Sentences with phrase «like pawn»

He expected to fight for his clients» rights in court, but began to feel more and more like a pawn in the process.

Zywicki explains eloquently how Americans aren't more in debt — we've just moved our debt around, subbing easy - to - use (and more easily banished) credit card debt for other kinds of debts like pawn shops and loans.

The main problem is the tendency to become the errand - boy of the prepper himself, or the doctor — which ticks all cliche boxes — , feeling more like a pawn than somebody with any input in the story.

The black and white square tiles surrounding the central swimming pool are similar to those of a giant chess set, and guests may find themselves plodding along like a pawn pondering the serenity of its surroundings or dashing large distances like a queen striding out of her delightful room adorned in her evening attire, hastily anticipating a delicious banquet at Taman Rosani Hotel & Villa's fabulous Tunjung Biru restaurant.

Think of a reverse mortgage like a pawn shop for your home's equity and the pawn shop allows you to continue living in your house.

Using your card at certain places, like pawn shops, can make you seem riskier.

The fixes for what's ailing Llewyn aren't easy ones, and the Coens once again offer us a character who behaves less like a pawn on an audience - friendly path to redemption and self - actualization and more like a complicated human being.

* Spoiler * The scene where he's a hostage - like pawn and gives a final sign off has a trippy, surprisingly grim interpretation; it was like something you'd see on Adult Swim (where Willard occasionally pops up).

There is first the pure and simple mechanization of man by God, who moves him like a pawn.

Did he feel like a pawn in someone's game?

«Drivers tend to feel like pawns when these rideshare giants merge.

They're literally playing local governments like pawns, and why wouldn't they?

The news networks and political parties use Pastors like pawns in a chess match.

Hopefully, all of these changes are like pawns: small moves that eventually add up to the point where a team can move its major pieces in for the kill.

«They want to be able to move us around like pawns on a chess board,» said Field Technician Che Stephens (far left), who was joined by (from left) Michael Pace, Angel R. and Paul Williams.

«The political battles over education, along with the shifting vogues about what's best, have left many teachers feeling like pawns and punching bags,» Bruni wrote.

Principals are treated like pawns by the superintendent, relocated, rewarded and punished at will.

He believes authors should publish everywhere saying, «Amazon plays indie authors like pawns in its greater battle to harm other ebook retailers.»

Similarly, gamers need to be armed with knowledge that will allow them to make informed decisions... NOT shuffled around like pawns on a Chess board.

Not exact matches

Feeling like an insignificant pawn in a rigged game played with foreign rules, Hunter couldn't take it anymore — much like the average folks in the 1976 movie Network who opened their windows and voiced their outrage after being fed a seemingly endless diet of BS.

Another use case is already in play: If the AI system notices that you post about trying to pawn something, like an old bike, it'll bring up Facebook's selling tools.

The reasons why one should sell the cat, pawn the mother - in - law, and use the proceeds to buy gold are well known: the Fed is printing money faster than you can read this, which will result in inflation; the government is borrowing like a drunken monkey, so the dollar will be devalued; this will debase all currencies, so the only thing that will save you is the shiny metal.

«From the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks And the hoof beats pound in his brain And he's taught how to walk in a pack Shoot in the back With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch To hide «neath the hood To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game»

Unfortunately, their leaders use them as expendable pawns, like advance foot soldiers to soften the enemy defenses.

You can be unashamed and take opportunities to share but you don't have an obligation to pawn your faith like a used car salesman.

Jj pawn has got a point with all this, the oil money is what's bringing the gap between us and the likes of city etc..

So let «s not talk about players, like the supporters they are pawns in a game.

He is a pawn, just like everybody else in kroenke's cash cow.

stop buying into the rhetoric coming from the Arsenal PR team, according to Coq there wasn't any locker room issues with Sanchez, beyond the issues created by the uncertainty surrounding his possible transfer, which was caused by the club... like I said many times before Wenger and his propaganda machine created those stories to justify Sanchez's inevitable exit, much like they did many times before... I can only hope that the fans at the Emirates don't give Wenger a moments peace at tomorrow's game... stop being pawns and voice your opinions loud and clear

At this point, it feels like the child is just a pawn and it's more about Nebus «winning» than about the kid's well - being.

