Sentences with phrase «like robbers»

Reacting however, Fayose said the minister, who at the event tried to proffer solution to corruption in Nigeria was like robbers offering solution to armed robbery even after refusal to appear before commission of inquiry to probe his years as Ekiti governor.

Niger Delta Militant operate with the support of the State Gov's then cause they see it as a way of letting them have their own share by stealling oil, deviate our oil and robbing banks in a pretends like robbers when ever they need money.

But precisely for this reason it is difficult to know whether we accept this cross in faith, hope and love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord by his side.

Think like a robber baron, folks.

Zoom in on the seemingly smooth curves of those facets and, in many insects — like the robber fly seen here — you'll find they're studded with an array of nanoscale protuberances called «corneal nipples.»

He thunders on about them like a robber baron of yore.

When Mr. Crane saw himself on the video commenting that the person in photograph number four looked like the person who robbed him, Mr. Crane testified in Court that just because the eyes look like the robber, it does not mean that the person in photograph four was in fact the person who robbed him.

Not exact matches

According to Lochte, the robbers were dressed like police officers and they put guns to their heads.

The «Robber Barons» were no robbers and their greed was exaggerated, natural right - grounded classic liberals rejected Social Darwinism, and men like Justice Peckham who «discovered» and defended the liberty of contract were good men attuned to what might plausibly be derived from a natural development of American jurisprudence.

The thief Nancy's all - engrossing love for the brutish house robber Bill Sikes traps her in poverty and debauchery until young Oliver, who might easily have been corrupted like Nancy, spurs her toward a final, bloody redemption.

A few ho mose xuals lied their way into the priesthood to attack the innocents, to continually blame the entire church for the conduct of a ho mose xual minority is like blaming banks because there are bank robbers.

Thieves and robbers threaten the disciples and the church from the outside; hirelings like Judas flee from within when danger comes.

Soon we'll learn to transform our mind to the mind of Christ so that sinners flood our feet with tears (Luke 7:36 - 38); so that tax - collecting robbers want to spend time with us (Luke 19:1 - 10); so that we don't treat a Samaritan woman like a half - breed minority like the rest of society does (John 4:9, 27), or as a sexual obstacle to overcome as many Christian men in today's society do.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed, God, I thank Thee that I am not like other men, robbers, evil doers, adulterers, or even like this tax - collector.

They should be held in contempt with the likes of Halliburton, Goldman Sacs and all the other corporate rapists that plunder and destroy all that is good for the gratification and greed of a small select group of Robber Barons.

Blaming the church and the priesthood is like blaming banks because there are bank robbers.

To blame the entire church for the crimes of those lying minority perverts is like blaming banks for bank robbers.

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: «God, I thank you that I am not like other people — robbers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector.

There was a time when that quarterback saw Sky and Cloud coverage and then came into the NFL and all of sudden was like, What's this Thief and Robber?

«Closing them down» sounds more like a technique used by bank robbers, but that is probably beside the point.

I do realize that things can and do happen in the US with formula manufacturing that are not good, but comparing it to China, which is basically the equivalent of robber baron capitalism like we had here a hundred years ago is a bit of a stretch.

The front cover of Urban Babies Wear Black by Michelle Sinclair Colman has a cute baby dressed like a bank robber in a black outfit.

This is because they are not ordinary criminals like armed robbers, who would not want to die.

They operate in ways that make armed robbers look like saints.

They appear like the regular armed robber.

Yet neither robber bees nor pests like wax moths and small hive beetles are entering the emptied bee boxes.

McAlister shows off the Diptera collection like an adoring parent: the lovely bee flies; the curious hairy legs of the robber fly; the amazing eyes of the stalk - eyed flies; the mosquito with feathered mid-legs that look like legwarmers; U.K. crane flies with wide wingspans and long, delicate legs; the horse fly with a 2 - inch - long proboscis; the bot flies that lay their eggs on mosquitoes for transportation.

It's like bank robbers out for a heist.

Plus, I'm still a cradle - robber, like it or not; I have trouble «getting wood,» if you will, when a dude looks old — when he's balding, has a spare tire, or even when I can see the little gray hairs growing in along his sideburns.

