Sentences with phrase «lump of coal in»

His time at @WePublicHealth coincided with Federal LNP Government Ministers passing around a lump of coal in Parliament, extreme weather conditions including bushfires in NSW and flooding in WA, and with the annual #healthpolicyvalentines Twitter thread.

Just in time for Christmas, the January — February 2018 issue of the Harvard Business Review offers us a lump of coal in the form of an article entitled The Case for Plain - Language Contracts (here).

And although a chance for banter and merriment with your employees is always a good idea, sometimes, what they do at your yearly soiree could leave them with a lump of coal in their inbox the next morning.

They found that the carbon dioxide - caused warming exceeds the amount of heat released by a lump of coal in just 34 days.

if the lump of coal in the photo was replaced with a solar panel would it make this web site?

Their mock attack ad, which starts out with a group of children dancing hand in hand around a giant lump of coal in a pasture, can be seen on the newspaper's Web site by clicking on the image above.

Or at the very least the accountants at Exxon Mobil must have put more than a lump of coal in the stocking hanging over Tierney's fossil fuel - burning fireplace.

For the sake of brick - and - mortar retailers all over the country, let's hope that Amazon ends up with a big lump of coal in its stocking.

With a big budget, star - studded, mo - cap, 3D adaptation of «Paradise Lost» set to begin filming in weeks, Aussie film crews are receiving a lump of coal in their stocking this year.

For anyone expecting a film close to that original teaser trailer, you just got a big lump of coal in your stocking.

For the lump of coal in your Christmas stocking, the greenhouse warming surpasses the released heat in just 34 days.

They found that the carbon dioxide - caused warming exceeds the amount of heat released by a lump of coal in just 34 days.

WESPORT — While several towns in Essex County received an early present from the state's economic Santa Claus, others found a lump of coal in their stockings.

As usual, good fun all around — until someone finds a lump of coal in his or her stocking.

In this latest edition of the Daily Cannon podcast, Stephen is joined by Paul and Anita to revel in the Xmas spirit before West Ham and Liverpool put a lump of coal in our stocking.

Kuro Cube, $ 21 Put a lump of coal in someone's stocking — seriously.

What retailers and shippers alike want to avoid is a repeat of 2013, when snafus and bad weather caused UPS to miss delivering two million packages by Christmas, earning the company lumps of coal in its stocking.

The holiday shopping season is in full swing and BitDefender is here to share best practices for safe holiday shopping to ensure consumers don't get lumps of coal in their bank accounts this winter.

Three days before Christmas, FOR's data indicated that nearly 10 % of the postdocs who had been told they would receive holiday season raises instead got metaphorical lumps of coal in their financial stockings: The percentage of postdocs actually seeing higher salaries had shrunk from the expected 69.1 % to 59.2 %.

The comment is seen in Gelbspan's «Lumps of coal in our Christmas stocking» Facebook post yesterday on the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for EPA director.

Not exact matches

As exciting as presents are, shopping can be as painful as getting two lumps of coals for children, so Toys «R» Us has gamified the in - store shopping experience with its AR app Play Chaser.

The current naughtiness / coal exchange rate provides for one lump of coal, per month, in which total aggregate naughtiness exceeds the established acceptable levels of misanthropic behavior.

WHAT IF SOMEWHERE IN MY MAKEUP, / MY ELECTRONIC, TRANSISTORIZED, MOTORIZED TAKEUP, / WHAT IF, LIKE A LUMP OF PLASTICIZED COAL...

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

In an attempt to polish coal's tarnished image, the industry has launched a series of ads and other PR efforts (to the tune of «Jingle Bells»): Frosty the coal man is a jolly happy soul He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll Frosty the coal man's getting cleaner every day He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay Beyond caroling coal available online (isn't a lump of coal at Christmas traditionally a bad thingIn an attempt to polish coal's tarnished image, the industry has launched a series of ads and other PR efforts (to the tune of «Jingle Bells»): Frosty the coal man is a jolly happy soul He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll Frosty the coal man's getting cleaner every day He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay Beyond caroling coal available online (isn't a lump of coal at Christmas traditionally a bad thingin America and he helps our economy roll Frosty the coal man's getting cleaner every day He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay Beyond caroling coal available online (isn't a lump of coal at Christmas traditionally a bad thing?)

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Also # 16 Cinematic Lump of Coal: The 11th Best Picture BFCA nominee (smh) is Star Wars, which I love but only in one category why not reopen all voting then?

bellows Cohen before shooting up everything in sight — a reminder that some movies have no more worth than that proverbial lump of coal.

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While it was going on, Indigo got bored and went back to his gold hunting, bashing a lump of coal so hard that pieces flew everywhere, and the baby got a chunk to suck, and the hamster jumped in fright into the health visitor's bag, and the health visitor said, «Thank goodness my twins...!

It's December, and Christmas has come early for Playstation fans, as Sony shows off all the goodies that PS4 can expect in 2017 (sorry Vita owners, you get a lump of coal).

He also referenced Thomas Gainsborough's use of a mirror for water, coal lumps for rocks, and broccoli for trees in reference to his late landscapes, which I felt was perfect.

Although the movement revered humble stuffs — there is art here made from dead snails, old boots, lumps of coal, cheap furry materials, discarded hairbrushes — it is clear from the moment you step in that an illusion of poverty was never the aim.

Finally, here is a lump of coal to eat and drink — since the claim was that «energy easily translates into water and food» — so dig in.

That's why it has become a TreeHugger Christmas tradition to invite our friends in the clean coal industry to show us warmer side of coal; Who can forget the joy that the little singing lumps brought to our hardened hearts.

One Friday in April, Great Britain, for the first time since the launch of the Industrial Revolution, managed to meet its power demands without burning one lump of coal.

If he's really lucky and we're feeling generous when he comes knocking at our door begging for help, we might even be kind enough to toss the odd lump of coal or two in the direction of a shivering, starving old man with a tattered tartan tie round his neck.

Max, if some genie were to pop out of a magic lamp and claim full understanding of the greatest rate of change of temperature over any half - century period during the MWP, and were to tell me that if I guessed wrong as to whether that ever exceeded a rate of one degree a century I would be turned into a lump of coal for a future Christmas stocking, I would have no hesitation in saying no such rate had been achieved in any such half - century period.

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».

More than two - thirds of the energy in a lump of coal is lost before it ever gets to your laptop thousands of miles away.

With the conference at Santa Clara, public participation in finding prior art and learning about the patent process on AskPatents, and continued legislative scrutiny of our patent system via the SHIELD Act, perhaps critics of software patents and troll proliferation will receive more than a lump of coal this holiday season.

The promises of doing this in only 5 hours a week with little or no money to make a ton of money is a luring and an attractive diamond being sold to the poor souls that buys into their game but in reality they're only getting a lump of coal.

In real estate crowdfunding, as with any investment, it's better to let a few diamonds go by than to invest in every opportunity and get stuck with a lump of coaIn real estate crowdfunding, as with any investment, it's better to let a few diamonds go by than to invest in every opportunity and get stuck with a lump of coain every opportunity and get stuck with a lump of coal.