Sentences with phrase «gravy train running»

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

There appears to be confusion between what is happening now — a non-virtuous circle where back - scratching is mutually done by scientists, politicians, NGOs, the media and industry, keeping the climate gravy train running, and how this sorry state of affairs began — a topic I thought Robert Swan was addressing and which I believed happened differently.

He doesn't even worry about earning interest or making a wise investment - he's just making sure there's a bone to dig up when the gravy train runs dry.

Not exact matches

«You had a person essentially running on??? Get off the gravy train,» but not really spelling out how he was going to do it.»

There are plenty of big names in the queue for this particular gravy train, with Didier Deschamps claiming he's in the running for the hotseat.

«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.

Also opens another round of «I am not running although God knows I want to but I won't and I'm not» yawns from soon - unemployed Bloomberg, whose witch doctors must now either sit shiva, find a new gravy train or more ways for Lame - duck Mike to quack.

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.