Sentences with phrase «on benders for»

«I have been on benders for longer than the opening of the nominations and the start of the postal ballots,» he said.

The eye - patch wearing lawman looks as if he's been on a bender for years.

If you do get attacked by anything it usually results in you spinning on the spot, unable to really do anything while a series of clumsy sound effects attempt to emulate being attacked by something ferocious when really it sounds like you're being assaulted by Barney the Dinosaur after he's been on a bender for the weekend.

Not exact matches

On the flip side, if someone asks to bend your ear for 15 minutes over lunch, be open to sharing.

(Set aside for now the apparent hypocrisy implied by the fact that Hobby Lobby apparently invests some of its 401 (k) employee retirement plan's money in the pharmaceutical companies that produce the very contraceptives that Hobby Lobby is so hell - bent on avoiding paying for.)

Environmental advocates have lately been arguing the numbers don't really add up for more pipelines, based on slower growth in Asia and worldwide trends bending the curve downward on oil demand.

He also made T - shirts based on the controversy and even hosted a mock press conference in which he set up an apology for his treatment of the «nameless,» godlike» influencer, sarcastically admitting that he should have «bent over and taken that influence straight to the bank.»

Some stretches include making circular motions with each ankle clockwise and counter-clockwise or standing up in the aisle and bending at the waist to reach for your toes to stretch hamstrings or standing on one leg bending the opposite knee to bring the heel to your buttock and holding for 15 seconds while grabbing onto a seat for balance support.

He wants to compete to be the lead drummer in the competitive ensemble and study under Terence, an obsessive instructor who is hell - bent on winning competitions for the school.

We've all heard some version of this story from a newly married couple: «If I hadn't been on that business trip to London, bent over to pick up an umbrella, threw out my back, gone to the hospital for an X-ray and ran into her in the hospital cafeteria, we would never have met.

When Intuit and Apple separately approached her for collaborations in 2014, «we had a lot of pressure during both deals to bend on economics — including from our investors — but I didn't want to sign up for something we'd be losing money on, even if it gave us a huge amount of recognition.»

«We also hope that both sides can realize that being bent on assertiveness and provoking each other will only increase the risk of conflict and reduce room for policy maneuvers.

It would be foolish for Quebecor to do nothing in the face of such expectations, especially when the government is hell - bent on generating more wireless competition.

FORTUNE — Isn't it ironic that the government agency responsible for enforcing a whole host of disclosure rules seems hell - bent on hiding the details of its own actions from public view?

For a company as hell - bent on growth as Tims, the dip has caused some to ask whether the reign of the double - double is in trouble.

You have not seen this costume in a movie on film before, and for a comic book fan, it was mind bending.

But given the chance to elaborate on how far he is willing to bend in other areas the size of the deficit, whether it would exceed his previous $ 10 - billion threshold, moving up the budget timetable Trudeau would only say his government would put forward a budget that is «the right one for Canadians.»

A CEO that is willing to push for share repurchases when a company's stock has fallen rather than acquire another business is much more likely to create wealth than one who is bent on expanding the empire.

It's too easy for me to fall off the wagon and go on a bender.

Summing up the whole fraught affair for Fortune, Mathew Ingram compares Gannett and Tribune to two dinosaurs bent on gobbling up their foe in the shadow of disaster.

Finding others who you can rely on for collaboration isn't just building a group of thinkers bent on talking about «the business» all the time.

Financial conditions were apparently benign — save for the fact that the Federal Reserve, under the charge of newly installed Chairman Alan Greenspan, appeared bent on raising interest rates, which induced a steep rise in Treasury yields.

You may inflate your way out of your debt problem but you're not going to grow your way out of the debt problem, so let's get behind that and if the dollar got too strong then the impotence from the white house would be to have more tariffs because they are hell bent on shrinking this trade deficit so when Kudlow discusses that, he ought to be very careful about where he is going because this white house, Peter Navarro and Wilbert Ross will push for a weaker dollar because a weaker dollar is Mnuchin and Wilbert Ross both said in Davos, is sending soldiers to the ramparts in the trade war that exists every day.

It won't help to take on high - cost debt from a credit card or home equity line just to pay for a broken crown or bent fender.

As you round the bend toward retirement, it's not a good idea to take on any more investment risk than necessary for your time frame, financial circumstances, and risk tolerance.

While volunteers began to poke the guests awake, collect the mats, and fix the coffee for the breakfast line, the smoke rose from first cigarettes, and one large man groaned off the floor, breath harsh, a map of beet - red lines high on his cheeks» he strains but can not bend enough to reach his feet.

