Sentences with phrase «journeymen who»

This would be a good solution because, often overlooked in the access to clothing debate, is the fact that there is an ever increasing number of capable and skilled young apprentices and journeymen who are willing, but simply don't have the opportunity to provide their services.

A western tv series, The Young Riders sees a group of journeymen who joined the Pony Express in the period leading up to the American Civil War.

In today's hyped - up football world, the words «great» and «legend» are often overused to describe one - footed journeymen who may have popped up to score a vital goal for their club before being transferred to another for more millions than anyone cares to mention.

Just a mediocre band of journeymen who every summer promise glory but deliver a grey gruel soup of uninspiring tapy tapy meekly surrendering to anything decent so much so that by May we are all ecstatic with 4th.

Most of the those big named strikers are already tied up in contracts which only then leaves the «Nearly Rans» or footballing journeymen who just want to finish their illustrious careers earning a big wage based on their previous conquests whilst still playing at the highest level.

But Stephenson, a career journeyman who has only ever played well for the Pacers, is one of the few players who seems to revel in taunting James.

I will actually miss Razor, Luds and their admiration for strapping young men, hits, blocks, and the intangibles of a journeyman who works hard and isn't afraid to get his nose dirty.

They formed as unlikely a foursome as racing has known — Howard the carny - barking huckster, Smith the enigmatic loner, Pollard the injury - prone journeyman who saw Seabiscuit as his final chance and the unprepossessing horse himself — the knob - kneed, crooked - legged Biscuit.

This is our image of Weaver now, the soon - to - be journeyman who can't find a gig because of a slipping fastball, the guy who can't even stick in the Padres» rotation.

In the last year he has beaten former IBF champ Harry Arroyo, who was on his way down (Vinny gave Arroyo a whistle prior to the fight, so he'd be ready to return to his former work as a policeman), and Roberto Elizondo, a 10 - year journeyman who is also on the decline.

But Gillespie, the journeyman who made Lars And The Real Girl and the Fright Night remake, directs I, Tonya like yet another entry in the endless cycle of Goodfellas clones, employing freeze frames, multiple narrators, and enough played - out, wall - to - wall pop cues (yes, «Spirit In The Sky» makes an appearance) to stock a jukebox.

If anything, he's an unimaginative journeyman who can be far too heavy - handed (e.g. a scene in his last picture Machine Gun Preacher where a small child gets killed by a land mine and Forster felt the need to play up this moment with a soaring bit of score).

Not exact matches

«I have known plenty of investment professionals who didn't truly love the game and without exception they were all journeymen at best» Barton Biggs

Just a stop along the journeyman's highway of actors, writers and directors who hope to get to big...

Finally, unrest in the town grew into a full - blooded «town» versus «gown» affair, with the students and the journeymen of Cranach the successful painter who had studios and a shop in the town carrying weapons for serious use.

Other players who scored the same score or worse include Dan Marino, Steve McNair, Ray Lewis, some journeyman guys with decade long careers like Charlie Batch and David Gerrard, also Randy Moss (who evidently was pretty good at catching)

One of the reasons QBs get paid so much is that they get 60 % of the blame — 40 % usually goes to the head coaches who usually last in their jobs longer than journeyman QBs last.

That leaves Tahir Whitehead, who graded out as PFF's second - worst linebacker in 2016, fifth - round rookie Antwione Williams, and career journeyman Thurston Armbrister as their three capable linebackers.

The question is whether Grubi and a signed journeyman for next year can bridge us to Samsonov, who will play at the very end of the 8 - 19 window.

That was arguably the most crippling legacy of Moyes and LVG, that they got rid of our champions who had that personality (Rio, Vidic, Evra, Fletcher — even Jonny Evans and Nani knew what was expected of a champion) and brought in journeymen just happy to earn their wage.

He's a journeyman footballer who took the chance granted him.

Journeyman Joel Peralta, who had a 49 - to - 9 strikeout - walk ratio with the Nationals last year, has 15 K's in 19 innings and a 3.32 ERA as Farnsworth's setup man.

Last year in the Tap City an outfielder who spent nine years in the farm systems of three other teams wound up second in the National League Rookie of the Year vote (Scott Podsednik); a 29 - year - old reliever released by the Rangers in March 2003 became a lights - out closer (Danny Kolb); and a journeyman discarded by Texas in April and then Toronto in July became one of the league's most effective starters over the final two months (Doug Davis).

The only other quarterback on the roster now is Brian Hoyer, a journeyman passer who has been on six rosters in the last six years and turns 33 in October.

