Sentences with phrase «equivalent of kicking»

She pulled the actor - equivalent of kicking alien ass last night.

Shadow pensions secretary Philip Hammond warned this was the «financial equivalent of kicking it into the long grass», and said it was the introduction of means - testing by Labour that had reduced people's savings and led to today's problems in the first place.

Let's be clear: Even though neither of those unions have formally endorsed Cuomo, they are clearly fronting for him here and attempting to move the discussion away from the mosque — a touchy subject for Democrats ever since President Obama weighed in, and out, and in again — and onto the politicization of Ground Zero, which is basically the equivalent of kicking a hornets» nest.

It's my own personal prejudice against films that try to give me the cinematic equivalent of a kick to the groin (a genre that includes Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Takeshi Miike's Audition and Blue Velvet, among others).

Not exact matches

In short, it is the prescription for medical oppression in which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corps.

I am left to wonder how long will it be before the football world comes to collectively realise that, although Jose Mourinho is a fine coach who organises and drills his teams well, he is about as close to being football's equivalent of the burning bush as his club captain John Terry is to being the «Let's Kick Racism out of Football» campaign's man of the year?

In that era before wall - to - wall sports news, if you had missed Sports Report or its slightly earlier TV equivalent following the revolutionary teleprinter showing the final scores, you had to rush down to the local newsagent that evening to try to get a copy of the Green Citizen or Pink Times (both titles might have a different connotation today) before they sold out or the shop closed to find out results, sometimes only to find that your match of interest had been a late kick off and its final score hadn't made the print run and you just had to wait for the Sunday newspapers because you were certain to miss Sportscene / MotD.

The qualifying round of the Copa Libertadores, the continent's Champions League equivalent, kicks off on Tuesday and 12 sides will be reduced to six in the group phase.

The irony of this gaffe is that it was the equivalent piece with Landale that kicked off Ed Miliband's two kitchens drama.

Plenty of people have recorded weight gains on a whole foods diet, and while a bag of fresh cherries might not hit you in the exact same way as its carb equivalent in powdered sugar, it'll still spike your blood sugar, kick you out of ketosis and give you cravings for even more carbs.

She's also instrumental in making the film work, turning in her equivalent of Charlize Theron's performance in Young Adult as Gloria, an alcoholic writer who returns to her Northeastern U.S. hometown after her fussy, career - oriented boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens) kicks her out.

Let's kick things off on a small note of positivity — which, to be frank, is equivalent to a 10 - man archeological dig amid scads of dusty, indistinct murk.

This recent outing may not be as mind - numbingly awful as last year's A Million Ways to Die in the West, but that's basically the equivalent of saying getting kicked in the shin isn't as bad as getting poked in the eye.

From there on it was all downhill, making Shyamalan the career equivalent of Orson Welles who also kicked off his Hollywood career on a high note (with Citizen Kane), but went on steadily downhill from there on until the career low point of doing a voice - over for a lame Transformers animated movie.

eInk has become the equivalent of one of those prehistoric species of fish which you find alive and kicking even though it belongs in another era.

RT @ReformedBroker: This Greek austerity bill is the equivalent of slapping a Kick Me sign on the Troika's back.

Getting a sky - high medical bill is the monetary equivalent of a swift kick to the gut.

He will act out the Shiba equivalent of a child kicking and screaming to convince his foster family to allow him out of his crate.

Web of Shadows got everyone in a tizzy over skateboarding villains, but flashy moves do not a game make, especially when you have to use and overuse those special attacks until they become the equivalent of high - kick.

He has also said that one of the game's main themes is the idea that most games are about man's first tool, the stick (punching, shooting, kicking), and that he wants Death Stranding to communicate through the game equivalent of man's second tool, ropes (for securing things we find important).

With the Albedo Loss feedback being reported in 2011 as providing a forcing equivalent to about 30 % of anthro CO2, that is already equivalent to about 35ppm of CO2, I'd suggest that some at least are already kicking in quite severely.

Getting a sky - high medical bill is the monetary equivalent of a swift kick to the gut.

At times, even the «Student Driver» sign atop the roof, the roadway equivalent of a «kick - me» sign, inspires support.

It kicks and screams at anything it doesn't like, is intolerant of compromise, and can burst into tears at any moment (which is the equivalent of dropping 10 % just to let off steam).