Sentences with phrase «honcho who»

The Big Boss, The Head Honcho Who doesn't want to be the boss?

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

As backup, the indie dream team of Jenkins and J.K. Simmons (playing a CIA honcho who monitors the unfolding chaos) offer portraits in individual decency and bureaucratic callousness, respectively.

A hedge fund honcho who donates generously in support of charter schools gives a legislator lucrative employment as a securities lawyer while Albany is considering charter school measures.

It is in its biggest plot twist that it becomes evident, Coogler's efforts are haunted by the Marvel brand, and the head honchos who would have been keeping a very close eye on production, as although the director and his cast infuse nearly every frame with soul and style, many MCU fans who have simply watched the trailer for Infinity War know what's up and, well, will see right through the most - shocking part of the film.

With this new video Porsche shows glimpses of the car in motion, its interior and we hear the thoughts of the head honchos who signed off on the car.

It's really the corporate honchos who are so indoctrinated into their existing business model who are to blame.

Not exact matches

And maybe that's part of what defines the job of head honcho: you're the one who takes the blame.

Novartis (nvs) chief Joe Jiminez has been touting a pricing model that incorporates drugs» real - world outcomes for years, stressing the importance of placing patients before profits; Regeneron (regn) head honcho Len Schliefer had some tough words for fellow panelists from Eli Lilly (lly) and Pfizer (pfe)(who argued that media reports about their own continued reliance on price increases to drive revenues is misleading) during Forbes» event.

That is, CEOs who behave or speak publicly in a way that enhances their reputation for moral behavior are even more likely than the average head honcho to oversee a company whose actions turn out to be at least in part socially irresponsible.

With Madrid 13 points behind in the league, the whole season depends now on the performance in the Champions League, a trophy which he will be desperate to win as will the head honchos at Madrid, who are obsessed with getting their tenth European title.

Julian Draxler, Yann M'Vila and Gonzalo Higuain are three players, who never fail to make headlines along with Arsenal every transfer window and the Argentine has reportedly told his head honchos that he wants a move away from Stadio San Paulo given the fact that they do not contest in the Champions League next season.

We want to help, so we tapped into parents who are head honchos on the parent support circuit.

But voters who did turn out overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Meng, who had the backing of both Ackerman and Queens Democratic Party honcho Joe Crowley, and maintained a significant money advantage.

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While others have discussed the likelihood that they will run, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) and city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Weiner is the only one who filed paperwork July 15 with the city for his bid to become the city's head honcho.

The other GOP candidates attending include real estate honcho Paul Massey and former Jets player Michel Faulkner, who've been running for months.

The plainspoken former MTA honcho, who also served as Rudy Giuliani's deputy mayor and budget director, is hoping to ride a wave of goodwill in the wake of the transit agency's response to Hurricane Sandy.

This particular transaction unfolded in December, when Kruger fielded a call from Forest City Ratner honcho Bruce Bender - a client of lobbyist Richard Lipsky, who had allegedly bribed Kruger for help on other matters.

Celebrities have joined in the condemnation of fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana — honchos of Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana — who drew the ire of Elton John Saturday when they declared gay adoption unnatural and deemed children born via IVF «synthetic children.»

In Tony Scott's Mexican - based action flic, Denzel Washington plays Creasy, a grizzled ex-army veteran, special ops covert assassin type honcho, who visits his old buddy Rayburn (Christopher Walken) in Mexico, looking for work.

Meanwhile, Dillinger has become an obsession for FBI honcho J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup), who appoints Purvis as the head of the Chicago office with the primary directive of tracking down Dillinger.

First up is a 2003 introduction to the film by Pixar head honcho John Lasseter (0:51, SD), who endorses enthusiastically but vaguely Castle in a Japanese - flavored shirt.

In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, the Metal Gear head honcho explained that not only will the new budget range version of the game (due in August for 3,990 Yen in Japan) feature Trophy Support, there will also be a patch released around that time for PlayStation 3 owners who already own the game.

Misconduct, originally titled Beyond Deceit, opens «by - the - numbers», introducing us to Ben (Josh Duhamel) a dedicated lawyer who spends most of his days and nights working at a New Orleans law firm, determined to prove himself to the firm's big honcho Abrams (Al Pacino) and become a partner.

Snowden impressing intelligence honcho Corbin O'Brian (Rhys Ifans), who sees the kid's talent but worries about controlling it.

Jet plays a Chinese undercover cop named Liu Jian, who while an on assignment in France, is framed for the murder of a certain bigwig by a French law enforcement honcho, Inspector Richard (Karyo, The Patriot).

