Sentences with phrase «of bringing the house down»

Says Koons, «Hulk Elvis represents for me Western and Eastern culture, a sense of guardian, a protector, that at the same time is capable of bringing the house down.»

Hulk Elvis represents for me both Western and Eastern culture, a sense of a guardian, a protector, that at the same time is capable of bringing the house down.

Not exact matches

Jeffrey Ma was a key player toward the end of the team's run, and is the basis for the lead characters in both Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House and the 2008 film adaptation, 21.

CPG is the perfect example: building a «house of brands» allows a company like Procter & Gamble to target demographic groups even as they leverage scale to invest in R&D, bring down the cost of products, and most importantly, dominate the distribution channel (i.e. retail shelf space).

My suspicion is that the government realized that CEFC was a house of cards, and the financial strains of the Rosneft acquisition would bring the house tumbling down.

But it's also because Waymo, unlike its competitors, is building both its own hardware and software in - house, and has come up with a proprietary design that it believes can bring down the cost of LIDAR immensely, with a possibility of selling that to automakers and other players.

With 2016 winding down and a new administration heading to the White House in January, much of the country is waiting to see what the new era will bring.

For while this House may be dragged down by dispiriting words and accusations, it is brought lowest by the talking point and the use of precious time and adult human beings in business attire to convey scripted banalities.

This led to the government mooting the idea of not bringing the clause back through the House of Commons, which partial climb - down became formal policy the day after the Pope's words.

And they say: We will not put faith in thee till thou cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us; Or thou have a garden of date - palms and grapes, and cause flyers to gush forth therein abundantly... Or thou have a house of gold; or thou ascend up into heaven, and even then we will put no faith in thine ascension till thou bring down for us a book that we can read.

They may not yet be on par with intellectually high sided political vocalists yet give them a chance to understand their predicaments and they just may bring down the house of cards that many politicians read from.Bot parties have card weilding politicians knowing what to say by their card readings.

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I think it's the loss of faith that's bringing down the house.

Yes, I almost fell over and no matter what kind of chaos was going round our disheveled house, it was in no way going to bring me down.

The next time I saw M, he was about to eat the last muffin, then said, maybe I'll bring this home to K. She's kind of down and in a bad mood today, and when I left the house, I told her if I found something to cheer her up, I would bring it back.»

Those back - to - back birdies put him in a share of the lead with Corey Conners, and he burned the edge on a third straight birdie chance that should have put him in solo first and brought the house down.

Lance was supposed to be both the club - house leader and the shut - down defensive specialist, but honestly, on the latter point, there are better players, most of whom bring more to the table offensively.

Would love alexis to give a repeat performance of his good form against man u and another hattrick from him would surely bring the house down at the emirates!

Once, in the middle of his routine with the Harlem Globetrotters, in St. Louis, he inadvertently mooned the audience and brought down the house.

Now sporting $ 150 worth of knee braces, Erving seems as mobile as ever, soaring up for his dazzling stuffs and bringing down the house.

She can come up with a passable Howard Cosell or Cary Grant, but, if pressed, will bring the house down with her version of Edith Bunker singing Those Were the Days.

After getting the treatment from Russell Westbrook earlier in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals, Cory Joseph, the seldom used Spurs point guard, brought down the house with this dunk over Serge Ibaka.

Organisers will hope Mo Farah brings the house down in the final event of the two - day meeting.

Ultimately, we may start the season well, thanks to the form, experience and ability of the top players at the club, but injuries in the wrong place (an inevitability) could bring the house crashing down.

Child proofing your house needs you to bring down to the level of a crawling baby to assess the areas and substances from which he needs to be protected.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney brought the house down with a speech about the success of women under President Obama.

The US publisher of an explosive new book exposing chaos behind the scenes at the White House has brought publication forward to Friday in defiance of an attempt by Donald Trump's lawyers to try to shut it down.

