Sentences with phrase «hired by gun»

Her firm is hired by gun manufacturers to fight proposed gun control legislation.

In a new subplot that just got started, Billy and Anvil were hired by gun control advocate Sen. Stan Ori (Rick Holmes).

Not exact matches

The statements made by their hired gun, Benjamin Zycher, are problematic and not only because they directly contradict what is in his report.

Many of these hired guns act as public relations lobbies for global financial interests, often by joining think tanks that serve as advertising agencies to promote these interests.

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

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Maybe it was one of the hired guns who were recently retained to defend the apparent alleged breach of ethics by Senator Libous.

Security consists of a 465 - member Homeless Services Department police force, which carries Tasers and batons but no guns, and private security hired by contractors the city pays.

It's not «a point of view... put forward by hired guns... spouting whatever the client is telling them.»

Chang's team addressed those limitations by making a new kind of bacterial «gun - for - hire» that can sense an infection, swim toward it and kill off the disease - causing microbes.

Years later he returns, hired as a hitman by the same criminals who gunned him down.

Michael Vick after entering a guilty plea After he was named in a very - detailed, 84 - count Federal indictment for hosting dogfights in his home, for funding the entire operation, and for executing losing pit bulls by means of lynching, drowning, electrocution and body slams, MichaeI Vick retained a Dream Team of five, very high - priced attorneys, masterminded by Billy Martin, the same hired gun who recently represented former Dick Cheney hatchet man Scooter Libby.

In 1994, the Coens were hired by the studio to do a rewrite — their first such hired - gun gig — and that was expected to be the extent of their involvement.

The Equalizer had its passionate fans, and tended to be shown late at night: it starred Edward Woodward as a former covert US intelligence agent who attempts to atone for his many and unspecified sins by offering himself out as a gun for hire to desperate citizens.

He lives out of a suitcase for most of the year, loving his nomadic existence and lack of emotional baggage, but his boss hires arrogant, young gun Natalie (Kendrick), and she threatens his lifestyle by implementing an automated firing system.

To that end, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige seems willing to sit back and wait until Ryan Coogler is ready before moving forward with a sequel to Black Panther, even though Feige could probably make some quick cash by just calling up a gun - for - hire director and dumping out a cheap sequel next year.

The always compelling Joaquin Phoenix stars as a weary gun - for - hire who will perform any task for a bundle of cash and who is plagued by traumas from his past.

Other than the fact that he's haunted by his love for his daughter, who pleads with him to give up the criminal life, we learn that gun - for - hire Deadshot is called this because he never misses a shot (a la Bullseye from Marvel's Daredevil).

The other is that two cute girls, ages 18 and 17, who look like the sort that any parent would love, are serial killers, guns for hire who in the story's leading incidents are motivated by the wish for money to buy expensive dresses.

It's a mercenary bit of manipulation undertaken by a hired gun that bears no relationship to art, no interest in depth — it's aberrant, derivative, and in its conclusion's startling resemblance to a Kiwanis Club haunted house, surprisingly dull: the one thing it wasn't supposed to be anymore.

Warlock (1959): Gambler Henry Fonda is the hired - gun town marshal, aided by his lame gunslinger sidekick, Anthony Quinn.

Edge - of - the - seat thrills as a gun - for - hire (Edward Fox) paid by French dissidents nearly assassinated French president Charles De Gaulle in Paris with a specially built rifle 13 months before JFK was killed.

These are administered, at the behest of a mild - mannered mob cutout (Richard Jenkins), by an enigmatic gun for hire (Brad Pitt) and his supplementary muscle (James Gandolfini).

Harris plays Virgil Cole, a hired gun who, along with his friend, Everett Hitch (a restrained Viggo Mortensen), are employed by the town of Appaloosa as Marshall and Deputy to get rid of local thug, Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons).

is one of those hired gun Gilliam films, with a script by first time feature writer Pat Rushin.

A few young - gun mechanics and fabricators were hired, and the Original Venice Crew was in business, fully authorised by Shelby American and licenced by Ford Motor Company.

The release also reveals that gun - for - hire Rubi Malone will be voiced by Buffy - verse veteran and current Dollhouse headliner Eliza Dushku, who is certainly no stranger to playing tough as nails sexpots.

Combat is the core of the God of War experience, and it has been expertly and flawlessly ported to the PlayStation 4 by hired guns Wholesale Algorithms.

Pearce is surrounded by an abundance of interesting characters, from the hired gun who is as confident as he is deadly, to the expert hacker who loves creating some astounding contraptions.

A gruesome scene quickly escalates into a chaotic battle, started off by gun - for - hire Grace Armstrong who serves as a sniper to take down the enemies from afar.

Needless to say, they're mercenaries, a profession that I also don't see the fascination with since mercenaries are, by nature, hired guns with no emotion.

You really should look at it, by the way, as it also shows off the Guns For Hire system that'll let you take down the game's cult with a companion.

But to at least give an idea of what is going on, after messing up at a job trying to steal money from people Aiden is attacked by a gun for hire who kills his niece.

But by jumping so quickly to dismiss my column and the potential of geothermal, I question whether he truly is a nuclear gun for hire who attacks any suggestion of a reasonable alternative.

At least 640 land and environmental activists have been killed since the 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen - some shot by police during protests, others gunned down by hired assassins.

The Kochs, Scaifes & others have used their billions to construct a vast «Potemkin Village» (in the words of science historian Naomi Oreskes) of denialism, by funding groups like «Americans For Prosperity», the «Heartland Institute», the «Competitive Enterprise Institute» and a whole cadre of other front groups, organizations, and hired guns implicated in the campaign to discredit climate science and climate scientists.

If this is not possible, the next step is to complete the legal team by retaining counsel who will, of course, act as your hired gun.

More than 46 % have come across a «hired gun» in the past 12 months, and 30 % have been asked or felt pressurised to change their report by an instructing party.

A hired gun is the somewhat vernacular expression but still used by the courts to refer to an expert witness who does not appear to be impartial.

By abandoning the role of hired guns and thinking of themselves as honorable warriors, lawyers can develop a mentality and pattern of conduct that is more conducive to achieving an ethical and proud standard of professional esteem.