Sentences with phrase «leeching off»

You're probably already paying for Netflix, Spotify or Amazon Video — or leeching off a friend's account — so why not get someone else to fund your media consumption habits instead?

Or do you mean «risk management» in lowercase, by which you mean gambling and hoping you don't have to resort to the social safety net, leeching off your family, getting government bailouts because you're too big to fail, or going bankrupt and leaving your creditors in the lurch?

You might have ended up leeching off a parent, private employer or tax - payer but you wouldn't exist if it weren't created or as likely in your persona drained off someone else's «market fundamentalism».

To do so however, videogames need to find something that uniquely defines them, rather than leeching off other creative forms.

This means that the fleas are leeching off the new red blood cells to such a degree that the body can't keep up with the demand.

No one ever likes leeching off of someone else, so this may be the last resort for you.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

«By doing that, you're just feeding the cancer that is leeching off this industry,» the developers say within the torrent's description.

It's like Danny Bonaduce leeching off of David Cassidy: it's, err, kismet.

You and your teabagger buddies can rant all you want about your so - called freedoms and liberties being taken away as soon as you stop leeching off of the government by taking social security and medicare.

Atheism is nothing but a parasite leeching off the only living tissue this country has left.

As security consultant Scott Helme first noted on Sunday, sites using Texthelp's Browsealoud plugin were leeching off the computing power of those visiting the sites, in order to mine cryptocurrency.

This one needs to leech off of a fundraiser though to become an atheist.

Israel is a worthless stolen nation that leeches off the United States and does nothing in return except further distance us from possible Arabic alliances.

How about those people who «chose» to work in a powerplant or factory with toxic chemicals — how come they get to leech off the system too?

COME ON, ground issues, technical issues, workers strike or family / person issue anything to take that leech off our club.

I am not suggesting the woman shouldn't contribute or should leech off of the man, either.

Certain species of beetles evolved to live with and leech off social insects such as ants and termites as long ago as the mid-Cretaceous, two new beetle fossils suggest.

Scientists have discovered a 52 - million - year - old piece of amber containing the fossil of a beetle that not only tricked ants to gain access to colonies, but also leeched off them and ate their eggs.

As dating sites and singles have migrated to mobile over the past few years, so too have the dating scammers and fraudsters who leech off the industry.

Robert Aldrich cast Buono as the third - rate songwriter who leeches off of faded child star Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962).

One of Ms. Wedgeworth's best appearances in this vein was in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), in which she portrays the fading «baseball groupie» who hopes to leech off dying ballplayer Robert De Niro.

To complicate matters, his father, John (Jonathan Pryce) and mother (Ger Ryan) have arrived in London to leech off their successful son, bringing up all sorts of nascent emotions that come from John's failures as a father.

There's something endearingly pathetic about the way Teddy latches on to and leeches off of the approval of others as a way of forming a sense of self - worth.

By stealing the conversation from the Amazon forums they have managed to leech off of Ms. Rice's fame and celebrity.

Hahahahahaha — you mean they don't have a viable ecosystem, so they're looking to leech off of android.

I hate the fact that women authors leech off of their husbands so they can play writer, and then brag about their situation.

The blood these Parasites leech off your pet may lead to anemia.

Let's just go straight to the source, or perhaps leech off the weather (wind and wave power)!

When it's out of Wi - Fi range it could either switch to Bluetooth like a standard wireless speaker, or use a form of Wi - Fi Direct to leech off your phone's mobile data for streaming and voice recognition.

Its decentralized nature makes it appealing to businesses that want to remove third parties that leech off transactions and slow down the process.

Now, this may be evidence that Cortana still has life in it yet, and that the two voice assistants can coexist peacefully, but it could also be seen as Microsoft laying the groundwork for Cortana to be replaced, much like a parasite gradually leeches off the life - force of its host.

Not exact matches

Numerous biopharma companies are developing biosimilar products while simultaneously attempting to fend off biosimilar competition that could leech sales from their own drugs.

[not to mention all the rural leeches subsisting off the urban economy.]

It might get rid of a lot of hatred and polarization, not to mention all the rural leeches subsisting off the urban economy.

Now that Usmanov seems ready for business, the least we could do is to rid ourselves of the leech in any possible way, even if comes down to tearing off a bit of skin with it.

Leeches are impossible to avoid in tropical forests, and they can be collected by the dozen by simply peeling them off intrepid researchers» clothes.

A gold digger will only suck off your money like a leech suck out bloods from your body.

The London Film Festival kicked off this week with the UK premiere of The Imitation Game, attended by stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Allen Leech and Matthew Beard.

Yet to be umbilically linked in the public mind to a single character is the last thing Grant needed at that point in his career, especially since he'd spent a full decade trying to shake off the image of the floppy - haired, tongue - tied bumbler that had clung to him like a leech ever since Four Weddings And A Funeral became a global box - office smash and propelled him to A-list stardom.

Along the way, Annie must navigate a complicated relationship with her on again, off again ex, Eddie (Allen Leech) and her boss on the force, Police Chief Peter Welland (Shawn Doyle).

You've created an army of vampire learners who leech information from your training content and then fly off into the night.

Instead of toying with the idea of restricting or penalizing competition, maybe it would actually be a better idea to improve the overall iBooks experience for both authors and readers, and try to turn it into their own money - making success instead of leeching money off others.

A big problem with independent writing is the leeches that feed off of you — so - called publicisits, marketers, pr firms, you name it.

I kind of get the feeling Microsoft intentionally made their console larger so in future they can pretend to release more optimised smaller consoles and leech more $ off the consumer.

The controls are tight and responsive, and having a teammate around to leech lives off of is far and away the best way to play.

Barrel rolls, flips, and somersaults can be performed easily with the right analogue stick, helping to break weapons locks on your plane, or shake off unwanted leech bombs or poison clouds.

this will go away innabit, like a few days; i do nt want to host it since i have to leech data off the realclimate site.

To top it off, the septic system has started acting up, because the leech field is deciding to quit.

Surely you mean «leech», not «leach» (a verb meaning «to pass a liquid through to carry off soluble components»)?