Sentences with phrase «never by a bootstrap»

The ever inventive Baron does pull himself and his horse out of a swamp by his own hair, but never by a bootstrap.

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There was never a meeting, under Paul Martin or Stephen Harper or anywhere else, where enlightened policy - makers sat around saying, «We need a way to encourage feisty innovators to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Sinful and sordid as much of that story turned out to be, Israel's faith was never a «lift ourselves up by our own bootstraps» kind of willfulness.

Specificities notwithstanding, I identified three basic patterns in the way couples reorganize themselves after an infidelity — they never really get past the affair, they pull themselves up by the bootstraps and let it go, or they leave it far behind.