Sentences with phrase «many holdovers»

The shop would be known only by what it said on the old neon «liquor store» sign hanging from the building, a holdover from the space's pre-bar life.

ALL DUMMIES ON DECK This holdover technique was first used to fool pirates in the Straits of Malacca in the 1970s: set up mannequins to mimic extra crew members on deck.

That didn't include at least 13 deaths last year in seven crashes involving commercial charter flights in the U.S., and ignored the fact that the FAA was being run by an Obama - era holdover.

The name itself is a holdover from the service's original mission: Bringing international soccer, including the English Premier League, to an American audience.

US Airways used «Cactus,» a holdover from America West, an Arizona - based carrier it merged with in 2005.

Why it's on the list: The Chevrolet Impala is another holdover from last year's Top Picks list.

Through a combination of $ 1 billion from the sale of GM shares, a $ 2 billion reduction in the contingency fund and $ 1.8 billion taken out of Employment Insurance (a holdover from Budget 2014), the federal government was able to turn a modest deficit into a $ 1.4 billion surplus.

Shulkin is a former hospital executive who was a holdover from the Obama administration and who initially won Trump's favor for his efforts to overhaul the long - troubled system for veterans health care.

Since the 1860s, German historians, theologians and popular writers had argued that German holiday observances were holdovers from pre-Christian pagan rituals and popular folk superstitions.

However, this is largely an evolutionary holdover: Now that we are on top of the food chain and rarely need to assume fight or flight reflexes, the reality is that cognitive biases cause significantly more harm than good.

The inspector general, Michael Horowitz, is a holdover from the previous administration who has been lauded for his reputation in Washington.

Employees who remained say the new leadership team seemed to have little respect — in some cases, they had outright contempt — for the holdover employees.

There are two holdovers from the first cabinet who were expected to leave, which would have been shocking because of the confirmation battles he'd need to endure to replace them.

(The term is a holdover from when most music was physically pressed into a recording, like a CD or LP record.)

For one, it's something of a holdover from Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the book I wrote about how the military, pornography and fast - food industries are technology leaders.

Store managers, «captains» in Trader Joe's parlance — the nautical titles are a holdover from Coulombe (newly promoted captains are commanders; assistant store managers are first mates)-- can make in the low six figures, and full - time crew members can start in the $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 range.

These assessments are antiquated holdovers from before the digital age, and need to be replaced.

The announcement came a day after Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, after she announced she had directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend the president's temporary travel ban on seven majority - Muslim countries in court.

The first is that the total absence of any explanation or reasons fundamentally undermines the process of political accountability that this element of CEAA, 2012 (a holdover from CEAA, 1992) was intended to facilitate (see Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 FC 302 (CanLII) at para. 72).

Shulkin, the only holdover from the Obama administration in Trump's Cabinet, said last week that he believed he was targeted and undermined by a group of VA staffers installed in the top ranks of the agency by the White House.

Shulkin is the only holdover from the Obama administration in President Trump's Cabinet.

The lack of holdovers, amid a pivotal shift away from crisis - era policies, could make for a bumpy transition.

Psalms such as Psalm 109, which ask God to destroy our enemies and their children, can appear only as embarrassing holdovers of «primitive» religious beliefs.

America's intermixing of religion and politics, she continued, could only be regarded as a historically neurotic phenomenon, a stubborn holdover from less enlightened times.

Where are they at this moment, the holdover moderates who have not yet been purged from their plush offices here but probably will be soon, who hang onto the security of Mammon and vow to speak out as soon as retirement age is reached?

Soon, the two sides of the pincer will meet and this unnecessary holdover will have to flutter off and find another dark corner to settle in, where the penetrating light of science and knowledge has not yet shone.

Against the prudent, realistic, hard - boiled legalists in the Kennedy administration like Byron White and Burke Marshall, a federal official of conscience and egalitarian conviction like John Doar (an Eisenhower holdover) emerges from Branch's account as a lonely, embattled and courageous figure: a «man who talked like Gary Cooper» and acted like Gary Cooper in the streets of Jackson, Mississippi, where he calmed an angry mob following the murder of Medgar Evers.

It must be a biological holdover.

Organized religion is a holdover from the dark ages and the mentality required to participate is consistent with that period.

IWFKU Organized religion is a holdover from the dark ages and the mentality required to participate is consistent with that period.

This is a holdover from slavery, but in a different way than other effects of slavery.

We may admit that most guilt feelings which disturb the deeper level of the soul are misplaced, that they are a holdover in mature life from experiences in childhood which are irrelevant to the moral experience of the adult.

This idiotic system is a holdover from WWII, when businesses started offering health care benefits to get around wartime wage controls.

All relatively harmless, but some incongruous holdover bedeviled Merton the monk.

They have come to be seen in secular society as holdovers from the past: conservative, patriarchal, out of touch with contemporary values and lifestyles - even an eccentricity, as appears innumerous film and television portrayals.

This stew recipe includes a small amount of salted beef, another holdover from «the old days,» when that was the only way to ship beef, and it is an ingredient found in almost all the recipes for this stew.

I guess a holdover from Depression - era cooking and hardscrabble ranch life??

The rolls came out high, light and fluffy and they will holdover just as the other reviewers mentioned for several days.Don't do a long slow rise in the refrigerator, it won't work out as well.

«Must be a holdover from Bo's wine tasting class.»

My husband has a sweet tooth, a holdover from his childhood when his mom, and I LOVED her, put sugar on / in just about everything, like most red blooded American housewives did back in the 50s.

The pitching coach and bullpen coach are holdovers.

That's a holdover from years and years ago.

The Clemson Tigers slid down to line four following Sunday's home loss to Duke, joining a pair of holdovers, the Gonzaga Bulldogs and Tennessee Volunteers, and newcomer, a Wichita State Shockers squad that followed up a Thursday home win over the Temple Owls by snapping Cincinnati's 39 - game home winning streak.

There are holdovers, and new faces will emerge.

So line coach Mike Summers, a Muschamp holdover, will be making potpourri.

With 91 caps for Brazil, he will surpass Dani Alves for the most - capped player on the squad and is the only holdover from their 2002 World Cup title win over Germany.

Ken Griffey Jr. and Trevor Hoffman are the two additions their website touts among the 15 new ones overall, and they join 17 holdovers from the 2015 class.

Dennis Stanchfieid, 6» 2» and 215 pounds, is giving holdover Jeff Hugel a run for the tight - end position, while Roger Flewelling is fighting it out with Vic Janowicz, a converted end, at guard.

The holdovers in the line are Tackles Steve Thompson, 230 pounds, and Bill Glennon, both of whom are pro prospects, End Dean Halvorson, Guard Mike Maggart and two strong linebackers, George Jugun and Cliff Coker.

What we learned: This holdover match from last month (bumped due to Ryback's staph infection) really surprised a lot of people and the live crowd was super into everything that happened in it.