Sentences with phrase «like floodgates»

It was like the floodgates opened.

The ingenious cup and cap essentially acts like a floodgate, preventing most water spillage when the carafe tips over.

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For a while there, it looked like Netflix was on its own in fighting the Federal Communications Commission's bone - headed and double - speaking effort at institutionalizing «net neutrality» rules, but on Wednesday the floodgates burst open.

It was recently reported that the Google Play Store hosted more than 3,000 Android apps that improperly collected data from children, and it looks like that has opened the floodgates for inquiries into what Google knows about us.

So sometimes those floodgates will pour out blessings that look much more like brokenness, suffering, challenges so that we can know God's goodness, his presence, in ways that have nothing to do with dollar signs.

I think some fans would prefer to risk the floodgates opening up, sure I've heard some dark things they'd like to do to Arsene if it meant Arsenal getting a challenging team along with a new manager and some different players.

How can you blame a player to not want to waste his prime playing second fiddle... and if he ever gets to that state of mind, it will open the floodgate... Sanchez might follow & soon to be greats like Bellerin might think twice & we would go back to that time where all our great players left because they didn't see any investments being made & no top players coming in!!

Just like that, the floodgates were open.

A style of floodgates works «like a rolltop desk»; bricks are «sliced from an extruded ribbon of clay by a fine wire, like a cheese cutter.»

Now that the Platinum Edition DVD of the animated version has sold like hotcakes, has the company ceased fearing customers will be confused and scared out of purchases and thus decided to open its Dalmatian movie floodgate?

Now that the acquisitions floodgates are open, the buys keep piling up like it's Black Friday in studio shopping baskets, and this afternoon has brought news of the biggest deal yet at the festival, with Variety the first trade to report that Relativity Media are set to put down what may be a record - breaking sum for «Don Jon's Addiction,» the raunchy comedy that marks the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

As soon as the floodgates open, the torque tsunami flattens you in the seat like a mighty breaker.

with those two sourced an hdmi input (as well as the usb used by Dasung) becomes possible and the floodgates open to do whatever you like with it eReader and monitor.

What many dog owners don't realize is that when they physically punish or intimidate a dog for an undesired behavior, although in the moment it may seem like the behavior has stopped, they are actually opening the floodgates for fear and aggression.

«It definitely felt like there was some fear that the floodgates would open and a wave of new «roguelike fans» would take over the genre - thinking that Spelunky was the originator.

Of course, throwing open the floodgates like this makes for a lot of sub-par player - made quests, but player reviews make it quite easy to separate the good from the bad.

The attention opened the floodgates for media outlets like Timeout to describe her works as radiating with «personality, vigor and a subversive ambiguity.»

«I feel like that is one of our biggest challenges we have right now because there is a lot of attention on sexual assault and investigations,» says Mattoo, adding the public attention around the issue has «opened the floodgates» to a lot of different ancillary issues connected to those seeking help.

Financial terms of the deal are unknown, but TaskRabbit has previously raised $ 38 million from investors like Founders Fund, First Round, Floodgate and others.

While a direct listing may make sense for a high - profile startup with clear IPO ambitions and long - term plans like Spotify and Airbnb, the SEC is said to have some concerns about opening the floodgates to a new generation of extreme risk seekers who'd be able to use the public markets in order to raise cash from investors while providing them with little to no protections, sources claim.

Fast forward two years and it looks like Google is finally ready to open the floodgates, with the Play Store bringing «over a million» Android apps to Chromebooks and «boxes.

However, knocking on the neighbors» door is sometimes like opening the floodgates to information!»