«They seem to have this notion that they can be a majority party, and have control of the White House, and not be responsible for bringing down the health care system,» said Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois.

The alternative is a car - dependent, exurban sprawl disfiguring our towns and villages, worsening climate change, leeching cities into wilderness, and doing nothing to bring down the cost of housing.

«The magnitude of it can't be described, we have about 152 houses brought down it was both rain and windstorm.

A high - rise residential building that had been slated for Sherman Ave. and Broadway as part of the first individual project proposed under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing plan was brought down by community advocates who protested throughout the summer and ultimately prevailed with City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

«I think that he should be given the authority to have a negotiation and then bring it back to the House and then all of us can vote up and down whether we approve,» Mr. Meeks said.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same federal prosecutor who brought down the leaders of the legislature, has been investigating, and on Friday evening Governor Cuomo revealed that subpoenas had been issued to a former top member of his staff, and a lobbyist who used to work for the governor when Cuomo was at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

His idea of offering Nick Boles as a hostage to the Lib Dems during particularly fraught Coalition negotiations brought the house down.

The ten - year plan for bringing down the peace walls forms part of a broader social integration package featuring measures on shared schools and housing, as well as a surge on regeneration projects.

Because the EU makes the consequences of a veto so severe that it brings the whole house crashing down.

Hunkuyi, in a mesage on his twitter account, accused the governor of personally driving the bulldozer which brought down his house.

Members of Indiana's Congressional delegation are reacting to a Congressional report which says the House GOP Health Care would bring down the deficit, but also leave millions of Americans without insurance.

Apparently, he really brought down the house at a recent Latino Heritage Celebration hosted at the HQ of Teamsters Local 237.

Lib Dems sources reckoned that Farron had «brought the house down» with this line — and a number of social media users agreed.

In his piece of April 16, 2018, titled «Adebanjo: Not my progressive — In Touch» in The Nation newspaper, Omatseye continued his employer's noxious agenda to bring down the House that Obafemi Awolowo built.

The Florida House seems intent on bringing the state supreme court down a few pegs after a series of stinging courtroom defeats.

Instead this week he brought the House down, with his quip about the «prime minister's remarkable transformation in the last few weeks from Stalin to Mr Bean, creating chaos out of order rather than order out of chaos».

See the progress from beginning until now with my roundup posts by month: Our Home Reno: All the Details Demolition Days December Updates January Progress Bring it on February I've been kicked out of daily drop - ins to the house for the past FIVE days and I am still having withdrawals... our first round of hardwood floor stain went down late last week, so we are having to let them finish everything before we return and it is...

They brought the house down with their medley of their two songs.

But earlier this year, the Italian house acknowledged it was ready for a revamp: The 74 - year - old Cavalli stepped down in March, bringing in Peter Dundas — a former chief designer at Cavalli who'd served as artistic director of Emilio Pucci since 2008 — as creative director.

Jolting narrative ellipses sometimes threatens to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down.

There's something magical about seeing a packed house of 300 Taveuni locals laugh equally uproariously, and, without a nanosecond's worth of culture shock, at Queen Latifah in «Bringing Down the House» and Buster Keaton in «Steamboat Bill, Jr..&rhouse of 300 Taveuni locals laugh equally uproariously, and, without a nanosecond's worth of culture shock, at Queen Latifah in «Bringing Down the House» and Buster Keaton in «Steamboat Bill, Jr..&rHouse» and Buster Keaton in «Steamboat Bill, Jr..»

Under the incompetent leadership of Jeff's delusional pal Shawn Eckardt (Paul Walter Hauser), hired goon Shane Stant (Ricky Russert) physically attacks Kerrigan, an action that brings down a house of cards around Tonya and company.

As the Y chromosome corner of the kids» love triangle, the angel - faced Eddie Redmayne uses his Cambridge choir tenor to great effect, bringing the house down, everyone in a teary heap in the basement, during the show's most affectingly written song, the mournful «Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.»