Sentences with phrase «in foisting»

As Sam Adams at CriticWire notes «the problem lies in foisting one ironclad interpretation upon the film and then praising or damning it for its point of view, without acknowledging that the argument says much more about the person making it than Frozen itself.»

It seems unlikely there has ever been a more dull leading man in so many disappointing movies as in the case of Hayden Christensen — Lucas et al have a lot to answer for in foisting him upon the world in their dreadful Star Wars: Episodes II & III.

New Labour did the same sort of thing in foisting a US based transfer pricing system onto the NHS, of course.

«It is now abundantly clear to all discerning minds that the conspiracy of 2014 to grab power by all means hatched and executed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, succeeded in foisting a most disastrous government on our country.

Not exact matches

Nijjar says his lack of entrepreneurial experience actually works in his favour when he's looking for investment opportunities and closing deals — he doesn't have personal success stories to «pattern match» potential investees against or operational dogmas to foist on them under the guise of help.

Consider when Snapchat foisted a sudden redesign on users in February to broaden its appeal.

Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.

It speaks to an incredible failure of Wall Street to learn from its mistakes (or at least the mistakes that it foists onto unsuspecting investors), and the likelihood of making nearly the same mistake for a third time in just over a decade.

The same sensors, activity trackers, smartphones, and social networks that they eagerly foist on customers to reveal their habits and behavior can be turned inward, on employees in their work environments, to learn whether it's true that getting engineers and salespeople talking actually works.

In this case... I believe it is time to «foist» my conviction that this pastor's conviction is wrong... in order to protect the innocent and stand up for what is righIn this case... I believe it is time to «foist» my conviction that this pastor's conviction is wrong... in order to protect the innocent and stand up for what is righin order to protect the innocent and stand up for what is right.

The Old Testament narratives are stories about discovery, exodus - journey - arrival, exile - and - return, of faithfulness in the midst of or out of: success, failure, happiness, tragedy, relationships, disaster, or any blessing or any evil that people can foist on each other.

I haven't heard of recent cases where they were foisted on people (though I'm sure it must still happen in some places).

Instead, they huddle together in «safe places» and try to have «fellowship» while they hide behind masks and airs and false personas, hiding dirty secrets while foisting impressive / seductive / intimidating / abusive behavior to keep people at a distance, even their «brothers and sisters.»

Interesting Silverman doesn't want religion foisted upon him but he wants to foist his views in others.

Now this is particularly significant because for years and years - I first recall writing about this in the late 1970s - the policy foisted on schools has been exactly the reverse.

«In God We Trust» is not foisting a religion on anyone, but rather reminding us that God has given us natures and the natural law for their flourishing.

You see, the Papa needs lots of non-critical thinking servants to procreate lots of baby, Roman Catholic - bots to indoctrinate into the faith, so as adults, they too can flock in kind, to see the greatest fraud ever foisted upon the World.

In this way, feminism benefits men, too, because it works to free them from those expectations that are foisted upon them due to their biological sex.

Prostitution of ones body to put bread in our children's mouths can't be compared to the wicked who have foisted this life style on to the marginalized.

This is precisely why abortion advocates expend such vast efforts at international meetings pushing for abortion policies that do in fact seek to subvert the democratic process by foisting an a priori abortion agenda on nations around the world.

This sequence of events is a significant step forward from the Texas VA Cemetery Memorial Day ceremony, where the prayer was foisted on the audience when it was not expecting the pastor to be praying «in Jesus name.

And prayer in schools is a matter of secularism which is something we all should embrace as it keeps us safe from someone else's religious view being foisted on us.

When he left, the Republican right was «unleashed,» poised to drive the party in its own direction (and that of the Reagan presidency) by capitalizing on widespread hostility toward the cultural changes of the 1970s that many believed had been foisted upon America by ideological liberals.

* The Old Testament is a collection of stories about discovery, exodus - journey - arrival, exile - and - return, of faithfulness in the midst of or out of: failure, tragedy, disaster, or any evil that people can foist on each other.

It is so much easier to condemn the sick and wounded (of body and spirit), than it is to take them in and proclaim their freedom from the oppression that is foisted upon them by people like you (as you did me in your post).

Does this great variety in Christian styles provide an overwhelming illustration of the way in which we simply foist our own perspectives, ideologies, needs and vanities onto Jesus?

A mostly derivative pastiche of questionable musical integrity, the piece was roasted (backstage, of course» as professionals we will play as well as we can anything that is put on our music stands) by most of my colleagues, and we complained bitterly that the last minute programming of the piece (replacing Brahms» Third Symphony) was no more than a marketing ploy foisted upon us by Sony Classical in order to boost CD sales of the work.

