Sentences with phrase «gravy trains of»

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.

Clark and his ilk, are worried that the gravy train of living off the money of other peoples hard work and sweat is coming to a end.The reason most people leave is that they awaken to the Holy Spirit.

The gravy train of talent that came out of Dallas's Carter High in the last 15 years — including linebacker Jesse Armstead (Miami), cornerback Clifton Abraham (Florida State), tailbacks Darren Lewis and Greg Hill (both Texas A&M)-- bypassed Texas.

He's taken us for a ride on that gravy train of his and we do not want another 12 years of that!

That gravy train of nurturing, gradual learning, and unconditional love has to end some time and when they start solid foods, that's where I draw the line!

A gravy train of leeches and spongers for failed has been politicians.

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.

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.

The world wide term, cougar, often refers to older women who prefer or only date younger men and New York can be a gravy train of a location for these cougars seeking out her cub or cubs.

The gravy train of exponential sales growth is over.

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

Of course, there are plenty of older scientists who are enjoying the gravy train of gloval warming climate crisis science, but there is also a large percentage who are disgusted by all the gorging and self - righteousness.

So much easier to «stupid in, stupid out» and stand in the gravy train of long term gorrific predictions.

They have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)- that such short - term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin.»

It shows the dishonesty of the small group of climate sci - entists, desperate to preserve the gravy train of public funds generated by phoney climate alarmist claims.

And, that is the proof of the massive fraud perpetuated by a small number of climate scientists to keep the gravy train of Government climate research Grants coming (over $ 30 billion to date and no scientific proof that CO2 is harmful.

They have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)- that such short - term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin.

Yet corruption keeps the gravy train of subsidies flowing towards that form of energy, which only works for sail boats because they have engines to help when the wind fails.

There are dozens of conferences like this every year, year after year, all over the planet, all similarly purposeless and unnecessary — part of the endless academic gravy train of grants and free travel.»

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.

Within two years, about half of those junior associates will prove themselves and hop on the gravy train of the top scale.

You are continually barking up the wrong tree (the tree of little fruit or bad fruit) with your hire -»em - and - flush -»em - out sifting - for - gold revolving door strategy of developing mostly failures - in - waiting... all in pursuit of keeping the gravy train of dues rolling.

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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.

In early March, the J.M. Smucker Co. recalled more than 107 million cans of dog food — sold under popular brands like Gravy Train and Kibbles»n' Bits — after determining it had used ingredients containing toxic euthanasia drugs.

The «gravy train» of government expenditures must continue rolling — powerful vested interests are everywhere and can not be ignored — and few, if any, government programs will be reduced unless such reductions are forced by absolute necessity.

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.

The EB - 5 gravy train has left the station, however a new generation of private equity firms could be poised to step into the gap...

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.

I can't keep a straight face for all these disgraced big shots who «find religion» to water down their dirty laundry for the sake of somehow staying on the gravy train.

I feel bad about taking Irfan on the anti-inflammatory gravy train (gluten free and vegan of course!)

I would be delighted if Weed Walcott also finally left his gravy train club which believes in paying shirkers and idlers for virtually no energy or productive return, which is scandalous and catastrophic to our hopes of success.

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.

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.

Bolton, West Ham and Hull would almost certainly head the same way if they fell out of the top flight, hence why clubs overreach themselves financially in an effort to stay on board the gravy train that is the Premier League.

Imagine a millionaire being told that he can only spend # 50 a day of his fortune FFP was invented not to protect clubs from themselves like Portsmouth and Leeds United, it was invented to protect the «Cartel» of big clubs with their cosy gravy train.

After all, given a choice between cutting services for those in need and confronting the reality of the generous pensions and free health care enjoyed by state retirees — virtually unmatched in the private sector — Quinn opted to cut services for those in need in order to protect the gravy train that many state retirees enjoy.

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?

Until that day I will continue to vote for any party that offers a Referendum on Lisbon and hopefully the end of Englands occupation by this degenerate bloated gravy train for has been politicians.

It would save millions in expenses, and take away powers from an unelected bunch of gravy train riders.

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

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.

It rode the Sheldon Silver gravy train for years, reaping a steady stream of asbestos - litigation clients from referrals fed to him in an illegal quid pro quo, but since the former Assembly speaker's January arrest, the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg has seen a 17 percent drop in new cases, The Post has learned.

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.

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.

COLONIE — With chants of «lock her up» and «Trump, Trump, Trump,» roughly five dozen women from throughout upstate New York gathered for a lunch rally here 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.

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

The shift will continue towards «Ocean Acidification», «Loss of Diversity» and any other «measured impact» that can conceivably keep the gravy train rolling onwards.

By keeping the films inextricably linked through its core cast (Cruise, Rhames), while preserving its currency with self - contained plots and a constantly changing vision through the varying styles of its directors, the M: I gravy train remains unfettered 20 years after first exploding inside a tunnel.

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