Sentences with phrase «old saw of»

An old saw of journalism urges, «If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.»

This has been almost willfully misunderstood by some as rephrasing the old saw of What is American in American Art.

At the beginning of the year, Howey offered his advice for publishers which reminded me of an old saw of my Dad's, which was «when I was a kid, everybody wished their father owned a candy store.»

Consider that old saw of a dwarf actor enlisted for a surreal dream sequence in an art film (already definitively put out to pasture by Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion), here made «palatable» by having said little person be a bigoted prig given to hiring Dutch whores and frequenting Ray's drug - dealer love interest (Clémence Poésy).

In several areas, the Assembly's position is listed as «unknown,» suggesting that at least one old saw of Albany deal - making — that Mr. Silver plays his cards close even behind closed doors — holds true.

I would love for a Q defenseman to bust through the old saw of downgrade Q defensemen.

The other crimes of The Campaign involve its abandoning of political platforms too early and often to go back to old saws of Will Ferrell drunk, Will Ferrell doing Ron Burgundy, and Zach Galifianakis acting fey and peculiar.

Go read it; although it's brief, regurgitates all the old saws of the NGJ, and says odd things about how Americans rarely write NGJ, it is after all in the Sunday Times.

The old saws of climate alarmism getting increasingly desperate and intolerant in the face of contrary -LSB-...]

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The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

When it came to marketing, we often saw brands capitalizing on older adult's fear of life threatening situations, including a fall, loss of memory or motor skills, or other health related issues like a stroke or heart attack.

«I don't think you'll ever see us return to the Old MacDonald farm with pigs and chickens and cows like I grew up on,» Gerry Ritz, the new federal minister of agriculture once said.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

Because of this shift, older adults have started to see technology as more than just a safety net.

And yes, the shimmery, glimmery cranberry sauce I crave each November for precisely two meals a year — Thanksgiving dinner and the ritual post-Thanksgiving 10 p.m. white bread - turkey - cranberry sandwich — is composed of things that are almost surely antithetical to human health: Two of the four ingredients on most of the cans I've seen are high - fructose corn syrup and (plain old standard) corn syrup.

Most importantly among those of us who want to improve our lives and skills, the old introversion - extroversion concepts motivate us to see ourselves as static, justifying complacency, and blinding us to our potentials.

Some of our customers are conservative and they want to see BFR fly several times before they're comfortable launching in it, so what we plan to do is to build ahead, and have a stock of Falcon 9 and Dragon vehicles, so that customers can be comfortable if they want to use the old rocket, the old spacecraft, they can do that, we'll have a bunch in stock.

On the third floor of Fidelity Investments» Boston - based headquarters is a room that looks more like something you'd see at Apple or Google than at a 70 - year - old mutual fund firm.

These are just some of the latest, highest - priced fitness fads, yet the workouts seeing the most growth are actually some of the oldest around.

Gould, by contrast, created a thing of beauty by reinterpreting the baroque work of a German composer who was widely seen as a touch old - fashioned, even by his contemporaries.

But the 32 - year - old Bin Salman has also stunned onlookers, especially with the 2017 purge that saw the arrests of over 30 princes, businessmen, and government ministers.

Watch House of Cards (speaking of creeps...) or any old episode of Behind the Music, and the story about power you'll see is simple: a nice, ambitious person, once they can do whatever they want, is quickly transformed into a monster of appetite, running over anyone necessary to satisfy their newly created desires.

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

You can see edits in made in real time and you can revert back to older versions of the document at any time.

Too many investors saw something else: a return to the bad old days of aggressive currency manipulation, evidence that the Chinese economy was much weaker than thought, or both.

In an interview with Yahoo Style, the 29 - year - old model, who prefers the term «curvy» over «plus - size,» opened up about her disappointment in seeing a dearth of diverse bodies walking the runway at New York Fashion Week.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Mogo (TSX: GO) is part of a wave of so - called fintech companies that see themselves as disrupters of the stodgy old banks.

As he framed it, the real targets of the strategy here are parents (and older siblings), who will spend more time using Messenger — and seeing ads and conducting commerce there — if they can get their families together in one digital location.

Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

The corporation is in the midst of implementing a $ 2 - billion program to streamline sorting and delivery, which is why you've begun to see all those cute little letter - carrier vans on the streets in some cities instead of the clunky old delivery trucks.

These old patterns will only hold you back; let go of them and you'll see real changes in 2015!

Being old, I've seen a lot of stuff, and it is amazing — you forget how young these kids are.

In the beginning, the story in Animal Farm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owner.

Those who are living alone in retirement are most likely to see themselves working into old age, with 36 percent of those who are divorced or separated in the U.K. expecting to work indefinitely, compared to just 20 percent globally.

to a photo of an older woman with her grandson, figuring that they'd realize the mistake when they saw that his number wasn't in their contacts.

The old saw that «you can't manage what you can't measure» is surely a vast over generalization, but one that contains a kernel of truth.

He envisions younger generations enrolling less frequently in formal colleges having seen older siblings graduate with few job prospects and thousands of dollars in loans.

Even though these «up to 12 - hour transaction lead times» (when moving bitcoin to and from exchanges) could be adressed, Oldenburg sees no signs of change, because the currency is purportedly being run by the «old» bitcoin network, the members of which he calls «fanatical bitcoin talibans».

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

At the upper portion of the seat pouch is a padded flap that can be folded up to offer an infant neck support and used as a hood for sun shading or folded down to let the older baby see the world around him.

Founded in 1994 by a then 19 - year - old student, the organization has seen 22 years of double - digit growth thanks to its focus on customer service and innovation.

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

Or what if this guy you kind of see around at parties has an older brother who's the manager of an NGO and you're an over-eager unpaid intern at a charity who's looking for a way to eat something more than ramen noodles?

It's said that youth is wasted on the young, and I think a lot of the bashing millennials get is jealousy from those grown old who are seeing the best years behind them, while looking down the loaded barrels of living in an old folks home and learning to love BINGO.

Second, a witness told The New York Times that the older brother was lying in the street after the shootout when the younger one ran him over while fleeing police, but doctors didn't see signs of him being run over.

More than just new vehicles, expect to see a large number of devices that will take that slightly older car you have and make it smart as well.

When the free museum inside the Gateway Arch reopens on July 3, visitors will see some old favorites, such as the statue of Thomas Jefferson.

The nine - year - old company — a joint venture between Mississauga - based Mainline Elevators and DMG sPa, an Italian firm — has seen its client base of elevator contractors expand throughout North America, a market that contains about one million elevators in need of refurbishing.

Managers love to complain about the sense of entitlement, lack of respect for hierarchy, and frequent job - hopping they see in their young employees (make that young - ish — the oldest among them are entering their mid-30s today).