Sentences with phrase «opportunist take»

Opportunists take advantage of opportunities.

Not exact matches

He and Jesse and the lot are opportunist who will take advantage or any situation as long as they get camera time and money (although, Louis is both racist and antisemitic).

We will not and must not be either outraged critics or opportunists, but must take our share of responsibility for the moulding of history in every situation and at every moment, whether we are the victors or the vanquished.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Too bad Paul was basically the first Joseph Smith, an opportunist who saw the chance to take a fad and capitalize on it changing it's founders message into a new power structure designed to manipulate and control the ignorant masses.

To fulfill his pledges to the IOC, Putin has, as Nowak says, enlisted Russia's oligarchs, the opportunists who became billionaires during the collapse of the Soviet Union by taking over vast amounts of oil, gas and metals, reportedly gaining control of some 40 % of the country's GDP.

You could say Owen Coyle's men have been opportunists this season; taking full advantage of those who are vulnerable, whether it be through a lack of player quality or simply exposed form.

Former President John Mahama has taken swipe at some members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), describing them as people who are self - seeking opportunists whose main interest is to enrich themselves and their relatives.

Rick is simply an opportunist, and this booming opportunity has been handed to him by the banks through adjustable - rate mortgages, the federal government through lax regulations, and the needs (taking a reverse mortgage to cover hospital bills) and wants (adding an unnecessary but stylish patio to a house) of ordinary people.

In fact, Oskar Schindler (Neeson, Darkman) was an opportunist who saw the ability to make lots of money with the cheapest of labor during the war period, by taking Jews out of the German camps and employing them in his factory.

Castro, in this film, is designed to be an opportunist who doesn't trust Guevara, but idolizes him; «lifting» his best ideas and taking all the credit.

Just two weeks after an assailant took the lives of 17 victims at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Bruce Willis - starring, gun - toting revenge fantasy — a remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson film of the same name — champions vigilante justice and romanticizes gun violence in gleefully tone - deaf manner, one that only works in a deluded Trumpian analysis of America and opportunist justice.

Both these men are opportunists who took advantage of the young an naive band members.

I have in mind textbook publishers, test - makers, teacher unions, and political opportunists of every sort, lately and most prominently of the «tea party» persuasion, who will do and say anything to take down Obama and everything he's for.

So it isn't shocking that Ravitch debases herself further with a piece on her eponymous site on last week's massacre of 26 teachers and children in Newtown, Conn., that shows her to be the kind of intellectual opportunist that would take advantage of tragedy to score points.

I don't count «Gone With the Wind,» which romanticizes the domestic struggle at Tara as much as it does the relationship between Scarlett and Rhett, blames everything on the Union Army, and largely ignores the role played by Southern men out of uniform as opportunists, marauders, cheats and rapists who took advantage of Southern women, white as well as black.

Being an opportunist, Edward never took the Creed seriously outside of the «Everything's Permitted» clause.

As one of those agents, the player is tasked with taking back Manhattan from the opportunists who rose up during the crisis, as well as investigate the source of the virus and develop safeguards against it.

And that's what Andrew Revkin did, week in, week out: He took the words out of Michael Mann's mouth and served them up to impressionable readers of the New York Times and opportunist politicians around the world champing at the bit to inaugurate a vast global regulatory body to confiscate trillions of dollars of your hard - earned wealth in the cause of «saving the planet» from an imaginary crisis concocted by a few dozen thuggish ideologues.

So he is just a generalist, an opportunist ready to take any little piece of information that might support his narrow mindset, and try it on as a way of discomforting those of us who can't see how good the numbers are if only the people would behave properly?

But their consumerism (the 1 billion plus on the planet today) takes all forms via services rendered and purchases (whether that's a 10 bathroom villa, flying to London for the latest stars rock concert, or another new car, or buying $ 1 million in shares with their loose change to keep the tax free / low tax income coming in from shares and other special «investment» opportunists only they get offered.)

On the other hand, the deal - seeking opportunist in me wonders how to take advantage.

The internet might have connected us in more ways expected, but it also enabled opportunists to use this interconnectedness as a means to take part in illegal activities.

An opportunist from a young age, Trump managed to take advantage of economic downturns at the time by successfully bidding the use of one of his properties for the building of a city convention centre.