Customers are more likely to buy if you seem trustworthy, and not like someone who's just trying to pawn off stuff that's going to break as soon as they get it home.

Presumably Bill is at home somewhere shaking his head at being reduced to a political pawn like this.

It is sad the very communities that need to be represented the most are used as pawns by the likes of political clubs like the Lower East Dems (John Quinn, Alice's husband), the Truman Club (Shelly still at the wheel), and UDO (insider Chinatown club not representative of the population).

«We're supposed to be empowering parents and making them feel good, but in these circumstances parents feel powerless, like they're pawns in somebody else's design,» Perkins said.

Sinagra also said he felt he was being used as a pawn in this political season and said if Barbaria has statistics he's unaware of, he'd like to see them.

Their photographs are being used to create a fake persona that is then pawned off to look like a legitimate female who's looking for sex on SnapCougars.

I am very kind almost to kind at times which dosn't work too well like a business for a pawn broker X3 I try to be myself and keep in contact with my friends and family.

Watching a superhero isn't supposed to be a drag but it seems like the cast of «Pawn Stars» have more exciting lives than the crime - busting, trench club using, knight of justice.

They're all pawns in a minor time loop with major implications, beset by a scissors - wielding prowler whose gauze - swabbed face makes him look like an escapee from Clive Barker's id.

The other actors are great and perfectly cast too: Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, and RJ Mitte all succeed at making their parts feel like flesh and blood, not mere pawns of writers» whims.

Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp) and Victoria (Emily Watson)-- their names more a reference, I like to think, to Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda than to the eponymous Blake Edwards picture — are pawns in an arranged marriage, with Victor's nouveau riche fishmonger parents looking for a class boost through Victoria's old money mavens, who, finding their coffers empty, hope to replenish themselves financially at the proverbial well.

Movie Review: Truth (2015) Movie Review: Pawn Sacrifice (2014) Movie Review: Theresa Is A Mother (2012) Movie Review: American Ultra (2015) Movie Review: Ricki and the Flash (2015) Movie Review: Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014) Movie Review: Love and Mercy (2014)

The Primary Instinct (2015) Something about this film feels like a TED talk about stories Pawn Sacrifice (2015) I love chess, it isn't cinematic to say the least Joy (2015) watching Jennifer Lawrence take hold of the world is fun, kind of.

When a film like Prince appears out of nowhere, with its pseudo-incendiary electronic score and sophisticated examination of revenge, it revives hope for a pop - art cinema that's not only capable of balancing enraged critique with playful, irreverent aesthetics, but also treats its characters like actual human beings rather than pawns on a chess board.

With the chess drama / biopic Pawn Sacrifice, it appears like filmmaker Ed Zwick is trying to find his inner Ron Howard.

Related Reviews: New: Down the Shore • The Squid and the Whale & Running with Scissors • Pawn • Dragon Nowhere Boy • A Serious Man • Cemetery Junction • Rushmore • Forrest Gump • Good Morning, Vietnam Dead Poets Society • Shine a Light • City Island • A Single Man • The Graduate • Across the Universe • Like Crazy James Gandolfini: Killing Them Softly • Zero Dark Thirty • Welcome to the Rileys Bella Heathcote: Dark Shadows • In Time Brad Garrett: The Pacifier Isiah Whitlock Jr.: Cedar Rapids Will Brill: Girls Against Boys

, but at least it doesn't feel like Douglas & Co. are being blatantly used as pawns to contrast their ages with the vibe of their surroundings.

Movie Review: Truth (2015) Movie Review: Pawn Sacrifice (2014) Movie Review: Theresa Is A Mother (2012) Movie Review: Ricki and the Flash (2015) Movie Review: Southpaw (2015) Movie Review: Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014) Movie Review: Love and Mercy (2014)

It's not much of a surprise when the hero learns he's been a pawn in a global conspiracy in which his boss is a major crook, or proves diplomacy (like everything else these days) is no longer what it used to be.

But for a series that features, by its own description, a «master manipulator,» «Evil Genius» feels more like a confused, unwitting pawn than an adversary worthy of taking on the challenge to uncover the truth.