Sentences with phrase «ill wind»

The phrase "ill wind" means that something bad or unfortunate is happening. Full definition
Clarence Fanto — Berkshire Eagle (Massachusetts)-- February 16, 2013 Alternative - energy advocates need to heed ill winds blowing from residents living near several high - profile turbine installations.
Following Dein's departure in 2007, the move to the Emirates and an economic ill wind, it's seems the acquisition policy has changed from solutions to promising talent.
Its wickedly flared lower - body cladding - aerodynamic pieces - seemed more designed to embrace ill winds than to part them.
My novel ILL WIND with Doug Beason is about a gigantic oil spill in the San Francisco Bay... and efforts to mitigate it release an oil - eating virus that brings about the fall of civilization.
It takes more courage than most can muster because the ill wind of judgment from others would inevitably trace a withering path across anyone daring to display their foibles.
We learned that even the tilted cupola of the cathedral's tower in Cap - Haïtien, blown askew by an ill wind, is interpreted by the people as an omen that Duvalier is about to topple.
Pigeons flapped through the rafters, fleeing, perhaps, from the tart odors that an ill wind blew over from the slaughterhouse next door.
It is an ill wind that blows no one any good,» the forum stated
So I was just thinking, couldn't the ill wind of Lords Reform blow someone some good?
Makarfi described the recent altercation between some groups in the country which had degenerated into the issuance of an ultimatum to the Igbo to leave the North, as an ill wind which he said would blow no one any good.
And the discriminatory responses of the anti-corruption agencies are an ill wind that will blow no one any good.
The action moves at a restless pace, as though blown by an ill wind, and the theatre in the round works magnificently: there is no escape for Frankenstein within its vicious circle.
And there is something magical, in the dark sense, about how Max's shredded letter spirals into an ill wind that brings the darkness, both literal and figurative.
With solemn flutes, percussion and the eerie whistle of the glass armonica and haunted female voice, Rob finds the poetry, and uneasy, toxic atmosphere of an ill wind blowing for their relationship.
Like Thornton, McCarthy's character, Deanna Miles, is a parent abruptly and unexpectedly facing divorce, whose response to this ill wind is to reenroll in college and get the degree she'd never attained.
If you have been present at such a scene, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact, that every one of the spectators, were there even thirty of them, by common consent apparently, offered the unfortunate owner this invariable consolation - «It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
There's an old saying that it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
The blessing of our industry's market - timing scandal — the good for our investors blown by that ill wind — is that it has focused the spotlight on that conflict, and on its even more scandalous manifestations: the level of fund costs, the building of assets of individual funds to levels at which they can no longer differentiate themselves, and the focus on selling funds that make money for managers while far too often losing money — and lots of it — for investors.
The real hypocrites here are the NDPee (whose CAW turbine continues to blow an ill wind).
The line of poetry «it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good» was a reality in November for Ontario ratepayers.
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But the ill winds of Enron were blowing and soon were to bring not only it down, but Andersen as well...»
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