Sentences with phrase «foisted upon»

We now borrow cheap money to buy superfluous things, including: larger and larger houses, cars, TVs, trips, wardrobes, and other luxuries respectively, that we don't really need, things that our post-WW II economy has continuously foisted upon us in order to keep the ever burgeoning economic GDP ball rolling.

It is the buyer's right to dictate the type of representation they want and require, not something foisted upon a buyer at the whim of an over enthusiastic sales rep. whose only goal is to collect signatures.

SOMEBODY has some explaining to do — not just to the public but to the paying membership, who — deprived of member by member vote at CREA level (because that's just how it is set up), yet having the mere - listing system foisted upon a membership system that otherwise was working fine, to date — this business of rules and regs should have been addressed prior to the NFLD meeting??? and its being ratified?

We have no mechanism in place to rally together and voice our common outrage at the manipulation and deceit being foisted upon us by Melanie Aitken of the Competition Bureau.

Do you disrespect another's decision to opt out of a listing agreement that he / she / they might feel was foisted upon them via psychological pressure tactics?

I don't like what is happening either, or what has been foisted upon us by government, but we are stuck with it.

One never knows what kind of buck - shee repairs and / or additions have been foisted upon a property by previous DIY owners.

The constant supply of poorly prepared failures - in - waiting babes - in - the - woods armed with scripts foisted upon unwitting consumers are good for only two camps... Organized Real Estate bureaucrats (the money - takers) and trainers (the real money - makers).

The breakdown of landlord versus tenant was not available but reasonable speculation would suggest that most cases were against legitimately outraged landlords who weren't protected by their government from the abuses foisted upon them by unbalanced tenant legislation.

If the Body was a statutory authority it would have to rely on Parliament to approve such changes and may also have unnecessary or politically motivated changes foisted upon it.

As well as having the occasional load of ironing foisted upon you, if you've moved back in with your parents after university you could also be expected to pull your weight financially by helping out with the weekly shopping bill.

In 1990, the former chair of the National Parole Board spoke of how «dangerously inexperienced appointees have been foisted upon» the board by successive federal governments.

Every oppression that has been foisted upon Aboriginal people in the history of Canada has been implemented through [colonial law]... This includes child welfare apprehension, residential schools, the outlawing of our sacred ceremonies, the prohibitions against both voting and hiring lawyers, the impact of the criminal justice system, and [the taking of land and resources]... Law is not the answer.

A ridiculous question, I know; change is usually foisted upon us and we have little control generally.

Any measures foisted upon unwilling, unqualified trainees, and designed to replace a state - funded legal aid system, would likely be doomed to fail.

One campaign is called «Thanks for Nothing,» targeted at reducing the amount of unwanted waste that is foisted upon customers without asking for it, i.e. extra ketchup packets in a to - go container, the straw you didn't ask for, plastic cutlery, the little plastic box supporter in the middle of a pizza.

Not to be unhygienic or anything, but how satisfying not to buy the hype foisted upon us by the corporations that make the things with which we clean ourselves.

The film's writer and director, Martin Durkin, believes that «global warming is a hoax foisted upon an unsuspecting public by conspiratorial environmentalists,» reported The Age in June 2007.

If Figueres and her UN cohorts have their way, a «carbon budget» will be foisted upon the entire planet, with draconian CO2 rationing to control all human activity.

Many of us are like - minded scientists who are quite nauseated with the shoddy science foisted upon the public by the climate change community.

I had not even paid attention to claims of global warming myself before late 2009 (I don't know if I even heard of it before that), yet within a year I had disproved the «greenhouse effect» being foisted upon the people of the world as «settled science», and shown that climate scientists should have done the same 20 years ago, if any had been competent in their field.

According to Tyler Durkin, the writer and director of the program, «global warming is a hoax foisted upon an unsuspecting public by conspiratorial environmentalists.»

Everywhere we look we can find virtual mountains of scientific research with regard to unsustainable pyramid schemes that are surreptitiously foisted upon the human community by a few deceitful people with knowledge at the expense of many too many others who are not «in the know».

His paintings, drawings and sculptures were often classified as «California Funk,» a description foisted upon a group of West Coast artists who treated tradition with cheery disregard.

It is a con, foisted upon gullible players in Pokémon Red and Blue by a shifty NPC.

The devaluations that messrs Parker and Kirby have foisted upon AAdvantage members have taken their toll and a once amazing loyalty program is now a shadow of its former self.

The issue is the method by which it was rescued - who was protected, and who was not; why a consortium was not used instead of a single firm; why the claims of Bear's bondholders should be secure while the public bears the risk of the toxic waste foisted upon us.

If, for instance, you were working under the assumption that retirement couldn't begin until your mid-60s, reviewing your portfolio may alleviate some unnecessary stress — particularly if retirement is suddenly foisted upon you.

You can certainly live responsibly and account for your own risk and your own behavior, but there's no accounting for the level of risk foisted upon you by other people.

While the vague statistics being foisted upon us are impressive, neither Amazon nor Barnes & Noble will release or comment on the exact sales figures of their respective e-readers.

Authors should monitor posts by A.C. Crispin, Victoria Strauss, and Richard White to Writer Beware (r) who's main job is to expose scams and shady deals foisted upon unsuspecting authors.

Also arranged marriages like the one being foisted upon Emmy were not prevalent in my area.

I was raised as an atheist so it is difficult for me to understand someone blindly following a faith - that 1) was foisted upon them as an adult and, even worse, 2) that threatens their child.

Blank lines between paragraphs are an abomination, foisted upon us by Web bowser programmers years ago because they knew nothing about typography and found it simpler to program blank lines than indents.

Maybe the biggest question mark remains over Lamborghini's sales and marketing ideas for the Urus, and whether it has learned from the disaster the Bentley Continental GT was when it was originally foisted upon its dealer body.

Ford has been tuning CC ever since it was foisted upon us; the average Edge driver will never know when it triggers.

However, for the first time in my career I am disheartened with the current reform efforts that have been foisted upon public schools by education outsiders − businessmen and politicians.

While advocates insist that the Common Core was «state - led,» it's fairer to say it was conceived by inside - the - Beltway nonprofits, foisted upon the states by federal bribes, and kept in place by federal coercion.

Nor do they have charter schools foisted upon them.

Frederick Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Common Core went «off the rails» after it was «foisted upon the states by federal bribes.»

Educators have always been willing to accept changes to better meet students» needs; they just didn't want those changes foisted upon them without having a chance to offer their input.

«Next Generation» accountability systems should incorporate principles of «shared accountability,» whereby educational responsibility and accountability should be «distributed across system components and not foisted upon any one group of actors or stakeholders» (p. ix).

All of a sudden, Common Core was being foisted upon kids and families in the public schools of states that had adopted the standards.

These objections, among others, led Diane Ravitch to call on her blog for backing out of Common Core, as the standards were «flawed by the process with which they have been foisted upon the nation.»

DR: Educators and the public are getting wise to the uselessness of the testing regime that has been foisted upon them.

Using a non-issue like this against a movie works — especially a movie that had frontrunner status foisted upon it way too early.

Be warned, this article contains spoilers for The Cloverfield Paradox, though the biggest one of all was foisted upon everyone who...

Compared to the dull - as - dishwater SAG nominees foisted upon us this morning, at least there's a little initiative at play here.

«A lot of sociopolitical attitudes in America were foisted upon the public by «Dragnet.»

Still, the trappings of that time feel foisted upon The Wedding Singer, none of it being even remotely intrinsic to the plot.