Sentences with phrase «like railing against»

Soaring gas and electricity bills are potent politics, but a leaked analysis for David Cameron does not support Canute - like railing against green policies.

The only rants, lectures, and nastiness I'm seeing is in the comments like yours railing against those few mild vegan posts.

He gets to dictate, not what I think, but what I say about what I think; again, just like those he rails against.

It is government interference, of the sort civil libertarians like myself rail against every day.

Not exact matches

That sounds awfully like the kind of «gut instinct» Gutsche is fond of railing against.

Kimmel has since actively railed against Obamacare repeal efforts, arguing that various proposals being debated by the law's opponents would gut protections for people like Billy born with pre-existing conditions, either by rolling back Obamacare's mandated insurance benefits for certain health conditions or allowing states to set up rules that would let insurers charge sick people more for their coverage.

The party has long railed against Western values, including concepts like multi-party democracy and universal human rights.

Pop music superstar Taylor Swift has railed against music streaming services like Spotify, going as far as pulling all her music from them.

Quickly, though, anti-consolidation consumer groups, including Free Press, sided with some of AT&T's soon - to - be content competitors, like Starz, to rail against the deal.

It seems like such a short time ago that I railed against Jason Kenney's first tweet as Minister of ESDC.

Muslims have done far less horrific, barbaric slaughter than Christians have through the centuries, yet you aren't railing against the far worse Christians as if they were ALL like that.

That is what people like you were railing against back then... that Catholics were going to take over the USA and the country would end up being run by the Pope.

I am not concerned either with graven images or the kind of idolatry against which so many of my profession rail: the substitution of something like wealth or success for God.

The part I did nt like (and am not necessarily accusing you of) is that every time there is an anti-semitic crime, so many folks immediately rail against jews for «making something out of nothing» or «always playing the victim card».

Spurred by their recent condemnation of Rob Bell, I was going to rail against their narrow view of Orthodoxy, challenge their commitment to Christian unity, judge them for being so judgmental, and then throw a bunch of Bible verses around like Rambo in a last - ditch siege.

Otherwise you just look like someone ignorantly railing against the opposing party.

Others, like Donald Davidson, became more recalcitrant in defense of their own, writing such interesting internal histories of the Tennessee valley and rhetorically railing against the New Leviathan.

By railing angrily against the government for following the law of the land and demanding special favors for the church (like tax exempt status) and laws that reflect your personal interpretation of scripture, you are rejecting his call and poisoning your faith with a lust for worldly power.

I will join anyone in railing against guilty parties like Theta Tau and the people who made that video, but I will always fight back against the «paying for friends» argument because, just like many other things in life, not everything is free, and sometimes if you want to affiliate with people who share similar interests as you, it costs money.

The Senate bill, like the measure that passed the U.S. House of Representatives this spring, shifts the cost of county Medicaid spending to the state government — a provision Gov. Andrew Cuomo has railed against.

Cuomo rarely criticizes President Trump by name, though the New York governor does frequently rail against federal Republican proposals, like repealing Obamacare.

Democrats, who had railed against the impact of the legislation on a state like New York, which could have seen a gradual reduction in Medicaid spending with a block grant system, were cautious in their responses.

As the Manhattan District Attorney, Mr. Vance often makes news — whether it's doling out $ 808 million from a BNP Paribas settlement with the city, announcing an end to arrests for public drinking or urination, or railing against tech companies like Apple encrypting their devices and making them «warrant - proof.»

Ed Miliband liked to rail against the banks.

Standing before a crowd of unionized hotel workers several hundred strong, the governor of New York rails against Republicans for feeding workers like them a lie all these years.

Cuomo has railed against the tax plan for its push to end deductions of state and local taxes, a move that would impact high - tax states like New York.

Cuomo on the other hand, has railed against the bill, calling it a politically - motivated action that would purposely punish more heavily - taxed Democrat - dominated states like New York.