They were prideful, fearful men, bent on making life miserable not only for those who fell short of following God's law to the extent that they did, but also for Jesus.

The transparent contempt for the teachings of the Church, and the intention of creating dissident «Catholic» organizations bent on defeating (and if possible, changing) those teachings, are impossible to miss.

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

If you make the argument that God must be responsible for Creation, you imply, at the same time, that your God is also an amateurish buffoon bent on destruction.

The FHTM legal team is so bent on blaming Mr. Isaacs for every negative comment or complaint made against them anywhere that they are blinded by the fact that others despise them as well of not more than he ever did.

Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out with friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I know I need to stay away from certain «religious» people, those who seem to love only themselves and who seem hell - bent on being nasty to people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.

Assistant Professor of Social Work, Barb Burdge, published an essay in July on the importance of social workers undermining the alleged «social construct» of gender.In «Bending gender, ending gender: theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community,» Burdge asserts that social workers must reject «a dichotomous understanding of gender» in favor of «more accurate and affirming conceptualizations of gender.»

However, because we are human, and have defied much of the natural order of things, you are correct, we have been on a grossly steeply climbing overpopulation bender for far too long.

who becomes the strange vehicle of salvation for a poor blind girl, and for a rich man bent on drowning himself.

Employers have the right to impose certain mandates on employees when it is important to the job they were hired to do; they should not be expected to bend the rules for some who don't want to be bound by those expectations and requirements.

What is not visible are shameful secrets: Child sex abuse scandals have been making headlines for years and bringing unwanted attention to a group bent on privacy.

For, when the Good took up its place at the goal where the reward beckons or where the Good itself beckons to a man, the Good against its will would then be forced to see and to put up with the fact that there were two paths, and two men bent on them; the one be-cause he willed the Good in truth, and humbly but gladly followed its beckoning; the other because fear drove him thence.

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

But one may be forgiven for thinking it is missing other words that might have avoided misunderstandings and would have made it more difficult for those bent on misrepresenting Catholic teaching.

This is not to say that practices ascetics engage in can not be entered into as tactics or methods: fasting, silence, vegetarianism, chanting, formal meditations, and celibacy, if freely entered into as methods (never as «good works» — for they are not such), may prove helpful for some people bent on self - purification or the unleashing of altered states of consciousness.

A woman bent on such full sexuality would have little or no time left over for babies and housekeeping, not to mention a job.

As sociology came to mean a weapon of aggression for some, others, bent on the defensive, wanted a «religious,» «Christian,» or «Protestant» sociology.

So I guess according to Limbaugh and his ilk's way of thinking The Christ was REALLY just a raving socialist / communist / marxist h $ ll bent on destroying the capitalistic, wildly unequal, and therefore «just», Roman Empire and the entire wealthy, powerful, and thus «successful», Jewish hierarchy because he was «jealous» of them and their «success» and so actually deserved to be put to death for it.

Atheism offers nothing to me, it never has and never will, it doesn't make me feel good or comfort me, it's not there for me when I'm sick or ill, it won't intervene in my times of need or protect me from hate, it doesn't care if I fail or succeed, it won't wipe the tears from my eyes, it does nothing when I have no where to run, it won't give me wise words or advice, it has no teaches for me to learn, it can't show me what's bad or nice, it's never inspired or excited anyone, it won't help me fulfill all my goals, it won't tell me to stop when I'm having fun, it's never saved one single soul, it doesn't take credit for everything I achieve, it won't make me get down on bended knee, it doesn't demand that I have to believe, it won't torture me for eternity, it won't teach me to hate or despise others, it won't tell me what's right or wrong, it can't tell nobody not to be lovers, it's told no one they don't belong, it won't make you think life is worth living, it has nothing to offer me, that's true, but the reason Atheism offers me nothing is because I've never asked it to, Atheism offers nothing because it doesn't need to, Religion promises everything because you want it to, You don't need a Religion or to have faith, You just want it because you need to feel safe, I want to feel reality and nothing more, Atheism offers me everything that Religion has stolen before.

Far from clear, however, is whether any of these hard - fought legal wins represents significant progress for citizens resisting the cultural forces bent on constricting the....

Kass is hard on contemporary philosophy, faulting it for its rationalistic bent, its failure, as he says, to deal with life on the ground.

Thou shalt not fight for Jesus Aggressive argument bent on winning and humiliating the opponent rather than bringing them over to your side is so unappealing.

1st of all if one is truly in line with Gods word, one does not need anyone to bend backwards, or depend on politics for Hope.

While well - organised, militarised groups are active on the ground, bent on driving out all those who do not agree with their vision of Islam, there will be no security for the region's Christians.