Sentences with phrase «many of the acolytes»

By early 2014, he and a group of acolytes had begun building Ethereum.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

As long as we wish to remain as civilized people, and make huge progress, we must support our institution at all times not only when it is convenient like Bukola Saraki or some of his acolyte might wish us to believe.

Margaret Thatcher is adored by a close circle of acolytes, but these days keeps herself to herself.

The candidate quickly picked up the support of virtually all other local pols — a level of institutional support alien to Sanders and most of his acolytes.

New Labour under the egregious Brown and Darling were as culpable as the preceding Thatcherites and many of their acolytes occupy Labour seats in Westminster and plot continuously to overthrown the Corbynites.

This film showcases legendary running coach Arthur Lydiard's training methods through the example of his acolytes, including reigning Olympic 1,500 m champ John Walker.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and all of his acolytes who are rushing to implement performance - based compensation for teachers might want to take a close look at the preliminary results from a Chicago program with this focus that was initially started when Duncan ran the city school system.

Leave it to the left - leaning teacher - union - friendly Center for American Progress to come out with a flatulent report lamenting the allegedly lousy state of teacher pay in the U.S. Even worse, much of the acolyte media dutifully bought the study hook, jive and half - truth.

One of his acolytes, Fraser Nelson, tweeted just this week «shame that the most articulate voices for social mobility aren't as angry about schools, where the real problem lies.»

With this said the Sins player gets quite a lot of extra bodies to throw into any given situation in the form of acolytes, the controller and minions.

The (semi --RRB- permanent damage taken differs with each difficulty level, so on the lowest one, the Way of the Acolyte, you'll start most encounters with almost full health, while you have to face much less and weaker enemies than on the higher difficulties.

A great deal of recent art found in global biennials and blue - chip galleries (think of Damien Hirst's spots or Kehinde Wiley's portraits) is made by teams of acolytes under an art superstar's supervision.

They became a kind of two - person cult of Helios, with a hive of acolytes and studio assistants creating artworks as if they were offerings of reverence and contemplation.

Indeed, Schanbel, a nearly household - name artist who has been a vast influence on young artists today (you could argue he's spawned a generation of acolytes and copycats), has only cracked $ 1 million at auction once; in contrast, Cecily Brown has several times.

The thing that scared us most about Osama bin Laden, I think, was what seemed to be his — and many of his acolytes» — rational mega-murderousness.

Far more so than, say, Skeptical Science, which prefers to stick strictly to the science (albeit only if it matches their view of it) and strictly edits any off topic discussion (unless it is by one of their acolytes) and will allow no personal criticisms or adhoms whatsoever (unless delivered against an «unbeliever», and more acceptably delivered by one of the moderators).

FOR more than a decade public opinion on human - caused global warming has been moulded by pronouncements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its army of acolytes.

Economy with the truth seems to be Mann's stock - in - trade when rallying his little army of acolytes and lesser lights to the defense of his «cause» — i.e. the self - glorification of Michael E. Mann and / or his pseudo-auto-bio which would more realistically have been entitled, Portrait of the Artist as an Aggrieved Mann: A Novel.

In addition the Solomon et al lead authors (Forster & Ramaswamy, Hegerl and Zwiers, and some hundreds of their acolytes, although mostly they cite only themselves, ad nauseam) totally ignore that the process of combustion of hydrocarbons (terms not in the Index to Solomon et al) produces BOTH H2O as well as CO2 AND Energy, used to produce STEAM to generate the power that produces our electricity.

Nonentities like Congressman Grijalva have hitched their sleds to the AGW trainwreck and who will, along with many of the acolytes that comprise the so - called scientific accord on this subject, be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Not exact matches

An acolyte of Peter Drucker, McFarland once asked the management guru how to tell which companies in an industry were likely to grow large.

So it was that J.C. Penney (jcp), the long - stagnating mid-tier department store chain, announced in June 2011 that it was hiring Ron Johnson, the man in charge of Apple's (aapl) wildly profitable retail stores and a Steve Jobs acolyte whose golden halo also included past triumphs as an executive at Target (tgt).

Using the same locations as Whyte and his acolytes did several decades ago, Hampton's team came up with more than 38 hours of comparable film.

Several skeptical researchers and authors have been hammering away at the foundations of the foodie cause, arguing that everything Pollan and his acolytes stand for — from the dangers of GMO foods to the benefits of local farming — is based on sketchy evidence at best, and at worst is just plain wrong.

