Sentences with phrase «like mafia»

Eddie this is so true, as I was watching season 6 of the Soparanos it dawned on me that our business DOES in fact operate like the mafia with money flowing upwards with each level getting their percentage and the Dons at the top get rich and the soldiers on the bottom stay poor.

``... the perils of ignoring consensus in science...» really sounds like a mafia - like intimidation... very bad attitude to transmit to students and early career researchers who fight their way up applying for grants an funding... guys, you're al warned!

Destiny is like the mafia; you can try and get out but it's only a matter of time before you get sucked back in.

but don't think I'm going to let a few internet nuts decide what I like or dislike... and I like mafia 3.

The then - governor dressed like a mafia don at the bill signing, for what it is worth... My boss and I and our external and internal legal counsels spent a lot of time on this, but I was the prime mover on getting it done.

George Soros is not a top - ranking financier, he is like the mafia thug, without a real conscience, like a thug sent to kill a friend of yours, by only a hit - man for the really big financial interests, hired out to rob your friends, and you, of about everything, including their nation, and your personal freedom.

Cox was responding to criticism of Manhattan GOP Chairwoman Andrea Catsimatidis, who said Monday that «Gov. Cuomo and Joe Percoco have been running the governor's office like a mafia movie.»

Quoted in the Syracuse Post-Standard, Astorino said: «To suggest that he was suggesting to the commission members where they should go with an investigation is like a mafia boss coming forward and saying that he wants to make a suggestion, an offer you can't refuse.

It is sad how the English FA is being run like a mafia organisation.

This club is managed like a mafia / cult... nothing changes and nothing will ever change as long as Wenger remains d coach... so are we saying Arsenal would've been top if Santi was fit?

jews were kicked out and banned from many countries because they operated like a mafia.

Bank of America is like a mafia.

«It's like a mafia out there that wants to shut you down and keep you from being successful,» Kendrick said.

If you like mafia movies you should check out this exceptional story that gives us a peek inside organized crime in Italy.

Not exact matches

So before long, leaving Facebook starts to feel like Michael Corleone's attempt to leave the mafia — just when you think you're out, they pull you back in.

If Snap spawns something like the» PayPal mafia» — PayPal alumni have gone on to launch billion - dollar companies like Palantir, LinkedIn, and Yelp — the Los Angeles startup community could give Silicon Valley a run for its money.

He added: «In the United States, President Trump would like to establish a mafia state, but he can't, because the Constitution, other institutions, and a vibrant civil society won't allow it.»

If you ever say anything bad about it, there's like this bitcoin mafia that comes after you.

The casino — and others like it in Atlantic City — was once known as a hot spot for Brooklyn mobsters associated with the Russian mafia.

This is like comparing a man who murders someone (or multiple people) to the mafia.

«Especially a mafia like tradition that says unless you take these anecdotal stories as «proof» that these stories are true then you will die a horrible death»

But Pope Francis isn't 1,000 years old and therefore isn't responsible for the «mafia - like thuggery» of his predecessors.

The Vatican is the last place that should be espousing the evils of wealth and capitalism... the place is fortress, dripping in money and run with mafia - like thuggery.

Paul, What do you mean «mafia «like»?

Let's face it folks the vatican is mereley the mafia - like hq of a BIG, POWERFULworldwide organized crime and pedophile protection organization under the cloak of religion!

In the long run, secret diplomacy and mafia - like associations are a threat to democracy.

At its heart the Catholic church is an unfeeling mafia - like organization that viciously protects its own perceived interests.

Yes, cary c, it's only Wenger mafia like status, who to blame.

The fans that don't like him now are the ones that complain about the violence of football, or are invested in Dupree and / or Tomlin, or percieve the Steelers as a sort of street gang / mafia as in for life or blood out when the reality is it's just another large corporation that you and I happen to love.

Not sure they family (mafia tone inserted here) would let something like this happen.

@KickAssFan Shuuush mate you'll have the AKB mafia on your back before you know it the likes of BUDD and Josh37 will be knocking on your dor lol.

Sounds like Palindino belongs to the mafia and is going back there, this guy is scary beyond belief and you wonder about the people casting ballots these days

The filmmakers successfully integrate snippets from Nixon's infamous, mafia - like audio tapes over the image of a shadowy figure in a White House window.

At that time, Antonio and Fabio were inspired by an article in a local Sicilian newspaper about a mafia kidnapping and decided for their second film they would like to explore this incident's impact on the small Sicilian village while simultaneously evoking children's fables.

But this time it's going to be different... In the modern world where the mafia doesn't command respect like it used to, «Capo» takes a look at what it would take for a modern crime organization to rise today.

I know it says based on a true story but with the addition of cast like Christopher Walken and Paul Sorvino to add more Italian to the screen so that mafia has a bigger presence, it feels like the movie is going to run itself into the horrible wall of cliche more than once during the runtime and I'm just going to want to hope someone had attached a bomb to my seat.

With mafia - like solemnity, he makes his wishes known and starts grooming Greg to be the man of the house.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.

I actually think demos going forward are crucial to stopping mafia (bribe / spoon driven) websites like gametrolers, ign and gspot from controlling what games succeed.

The Italians got to be gangsters when mafia movies came out, but this is like a first for us.»

This game plays a little like a simplified game of mafia where everyone works together to out another player.

With Nissan insiders under a strict, mafia - like code of omerta (silence), the Tokyo grapevine reports that the 2008 production car will have a twin - turbo V - 6 engine displacing about 3.8 liters and producing somewhere between 400 and 500 hp.

Also if she wanted to attack Title Loans outfits, which not only have usurious rates but mafia - like recovery methods, go for it.

I remember that he said something like «We of the Italian mafia will kill you — if there's a reason to do it.

I wish they just stuck with the mafia 1 and 2 camp but this seems more like SOM and i dropped that game cause everything felt like assasins creed + the new bosses were just boring after killing them so many times..

Glancing at the background will reveal things like Raiden's costume from Mortal Kombat, and you'll fight in an ultimate tournament at the behest of a mafia Don.

Japanese games on console still had a hard time breaking the market if they weren't RPGs or mascots, but Yakuza seemed like it had elements that resonated with an audience outside of Japan: mafia types, brutal action, and non-linear, sandbox gameplay on a smaller scale of the hugely popular GTA series (and its ilk).

It's perhaps a tad too faithful to its 1950s backdrop - driving the cars often felt like punting a trolley down a dirt - road - but it's world is such a wonderful pastiche of mafia canon I was hooked from beginning to end.

I have owned all 4 previous games and as soon as it is released in australia im that big of a fan i couldn't care less what it cost me its a got to have game if your a fan like me plus im that big of a fan I want KAZUMAS tattoo and im going to name my first son when i have one after KAZUMA coz he was my favorite character yet plus playing as four main characters was fun so five should be alot of fun and about time you get to playas Haruka plus it would be cool if you could add tattoos to the characters if possible I would play it at least 12 hours a day and I do nt care what people say its the best japanese styled mafia game ever to have been made for PS3 but I hope they make the fighting look more real by getting rid of the coloured blurs from the heat moves and the different tournament styled fights they are my only 2 dislikes in the whole four series they should just have underground street fighting tournaments were anything except guns are not allowed so it sticks to hand to hand combat and melee only

This all reminds me a bit of Eve Online and seems like it will turn into a lot of people playing mafia don.