Sentences with phrase «pawns by»

When children are used as pawns by parents, it is a losing battle for all, with kids suffering the most significant losses.

Principals are treated like pawns by the superintendent, relocated, rewarded and punished at will.

It is sad the very communities that need to be represented the most are used as pawns by the likes of political clubs like the Lower East Dems (John Quinn, Alice's husband), the Truman Club (Shelly still at the wheel), and UDO (insider Chinatown club not representative of the population).

Fergus and Frankie belong to a plucky Liverpudlian crew of, by and large, culturally sensitive private security guards; they are just honest, working - class boys who are used as pawns by their superiors.

Even as the poor are used as pawns by fundamentalist groups, benefits go to the powerful in each group.

Lots of folks consider Frisco to be a extremeley liberal city but this guy started in with the «we need to build a wall» stuff and it kiond of snowballed from there untill by the end of the ride he was educationg me about how Bernie Sanders is a pawn by the Jews to install one of there Elite banker friends as the head of the United States so they can take over the world.

Ferretti, a chief deputy Nassau County clerk and great - nephew of Nassau GOP chairman Joseph Mondello, said Coll «continues to be used as a pawn by the Nassau Democrats in their futile attempt to split the Republican ticket.»

The fruits of their labor is this 1963 - based story that takes place in a U.S. government laboratory where a creature is being held as a pawn by American federal agents (Michael Shannon) and coveted by Russian spies.

It's a prickly, bleak war story with no actual Hunger Games to speak of, its once gutsy heroine Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) transformed into a passive pawn by political forces beyond her control.

Soon, he becomes a pawn by Adrian Pryce (Sharlto Copley), the man who ordered Ducett's imprisonment, in a personal act for vengeance.

Snake knocks out Raiden and gives him to Dead Cell who torture him and tell him that the belly of the Big Shell is an AI designed to control information on the internet and Raiden has been a pawn by the Patriots the whole time.

Examples range from various financial crises to the use of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi as a public relations pawn by the United States.

In court filings, the Arizona Department of Safety (DPS) alleges that a firearm pawned by Mr. Merritt was forensically linked to the shootings.

It was based on these reports that Arizona DPS visited the pawn shop, took control of the gun pawned by Mr. Merritt and conducted forensic tests.

A Pawn by Any Other Name?

Not exact matches

«By all appearances, Kaspersky Lab happened to be dragged into a geopolitical fight where each side is trying to use the company as a pawn in its game,» RIA news agency quoted the company's press service as saying.

That Lucille ended up in a Las Vegas pawn shop, by now covered in dirt and full of scratches and dents.

But if the story told by the film - makers is even close to accurate, the world the workers live in is anything but sane, and they're struggling, after all, to feed their families without the help of the power - brokers who see them as mere pawns in a very high - stakes game.

«Our men and women who were tasked to keep us safe in the aftermath of 9/11 — our military and our intelligence warriors — are heroes, not pawns in some liberal game being played by the ACLU and Senator Feinstein,» Pompeo said in a statement on Dec. 9, 2014.

They are pawns led by the devil, there is no other reason to be here.

He has to be a pawn of the Devil himself rather than inspired by God.

Pro-Life relates to many issues: insurance for those who can not afford, gun control, illegal drug traffic, poverty (homeless, elderly, etc. widows and orphans)... we are becoming pawns used to dominate the politics of losers who can not justify their candidacy by any other means.

Jews must be assured by Christians that they are more than pawns in Christian eschatologies illicitly extracted from Ezekiel or the Book of Revelation.

The apparatus of scholarship is there, but the book's each and every claim represents a radical reduction of social reality and experience, particularly Faludi's presumption that any rethinking undertaken by any feminist at any time, if the thinker in question comes out at some place Faludi dislikes, constitutes a prima facie case that the woman in question has become a backlash pawn.

For a more penetrating look at the Bible as presented by the History / Duck Dynasty / Pawn Star / Big Shrimpin» channel here's Stephen Colbert's take:

There is first the pure and simple mechanization of man by God, who moves him like a pawn.

