Sentences with phrase «of the nodding dogs»

Andy Burnham was one of the nodding dogs who would declare to TV cameras that the cabinet had every confidence in Gordon Brown when the reverse was the case.

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Then he nodded to me and pushed the plunger and I stroked the top of her head and the band of darker fur between her shoulder blades and I held my face close to her ear and whispered that she was a good dog and it was okay even though the last part was a lie.

I was reading along happily, scrolling down the page, nodding in agreement... and then I saw the photo of your dog.

Labour have silenced the few of their elected members with talent and the ability to speak plainly and honestly to the electorate and been left with a bunch of incompetent, corrupt nodding dogs on their front bench.

After ten years of doing the nodding - dog routine, they try to reinvent themselves as more radical,» he said.

He sits there looking at two nodding Lib - Dem dogs on the front bench and he's not one of them.

Modeled after Toshiro Mifune's towering performance in Akira Kurosawa's «High and Low» (the first of the film's many nods to Japan's most famous director), the villainous bureaucrat suggests relocating every single one of the dogs in Uni Prefecture to a place called Trash Island, starting with his own Short - Haired Oceanic Speckle - Eared Sport Hound, Spots.

Condon attempts to use metaphors for the significance of each act through a series of visuals of a virtual room of users, all of whom seem to be Assange himself, a nod to the fact that Assange was a chihuahua puffed up to try to look like a big dog through the creation of a bunch of alias sources claiming to be working for WikiLeaks.

by Bill Chambers Although it inspired the quintessential U.S. crime picture of the past decade, Ringo Lam's 1987 Hong Kong action - thriller City on Fire suffers in a freshly - Americanized form: Dubbed and revised dialogue does not Reservoir Dogs make it, and the few nods to western pop - culture induce groans.

Factor in the special performances by Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, and a game supporting cast (including a dog worthy of a Supporting nod), and the end result is a special little film.

There are also nods to well - known New Zealand works of the 1970s from the likes of Kiwi filmmakers Peter Weir (especially his zoom shots), Geoff Murphy (whose Goodbye Pork Pie inspired the car chase sequences) and Roger Donaldson (elements of his Sleeping Dogs are woven in here), as well as to classic Hollywood action films, from The Terminator to First Blood to The Fugitive to a catchphrase made popular by Michael Bay's Bad Boys 2.

Jointly leading the nominations with five each, are Naughty Dog's action - adventure survival horror title The Last of Us — receiving nods for Game of the Year, Best Design, Best Visual Art, Best Narrative and Best Technology — and Media Molecule's PlayStation Vita title Tearaway, which received acclaim throughout 2013 for its art style and its creative use of the PS Vita inputs and sensors, and which was nominated for awards including Innovation and Best Handheld / Mobile Game.

Body roll is pretty well contained and feels well matched with the grip afforded by the tyres, but the 320d does that nodding - dog trick that many diesels are afflicted with: the weight of the engine seems to gradually upset the damping until the front and rear ends seem to get out of phase with each other and the car feels a bit like an unbalanced dumb - bell.

Best of all, it has the nod of tens of thousands of happy dog owners.

Designed for one - handed operation at a price that's a steal, considering the different features put into its design, it's not surprising if the TaoTronics has the nod of many dog lovers out there.

With a nod to Bittman — and a little help from my friend Jojo Pera of Atlanta — I offer 20 dog treats that beat the heat.

The dog world nodded in the affirmative and said, Eleanor Candland, you have presented the 1992 United States Puppy of the Year.

Another North County dog handler, 68 - year - old Jean Rowe of Solana Beach, smiled and nodded toward the latest winded trainer to exit the course after running figure - eights beside her dog, pointing and shouting directional commands.

It is kind of neat to see the world of Aiden Pearce and Watch Dogs fleshed out a little bit with a special nod to someone that Ubisoft really likes.

The top dog in terms of games this year was Destiny, which came out as the winner in three categories («Best Console Game, Sony», «Best Action Game» and «Best Online Multiplayer Game»), while runners - up Titanfall, Mario Kart 8, and The Elder Scrolls Online followed with two nods each.

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