Sentences with phrase «hoisted on»

No one could have guessed the rapid growth of industry change that has been hoisted on us, that would see itself in the onslaught of differentiations that is among us currently.

While in Margaritaville, if they ever put the SOB who stole Jimmy Buffett's «lost shaker of salt» on trial, flip - flops will practically be de rigueur for jurors, and anyone wearing a suit and tie will be hoisted on his own petard.

Reason: With complicated simulation model, there is a tendency to get hoisted on the petard of it's own internal structural entropy

and he's not about to allow his journalistic career to be hoisted on a petard of politically driven pseudoscience.

Hoisted on walls in the studio, Richter moves from canvas to canvas going into the surface, pulling back, adjusting each in an almost spontaneous relational dance.

Likewise, his paintings are sometimes made to be carried, banner - like, hoisted on twin wooden posts at their lower corners.

Forty metres in fact (and the measurement will prove crucial) of ragged banners and embroidered slogans, painted rainbows and portraits of politicians, of papier - mache figures tumbling to their death, horrific photographs of maimed and burned babies, of crosses and poppies hoisted on bamboo canes, of tattered poems and prayers and outrage.

Artist and dealer come off as equally complicit in a bald - faced scheme of laziness and greed, hoisted on their own petard.

by Hiba Ali In a dimly lit gallery space of THE MISSION, Austen Brown's MUDROOM (2016) features three television screens hoisted on black poles with looping videos.

In the end, just moments from victory, success was snatched away from us by a particularly cagey and tactically savvy band of rat - men, who captured and hoisted us on poles to die, inaccessible to our party's one remaining survivor.

The evidence demonstrates that â $ œactive management in inefficient markets like small - caps and emerging markets is the winnerâ $ ™ s gameâ $ is just another canard hoisted on the public by Wall Street.

Hoisted on their own petard one might say.

Some young clods in wet leather jackets unfastened the tarp and hoisted us on board, and those Poles reluctantly made room between their trunks and carpetbags and feather mattresses.

Woe to the principal who hoisted on the flagpole the message, «I don't know how.»

«Shattered Glass» (Lions Gate) Star New Republic reporter Stephen Glass was hoisted on his own petard when editors discovered he made up stories out of whole cloth.

Be mindful about who you've hoisted on that pedestal.

This figure is a builder, but it is not bricks he has hoisted on to his hod.

If you saw The Last Temptation of Christ, you can visualize the actor Willem DaFoe being hoisted on the cross.

A young Arab boy, bare - chested, was hoisted on the shoulders of his fellows, and conveyed the flame to worshipers in the courtyard.

The problem, again, is that Intelligent Design denies being a religious movement and so is hoisted on its own petard.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

Now he is in danger of being hoisted on his own petard.

The bar is high — as it always is for this company — but this time Apple's executive team may have been hoist on its own rhetoric.

Like most of Billy Donovan's best teams, this iteration of the Gators shoots a lot of threes, hoisting them on 41 percent of their shots.

I also like «hoist on your own petard» I spent years thinking it was something to do with being stabbed with a sword, but it actually means being blown up by your own gunpowder.

My own view is that Labour have been hoist on their own petard.

Even if they're shorter you still have to hoist them on stairs.

Instead, he steps back and observes, letting the characters cheerfully hoist themselves on their own petard without embellishing the specifics.

So we don't hoist ourselves on our own halyards trying to ID our colleagues.

Hoisting them on their own petards, as it were.

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Outside, camera crews — denied access to this steel - frame structure on Chicago's Near North Side — massed around Teamsters hoisting protest signs.

Jonathan Toews # 19 of the Chicago Blackhawks celebrates by hoisting the Stanley Cup after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning by a score of 2 - 0 in Game Six to win the 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the United Center on June 15, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.

«Climate Leaders Don't Build Pipelines» read the banner hoisted by protesters on Parliament Hill last week.

Carbonell, who drove a moving truck and hoisted boxes in the 1970s, says he was heavily influenced by the service ethic he saw at EMC, which is on call 24 hours a day for its customers.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.

Amongst the sea of male faces that make up the majority of Silicon Valley venture capital, two women have appeared on the landscape and hoisted their sails.

Hoist, I'd say, on her own petard.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

The whole scapegoat thing also came up many times before Christians borrowed it to hoist their own dead thing on a stick.

While the Heat's Lebron James and Maverick's Dirk Nowitzki battle it out on the court over the right to hoist the NBA's Larry O'Brien championship trophy, they are also unwittingly fighting for the bishops» bragging rights and some hometown gear.

We hoisted the sagging stomach on deck and slit it open to find a man, twisting fitfully in sleep.

Please don't try and hoist another one on us.

That strategy hoisted Fonterra's net profit for the six months to January 31 to $ NZ409 million ($ 362 million)- a 123.5 per cent increase on the same period last year.

I made another batch of frosting, finished up the sides, and added a little flourish on top, then slid it onto a cookie sheet and hoisted it into the fridge.

King Henry VIII was said to have been so large they needed a hoist just to get him on his horse.

They knew if they had gotten through this weekend, they'd once again be full strength on May 1 and have a shot of hoisting the Crown..

The team thought they were just getting the opportunity to practice on the Florida Panthers» ice before making the trip to Minnesota, but the NHL surprised the players with the Stanley Cup, which was brought on the ice for the players to pose for photos with, and hoist in the air.

McIlroy, the odds - on favorite to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday, has heard it all before but would prefer that the star - maker machinery grind a tad slower.