Sentences with phrase «over fist by»

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And so, whether we're getting dinged by a «system access» fee or our flight is overbooked or our hydro is interrupted without compensation, we have no choice but to shake our fists skyward in mute rage and then maybe lash out at a conveniently sullen barista to restore our sense of dominion over commerce.

I will never forget watching him stand calmly by the trader's desk buying stocks hand over fist in the crash of «87.

The reports were startling: people made money hand over fist to contribute to the church, creative ministries were hatched, lives were transformed, people wept for joy — and it was all covered by NBC's Dateline.

Aside from a few more shares still owned by his father, Asher now rules over his candy empire with a chocolate fist.

Since my mother ruled over our kitchen with an iron fist — loving as it was — and hawk's eye, I could scarcely bake a potato properly by the time I had a dingy dorm kitchen of my own.

When the dough has doubled in size, gently deflate the dough by pressing your fist into the ball, then fold over the sides of the ball to form it into a new ball, and put back into the mixing bowl.

In the quarterfinals of the»86 World Cup, he scored the first of his two goals in a 2 - 1 win over England by knocking in the ball with his fist, instead of his head.

In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill during an election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes Committee to the Rules Committee, which is controlled with an iron fist by the leadership.

Late in the afternoon, after the second practice of the day was over, we would often all traipse over to the house were he was staying and watch Enter the Dragon or Fist of Fury and drink coffee prepared by his wife, Amma.

► A gorilla grows quickly to about 20 feet, roaring into the camera and beating his chest until sanctuary staff place him in a cage; he becomes angry and breaks out, smashing walls, doors, windows and equipment, jumps over a building and into the street, smashing an SUV with his fists, and a man points a tranquilizer rifle but does not shoot; police cars cut the animal off as a helicopter with armed men flies by and they shoot the gorilla with large tranquilizer darts (the gorilla collapses, unconscious).

Per Showtime's official synopsis: ««I'm Dying Up Here» delves into the inspired, damaged and complicated psyches of a fictional group of competitive but close - knit comedians mentored by Goldie (Leo), a brassy comedy club owner who rules over her business with an iron fist but nurtures her comedians with tough love.

The Citadel is ruled over by Immortan Joe with a mighty fist, as he controls the water and greenery and makes the people beg outside in the dirt.

The «70s - set, stand - up comedy - centric series «delves into the inspired, damaged and complicated psyches of a fictional group of competitive but close - knit comedians mentored by Goldie (Melissa Leo), a brassy comedy club owner who rules over her business with an iron fist but nurtures her comedians with tough love,» per Showtime's synopsis.

He spends nearly 14 years in this coma after his fight to death with an evil Nazi scientist however it turns out that during his disappearance, the world has been taken over by the Nazis who have now started to rule it with an iron fist.

: drool ever since my very fist notion of e-ink (i believe it was still called e-paper and not even in mass production yet) I've been infatuated by the wonderfull technology that would allow me to not break my back over my book + backup book if my other was almost finished

It could be an hour ago, it could even be a day, and for all he knows, today might be tomorrow; except that if he had lain there for a day, surely either Walter would have come and killed him, for being in the way, or his wounds would have clotted a bit, and by now he would be hurting all over and almost too stiff to move; from deep experience of Walter's fists and boots, he knows that the second day can be worse than the first.

Their model, which is shared by a lot of rappers these days, doesn't work for everyone, but they're trying something that was unheard of back when the music industry was making money hand over fist.

«The market was horribly distorted by this strike and Valero was losing money hand over fist.»

I will never forget watching him stand calmly by the trader's desk buying stocks hand over fist in the crash of «87.

The controllers were also a source of breakage because of the way they could be gripped by a player holding it with their fist, allowing players to get carried away and over control, which was less likely with other systems released at the time, such as the Odyssey 2, which had controllers that were nearly half its size.

Melgaard's schizophrenic accumulations of vulgar ephemera might evoke the installations of Thomas Hirschhorn — that is, if Hirschhorn's papery images of war - ravaged, blown - apart bodies and Hellraiser - like mannequins were replaced by cum - dripping penises and self - fisting platypuses; that is, if Hirschhorn were in fact not a heterosexual Swiss man but a sexy, hairy, Australian - born Norwegian gay guy hell - bent, in the abject tradition of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, on figuratively shitting all over mainstream culture.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).

«These people,» says Rucker, «need cheap, reliable, abundant energy and the infrastructure it can support, in order to climb out of abject poverty, lengthen life spans grossly shortened by disease and malnutrition, and terminate the tyranny of neo-colonialists who, in the name of «preventing climate change,» continue to rule over them with iron fists.»