She fires the first salvo in the eponymous battle of the sexes after reading that the male players will be competing for a cash prize eight times that of the women's — a discovery that inspires her and business partner Gladys Heldman (Sarah Silverman) to burst into an exclusive all - male club and confront the man they deem responsible: retired tennis champ turned USLTA honcho Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman, who sounds eerily convinced of the character's Stone Age convictions).

Among the gaming bigs this week was Level - 5 honcho, Akihiro Hino, who expressed his wish to make a new open world game.

Helming this one is little - known Mexican honcho Alfonso Cuaron who, unlike predecessor Chris Colombus, chucks us straight in at the deep end.

Retconning the backstory of The Secret Service, The Golden Circle then sends these last remaining Kingsmen off to the former colonies in search of Statesman, a hitherto unknown American counterpart organization disguised as a distillery in Kentucky, with cowboy agents code - named after beverages: Ginger Ale (Halle Berry), Whiskey (Pedro Pascal), Tequila (Channing Tatum, in what turns out to be a glorified cameo), and the head honcho, Champagne (Jeff Bridges), who goes by «Champ.»

Will Smith plays a lawyer who runs afoul of government honchos — his every move is watched by satellites, and his every word is monitored.

2017 was the year of fanboys and wonder women, as the former grew almost deafening in their zeal (permitting no dissent on the unquestioned genius of the DC, Marvel, Star Wars and Apes franchises, even when the movies themselves disappointed), while the latter found a common voice and courageous platform to take on the honchos in showbiz, politics and many other fields who had the nerve to ignore that famous superhero adage, «With great power comes great responsibility.»

Stephan James plays Owens, one of the greatest athletes in the world but surrounded by racism and people who need him, be it the mother of his young child, his teammates, his coach (played by a surprisingly convincing Jason Sudeikis) or honchos at the NAACP or the United States Olympic Committee.

Directors Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson throw in some good - natured jabs at Disney (ex-company for Dreamworks honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg) It's easy for Meyers and Murphy, who both have lots of experience in comedies.

Inculcating Learning Culture In The Organization - Who's Baby: Business Honchos or Learning and Development?

The only losers are union honchos and their friends... who still insist that Walker is an idiot.

The honchos in Sacramento must think they are doing the three quarters of California Community College students who need remediation a favor by fast - tracking them to graduate college.

There's AFT honcho - turned - Albert Shanker Institute boss Leo Casey, who tossed an Reductio ad Hitlerum - like statement against Steve Brill three years ago after the Class Warfare writer accused the AFT and other traditionalists of being «deniers» of the underlying causes of the nation's education crisis.

Cole Phelps» misplaced fury for grieving widows and traumatized teens is apparently nothing compared to Brendan McNamara, the head honcho of L.A. Noire «s Team Bondi, who has been accused by an anonymous ex-employee as being «the angriest person I've ever met.»

One of Nintendo's key franchises that has been noticeably missing on Wii has been the Starfox series, and one of the people who would really like to see a new entry in the rail shooter / strategy / Zelda clone series is Platinum Games head honcho and Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya.

I'm thinking Mario's cap is actually the fifth member of this group, the lone rabbit who didn't go along with the head honcho's plan.

Titanfall was being developed by ex-Infinity Ward honchos Jason West and Vince Zampella, who'd set up the newly - minted Respawn Entertainment to hopefully do for the Xbox One what Call of Duty 4 did on the 360.

NOA is only a small branch of Nintendo, and while they do have plenty of options to act against copyright violators, if they wanted to go all out on a fangame like AM2R, they would likely not be the ones who would issue a wimpy DMCA claim, rather the head honchos in Japan, Nintendo Co Ltd (Also known as NCL) would be the ones who would launch the takedown»

Just a quickie: Sony Worldwide Studios head honcho Shuhei Yoshida has tweeted a picture of Ico running on a Vita, which massively confused Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus creator Fumito Ueda (who retweeted the image with a simple»!»).

We're delighted to announce the arrival of supreme scheduler Andy Wilson, who joins as producer, and handheld honcho Gary Richards, who joins our design team.

Well, this explains a lot — obviously, the folks at realclimate are paid stooges of the honchos at NASA who refuse to make the DSCOVR documents public:

It seems the climate science head honchos have forgotten who they work for.

In the interests of saving the planet, IPCC honcho Rajendra Pachauri demands the introduction of punitive aviation taxes and hotel electricity allowances to deter the masses from travelling, while he flies 300,000 miles a year on official «business» and research for his recent warmographic novel in which a climate activist travels the world bedding big - breasted women who are amazed by his sustainable growth.

XRP may have fallen out of favor with crypto aficionados due to its ties with the company that owns it and the fact that a few head honchos there own huge quantities of the digital asset, including the CEO, who reportedly has a 5 billion XRP stash.