Evgeni Nabokov, a holdout last season, again played like an elite goalie; center Patrick Marleau, who had three goals against the Blues, replicated his 28 - goal regular season (tying Cheechoo for the team lead); forward Nils Ekman, previously a journeyman minor leaguer, chipped in 55 points while playing fewer than 15 minutes a game.

Just because they're journeymen QBs who've had unusual career arcs?

Solowman = bust Reuben = jail Akheelo = solid CJB = journeyman backup Kittles = slow / TE2 Trent Taylor = good between the hashes / slot guy but that's it D.J. Jones = meh Pita Tamponeu = who?

ridiculous... whatever he is in midfield he was a complete waste of a player on the wing... lacked pace and touch and did nt go past players... if wenger does nt invest in another world class attacker this summer we will always be nearly theres... giroud has improved undoubtedly but against top class defenders he is just another journeyman from ligue un... bellerin certainly our top choice fullback now hazard did nt get a look in... coquelin carzola ozil sanchez working together... so if we invest properly in summer we can overhaul this lot who are no great team for sure..

Fulham were a strange team last year, a rag - tag assortment of plodders, cloggers, carthorses, journeymen, water - carriers terrible footballers, past - it players who used to be good, past - it players who used to be alright, and square pegs in round holes.

Rose, who drew Zach Johnson (and journeyman Kyle Reifers) for Thursday and Friday's opening rounds at Bethpage, will have two days to try to change ZJ's mind.

Hrudey, who wears a samurai headband on the ice, struggled so terribly in midseason that he was replaced first with a rookie, Robb Stauber, and then, more embarrassing, with a 33 - year - old minor league journeyman, Rick Knickle, who had never before played in an NHL game.

Keenum was an undrafted journeyman and former two - star recruit who threw for nearly 20,000 yards out of the spread in college but just bounced to his fourth team in six seasons in the NFL.

He's a bass - fishing journeyman from Gainesville, Fla., who has struggled to make a living with his ragged game.

So, casting an eye down Italy's list, we see a 22 - year - old Alessandro del Piero, who would win 91 caps for his country, alongside journeyman sweeper Stefano Torrisi, who'd pick up just the one.

Ted Potter Jr. was the portly, balding journeyman pro who, as CBS» Peter Kostis put it to him after win, had been «to hell and back.»

A journeyman left - back who inexplicably found himself playing for Bayern Munich in 2009 (fellow Dutchman Louis van Gaal coaching the side probably helped).

This includes creating a «blended - rate» workforce by adding more employees who are paid at a lower rate than the highly - skilled journeymen and eliminating certain fringe benefits.

Entertainment We had a band called The Vintage Journeymen, who were great.

But Freeman gives a sensational journeyman's performance, as one who has worked steadily and thoroughly for more than 30 years, and hasn't pulled out his gun («with the intention of using it») more than three times.

But he emerged without academy acclaim Tuesday, while journeyman character actor John Hawkes — who plays a grizzled methamphetamine addict in the micro-budgeted indie movie «Winter's Bone» — walked off with a surprise nod in that category.

But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden - age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.

Set in northern Wales in the 14th century, the series stars Lee Jones as Wilkin Brattle, a former knight who's summoned by a divine messenger to become a journeyman executioner.

Hmmm, Joe Alwyn • Vanity Fair profiles 80s star Eric Roberts, now a journeyman actor, who recently made 74 films in a single year (Jesus!)

(March 13, 2017)-- In the hyper - intelligent comedy PUNCHING HENRY, a journeyman comedian is lured to Los Angeles by a TV producer who wants to make him a reality star.

Journeyman review: Paddy Considine follows up his superb directorial debut Tyrannosaur, with this drama based around a boxer who suffers a serious head injury...

The man who made a name for himself with Tsotsi had more or less turned into a journeyman with the disappointing likes of Rendition, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Ender's Game, but this is a real return to form.

In boxing, a journeyman refers to a fighter with moderate skill who doesn't quite reach the level of a prize fighter: a lost soul drifting from fight to fight.

Matty Burton (Considine, who also writes and directs) is no journeyman in this sense: he's a veteran of the sport, a middleweight boxing champion with a glittering career under his belt and retirement in his sights.

Of those that are very good, the vast, vast majority are written by journeyman writers who have had experience in the traditionally - published world.

And certainly no reflections upon the fact that Severian was the name of the Journeyman torturer who serves as narrator in a series of Gene Wolfe's speculative fiction.