Sentences with phrase «haranguing by»

I finally got around to this book after years of haranguing by value investors everywhere.

At the time there were reports that Livermore that he had been reduced to tears by a haranguing by the famously grumpy then PM.

In recent years general election campaigns have become increasingly tightly controlled, with party bosses keen to avoid episodes such as Gordon Brown's encounter with Gillian Duffy in 2010 and Tony Blair's haranguing by Sharron Storer in 2001.

Sheldon Sparks deleted his original post after his jolly good haranguing by the women of Bristol, but he still doesn't think he did or said anything wrong, and he told The Daily Mail that breasts «just shouldn't be seen at the pub.»

After being harangued by «impossible» Mr Brown, Mr Clegg cried out: «That man!»

(I sometimes feel a little harangued by fashion pundits who nag everyone to desert neutrals for color - at - all - costs!)

They say «The deliberately irritating Fuck Off is like being harangued by a drunk, and will surely be responsible for one or two scratched heads and grumblings of «Is this art?»»

What were allegedly the most important decisions to be made about the future of the world ended up being made on the hoof, at the last minute, by sleep - deprived representatives of governments, harangued by an army of environmental activists, in a debating chamber that represents nobody except bureaucrats and NGOs.

I have been harangued by lawyers.

You get hassled and harangued by anonymous intellectuals who use multisyllabic words designed to confuse and hurt.

Being harangued by a newspaper comes a close second.

Not exact matches

The costs incurred by the delay, legal fees, and general haranguing weren't worth the dollars they originally brought to the table.

His harangue hasn't changed in our twenty - year acquaintance, but this time it occurred to me that there was a tinge of conceit to it» that he resented the idea of being ministered to by people who, in all likelihood, were too inclined toward curial - obedience and therefore couldn't possibly have much to say to his finely tuned sensibilities.

The statistic invariably cited by the people who harangue you about getting a flu shot every fall is that it reduces mortality by 50 percent.

There I met the 82nd Airborne Division of sports talk callers, men trained in a harsh environment by a ruthless taskmaster who harangues and abuses them, who forces them to stretch, to be all that they can be.

Although by the end of the match the focus had turned to the eleven men on the pitch, the early part of the game had seen a lot of haranguing of the 10,000 who had gone missing since the opening day against Brighton.

While Schneiderman drew a Twitter harangue or two from Trump, Cuomo has barely mentioned the president by name.

Watching the congressional haranguing of Goldman Sachs yesterday, I kept recalling William F. Buckley Jr.'s line that he'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard.

State lawmakers are trying to roll back a new fee on plastic bags and asked New Yorkers to help them Sunday by haranguing Mayor de Blasio and the City Council.

They are harangued and bothered by Bobbie (Lisa Ann Walter), a brassy bottle - blonde who practices at the studio so one day she can be a big famous dancer, and who is obnoxious to strangers and wears stretch pants everywhere in the meantime.

by Walter Chaw Taking place in a scary netherworld where up is down, black is white, and Steve Guttenberg, Rodney Dangerfield, Lori Loughlin, Pauly Shore, and Richard Moll still have careers, Casper: A Spirited Beginning is one long spiritless harangue designed for the kid with the helmet and the drool cup.

In this episodic iteration, a crime wave — led by a mysterious figure known as the Scarab — is killing off prominent citizens of a major metropolitan city, and the mayor is haranguing the police commissioner and district attorney about the situation.

Districts and administrators are trying to help teachers stay afloat by setting up lanes and lessons in the pool and by coaching (or sometimes haranguing) teachers to the finish line of yearly data - crunching exercises.

A tactic used by some is to harangue critics like me for pointing out important flaws in the EPUB ecosystem, but silencing critics won't address the flaws.

But of all the Xbox exclusive titles that Microsoft could find itself harangued into making by a coterie of passionate fans in 2016, perhaps it was inevitable that it would be Halo Wars, as unlikely as that might seem to some of you.

I was harangued into buying a PS4 by Craig, and rather than playing something «new» I decided to play a retro inspired indie game because I am a curmudgeon - ey bastard who hates himself almost ad much as I hate others.

Fortunately, this endless harangue is not apparent in the recent Women Painting Women subculture that began with a popular blog of the same name by Diane Feissel, Alia El - Bermani, and Sadie Jernigan Valeri.

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Such is the insipid brainwashing that has taken place via television, newspapers and exalted talking heads - global warming skeptics are forced to wear the metaphoric yellow star and only discuss their doubts in hushed tones and conciliatory frameworks, or be cat - called, harangued and jeered by an army of do - gooders who righteously believe they are rescuing mother earth by recycling a wine bottle or putting their paper in a separate trash can.

I was harangued during and after the meeting, including as I was walking out the door by a person who teaches and directs the science program at a local community college.

As Cutler told it, he was recently stopped and harangued a bit by Dutch police for running a red light, though he was not ticketed.

If you're a family member or friend who didn't cosign, but you've been getting harangued and harassed by debt collectors, write a certified letter to the organization (s) expressing your desire to be left alone.