Sentences with phrase «old saws about»

In the years since, research has rendered many of those old saws about arson obsolete and raised questions about the validity of the many convictions to which they contributed.

It could surely be worse, but there is this feeling that it is really not what we were «meant» to be doing and old saws about «On their deathbeds, no one ever says I wish I spent more time in the office,» or «you don't want to be the richest man in the graveyard,» or «Do what you love, the money will follow» ping around my head from time to time and make me wonder if this is currently a bad plan.

There's also the old saw about not messing with a good thing.

Dr. Curry has leaped directly to a variant of the last line in the old saw about project phases.

The story is the old saw about a blonde white woman who is raised from infancy by a savage jungle tribe.

Now and again, however, the film manages to tread, if not break, new ground as it recycles that old saw about an adversarial boy and girl who fall for their own love charade as they attempt to make former sweethearts jealous.

Maybe the real lesson of «T2» is the old saw about things staying the same the more they change.

We know the old saw about vanity publishers.

You know the old saw about all those monkeys and all those typewriters... well, that's probably the way two writers's works wind up with the same plot points once in awhile.

The old saw about 10 % inspiration / 90 % perspiration is 100 % true.

I say almost because the old saw about not being respected in your home must be true.

The old saw about the fastest way to up your tennis game is to challenge someone who always beats you hold true here.

In your analysis of «experts» I kept hearing that old saw about how it's time to get out of the market when the crowds are rushing in.

The old saw about «dogs will work it out themselves» does not apply here.

Then, when the very first criticism of McIntyre and McKitrick is the old saw about a lack of peer - reviewed papers, I realize I am dealing with someone whose opinion of my intelligence is so low he expects me to ignore one of the very things revealed by those allegedly stolen e-mails: namely, the extent to which the fix was in to rig the peer - review process against the publication of papers critical of AGW.

I'm reminded of the old saw about the man who goes to the doctor and says, «Doctor, it hurts when I do this!»

Forget the old saw about licenses.

That old saw about putting a name to a face is not just an old wives tale.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The 9.7 - inch iPad Pro was the only version unveiled last year, meaning the tablets Apple is selling now are about two years old — a lifetime in a tablet market that typically sees component upgrades each year.

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).

About a decade later, I ran into an old friend — someone who had helped me prepare for the Supreme Court interview, whom I hadn't seen in years.

He's discovered how much ankle I like to show (just enough to see the pattern on my socks), diagnosed an old shoulder injury («Your right shoulder slopes about a half - inch more than your left») and beheld my dismay at learning that my waist is actually four inches rounder than I'd believed.

What's that old saying about throwing excrement at the wall and see what sticks?

But all that most people saw when they looked at the magazine cover was a fully - clothed boy of about four or five years old standing on a chair to breastfeed.

Munger, sitting in the reading room of his L.A. home — the 88 - year - old is currently enjoying a biography of Deng Xiaoping — ticks off a lot to like about See's from a management perspective.

Some politicians find polling to be a little old fashioned, so they're using big data to see what the public thinks about them.

The viewers «clearly recognized the themes Forbes was talking about and saw the applicability for any level of service enterprise,» says Galford, a principal of Impact Planning Group, based in Old Greenwich, Conn..

«This deposition and investigation are about better understanding the dramatic price increases we're seeing for decades old prescription drugs and how those prices are affecting consumers — and we're committed to being thorough in that pursuit.»

«They want to physically give it to their two - year - old and let them chew on it and see how they feel about it,» says Chae about the bloggers.

Their goal was to make marginally more correct decisions than their competitors, in the long haul, and to do so they implemented an analytically rigorous system that not only processed all of the bleeding edge metrics they could find or create, but also heavily incorporated data from old fashioned sources: scouts, who could see things about a player's potential and character that numbers couldn't.

Bricklin got together with an old friend, Bob Frankston, who knew more about programming, and the two started a company called Software Arts Inc. (See «Software Arts wrote the first best - seller,» page 71.)

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Greenleaf's book is now about 30 years old, but in it you see a depth and rootedness that most writing in this genre lacks.

In December, the Times reports, Cohen saw a news story about Putin praising Trump and emailed his old friend (apparently Sater) «Now is the time... Call me.»

If the old campaign is a look back on a life well - lived, this is much more about... you're seeing his life unfold in real time,» Andrew Katz, Heineken USA's VP - marketing for Dos Equis told the publication.

What followed was the introduction of the Graph API, which was the means by which Facebook would facilitate the data exchange, and as you can see on an old Facebook developer page, Facebook was willing to give away just about everything:

The nearly century - old American Civil Liberties Union and its foundations raised about $ 146 million last year, and they're seeing record donations this year, with support from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Lyft Inc. and other companies.

The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»

If it's on the news, it's old news — If you see some big story about a company on the nightly news, rest assured that the professionals knew about it yesterday, and you've already missed that boat.

Hi I am a 22 year old Healthcare Admin graduate with $ 6k in savings and about 15k in student debt (which i didn't start paying back yet seeing as I'm going for my masters) I make about 4k a month and live at my parents house rent / bill free.

Or, surely, you have the seen the sad tales on television about older workers who are suddenly «let go».

The old ladies at my bible study group didn't have a problem talking about anal sex, so I don't see w hy you do.

Could it be she misses a time when even a fightin» Bob, even one acquainted with the roughness of Weird Old America as recorded in folk - song, might be a tad hesitant (see Songbook # 8) about sayin» «I hope that you die» and such?

And that in response to what I have said about knowing our part in the kingdom, trusting God for justice and the privelidge it is to be part of that, you see different roles for the husband and wife in the relationship, in that it requireds a huband to «woo» to use an old fashioned word, his wife by being sacrificual and that engendering in her the submission in a spirit of mutual submission.

I remember my Catholic grade school years and feeling the same way, like what if I didn't like hanging out with those people in robes and their sheep and those clouds... Fortunately I was able to see through the whole scam at about 8 years old.

It must be an old tradition though because allegedly Jesus made a comment about praying on street corners:» «And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.

oh well between Biill Mather and CNN members comments -LCB- see all hateful comments about the old Pope and the New Pope in your web) I will say than the Christians have all right to feel being persecute