Sentences with phrase «example out of somebody»

Needing to make an example out of somebody?

Not exact matches

«These white guys got their butts kicked in a fight,» he says, «and, hey, somebody had to put those black kids in their place, make an example out of them.»

He said: «What it seems happened, and we are investigating that at the moment, is somebody along the way put up what was essentially meant to be an example of the kind of advice we give and ended up going out as a quote which was quite peculiar and quite wrong.

I have become a little bit of a librarian in my immediate family, able to sort out arguments about when somebody's birthday is or when a bill came in, for example.

Well, when my son was playing little league baseball and he was a pitcher, he would get very upset if things got out of hand, if somebody hit a home run, for example, and it would affect him.

Best example is the slash of an energy sword which now no longer sounds like somebody dropped a biscuit tin 300 yards away, it sounds like a sword made out of weird laser stuff.

After 25 years of very expensive, ever expansive publicly funded climate research, could somebody somewhere please point out one single example where climate science as currently practiced has been of ANY visible, perceivable or useful and useable benefit at any level to our national and global societies and industries?

So if, for example, somebody comes up with a new method that seems to wipe out a lot of details of contemperaneously - recorded history, uses non-standard statistical methods and refuses to release the data on which it is based, I do not immediately claim the author to be the greatest scientist since Newton and grab his work to my (metaphorical) bosom with little squeals of girlish delight.

In some cases, for example, helping one client at a time makes a difference for that person but it doesn't really alter the system, or only representing the poorest of the poor, not to say somebody is higher or lower priority, but if you think about your landlord clients, for example, they're not the poorest of the poor but they've crawled out of legal aid eligibility only to be told, «Now here's a giant expense that you need to undertake to move to the next level.»

For example, if somebody comes to you to probate a will, they actually don't just have the problem of needing a will probated, they have a problem with distributing the estate and figuring out what to do with their emotions and grief and all of that stuff after they've lost a loved one.