Sentences with phrase «gravy train as»

You / we can try to live with the goal of a sustainable world, but most people appear to prefer to jump on the bandwagon / gravy train as it rolls by and the corporate guys want to keep things going as before.

Not only do celebs get lots of free stuff, but now their babies are cashing in on the gravy train as well, with extravagant baby showers and lots and lots of free giveaways.

Not only do celebs get lots of free stuff, but now their babies are cashing in on the gravy train as well, with extravagant baby showers and lots and lots

Non of them would be Arsenal fans today had it not been for Wengers Arsenal, most jumped on the Arsenal gravy train as a result of wenger revolutionizing Arsenal.

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Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

Smucker is now the No. 1 maker of dog snacks and No. 2 maker of cat food, owning such well - known brands as Meow Mix, Milk - Bone, Kibbles»n Bits, 9Lives, Natural Balance Pet Foods, Pup - Peroni, Gravy Train, Nature's Recipe, Canine Carry Outs, Snausages, Meaty Bone, Pounce, Jerky Treats, Alley Cat, and Milo's Kitchen.

Then you gradually store more of your wealth in bonds — which are less apt to lose half their value in the blink of an eye — reducing the chance of your gravy train being wrecked just as you were about to put your feet up.

-LRB-...) Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

Players started to get paid earlier this year as part of a settlement on the matter, and most gravy trains of this magnitude don't sit still forever.

There hasn't been any explanation as to what the money was for, apart from «advisory services», and it hasn't been recommended by all the board just Chips Keswick and Lord Harris, who appear to be good ol' boys on the gravy train, so I don't really see anything stopping him just taking money out.

As he stated it is a pleasure for him to sit next to Arsene Wenger; however I hope he realizes that based on his performance in coaching defense, with a change in manager the gravy train ends.

They «re on a gravy train - fat television and radio contracts, booming gate receipts, and now public funds as well.

With this reality, the temptation to join the gravy train is overwhelming — and to fight elections as if life depends on it.

As a trade unionist I didn't join the movement in order to feather my own nest, or jump on a gravy train.

Further, Tesla, Elon Musk's OTHER huge corporate gravy train welfare cyclone of pretend tech «success» hasn't earned a single DIME in over ten years it's been around but as long as the taxpayers foot your «success» it; s all good right?

It looks to me as if labour ministers and MP's are all rubbing their hands because it's another method of getting on the gravy train.

Read more: David Cameron's gravy train scandal as ex-ministers join payroll of industries they used to oversee

Everyone rejecting this «regionalism» quite rightly saw it as yet another gravy train of sinecure posts for the usual political stooges of the main parties.

Flanagan is the poster boy for earning limitation as he has been on a legal firm gravy train selling influence!

«Now that the gravy train has run out, let's see if we can find some way to keep it going and see if we can have more influence than we would have as the rank - and - file minority,» Russo said.

Mr Cameron will need a number of other allies if he is to be successful in forcing the EU to change and he's in a race against time as the opinion - formers of the new, more Eurosceptic member nations develop a taste for the Brussels gravy train.

And to add insult to Welsh injury, we have the likes of Stephen Kinnock and Owen Smith riding the gravy train of the family name with an over-inflated sense of their own importance and their career prospects in Westminster as their only guiding principles in life.

But what is most troubling about the DOE consultant gravy train (as Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer put it) is what it says about the mayor's and the DOE's priorities.

But, quotes like «You're on the gravy train with biscuit wheels,» and subtle humorous details such as Bill Murray's ridiculous hairpiece are what make this movie so great.

Clearly he was riding the gravy train by this point, as he also returned to the role another two times: «Psycho III» (which he also directed) came out in» 86, and 1990 featured his final Bates outing, the TV movie «Psycho IV: The Beginning,» in which Henry Thomas played the teenage Bates while Perkins reminisced on a radio talk show.

It stubbornly adheres to the moribund status quo, as any interruption to their gravy train is simply not acceptable.

Here in Connecticut, we've become used to daily coverage of the failures associated with the Jumoke / FUSE charter school company and the exploits of charter school champions such as «Dr.» Michael Sharpe, «Dr.» Terrence Carter, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education Steven Pryor, Capital Prep principal Steve Perry, corporate education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school gravy train.

I'm not sure if Authors United is a bunch of elitists who know they're full of shit and are trying to make the best argument they can to sway public opinion because they don't want the gravy train to end, or if they're truly as stupid as they appear.

GRAVY TRAIN Once acquired as sidekicks for kids, animal companions are more popular now with empty - nesters, single professionals, and couples who delay having children.

Big Heart Pet Brands will encompass the following brands: Milk - Bone, Meow Mix, Natural Balance, Kibbles»n Bits, 9Lives, Milo's Kitchen, Pup - Peroni, Nature's Recipe, Canine Carry Outs, Gravy Train, as well as other brand names.

Even budget - conscious Millennials are jumping on the gravy train, as seen with their unprecedented interest in the pricey Chase Sapphire Reserve, which came out last summer and costs $ 450.

As their «science» continues to be exposed and discredited by genuine scientists and astute researchers, we can expect their noisy chorus to get even noisier, in a desperate attempt to push through a new UN climate regime in Paris — before taxpayers completely pull the plug on their global - warming gravy train.

He probably enjoyed his role as a VIP rider on the AGW gravy train too much, m» thinks.

Diane Cassell is presented by playwright Richard Bean as the lone figure of integrity who has the courage to stand up to the climate science establishment, scientists who are cravenly manipulating their research to stay on the gravy train.

David Evans ========= «To preserve the gravy train and conceal the failure of predictions, temperatures are now measured by thermometers near artifical heat sources (such as air conditioner outlets or tarmac)» From his web site main page, he also has a presentation pages and pages of claims that the temperature isnt rising, and that the use of the temperature stations was part of a consipracy.

Oh, and the deference to experts is a concept that itself is under attack, as there are those who claim that expertise is a sham and is little more than an excuse to protect the grant gravy train.

In a way I feel fortunate to not be on a gravy train like AGW or to be famous like Jones, because reviewers won't let me get away with such handwaving as saying cities with 100,000 are «rural», and thus I don't have to look over my shoulder and worry about being audited.

He acts as a smokescreen to try to deflect every argument he can from the More Government Money Gravy train.

Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as «climate comrades» keeping the «gravy train» going.

Pachauri trained as a railway engineer and later became an economist, he certainly knew a gravy train when he saw one.

Only a few lawyers get those gravy - train, six - figure salaries... [D] espite the 90 - percent - plus employment figures touted by most law schools, most graduates will not get jobs as lawyers in law firms...

Or, as Bruce MacEwen asks it at Adam Smith, Esq., «Has the gravy train departed?»

When I was a recruiter I acted for plenty of partners earning north of Generous Lottery Win every year who were miserable as hell because they had allowed themselves to become enslaved to PEP and, when their gravy train hit the buffers, found that they did not possess enough knowledge, experience or ability to continue earning the amount of money their lifestyle now demanded.

But now, tired of subsidizing law firm gravy trains, large corporate clients are forcing firms to offer alternative billing arrangements, such as flat fees, volume discounts and banning new associates from working on matters.

As she walked back to the offices of Strickland, Michaelman & Fox, Joyce wondered whether she could possibly talk her partners — especially «Tricky» Strickland and «Wiley» Fox — into making the kind of changes they needed now that the gravy train had left the station.

This will be a diffcult row to hoe, because part - timers» dollars count just as much as full - timers» dollars, only on a 70 - 30 favourable ratio in favour of the amateurs who substantially more so than the full - timers support the bureaucratic gravy train full of feed for the muchers - at - the - trough.