Sentences with phrase «other white elephant»

According to him, state governors today are busy building billion naira airports, government houses and other white elephant while their people live in abject poverty and squalor.

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The rattle bears the model number 80-184800 and has a purple elephant with yellow and blue ears at one end and a black and white plastic teething ring at the other end.

The other day I was standing in the gift shop at the National Museum of American History staring at the display of donkey - and elephant - branded merchandise when a stocky white guy in his mid-thirties came over and grabbed an armful of red GOP t - shirts and a large metal «Republican and Proud» plaque.

While Fayemi spent the bond money for infrastructure development of the state, including major roads, street lightening, school renovation, government lodge / office, a civic centre, the Ikogosi warm spring resort and Ire Burnt Bricks Company, among others; Fayose had opted for white elephant projects including an airport and a flyover.

Just the other day I told Susan Arbetter of The Capital Pressroom that SolarCity's losses have worsened and one industry analyst has declared the SolarCity project a «white elephant» in the making.

Writing for Francis Coppola's long - defunct City magazine in 1975, Farber, who showed some interest in Altman on other occasions, skewered Nashville for its snobbish contempt for country music and for its white elephant trappings: «an Airport (1970) or Grand Hotel (1932) structure pretentiously convoluted so that it is an epic poem about disillusioned Americans.»

While the internet hivemind celebrated the film's abysmal numbers — just desserts for a film that focuses on a generically pretty white boy and not the trans women of color who actually started the 1969 riot — they've largely overlooked the much bigger elephant in the room: namely, that Stonewall isn't all that different from all the other major LGBT theatrical releases.

The lodge is situated within a nature reserve and is home to thousands of wild of animals which include lions, black and white rhino, buffalo, elephant and cheetah, plus many other animals too.

After the show your group gets to feed the elephants before riding and / or trying our other activities such as white water rafting and cycling!

We provide various types of adventure tour or optional activities in Bali, ranging from rafting or white water rafting, cruise, or sailing, safari elephants, camels and horses, water adventures such as submarine, Watersport, and seawalker and other adventure activities.

Wildlife includes elephant, kudu, sable antelope, zebra, wildebeest, gemsbok, the rare and endangered roan antelope, buffalo, giraffe, white rhino, lion, leopard and hyena amongst others.

Have the EU Commission's digital single market proposals become something of a white elephant, with many being shelved and others stalled?

And last, of course, there is always the opportunity, if a seller should so choose, to sell that white elephant simply for a lower price, more in line with the other homes in the area.

The other reminds me of the bottom elephant in your stack of elephants only mine is stained a very dark brown and has white tusks.