Sentences with phrase «gravy train at»

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The French fries and gravy train just keeps chugging along for Smoke's Poutinerie founder and «chief entertainment officer» Ryan Smolkin, picking up new believers — and investors — at every stop.

When the mayor of a major city prides himself on integrity, on wanting to «clean up City Hall» and put an end to the «gravy train,» but then can not recognize a blatant conflict of interest when he sees one, you see «tone at the top» gone awry.

Ozil has been on the arsenal gravy train too long, let him off at the next station, His body language tells the same old story, there's no passion in his whole body, seems like everything is too much effort, apart from picking up his monthly cheque.

Mr Clegg, a former MEP, told BBC Radio 4's World at One: «This is what they do in the European Parliament and I don't think bringing the Brussels gravy train to Westminster is the answer to our problems.»

Long appeared at a «Women for Trump» rally outside Albany, where roughly five dozen women from throughout upstate New York gathered for a in support of the GOP presidential nominee, who they said was uniquely qualified to end the «gravy train» where the nation's political class has supped for decades.

He wants to hit up NY for another $ 14B annually, says,» why not let's tax them at higher rates and let my Southern goober friends just stay on the gravy train!»

Sheldon Silver's $ 3 million - plus gravy train started rolling when a cancer doctor poached a client for him from another assemblyman who considered the now - tainted speaker a friend, according to evidence introduced Monday at Silver's corruption trial.

Everyone is at it, from loggers felling the Amazonian rainforest and fishers fighting over the last few cod to SUV drivers running the oil wells dry and politicians on their gravy trains.

At the same time, some biomedical researchers have criticised the «gravy train» of AIDS research.

US state pensions remain woefully underfunded in aggregate (70 % funding rate, > $ 1 tln unfunded) and the public pension gravy train keeps on chugging, at least for now.

, other companies can not help but salivate at the gravy train passing them by.

Let's put fat ass in a kennel and serve him 1 cup of gravy train in the morning, and 1 at night.

The closer you look at the rawhide gravy train — its tentacles in China, typically, at one point or another — the more you may want to wean your dog off this dubious by - product.

With New York Fashion Week at full throttle, Ecouterre HQ has been a nonstop gravy train of eco-fashion goodness.

The irony is that most of these «greedy capitalists» have jumped aboard the global warming gravy train and that most of these policies aimed at reducing fossil fuel use, are in fact enviromentally destructive.

But neither do I believe that the gravy train, and — for some at least — a near religious belief that they are saving the world from the sinners / deniers, has no effect on their behaviour.

The lure of feeding at the trough of the Climate Science gravy train is strong.

With so much to lose — the AGW» ers will not stop at anything in order to keep the gravy train running.

These people really aren't at all used to having their dodgy theories exposed to serious scrutiny: that's what «peer review» was for — to protect them from any awkward questions from outsiders by making darned sure it was only sympathetic fellow - travellers on the climate change gravy train who got to vet their drivel.

A fatal mistake which if the current 8 year cooling trend steepens and lengthens sufficiently that it becomes obvious to everyone, will destroy the credibility of AR5 and bring about the dissolution of the IPCC, or at least a dramatic reform of said gravy train of fools.

WHEREAS, H. [the climate change «gravy train,» estimated at].

One would think that with a $ 300 million annual transportation budget that this would be a drop in the bucket, but this is Toronto, where the Mayor calls building bike parking and showers at City Hall «the gravy train.

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

When the public jumps en masse on the speeding runaway gravy - train to riches via real estate purchases, it is time for the smart ones to jump off, wait out the storm of downward spiralling back - to - normalcy prices of actual value / worth, and thence re purchase at prices that reflect actual value in a stable / balanced marketplace.

Maybe that is what it will take for ORE to clean up its act and develop a finite number of professional Realtors whose innately - driven individual first priorities are to properly, thus professionally, serve the public interest instead of routinely turning out boat loads of desperate immigrants from unrelated pursuits looking for fast big bucks riding the real estate - sales gravy - train from the end of a computer link spewing forth learned, canned scripts which hide the reality of the truth, ignorance of what they profess to be experts at.

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.