Face it, you T - baggers are all pawns of the Republicans who have been bought and paid for by the health insurance companies.

In particular, I recalled how, back in 1993, when Trump decided he wanted to build special limousine parking lots around his Atlantic City casino and hotel, he had used all his influence to get the state of New Jersey to steal the home of an elderly widow named Vera Coking by declaring «eminent domain» over her property, as well as over a nearby pawn shop and a small family - run Italian restaurant.

Pharaoh, mighty by earthly standards, becomes a mere pawn in my plans for the destiny of my world.

By pointing a wooden toothpick on which the pawn is impaled, you can move the pawn onto any one of six surrounding hexagonal spaces.

«Knights always think they fool the enemy by pretending to go one way and then suddenly changing directions and going another — two squares here, then one square there,» says the king's pawn, Ernie.

At least that's who I assume was referenced by, «The Oilers, now potentially pawning off one of their first round pick centers...»?

stop buying into the rhetoric coming from the Arsenal PR team, according to Coq there wasn't any locker room issues with Sanchez, beyond the issues created by the uncertainty surrounding his possible transfer, which was caused by the club... like I said many times before Wenger and his propaganda machine created those stories to justify Sanchez's inevitable exit, much like they did many times before... I can only hope that the fans at the Emirates don't give Wenger a moments peace at tomorrow's game... stop being pawns and voice your opinions loud and clear

One minute he was up by a bishop and a pawn, in good position, feeling strong, looking to start off the 2011 National Junior High Chess Championships with a victory.

By Amanda Froelich Truth Theory Have you ever looked around yourself and thought, «I'm a puppet, a pawn for those in positions of higher power»?

The Chicago teachers strike and its focus on new ways to assess teachers remind me of a brilliant 2002 book, «Children As Pawns: The Politics of Educational Reform,» by Timothy A. Hacsi.

Avoid trying to settle old marital disputes by using your children as pawns.

An Oak Lawn man who stole a $ 500 vacuum cleaner from the Sears department store at Orland Square Mall made it as far as his favorite pawn shop before being nabbed by police.

By singling out only certain groups of employees the Governor has made ordinary, middle class New Yorkers a pawn in his political operation, meanwhile we've learned that at the same time he is giving raises to members of his staff,» said Hoyt.

Court justices have become little more than pawns which are exploited by political partisans and special interests.

Taylor is merely a pawn in a larger conflict between the proactive ICC led by Luis Moreno Ocampo, who is eager to secure Saif's extradition, and Libya's interim government, which is reluctant to turn over the most prominent living symbol of the regime it overthrew.

«You should know that one more time, our senior citizens are been used as pawns in the political games being played by New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,» Diaz wrote, adding, «It is very shameful that the senior citizen are been used in this war of power between the Governor and the Mayor.»

The head of the State Police, Joseph D'Amico, blindsided Gov. Andrew Cuomo with his abrupt resignation, which was fueled in part by his being used a pawn in the rift between the governor and Mayor de Blasio, sources told The Post.

One by one, he eliminated the inmates — except for Camilo Arcelay, 37 years old, who used his king to take Mr. Ashley's last pawn.

Once the law is implemented, pawn shops and other brokers will be informed of what steps they need to take to abide by the law.

«They want to be able to move us around like pawns on a chess board,» said Field Technician Che Stephens (far left), who was joined by (from left) Michael Pace, Angel R. and Paul Williams.

The Erie County Legislature approved a local law (11 - 0) sponsored by Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo and Legislator Lynne Dixon today that would require pawn shops to upload information, including photos, serial numbers, marks of identification, and the name and image of the seller, for items they purchase.

By requiring pawn shop owners to take this step, victims of theft will have a better opportunity to recover stolen items.

The best is that all this was «MASTERMINDED» by Roger «Socks» Stone and the «SOURCES» that called and used the political reporters as pawn's.

It'll be easier for police to recover stolen goods from pawn shops and second - hand stores throughout Onondaga County, if a law approved by the county legislature goes into effect.