Sentences with phrase «hostage right»

Given the way the Rethuglicans are holding the government hostage right now, I'm afraid ignorant is just too charitable a term for me to use toward them.

Ray Ladbury — 6 Apr 2011 @ 5:27 PM said «Given the way the Rethuglicans are holding the government hostage right now, I'm afraid ignorant is just too charitable a term for me to use toward them.»

I think my husband might have to hold my credit cards hostage right now.

He later added, to raucous applause: «The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage right now, but they can not hold America hostage.»

Not exact matches

the christian right has been holding this country hostage for decades — and finally the demographics have invariably, and permanently moved beyond this groups influence.

The religious right has held our country hostage for too long.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

By our own hands we enthroned them: our strength no longer suffices for their removal: they have suspended the senate of right reason and the assembly of the virtues: the emperor, our will, is held hostage: and it is time to pray.

And only on a few issues is there a 50/50 split, Dominated by left and right wings which hold the center hostage.

The GOP is pretty much held hostage by the religious right & their policies.

HBO is having the same problem getting their production of the events on HBO Go because TR and others are holding their rights hostage.

You are making yourself a hostage to fortune, but I hope you are right.

30 + years after the original Dupont Pavilion fiasco VU had the choice to do something right that would be hard or to do something very wrong and then try to sugarcoat it to say that the school was held hostage by Radnor and Finneran.

I would never commit myself to such a bold statement, because it will leave you a hostage to fortune, the subject of much mickey taking if your predictions are wrong, but quietly forgotten in the euphoria if you are proven right!

«Holding the public - school system hostage for charter - school expansion isn't right,» said Kallos, who represents the Upper East Side.

Reverend Ruben Diaz Sr. was not only an accomplice in holding the State Legislature hostage for his own gain, but has been a vocal opponent of women's rights and marriage equality.

We must commit to expanding voting rights and getting big money out of politics so that billionaires are no longer able to hold our democracy hostage,» Jamaica Miles, Capital District Organizer, Citizen Action of New York.

«They have decided to take a different tact and hold hostage a number of our colleagues right here for revenue in their local communities,» Flanagan said.

Ed Balls was right to commit to a # 10bn capital spending programme particularly directed at social housing construction, which would be good for job creation as well as meeting a large and growing social need, but he queered his pitch by saying he would accept the spending cuts Osborne is going to spell out on 26 June (why give a hostage to fortune when he doesn't even know what those cuts will be?)

He is, tragically, the victim of a growing proclivity of the Chinese government to use children of rights lawyers and activists as hostages to press their parents.

«Adam Haber will have every opportunity to explain to voters why he supports holding equal pay and other important protections for women hostage unless they are directly tied to allowing non-doctors to perform late term / partial birth abortions right up until the moment of birth.»

The plan also created tension among some women's rights groups that didn't want other pieces of legislation to be held hostage because of the abortion plank.

«It's not an expansion but to hold the other nine points hostage, to say that women can't have the other nine points unless they give up rights they have now, I think is unconscionable, it's not the world I want my children to grow up in.»

That led Senator John Bonacic, of the Hudson Valley to accuse the Democrats, and their leader Speaker Sheldon Silver, of holding the other measures hostage to the abortion rights provision.

He said, «Honestly, I don't think it is right for one person to hold the lives of about 180 million Nigerians hostage because of his poor health.

«The Tea Party right has frankly held the place hostage.

In the end these criminals name their price for their part in preserving the American dream, which in this case seems to be the right to recklessly drive fast cars, steal exorbitant amounts of money and hold the law - abiding public hostage with their demands.

Hostage may be an unapologetic formula picture that borrows copiously (right down to its opening titles) from David Fincher's Panic Room, but the movie possesses a grittiness and lack of pretension that can hardly be overvalued in the wake of smug, bloated «entertainments» like Be Cool, Ocean's Twelve and just about every movie Willis has made in the past decade.

But when the heist goes horribly wrong, they hijack a city bus filled with hostages in order to fend off the police and Pope's right - hand man (Morris Chestnut).

Dalton — in a curious kiss and tell, we learn the mastermind's name, but no one else in the movie does — has planned this day well, right down to dressing both hostage and hostile in identical clothing, thus making all exchanges and negotiations that much more complicated.

Affleck also stars in this exciting and tense, white knuckle political thriller as a CIA exfiltration expert who comes up with the best «bad idea» right out of Hollywood (no kidding) to rescue 6 Americans who found refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis in which 52 Americans were held captive.

The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off.

In short, because she was publishing some completely different work (different genre) on her own, the Big 6 publisher is apparently cancelling her contract, demanding the return on advance, and holding the rights to her novel hostage in the mean time.

Non-responsive publishers can hold an author's work hostage by refusing to send a written reversion of rights or acknowledgement of contract termination.

The vanity press is in effect saying «We're pretty sure your book will never make any money (which is why we made you pay us to publish it in the first place), but on the slim chance that it miraculously goes big, then we're holding it and all the rights to it hostage for however long it continues to rake in the dough.»]

You begin the game infiltrating Ethiopia for hostage rescue and retrieval before you are brutally beaten to a pulp by a robot, removing both arms and breaking your right leg.

Other highlights are the two Kameks (who literally bicker right up the very end, even during their supposedly «heart - warming» death scene), Big Bob - omb (who goes from a forgettable first boss to a stern and serious leader on Mt Brr) and King Boo, who's just as nasty and selfish in this game as he was in Dark Moon (he actually holds Paper Mario in a hostage situation and threatens to beat him up if Mario and Luigi attack him).

The first game, based on the movie Die Hard has you blasting terrorists and saving hostages in a skyscraper, sounds like fun right?

Even making the right choices in The Hostage demo will likely end up killing someone.

I have a hard time believing Nintendo couldn't just buy the rights so that they own and can release their property, unless whoever has those rights is basically holding them hostage for an exorbitant price.

While the hostage's pathfinding AI leaves a lot to be desired (and is the main cause for failure for my team on many occasions), luckily you can order them to stop following you by right - clicking the mouse.

This feels more like a hostage situation — you are, after all, telling me what I can no longer do unless I pay up again — and even though you are clearly a talented developer, to be frank, I no longer think you are the right person to be running FLP.

But, as a manner of law enforcement discretion and public relations and customary traditions of law enforcement respect for churches that long predate the formation of the USA, law enforcement routinely acts as if there was a right to sanctuary in churches (in the absence, for example, of an active shooter situation or a hostage crisis or a kidnapping with a missing victim).

As you carry out missions, free cult hostages, destroy cult property and the like, you accumulate Resistance Points, which eventually give you a chance to take out each of Joseph Seed's right - hand people.

Such as Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, who held an immigrant woman hostage in an attempt to block her constitutional right to obtain an abortion?

From holding immigrant women hostage to deny their right to safe, legal abortion to attacking more than 62 million women's access to birth control and evidence - based programs such as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), Trump appointees have abused their power to advance an anti-reproductive rights agenda — and they show no sign of letting up.

You're holding me hostage with my accounts,» and he said, «Yep, you're right,»» she recalls.

Thank You I now feel better about all my dust that has me hostage in my house right now!!