The latest to tee off on Gov. David Paterson is Broome Community College President Kevin Drumm, who sent an e-mail message to the campus community in which he railed against a 2 percent budget cut coming from Albany that will hurt institutions of higher learning like his.

The newly - elected MP rails against the «sheep - like head nodding» of her Tory colleagues and says she has been made to «feel a bit like voting fodder a lot of the time».

Mr. Bratton railed against the «fabrications» in the reports and, like the mayor, wholly repudiated the tabloid's «sourcing.»

Prof. Teachout, who rails against «the billionaire class» in public, is aided by radical Soros - funded groups like MoveOn.org, and she is holding a September fundraiser in the home of Jonathan Soros, Mr. Soros's son.

The reliable Republican bread - and - butter voters of the 102nd love guys like him: Schoharie County born and bred, a dairy farmer turned stone quarrier who rails ferociously against taxes, «illegals» and «New York City liberals.»

«It wasn't quite railing against the closing night, but it felt like the end.

SW: Yes, society likes conformity and rails against disruption.

Let's face it: whether he's railing against Bush, pulling Katrina victims out of toxic sewage, dining with third - world despots, or savagely beating paparazzi (or loved ones), the guy — much like Christopher McCandless, the subject of the book and film — marches to the beat of his own drum.

Watch her as she tears up brilliantly during her first AA meeting, deftly handles an awkward come on from her boss, and, like a woman possessed, drunkenly rails against her husband in the film's most cinematic moment as she declares she can not have a sober life living with him.

Hoffman is also internally conflicted, because mere months ago he was railing against companies like NURV.

One suspects that if the majority of the public were to eat up The Happening to the shattering of box office records, this same group would be railing against it with equal fervor, obviously indicative of how dumb people are for liking such trashy nonsense.

Perhaps that's why large portions of this film feel like scenes Toback just wanted to use up somehow — particularly the Grodin sequence, in which his character rails against his fading faculties by turns sweetly and violently, and which might have been moving if it didn't feel so detached from everything around it.

It's why anti-consumerist rhetoric so often sounds like the mere regurgitation of platitudes: Railing against the...

I happen to like the movie because of the way it «rails» against dumbed down society, conformity, and yet, doesn't give «unusual» or «weird» or «different» a free pass either.

In a speech last November, President Obama himself railed against making students «fill out a bubble» and «master the basics,» urging that we instead assess kids» capacities in areas like «teamwork» and «entrepreneurship.»

Critics rail against policies brazenly favoring the oil industry — tax breaks, subsidies, and a regulatory climate just this side of whoopee — making it sound like environmental degradation was part of the founders» original intent.

Others, like Donald Maass, rail against self - publishing in general, on the grounds that it produces far more chaff than wheat (Writer Unboxed, «The new class system,» February 5, 2014.)

The anger over the decision by several retailers to stop carrying self - published titles continues to rage, as it is even extending to authors whose books were not even remotely close to the adult nature of titles that stores like WHSmith and Whitcoulls railed against.

And it is dawning on me that my railing against the tide is possibly just as doomed as those peoples» cries against the future were, particularly considering that I am writing this on a tablet PC that is tailor - made for reading comics like these... and further considering that crippling print costs are the reason I publish my foul opinions about comics on the exact same Web.

like this one between a main who rails against «the behemoth that is Amazon» and the authors who do business with it.

While I'm not against the rail companies, as I don't own any, I like CSX, NSC and the like.

Heather loves the dichotomy of using industrial elements (concrete floors, steel metal hooks, heavy iron butcher rails) against softer, earthy materials like beached raw wood, white brick and greenery growing out of an old chicken coop.

As much as I loved watching Hunter Grant chase Bryan, a frightened and desperate IT consultant, in circles around a parked truck, this show would be much better pitting its «agents» against real life Traceurs and Traceuses, who could show them a thing or two about running, and by running I mean climbing cat like across a railing before back flipping onto a concrete embankment and dropping twenty - feet into a full fledged sprint.