Sentences with phrase «lumps of coal for»

And Santa, preparing for the Christmas season, will save a few lumps of coal for the stockings hanging on the teachers union's mantle.

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.

Trump may have thought he was giving Gillibrand a lump of coal for Christmas when he took to Twitter to say she would «do anything» for campaign contributions.

WASHINGTON — Perhaps President Trump thought he was giving Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand a lump of coal for Christmas when he took to Twitter to say she would «do anything» for campaign contributions.

Fun for those for whom Hogwarts or Middle Earth are a little too tiring or scary, a cinematic lump of coal for everyone else.

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Leif is the jolly bad Santa, with a lump of coal for everybody.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

It is for our good and can only come through kind affliction that is meant to chip away at the lump of coal to reveal the diamond... and unfortunately it does hurt, but God is indeed righteous yet his ways are mysterious.

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.

«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.»

The elderly dad of City Councilman Vincent Gentile says he knows what he's getting his son for Christmas this year — a fat lump of coal.

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 %.

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).

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

For the second half of the holiday podcast Katey, Joe, Nathaniel, and Nick, name our favorite Christmas movies, hand out lumps of coals and Christmas gifts to our least and most favorite movie achievements.

The revelation of the person responsible for Jessica's disappearance isn't so much a twist as an inevitable, easily foreseeable turn; a fairly humdrum climax fails to compensate for the disappointing lack of surprise — rendering this Gift more akin to a lump of coal, albeit one with an uncommonly inviting sheen.

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

There's nothing worse than clicking on a website only to find it doesn't work (except, maybe, for waking up on Christmas morning to a lump of coal).

OTTAWA — Veterans across Canada are praying that the Trudeau government will deliver more than a lump of coal when it rolls out its long - awaited plan for providing pensions to injured ex-soldiers.

Mastercard (MA) and American Express (AXP)(last years winner of the Lump of Coal award for losing the Costco deal), were about as flat as a credit card.

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.

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.

That's the conclusion of a Carnegie Institution for Science study... that shows two things: Emissions from burning a lump of coal or a gallon of gas has an effect on the climate 100,000 times greater than the heat given off by burning the fossil fuel itself.

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.

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.

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.

A quick review of IESO data for Christmas Day 2017 shows our Energy Ministry delivered lumps of coal to all Ontario's electricity ratepayers, whether they were good or bad.

Many now recognize the ads by ACCCE, with the bright orange power cord plugged into a lump of coal, but the Center tells the story of its origins at least five years ago as the industry grappled with the growing drumbeat for policy action on global warming.

As far as what «Mother Nature» has placed under the tree for us, I fear it will be many more «lumps of coal» than «promises of global cooling.»

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».

The California Seismic Safety Commission has delivered lumps of coal to state government preparedness for a tsunami, reports J. Craig Williams.

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.

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).