Sentences with phrase «one's stock in trade»

It's becoming increasingly difficult for law firms — whose stock in trade is limited to legal expertise — to compete with their in - house counterparts.

Books and journals therefore are stock in trade in theological education and comprise almost the entire collection of most theological libraries.

The insurance agents most important stock in trade is a source of good reliable insurance leads.

Section 2 (2) claims are similar except that only those vehicles forming part of business stock in trade are covered.

While there is almost universal agreement that the overall impact of a trade war is negative, market action suggests the hunt for the right stocks in a trade war has begun.

The difference then is that the underlying stock in my trade doesn't have to change in price and even gives me a cushion before I don't take a full profit.

No story is less like news than my current stock in trade, global warming.

Shaky camera work, calculated jump scares, and cheesy special effects have all but become stock in trade for this genre of filmmaking that's left audiences numb from overexposure and unoriginality.

Jong's stock in trade as a writer and a cultural observer has always been to provoke outrage via the outrageous.

This kind of troubled, worldly, yet surprisingly ebullient character became Shirley MacLaine's stock in trade throughout the late»50s and early»60s, in films like Some Came Running and Two For The Seesaw.

Poets really specialize in linguistic intelligence, but any kind of writer, orator, speaker, lawyer, or a person for whom language is an important stock in trade highlights linguistic intelligences.»

McLaren insiders make a point of calling the 570S a sports car, as distinct from the supercars that have been its previous stock in trade.

While Ferrari's primary stock in trade is its ultra smooth and uber raucous V12s, the company does dabble in V8s as well.

But knowledge of the law and procedure — our traditional stock in trade and the thing that for centuries has conferred on us the stature of a «learned profession» — is no longer enough.

Threats of ever rising sea levels are stock in trade for the climate mafia, yet when we look at actual tidal gauge records, we see nothing other than a gradual rise, going back to the 19thC.

How should one respond to writers such as Paul Ehrlich whose stock in trade is reckless hyperbole and outright prevarication?

Meanwhile, «Mystery of Love» came closest to being an indie update on the romantic balladry that has been the category's stock in trade in decades past, but obviously, a love song is not just a love song when it's representing for «Call Me By Your Name.»

Claims under s 2 (1) can be made in respect of a building (together with property within the building, its curtilage or land used for the purposes of a claimant's business) or a motor vehicle specified in the Schedule (ie vehicles either not insured for riot damage or those exempt from insurance requirement, vehicles not used or kept on a public road or those which are part of business stock in trade).

There's a depth of reporting here that suggests he took this assignment personally, and he makes a compelling argument that the interests of a publicly traded corporation and a Wall Street culture hell - bent on wringing every last efficiency from a business aren't compatible with the stock in trade of the journalism industry — reporting that earns and safeguards the public trust.

Don's stock in trade is deception — in his messy personal life, for sure (he's not only a hounddog; he's literally living another man's life), but also in business.

The stock in trade of this award - winning 1960s ad industry TV drama is moral ambiguity, perhaps as much of a hook as the smoking and drinking and skirt - chasing that titillate the show's audience.

Keller's stock in trade, he says, was the expertise he'd picked up in the Navy about satellite - based global information systems, which allows him to survey land sites virtually anywhere in the U.S. «I wanted to expand and do more things,» he says.

Insulting social conventionHas been your stock in trade, But I doubt you'll be forgivenThe scandal you've now made.

I can see that the «unconditional» version is Jesus» stock in trade, and his great contribution and enduring, fresh - as - a-daisy legacy (among others) was to introduce, understand, promote, live by, and die by, that.

These endless episodes of manufactured outrage are but the flipside of political correctness and the invented grievances that are their stock in trade.

The Pynchonesque paranoid style is clinical and detached, whereas King's is defiantly fleshly: His stock in trade is menstrual blood and diarrhea, vomit and dismemberment.

The personal attack remains Brock's stock in trade.

Delusion is their stock in trade...

The PDP while describing as false and unjustifiable the claim by Jide Awe said it showed that the APC is made up of people who lack integrity and have chosen lies to be their stock in trade.

Indeed, that is their stock in trade and they are masters at it.

Addressing a rally of NDC supporters in Kumasi on Saturday, Koku Anyidoho stated that Dr Bawumia is a dishonest politician who has made lying his stock in trade and should not be rewarded with the second most highest office of the land.

The stock in trade of any journalist is nuance of language.

«The PDP is known for spurious allegations and their stock in trade is violence.

«Hard as they (PDP) tried, they can not say that Governor Obaseki allocated any sum to himself, his family or his political party, as is the stock in trade of the PDP.

He only referred to detractors who have made it their stock in trade never to acknowledge the good works of this government but resort to deliberate cynicism, unfounded pessimism and outright calumny to create the impression of a collapsed state,» the statement said.

The incessant accusations of deep seated internal corruption, unrest, bickering, violent clashes, lawlessness and brutal killings that have been their stock in trade for over a year now has greatly diminished the NPP's brand.

Also; «It never ceases to amaze me that childish abuse of us is the stock in trade for those that disagree with UKIP.»

It never ceases to amaze me that childish abuse of us is the stock in trade for those that disagree with UKIP.

As a new prime minister, he used «the u-turn'to neutralise bad news with such frequency and confidence, it became a stock in trade.

These are times when the public space is populated by paid agents provocateurs whose stock in trade is to grand...

I think he did it because that's his stock in trade: He's a Clinton Democrat.

«Typical of their stock in trade, manipulators and twisters of statements of Mr President, who lie in wait to make mischief, interpreted the comment to mean that President Buhari had taken all Nigerian youths to the cleaners.