Sentences with phrase «on pulling the wool over our eyes»

Instead of trying to come up with safe ways to serve food they would rather spend money on pulling the wool over our eyes or using the political system give us no choice in the matter.

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Gay agenda is just that the gat agenda, not the rest of society unless they let the wool be pulled over their eyes on what normal is.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

lets all thank arsene for finally doing the right thing only time will tell but have we finally signed the DM we need STRONG MINDED NO HOLD BAR MIDFIELDER WE HAVE ALL CRAVED, but lets take it back we all know it will take 2 or 3 more like minded players to make us great again, he has tricked us all buy buying one superstar in the last 3 windows ALEXIS, OZIL and CHEC great players but can't do it all on their own, spending huge amount of money and saying we can buy the best players, on the surface this looks great we are buying top top players big prices but instead of spending his usual 50 mill on 2, 3, 4, 0r 5 players he has pulled the wool over are eyes with 1 superstar thinking the fans are that dumb enough to believe it, infact he has never spent his budget only balanced on sales too purchases, i love arsenal but this summer i hope for more he needs to do that consistently through out the team spend the same amount on the team stop balancing the american owners, grow a pair say yes we will buy a top defender and a world class striker, stan we love arsenal please be one of us do whats needed then you will fell proud as we are and we will adore you for it.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

I'd also love that — a «reality cam» with freedom to roam and to record everything including what goes on behind the corporate veil, telephone calls, associations, the lot would help fans to know who it is that's sincere and credible from who seeks to pull the wool over our eyes.

like I've said before, Wenger is simply stating that Sanchez is staying so that he can regain some leverage when it comes time to make a deal and to shift the focus back squarely on Sanchez... this is 101 tactics in PR management... the very fact that he even mentioned RVP's name speaks to the utterance arrogance of a man that believes he answers to no one... before you harshly judge Sanchez think carefully about what the ultimate intentions of both parties involved... Sanchez wants to win trophies and get paid generously for his efforts, whereas the club wants to pull the wool over our eyes once again so that we blame the player for wanting the very things we told him we wanted when we brought him in... how many times do we have to go down this road before we realize the only common factor in each of these scenarios is the club itself... trust me, if we showed any ambition Sanchez's contract demands would be much different... just like in other major sports players will take a «home town» discount if they see those in charge making a truly honest attempt to fight for the highest honours in their respective fields... that being said, if they see a team trying to make disparaging remarks about them in the press and not following through on their promises, they will likely try to make them pay a premium for their services or seek greener pastures... btw if anyone simply looks at the score versus Bayern today and thinks that even for a second that this was a deserved victory, just watch the game and judge for yourself... actually save yourself the anguish and just know that if it weren't for Cech and Martinez this could have been a repeat of our Champions League flopping or worse

Not one to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, Henci lets the reader in on her whole thinking process, providing scientific references, summaries of the articles, and logical recommendations — all in a highly readable, user - friendly format.»

What are your thoughts on this — companies trying to pull the wool over the eyes of unsuspecting public again?

Luckily, my daughter hasn't really caught on to the fact that a lot of the boxes in the mail contain presents for her, and it's still pretty easy to pull the wool over her eyes.

He highlights the most important things to look out for before signing a contract which doesn't require a degree in law or applied mathematics in order to understand and goes on to show how publishers can pull the wool over your eyes in any number of ways with excessive printer markups, royalties that sound too good to be true, and not releasing production files without a fee should you decide to end the contract.

It's possible to pull the wool over the auditors» eyes, because most of them are totally and completely ignorant of the basics of GAAP as it applies to publishers, much less FASB regs on publishing, but in general, very few of the large publishers have any intentional irregularities.

Luckily most people are very weak mathematically so the wool can be pulled over their eyes easily (I include most MBAs here since the level of mathematics involved is a joke - start talking about autoregressive moving - average models over generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic processes and see their eyes glaze over and then hit them with the money pitch on why our particular high - frequency strategy can volatiltiy pump - more nonsense - and sign»em up).

They apparently want to see how much they can pull the wool over our eyes before we actually impact their bottom line by trying to accrue miles anywhere but on Delta.

Instead of focusing on developing solutions the robber barons continue to pull the wool over the eyes of the masses spreading doubt just like the cigarette makers spread doubt about the deadly health affects of smoking cigarettes.

Seriously, this group has either got to be outright stupid, or active participants in an on - going criminal enterprise intended to not only defraud the planet, but to also pull the wool over peoples eyes by diversion of reality.

When they go on to charactereize the entire debate as the skeptics pulling the wool over the public's eyes on behalf of the oil industry, Pulleeze!

I, as much as the next person, gain no thrill from viewing twisted, abusive videos, but there is a growing concern that such a tool blocking us from seeing such content is like pulling wool over our eyes on what is really going on in the world.

But I do feel FindLaw pulled the wool over lawyers» eyes on this one and people commenting on peripheral issues to what FindLaw did are letting FindLaw off the hook.

Depending on who you're dealing with, people might try to pull the wool over your eyes using legal insurance terms.

Ten: CREA / Wayne has / have read REM on - line since its «his article appeared herein, but the truthful answers to the questions posed, if submitted herein on - line, would prove that CREA's / Wayne's claims within said article would be shown to amount to nothing more than a CREA - specific platitudinal polemic designed to further pull the wool over 85,000, more or less, pairs of industry related / dependant eyes across Canada.