Sentences with phrase «old line about»

Reminds me of Mark Twain's old line about travel writers who declare a city a fine place based on the fact that someone gave them a free cigar when they arrived.

Many accountants who don't have an aligned financial planning business have only a vague knowledge of ETFs and continue to stick to their old line about managed funds to mum and dad investors and SMSFs.

As road test editor Marc Noordeloos aptly pointed out, «This car reminds me of that old line about 911s: They always do exactly what you ask of them, even if it's the wrong thing.»

There's nothing dafter in politics than the old line about «it makes no difference».

He had better jokes, an old line about why he asks the questions («the clue's in the title») and won on the substance.

There's an old line about energetic midfielders that suits Leicester's Frenchman so much, you can buy it emblazoned on a t - shirt: «Two - thirds of the Earth is covered by water.

As a mirror image of a legal commodities business, the Sinaloa cartel brings to mind that old line about Ginger Rogers doing all the same moves as Fred Astaire, only backward and in heels.

«There's the old line about Canada being two nations warring in the bosom of a single state.

But he continued his tired analogy, just as Roberts and his ilk trot out the same old lines about oil - industry - funded - corporate - shills, the scale and the substance of the «scientific consensus», and of course, the equivalence of climate scepticism and conservatism, all of which, many times, have been shown to lack foundation.

Not exact matches

This gives the candidate better opportunities further down the line, and can result in a referral or some good old - fashioned positive word - of - mouth about your company.

Musk's comment was hardly surprising: Tesla Motors, and, indeed, everything about Musk, has been consistently packaged, presented, and explained as Silicon Valley come calling on old - line industries.

When people think about 3M, the 115 - year - old maker of Scotch Tape, they might not associate the old - line consumer goods manufacturer with electric cars.

SM is such a critical part of every business's business today that it really can't be left to the alleged professionals — hired guns at old - line agencies who generally know almost as little about this stuff as you do — or simply delegated to employees who have the attitude, aptitude, and interest in creating some of this.

He's broadened Aid - Pack's old product lines from 250 to about 750 products.

The bank offered a line worth 60 % of NetForce's monthly accounts receivable under 60 days old — about $ 200,000 on average.

But the console makers and third party publishers sound a lot like career politicians when they talk about walking the line between the old and new worlds.

It's like that old joke about outrunning the bear, or else that Henny Youngman line where he's asked how his wife is and replies, «Compared to what?»

On the other line: an investment banker with a juicy tip that chief rival America Online Inc. (AOL) was about to buy old - media giant Time Warner Inc., a deal that ultimately went through for $ 85 billion in stock.

In the age - old stereotypes about the business world, competition is always cutthroat, corners exist to be cut, companies are eternally at war with one another, and the bottom line is all that matters.

Having led Routehappy's seed round in 2012, we are excited about this individual deal, but we're also thrilled about the continued trend of aggressive, future - thinking acquisitions by old - line companies.

MarketWatch: The thing about power and change, to borrow a line from the band The Who, is that the new boss all too often is the same as the old boss.

Currently, about 8 percent of Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older live in poverty, and 13 percent of beneficiaries have incomes less than 125 percent of the poverty line.

I have never known a group of people so addicted to judging other people and finding lines in an old book to make them feel better about doing it.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

We live below the line of poverty while he brags about sipping 50 year old scotch on twitter and wining and dining his way through Hawaii and European vacations.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

For Protestants, though, seminary need not be about ministry; at some of the more - established old line institutions in the U.S., for example, only a minority of students actually enter active ministry after graduating.

Well, as it turns out he didn't even defend it with any kind of logic other than that old tired line about how agnostics shouldn't «sit on the fence», yada yada.

But old - line Protestants in the same congregation may not agree about who is considered a neighbor, or what it means to love your neighbor.

Tehranian cites the old line of the baby fish to the mother fish: «When am I going to see this water you talk about so much?»

In the end they really don't care about anything but «the old boy's club» and the bottom line.

A throwaway line in an Oxford Outlook article about the worship of the Virgin Mary provoked a response from Vivien Dayrell - Browning, a 19 - year - old secretary at Blackwell's.

