Sentences with phrase «like figureheads»

The reason it happened is that Wenger doesn't like figureheads in the changing room and wants everyone to be gentlemen and play by a elevated idea of conduct of the game that no longer rules (more Queensbury rules today).

Even the earth we cling to is nothing but a twirling ball, singing through a dark void, and our faces, breasting the wind, eyes dreaming like the figureheads on ships.

If Palantir is shaping up to be another Paypal, specifically for its ability to beget a host of other hot Silicon Valley startups, Lonsdale is akin to its Peter Thiel - like figurehead.

The snarling noise from the motor made conversation difficult, so Rangel leaned forward, hands on the gunwales at the prow, looking like some figurehead, Mitman thought — or, he corrected himself with a smile — a dog with its happy head out of a car's window.

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While Layton remains the figurehead, the NDP now spotlights its bench strength in MPs like Thomas Mulcair.

Like it or not, Knight is a still a figurehead for Indiana University and the people of Indiana outside the state, and having him use the «76 team to endorse a xenophobic man that has completely alienated pretty much every minority group inside this nation?

Morgan, who served as Rangel's campaign director in 2002 before he moved into banking, said the congressman had become a figurehead who is good at talking about problems like affordable housing, education access and unemployment, but has failed at implementing solutions to these problems.

With water under the bridge and a figurehead like Hilary Benn, a second leadership challenge could succeed where the first one failed.

Having someone like Gore as a figurehead for a movement will guarantee a certain amount of opposition.

It's not people like Mark, Robb, my friends Liz and Diane, Chris Kresser, or any of the other figureheads in the community that people look to for leadership, that are spreading this message about women needing to be super lean to be healthy.

Christian's ministers were accustomed to his status as figurehead, but Struensee starts whispering in his ear — revolutionary ideas like freedom of the press or universal smallpox inoculations.

Foreign stars like Germany's Sebastian Koch (Black Book) or Russian actor Mikhail Gorevoy (Die Another Day) make great characters out of the East German and Soviet figureheads that Donovan must negotiate with.

«She's not just a figurehead or a banner carrier, she really does know what good teaching looks like,» says Allyssa Jones, who works under Parker - Brass as the Boston district's program director for the performing arts.

Granted, this is something unique to the gaming industry, with figureheads and suits often the representative public face of the company, whether through E3 press conferences, gaming launch events, or the like, but it's still an interesting phenomenon nonetheless.

By collecting elements that can be gained by taking over other ships, like metal, wood, and cloth, players can either strengthen their ship in various ways — cannon power or hull armor for example — or decorate the ship by crafting new sails and figureheads.

Or learn about the actual people who make our games apart from figureheads like Cliffy B and Peter Molyneux?

The SCE figurehead reasoned that franchises like Call of Duty could attract attention to the headset, but would need time and work to properly fit the technology.

Out of the struggle to speak that was the Black Power era, come figureheads like Jay Z, paragon of US capitalism.

Attendees heard from developers and figureheads within the digital currency ecosystem like Bitcoin XT lead developer Tom Harding, Nchain's Dr. Craig Wright, Bitcoin ABC lead developer Amaury Séchet, the Yours.org network's Ryan X Charles, Openbazaar developer Chris Pacia, SBI Bits executive Jerry Chan, and Bitcoin Unlimited's Andrew Stone and Dr. Peter Rizun among many more special guests.

are pure figureheads, something like golf and country club presidents who come and go regularly at the whim of the annointers therein, said wannabe presidents lusting to have their official presidential posed - for images hung in the hallowed halls of past presidents for all to see.

Government agencies (their current figureheads) aren't guaranteed victory in a legal fight with private enterprises (they would like us to believe that they are omnipotent).