Famous acolytes include musician Deadmau5, who reportedly bought a 64 - gallon jug of the sauce on eBay for $ 15,000.

But Friedman acolytes argue that if (Re) zip is paying above - market wages and sourcing locally, surely it's not going to generate the returns of its profit - driven competitors — and therefore won't be as efficient in raising or using capital.

As Chief Acolyte of the «hysteresis view», I must protest!

The kind of mindless environmental denial spewed by the oil industry and its press acolytes and paid - for «independent institutes» mirrors the kind of comments I read on my hobbyist US websites.

Just one year off an annual meeting at which unaffiliated investors delivered a stunningly sharp rebuke of the entire board, near - autocrat and unrequited Buffet acolyte Sardar Biglari has nevertheless elected to press on with his personal crusade to erect an insipid caricature of Berkshire Hathaway.

I don't know to what extent he gives authority to the various religious acolytes to deal with demonic possession, but it's not out of the question.

Each example of evil, from the Imperial leadership to the Sith Lords and acolytes, is exemplified by the pursuit of power born out of self - ambition.

Things are easier for them: The refusal and the narration are easy gestures, and it takes only a modicum of literary flair and historical confidence to peg the acolyte of truth and demonstrative argument as a creature from another age.

While I may counsel my acolytes to wear good shoes for the sake of their grandmother's piety, I would not counsel a new family of a different ethnicity not to worship with us because someone in the church might be offended.

The secular «theology» of progressivism has its ministers and acolytes, and they hold powerful positions.

When you hear that the fastest growing segment of the population is non-believers, that does not refer to Dawkins acolytes.

The acolytes are a quartet of owners, all of whom worked at Erickson's The Walrus and the Carpenter and The Whale Wins (both former Hot 10 spots).

now wengers absurd transfer policy «is down to you people»... seriously krish n`chips... the acolytes of the delusional one are beginning to sound even more of a parody than the master himself... walcott is a very very average player with one good season in 12 years at the club... the fact that wenger hasnt sold him is part of the sorry state of our club and the idea that this can be blamed on fans who want to see us back challenging for top trophies is frankly offensive

That was his religion, and he had been one of its greatest acolytes and reaped its rewards, ruling the Lower East Side, everyone calling him Coss the Boss, or, sometimes, Coss the Motherfucking Boss.

I am sick of the intellectually shallow Konstantine and his acolytes like jon fox on this site.

You can always rely on Stewart Robson to see through Arsene's BS and even people I don't particularly like, Gary Neville and Piers Morgan are calling out Wenger, even at the risk of being abused by Wenger's acolytes with them foaming at the mouth and ready to attack anyone who says anything bad about their messiah.

Since the Spaniard's public outburst at his new signing, the Chilean has come on drastically and could be seen ordering others to check their own positioning against Benfica, shouting and pointing adjustments as if he were one of Pep's original acolytes out on the field.

People can believe what they want, but when in the furtherance of their AGENDA they indicate that I am lying or that I'm some Wenger acolyte when all I did is point at the facts, and might I add, ALL the known facts which means that those facts don't lack context, about Wenger's Monaco days, it is something I am not prepared to accept meekly.

These acolytes of the big wigs who pop up to tell women they don't need to listen to medical professionals.

The 2007 assessment that is often quoted was done under the Presidency of George W Bush and his acolytes Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld; the triumvirate that established the Guantanamo detention centre.

He was scathing about the acolytes of New Labour where eyes were fixed, as he once put it, on the small picture, but is himself zany about the wickedness of hunting or of planting leylandii.

IDS and his acolytes are have been just as zealous in pursuing their reforms as Michael Gove's remorseless pursuit of his academies reforms in the Department for Education.

I must admit, it stretches incredulity that Labour should get all worked up about a politician «lying» - this is not to defend Hague from what he may or may not have done, but to point out that there is an (ever - present) case of Pot Kettle Black here, for which reason the narrative is unlikely to gain much traction beyond titillating SW1 and its acolytes.

Haggerty, as you'll recall, was indicted in the ongoing Bloomberg / Independence Party investigation by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr., and had made clear he'll gladly spill secrets of the mayor's successful campaign for a third term last fall (breaking a traditional code of silence adhered to by Bloomberg acolytes).

«You look at Westchester County, where Astorino was a Trump acolyte and trumpeted it all the time,» Cuomo said Wednesday on a conference call with reporters when asked to analyze the results of the off - year election.