Sentences with phrase «own bogeyman»

Thanks to its humane response to the crisis, Suncor will be very hard to cram back into the caricature of a Big Oil bogeyman.

It unsettles IT guys, who fear the bogeyman of legacy integration (and may wonder what happens to their fiefdoms after the integration is complete).

Whether it was during the Let's Talk TV hearings last fall, where many Canadians said they wanted to be able to pay for only the channels they wanted, or the actual announcement of such rules, a spooky bogeyman has been invoked over and over.

To fall victim to such bogeymen comes across as undoubtedly more defensible than succumbing to weak or inept opponents.

There's no more bogeymen.»

The common thread that runs through all is the aim of deepening divides within countries that are members of NATO, Russia's traditional bogeyman, and the EU.

Not that long ago, cord - cutting was seen by many in the pay - TV and cable industry as a bogeyman, a spooky ghost dreamed up based on fringe behavior by a small number of millennials and other malcontents.

But then again, every era has had its economic bogeyman.

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

With every passing quarter, however, that behavior becomes less of a bogeyman and more of a painful reality — and the latest survey of cable subscriber numbers has a little something for both sides of that debate.

NEW YORK, Feb 9 - The inflation bogeyman has reared its ugly head and sent U.S. stock investors racing for the hills in recent days.

This week, Germany's business pages have been full of little warnings about the Return of Inflation, the biggest bogeyman in the Teutonic economic lexicon, all because the annual consumer price index rose to its highest level in over three years in December, a shocking 1.7 %.

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Watch out for multistate tax bogeymen.

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters)- The inflation bogeyman has reared its ugly head and sent U.S. stock investors racing for the hills in recent days.

For instance, James Comey, who heads the Federal Bureau of Investigation (and who is often painted as an encryption bogeyman), told the Senate last year that «it is important for our global economy and our national security to have strong encryption standards.»

That menace is a favorite bogeyman for deficit hawks in Congress.

Trump, keep going, just be more careful with where you find your bogeyman, and the Mid-West will be the better for it.

No, I'm not looking over my shoulder, waiting for the bogeyman to get me — rather, I now rarely take anything anyone says to me at face value.

China's government was the bogeyman.

If, as I suspect, he lays a bit too much of the blame for our ills at the feet of that all - purpose bogeyman, capitalism, the story he tells is nevertheless a sobering and instructive one.

But on May Day today's politician's again propped up his name as a bogeyman and this time «dumped him in the drink» in order to use the notoriety they gave him as a tool for political gain.

But can we ever convince the key moderates that «economic individualism» was more of a bogeyman than a reality of American history?

Yep, the * idea * of a god (bogeyman) is quite effective in controlling folks... that doesn't mean that it is real.

Now I'll brace myself for letters from ardent free marketeers who will instruct me that consumerism is nothing but a bogeyman invented by the enemies of capitalism.

with the bogeyman of «Reactionary Thomists» still latent in the minds of academic theologians who otherwise know little about the debates involved.

What evidence do you have other than something anecdotal or rhetorical to show that this is prevalent and the pretext not a lie to make women feel afraid of the bogeyman so to speak?

Should a believer ever conclude that natural forces are inadequate to produce some phenomenon in the natural world, the bogeymen is poised to spring from the shadows.

Christians who work in the natural sciences are dogged by a persistent bogeyman: a singular creature called the God of the gaps.

Wars by U.S. forces or by proxies — resulting in the death of 50,000 Iraqi civilians, 2 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Guatemalan peasants — don't make a dent in our self - image as long as we make «religious violence» the bogeyman.

I used to scoff at the idea of a single entity that was in the evil business, thinking those people weak of mind as to need one bogeyman to distract from their own weaknesses.

Lawrence was right when he said «perpetual» Christian bogeymen, and not only specific to Hitler's Nazi Germany.

He'd run his course as a convenient bogeyman, and Obama wants a second term.

Such exploratory questions about core Christian teachings reflect an Emergent trait that disturbs critics who see the bogeyman of theological liberalism at work.

While I can understand that the 18 - certificate content may make a strong case for this approach, I'm again concerned that Christians neither wave placards at an imagined bogeyman, nor miss the opportunity to relate to one of the major cultural stories of the day.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West has struggled to find a new bogeyman.

The devil, who is a bogeyman, doesn't figure into it.

It appears to me that Professor Dawkins is presented as some kind of «bogeyman» to frighten those with faith.

So the bogeyman of elitism has more rhetorical force than explanatory power.

But James gave Royce's idealism a pragmatic twist by pushing Royce to ask not what the source of thought is — the old bogeyman of epistemology — but what purpose thought serves.

Islam is the same all about control, the use of 72 virgins was a way to motivate people and tbh the only reason you beleive in such nonsense is because your parents lied to you just like they lied to you about santa claus just like the tooth fairy and the bogeyman.

As long as «hate» remains the principal bogeyman in our moral imagination, Mill's harm principle is useless.

Calling something «heresy» is a bogeyman tactic used to scare and control others.

If the bogeyman of religion is alive and well on formerly church - related campuses, imagine the terror that stalks public university faculties!

The Los Angeles Dodgers are the most obvious bogeyman, here.

The New York Yankees are the classic bogeyman, though they've waned in that department because of recent austerity.

The focus on whiffs was wasted breath; let's hope the franchise will learn that strikeouts aren't the bogeyman.

Spectators looking for the bogeyman behind this green are invariably disappointed; there's nothing but close - cropped grass.

These are the words of a professional — not some bitter back - bedroom expert whinging about his own side's perpetual failure and looking for the most convenient bogeyman.

Well, there's always the big bad bogeyman to blame because they finished behind 4 complete other clubs isn't there?