses into giving us a few weeks of unpaid leave to guarantee that mere children will not needlessly interrupt our return to our jobs.

They use it as a cudgel to force people to submit to their views and ideals.

One could look at the Bible and perhaps reach the conclusion that using one's religious beliefs as a cudgel with which to hammer the marginalized is... well, somewhat heretical.»

If the IOC neglects to use the Olympic Charter as a cudgel, it's only because the committee feels more urgent work must be done.

Walcott is a great player but is unproven at the tip of the spear and may never be able to take up that cudgel due to either injury or ability, Giroud is a wonderful player but is far too inconsistent to do the clinical job we require and Im really sorry but Wellbeck will Never ever be that player in my opinion.

When Liverpool were smashing through European strongholds in the Champions League, taking a cudgel (and sometimes a Craig Bellamy golf club) from Milan to Barcelona, Rafa Benitez barely raised any eyebrow, as if any sense of public emotion would sabotage his carefully calculated tactical master plan.

They wield the phrase «babies die in hospital, too» like a cudgel, transforming their profound disappointment in the fact that hospitals can't yet save all babies into a bizarre conspiracy that hospitals are actually killing babies with «interventions.»

What I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary people.

Schneiderman's campaign has made choice a signature focus, using it as a cudgel with which to smash his GOP / Conservative opponent, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is personally pro-life, but insists he won't actively seek to change state law in this arena the way attorneys general have done in other states.

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.

Democratic AG contender Sean Coffey did not take kindly to being employed by Republican Harry Wilson as a cudgel to slam his opponent, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, for accepting the Working Families Party line.

Geoff Berman, executive director of the state Democratic Party that is essentially controlled by Cuomo, used Saturday's vote as a cudgel against his fellow liberals in the WFP.

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.

We have very right to use the sex - related hypocrisy of non-progressives as a cudgel to beat them over the head with.

She wields money as a cudgel, and — like past speakers — tolerates dissent best when expressed behind closed doors.

The conservative view point is concerned about the violation of rights held by others, especially when the government monopoly on force is used as a cudgel.

That bill would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants and GOP candidates and incumbents have used the issue as a cudgel in battleground election campaigns for 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.

In that vein, the Boehner memo sought to highlight the ongoing ethics questions surrounding New York Rep. Charlie Rangel — evidence that Republicans will seek to use Rangel's problems as a cudgel against House Democrats in the coming months.

I am so tired of «religion» being used as a cudgel.

What he wanted was the threat of an investigation, to cudgel the Legislature into cutting a deal on ethics reform.