Conservative evangelicals may think that old - line Christians are too concerned about philosophical grounding and about shaping Christian beliefs in light of that grounding.

There will always be the tired lines about how SNL isn't as good as it used to be, a complaint nearly as old as the show itself, if not older.

This time line is how we claim the earth is about 14 billion years old.

No, I wasted 5 hours listening to him rehash the same old and tired lines about why he believes and how everyone will burn in hell and how there is all this «real» scientific «evidence,» but the scientists and the media won't talk about it because they want us to turn against god.

Richards has proven divisive; a line in a New York Times article about her retirement states that, «Depending on whom you ask, the elegant 60 - year - old is a national «hero» or a «deeply evil woman» and «mass murderer.

I saw a picture of dead people lined up uncovered, including a little boy probably about 10 or 11 years old.

Spread them on a roasting sheet (I lined ours with foil because despite having a dishwasher these days, old must - create - fewer - dishes - at - all - times habits die hard) and roast for about 20 minutes, or until tender and browned.

I'm really excited about this latest Foods of the Moment post because it features some new to me products that have now become staples in my diet as well as some new additions of old product lines that I love!

By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more

He is banging on about how Coquelin is worth 40M so read between the lines no big names coming to Arsenal this summer.So Expect the same old crap again next year.

Da Costa declared that he had lined up Pereira as a possible successor to Villas - Boas «about a month» before the 33 year - old departed for Chelsea, and whilst there may be an element of exaggeration in what he said, there is little doubt that continuity is a prized commodity at the Dragão, on and off the pitch.

You only named mediocre players, decent at best.Exactly «the Arsenal calibre»... sad days... we can only dream about the recent past when crowds of world class players lined up to play for us.Can you imagine players of the stature of Henry, Bergkamp, Pires, Ljundberg, Reyes, Vieira, Overmars, Kanu, Anelka, Gilberto, Petit... joining Arsenal in today days?The Europe and world's cream of the cream was playing for our beloved team.Half of the team was world champion, the other half was European champion... so many stars, it was hard to chose a favorite player.Us... beating the mighty Real Madrid at Bernabeu with easy... try that today.Winning the title with a victory at Old Trafford - easy task... compare that with the 8 - 2 shame.So, when the recent memories bring an army of stars in front of your eyes... you are talking about... Willian, Sturridge and... Solanke?What a laughing stock we are, how embarrassing everything is!

While the French international has been strongly linked with a move to Old Trafford for several months now, the line coming from him has been that he is happy in the Spanish capital and isn't thinking about an exit.

Please, some lines are getting boring to read from we gooners - like when an article is about welbeck, then gooners come here to write «wenger is an old clueless fool for not buying kondogbia, manolas, vidal etc» the i used to ask is «can you tell me the relevance of this to the article» cos kondogbia is not a strike and we are discussing striker - welbeck.when the article is about the defence then the comments you read say the old useless wanker should have gone for cavani or draxler.

The pair could line - up alongside each other as Cazorla will be hoping his performances for the Gunners will earn him a start in Vicente del Bosque starting XI and the 30 - year - old has been speaking about playing in a more deeper midfield role for the national team:

Also notable... when we talk about «old staff» and «new staff»... I do think it does seems telling that 3 - out - of - 4 O - line coaches (Pat Ruel, Mule Jeanpierre, Brennan Carroll) are apparently staying put under new coach Solari.

The 36 - year - old Young hasn't been thrilled about San Francisco's neglect of the line in recent years.

you could have a point there My dear old dad was having radio therapy last summer and the guy who drove him to his appointments has a 15 year old son in the youth team who quiet freely stated that in the dressing room the rumour is that Theo has lost his bottle and does nt want to injured again.Thing is he was in my opinion NEVER really that good he is great if he has no time to think about his last touch but give him that extra second and he fluffs his lines continuously He is also really really lazy and he really looks like he just cant be bothered and AW giving him a contract extension AND wage increase just shows how far from reality the changing room has become.