Sentences with phrase «like foisting»

Because few artists want to be told what to paint (and because promoters don't like foisting unwanted or unsolicited advice) candor is rare.

Ah... nothing like foisting Western individualistic values and definitions on Eastern concepts.

Not exact matches

Her observations were for the living, specifically those like her professor, who think the living have the power to foist their prejudices on how they think the living need to guide the dying to death.

I've been an atheist for more than 20 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've felt like religion was truly being foisted upon me against my will.

But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

But try to foist it on me, as the religionists who make atheist movements like these necessary, and we'll have a probem.

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).

It would be comforting to foist my problems on something else, but life doesn't work like that, at least not a responsible life.

Wine's Most Inspiring People 2018: Defender of the Consumer Palate and Your Right to Choose Tim Hanni, one of two resident Americans to receive the title Master of Wine and well - known industry myth - buster, would like the wine industry to stop foisting untruths upon an unsuspecting public...

Sometimes it feels like the front - runner is obnoxiously foisted upon us — like Tim Tebow the year after he won it — so there ends up being a backlash.

They were probably foisted on us with the curse to make us look like we're from Pittsburgh or some such.

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'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).

If you deem the increased risk acceptable for yourself, then so be it: BUT, given the dreadfulness of what someone like Carrie has had to go through, you should not foist a false narrative of the ACTUAL risks of bed - sharing!

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.»

«They look like a swoop on the South, a jihad designed to foist Northern domination, or even subjugation, on the South in pursuance of the Sarduna's agenda, announced as far back as 1960, tosubjugate the South and reduce it to a conquered territory, with the object of preventing it from havingcontrol over its future,» an agenda which President Buhari, in a speech in May 2015 as President - elect, re-echoed and vowed to carry to a finish.

Members in seats like Pendle may well be concerned that they will have foisted on them a displaced sitting MP with no local connection rather than a local figure who has spent the previous few years campaigning in the area.

What I didn't realize then was that rejection in science is nothing compared to the Fort Knox — like exclusion that the Nashville fortress foists on newcomer - wannabes.

Thanks to the underhanded work of industry front groups like the Center for Science in the «Public Interest», in the 1980s Americans had partially hydrogenated oils foisted on them as health foods.

I would worry however, because back when actors such as Robert Carlyle, was foisted into our imagination for his part in movies like Trainspotting in the 1990's, I'm not entirely sure there were movie directors around, who could make as good use of his abilities ever again.

Forgetting for a moment the movie's many slick but false moves, and the manner in which it contrives to put Palicki in first workout clothes and then a cocktail dress, what's most notable about «Retaliation» is the litany of small indignities it foists upon its big - stakes, wham - bang conceit, like the fact that the American President's national popularity is said to soar after, in the wake of a nuke going missing, he decides to push for a worldwide nuclear disarmament summit; or that Israel — who's never officially admitted to possessing nuclear weapons — is part of the gathering, along with global pariah North Korea.

Using a non-issue like this against a movie works — especially a movie that had frontrunner status foisted upon it way too early.

And that when he came home, I'd be delighted to have sex with him, and not foist him off like Debbie does.

It should come as no surprise that many countries have the same draconian reforms foisted on their public schools like the U.S. I find it interesting to learn how other countries run their schools and the similarities and differences between their systems and ours.

A cynical theory has it that the teachers unions like recruiting future teachers from the bottom of their classes because they will be more compliant than their sharper classmates, thus making it easier for the unions to foist their socially progressive agenda and other dictates on them.

In fact, instead of European divisions deigning to occasionally grace us with the likes of a Cadillac Catera, we foist our cars onto them.

On the other hand, trying to foist a cell - phone GUI like Metro UI onto industrial users is the absolute height of insanity.

Also arranged marriages like the one being foisted upon Emmy were not prevalent in my area.

Yet Easons will continue to foist poorly written Fifty Shades of the Ridiculous because it's selling like there's no tomorrow.

David Jaffe has bucked the trend of PlayStation 3 games like Gran Turismo 5 and Heavy Rain having Move and / or 3D support foisted on them.

It's risky choices like these that make The Last Guardian stand out among the heavily focus - tested games some publishers foist us with on annual basis.

Better that a game get cancelled and the developer eat the costs than they foist something like Aliens: Colonial Marines or Bravo Team onto an unsuspecting public.

A green future will also build on full - cost accounting in which a company's «hidden» expenses like pollution and resource depletion aren't foisted onto taxpayers but paid for on corporate balance sheets.

What an absolutely ludicrous topsy - turvyish world, great fun if through the looking glass with Alice — but not so much fun when those like you are intent on censoring us to foist this fantasy fisics onto the unsuspecting general population.

The plain reality is that * ALL * of these citizen - science organizations are foresighted & broadminded & warmly welcoming... they represent a burgeoning worldwide culture of citizen - science that is * nothing * like the crude smears that astroturfing demagogues commonly try to foist upon the public.

Rather than the present policy fiasco, foisted on power consumers and rural communities by eco-fascist nutjobs — that wouldn't know the first thing about markets and / or power generation — and the rent - seekers from the wind industry and its parasites that profit from the useful idiots they pay handsomely to run cover on their behalf: like yes2 - ruining - us, GetUp!

Many of us are like - minded scientists who are quite nauseated with the shoddy science foisted upon the public by the climate change community.

She summarizes the meme foisted into the spotlight by Newsweek that extreme weather like the droughts in Texas, the flooding along the Mississippi, and perhaps even the twisters in Tornado Alley (the jury's still out), are the «new normal».

One of the reasons I am so fond of prefab is that it it makes houses more like industrial design, where you refine and test your product before you foist it on the public.

With EPA last week proposing ethanol - use requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher - ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.

Few add - ons are available, and most of the Internet Explorer add - ons in actual use are probably browser toolbars like the terrible Ask toolbar that were foisted on users through bundling with other software.

I don't like what is happening either, or what has been foisted upon us by government, but we are stuck with it.