They are mistaken for bank robbers and chased by Wooly Bill Hitchcock the rest of the movie, they briefly become cooks for the cavalry and end up destroyign the fort, so are sent to prison, where they learn of a train robbery plot by Big Mack and his gang, which they try to foil, even if it means dressing up like saloon ladies and dancing with bank robbers.

Though it boasts a similar visual style to a lot of Mann's films, the tension is almost non-existent, and despite an interesting dynamic between McAvoy's cop and Strong's robber, it's never fully explored, nor does it have the same allure of seeing Hollywood heavyweights like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino face off.

Aspects of the film weather Dimension's dubbing — for instance, I like Lam's lean approach to the cops»n' robbers» often - vicious shenanigans: the requisite wiretap is only as complex as Chow taping a cassette recorder to his belly, while the heists entail lots of commotion and gunfire and stuffing bags full with necklaces — none of the sterile, gadget - assisted ballet we see in Robert De Niro movies.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

While it boasts a similar visual style to a lot of Mann's films — saturated in a slick and steely blue hue — the tension is almost non-existent, and although there's an interesting dynamic at play between McAvoy's cop and Strong's robber, it's never fully explored, nor does it have the same allure of seeing Hollywood heavyweights like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino face off against each other.

It's risible that The Train Robbers would be part of a conversation with movies like The Wild Bunch and McCabe & Mrs. Miller, much less a box set.

Boyle and cinematographer Alwin Küchler might make this section look like a claustrophobic horror film, but that simplicity of execution only heightens Garland's growing thematic undertones: the sun as both robber and provider of life, humanity's interference with the will of nature, etc..

And much of the tension comes from the fact that the two robbers offer themselves up like lambs to the slaughter: Low - level hoods looking for a big score, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn, the latter a junkie who barely gets the job, may hold the guns, but nary a whiff of fear is detected among two tables of burly, scowling marks.

Michael Mann's Heat - starring DeNiro and Pacino as a bank robber and the cop trying to get him - sounds like it is a written cliche.

Awesomeness TV has an awesome video of the Maze Runner cast playing a game called «Fugitive,» which is basically like playing Hide & Seek meets Cops & Robbers.

Also in the recent tradition of Disney animation, the picture appears to have no clue as to why it is that its once robber - baron grip on the field has slipped to the point that the Magic Kingdom is no better than mechanized schlock - houses like DreamWorks and Blue Sky Studios.

Set in present - day America, it's a story for today's social climate, but it feels like a classic Western in the way a pair of desperado bank robbers are pursued by a sly detective.

The first trailer, which I still think was badly put together, made it seem like this was a twist movie that gave away the twist (the twist being that Affleck is one of the bank robbers).

Yet, after acknowledging that it was an inspiration, the two films should be seen as separate entities, since much of what makes City on Fire work (character development, yin and yang cop - robber themes, and a romantic subplot) are not to be found with the 1992 American film, and what people liked about Reservoir Dogs (smart and savvy writing, sassy interplay among characters, and some brutally graphic violence) aren't really the strengths of the Hong Kong original.

While some may argue that Scorsese has done better crime films, I tried to find a movie where it evenly shows both sides working towards each other (the cops and the robbers, just like the PNP and JLP in Ghett» A Life just not as well executed).

A trailer has just been released for the film, and it looks like a good period cops and robbers story, bolstered by that cast into a level of quality that might let it sit alongside other period LA crime tales such as L.A. Confidential.

No, it has nothing to do with Disneyland or even animals at all, it's an intense Departed - like drama about a family of bank robbers in the underworld of Melbourne, Australia.

Like Rififi, it contains a wonderfully executed and extended heist sequence in which the robbers carry out their plans with a quiet and practiced clinical exactitude.

There is a starter, followed by an email from the very demanding girlfriend of the diamond robber asking for all the things she would like in her hotel.

It would help Rolls - Royce lose its perceived status as the vehicle of choice for the world's robber barons and, instead, to be appreciated as a work of art that's handcrafted, designed, and built by people like you and me.