Sentences with phrase «noose of»

The noose of regulation seems to be closing around the Medusa's head - like neck of cryptocurrencies.

I don't think it's proper to hang predictive projections of serious climate risk on the noose of failing to have a complete top - to - bottom model of the climate system at work.

Yet talk about pace and scale of development in Canada's oil sands is considered unspeakable — a blasphemy — in political and industry circles, even though oil sands projects are widely recognized as the highest - risk, highest - cost projects in the industry, and likely the first to be impacted as the noose of climate policy tightens.

A new set of drawings, sculptures, paintings and video work explores the rat wheels of our consumer cult, the ever - tightening noose of technology, our absurd political landscape, the high - jacking of religion for political gains, and the merciless influence of big money onto our political and cultural institutions.

«With the tightening noose of social media, and the retinal - screen more generally, my empathies and intellectual inquiries are now with nature,» the artist said in a statement.

Plant Vs Zombies Garden Warfare... Both games are rather excellent, but suffer from the tight noose of Origin around their necks.

Forget about the noose of debt from private student loans for now.

As our book points out, this noose of red tape is especially evident in the often irrational regulations that burden online learning and virtual charter schools.»

Point a telescope just 7 degrees southeast of Vega to reveal more treasures: the ghostly glowing noose of the famous Ring nebula.

He added: «The trade union movement will unite to fight this brutal assault on the most basic of human rights and that campaign will be taken into the communities who stand to lose access to safe and reliable services as this noose of the anti-union laws is twisted round our necks.»

But while governmental and university groups were tightening the noose of research findings, the industry was still insisting that the case was not yet proved.

Not exact matches

So on behalf of the oppressed tie - wearers of the world, here is my appeal to those corporate despots who still force their male staff to daily put nooses around their necks: please think again.

She said she did not think it was very helpful to ask for the noose to be tightened around the necks of the Greek people and government.

He accused the Minister and the Irish Government of joining the German chorus of austerity to «tighten the noose» around Greece and to humiliate that country and bring it to its knees.

While governments in the likes of South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore try to tighten the regulatory noose on cryptocurrencies, they are more amenable to projects on the blockchain than their counterparts in the West.

Many are making a career out of it.Once promoted as strategic to control Afghan has become a noose around their neck, it is certainly a strategic pit where they have to eventually surrender.

Recent years had brought a tightening of the noose, with one major loss following another.

A hangman's noose in front of every church?

If Jesus had been hanged instead of crucified would Christians revere the hangman's noose as a religious symbol?

The utility of nooses, bricks and burning crosses was not as great as it once had been.

Oddly enough, it is the release of the noose around your own neck.

Unlike most of the people ready to hang the noose, I don't know.

Their execution of her failed, and in some ways, when you walk away from the hangman's noose, you're more a witch than you were before and there's irony in that, too.

Don't you mean the end of the noose he tied with his own hands and placed around his neck?

Judas, of course, clung to his religious - political beliefs until they became a noose around his neck.

According to Justin Livingston, director of global franchise development, the Hawaiian - themed, health - conscious coffee and smoothie retailer seeks out those who want to ditch the corporate noose and just hang loose.

These ranged from Trump's sons, The Donald Jr. and Eric - photographed in 2012 sawing off the tails of elephants, hanging 13 - foot crocodiles by a noose off from branches, and clinging gleefully to the carcass of a slumped leopard, to Wells Tower's searing 2014 GQ account of an elephant hunt, to more recent viral outrages, such as the woman who posed with the giraffe she shot and called it a «very dangerous animal» and Walter Palmer, the dentist recently vilified for killing Cecil, a beloved Zimbabwe lion.

No one doubts that the Yankees pulled the rope tight, but two bull - headed members of the Pittsburgh team helped knot the noose

Not necessarily player wise, but jeez Arsene, loosen the noose, let Bouldy have a good amount of time to drill the team in the art of defending.

Despair that unless he fastens the noose himself, we'll sleepwalk our way to another two seasons of this.

He then turned om everyone and threw a rope with a noose on one end at our feet and said or was it more our speed to Show up with a burning cross at his door to leave him hanging as a warning to the rest of the ni **** in the community.

They outlined their choice as that of a Tory government that had loosened the austerity noose but failed to use its proceeds to offer them much relief — as opposed to a radical Labour alternative that was ready to turn back on the spending tap.

The polls didn't shift dramatically as a result of the macaca moment, but it did contribute to an overall impression of George Allen as a boor and possibly a racist, and it also opened the door to other stories the portrayed him in a bad light (remember the noose?

To make matters worse the New Patriotic Party has a tight noose on the legislative house, giving Nana Addo and the NPP Members of Parliament, a mandate to push through any agenda, regardless of the consequences on Ghanaians.

One had an image of the president with his neck in a noose....)

â $ œNow with Rawlings in the noose, we had plenty of factors to justify action, though it was not 1984 but 1979.

Alexander and Spencer Livermore — another of several top Brown loyalists from whose eyes the scales belatedly fell — had looked at Labour's position, its dire finances and the uncertain state of Cameron's leadership in the summer of 2007 (even the Spectator's page one cartoon had him on a horse with his neck in a noose) and decided a quick dash to the polls would be best.

Bickley told The Buffalo News that the noose display is not a statement of racism and that's he's not a racist.

Never mind that Cuomo's former chief of staff, Larry Schwartz, who left as the noose was tightening around Silver's neck, now can't find a job — reportedly because of Bharara's continuing probe.

The U.S. Department of Education tightened the noose last week when it announced New York could lose its federal Race to the Top money because it lags behind in complying with the terms of its grant.»

► «The congressional noose around research in the social sciences and the geosciences at [NSF] got pulled a little tighter today as an influential legislator unveiled a new and controversial budget metric as part of his blueprint for the agency,» Mervis wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.

This tightens the noose on the possibility of life.»

The so - called choking game is the practice of using hands, fingers or external wrapping materials — such as a belt, tie or noose — to apply strong pressure against the carotid arteries lining either side of the neck.

Women can begin to breathe a sigh of relief as the noose loosens; however the «permission» to openly pursue casual encounters is new territory for many women.

Well - intentioned, competently shot and put together, solidly acted, especially by tomorrow's superstar Jacob Lofland (who we'd call a revelation if he hadn't already impressed us so much as Neckbone in Jeff Nichols» «Mud»), and unafraid to swim in the traditionally shark - infested thematic waters of the American class system, the film nonetheless can't quite slip the «seen it before» noose.

«Creation» is not a picture that reloads the gun, sharpens the nails, or freshens the noose; it's a sensitive portrait of a controversial figure, meant to strip away over a century of accusation and condemnation, returning Darwin's essence back to its original home of trembling doubt.

Scraggly, suicidal Hank (Paul Dano) is all noosed up and ready to go on his speck of a remote island when, along the beach, he sees a limp body buffeted by the waves (Daniel Radcliffe, taking on a role that gets progressively weirder).

The plot revolves around a high school production of a play called» The Gallows» which, when premiered in the same auditorium twenty years earlier, ended in disaster when a student accidentally hanged himself on the prop noose.

You still need to be in a cinema or watching a home cinema's large screen to register all the details of the horrifying scene in which Chiwetel Ejiofor's Solomon is choking in a noose, his feet barely touching the ground, as fellow slaves go about their business, children play games and captors watch from a distance.

«Kick - Ass 2» added character posters for Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, Chloe Moretz, and Jim Carrey while James Wan's «The Conjuring» got its very first design, rocking an unsettling shot of a seemingly empty noose.