Why then, should everyone in the U.S. have a particular brand of Christianity (or any other religion for that matter) foisted upon them?

Dare we discern anything so outrageous as the idea that here God is making an atonement toward man for all that his desired creation costs man in the making: that he was making love's amends to all those who feel, and have felt, that they can not forgive God for all the pains which life has foisted, unwanted, upon them?

Marx saw religion as a species of fantasizing, an «opium,» foisted by the ruling classes on the proletariat in order that the latter would not be able to identify its oppressors.

The most offensive thing in this story was that a military ceremony had a religious ceremony foisted onto it.

The task of figuring out how the world pictured in knowledge relates to his vocation is foisted upon the student as a mere individual.

Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, you name it... all religions have foisted atrocities on humanity in the name of their own gods.

Norwich, in particular, were immediately burdened with the weight of expectation that is now foisted upon every club that go up as champions.

A stimulating environment doesn't mean flash cards, videos, or the many other commercial products being foisted on naturally naive new parents who want to give their child the best possible start in life.

I love that instead of foisting a new product out there these guys are actually asking us what we would like about the new product in the form of a survey.

It foists on women a particular paradigm of what a mother «should be» in such a way that a) can make her feel guilty for not conforming within those parameters b) limits her ability to figure out her own version of motherhood that would better benefit everyone in the family unit because she's so busy handling everything on her own.

Lee Guse, president of Preferred Meal Systems, the food supplier to Westchester Elementary and other area schools that have started offering vegetables instead of foisting them upon students in the last several years, said savings amount to around 3 percent.

Both moms, one a lawyer and the other a social worker, were disappointed in the cut - and - paste art projects foisted on their children.

It's an attempt to figure out how we got so much more worried for our kids in just one generation, and to separate the real dangers from the ones foisted upon us by the media, and by other folks with things to sell (like baby safety product manufacturers who have to scare us about a remote danger like «traumatic head injury from toddling» before we'll buy their products, like the «ThudGuard» — a helmet for kids to wear all day when they're learning to walk).

«In all democracies, viable opposition is recommended for stability and growth of society, but the APC in is seeking to decimate opposition so foist its dictatorial agenda of installing one party state without economic direction and where the rights of the citizens are trampled under - fooIn all democracies, viable opposition is recommended for stability and growth of society, but the APC in is seeking to decimate opposition so foist its dictatorial agenda of installing one party state without economic direction and where the rights of the citizens are trampled under - fooin is seeking to decimate opposition so foist its dictatorial agenda of installing one party state without economic direction and where the rights of the citizens are trampled under - foot.

So, after watching your federal politicians foist upon Amtrak in 1976 a long neglected Northeast Corridor with no continuing funding mechanism to repair and replace deteriorated infrastructure, this now is solely Amtrak's problem?

«The global crisis of 2013 led to a reduction of 40 % in receivables and the unilateral national minimum wages foisted on states increased expenditure by average of 70 %.

The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added that «in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.»

Their goal in life is to reap all of the GAINS from their irresponsible business practices while foisting as much of the COSTS as possible on people other than themselves.

Ologbondiyan said, «It is shocking that on the face of the colossal failure of governance leading to hunger and starvation, ethnic division, bloodletting and killings in our land, Mr. President is more concerned about a selfish agenda of foisting himself on a people who have become despondent of his leadership.

«But Peter Obi reneged in that agreement by foisting Obiano who is from Aguleri in Anambra North senatorial district on the people of the state.

«In our opinion as a socio - political group loyal to the political cause of Atiku Abubakar, it will be a welcome development if indeed Atiku decides to contest for the president in 2019, but it will not be asking for too much if the Adewales of this world at least, let that decision come from Atiku Abubakar rather than foist it down as cheap campaign of calumny,» the statement reaIn our opinion as a socio - political group loyal to the political cause of Atiku Abubakar, it will be a welcome development if indeed Atiku decides to contest for the president in 2019, but it will not be asking for too much if the Adewales of this world at least, let that decision come from Atiku Abubakar rather than foist it down as cheap campaign of calumny,» the statement reain 2019, but it will not be asking for too much if the Adewales of this world at least, let that decision come from Atiku Abubakar rather than foist it down as cheap campaign of calumny,» the statement read.

The inaugural theme, «Every vote must count» was a logical response to President Olusegun Obasanjo's «do - or - die» election of 2007, that foisted the late Umaru Musa Yar» Adua as president, in what would prove the beginning of the end for the former ruling party.

He said, «The current economic challenges had foisted huge difficulty on us and this has affected government to the extent that we have been receiving deficit allocations, but in spite of this, our government has been struggling to pay workers» salaries.