Sentences with phrase «peddled as»

Plentiful wildlife and untouched national parks are the leading reasons that Zambia has been peddled as Africa's next best safari destination.
Vapidness masquerading as depth, narcissism peddled as existentialism, director Terrence Malick proves with this film that he can not differentiate between art and pretentiousness.
Both groups peddled as fast as they could during the 30 - second sprints.
Adesina then reproduced Awodein's statement on the matter as follows, «I am constrained to make in absolute good faith, in good conscience and in the interest of justice and fair play the following very short statement on account of the distorted news story currently being peddled as affecting the person of Mr President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and my good and very noble self.
The quote mentions»... outright lies peddled as objective truth by shady actors both inside the US and abroad.»
Not simple partisan spin, but outright lies peddled as objective truth by shady actors both inside the US and abroad.
The plan is being peddled as orange drink or vitamins («From the Training Table of the Dallas Cowboys») might be.
I feel sold short by «the Church» and resent the teaching I was peddled as it has not worked out for me.
The dribble often peddled as truth will lock you in a prison with no walls and guards who would have you believe they love you.
A better policy focus on those areas has a better chance to dramatically alter poverty than the new math being peddled as scientific fact.
If you can't handle the truth — real truth as opposed to unsupported beliefs you peddle as Truth ™ — that's not my problem.
We will not put out the exact amount agreed on because it isn't ethical to do so but can say that both parties are satisfied with the agreed amount and that was enough for us to give him the 1000 Ghana Cedis traveling facilitation fee which the Media is peddling as the total amount for his performance.
But another PCAST member — Google CEO Eric Schmidt — saw what Gawande was peddling as a potentially lucrative new market for the search engine giant.
Did peddling as hard as you could help you learn to ride a bike faster?
Bicycle at a slow pace for 2 minutes, then peddle as hard and fast as you can for 30 seconds before slowing down for 90 seconds — repeat 4 to 8 times total.
They really are peddling it as the miracle cure all.
They would peddle as fast as they could for 30 seconds and then slow down and peddle lighter for four minutes to recover.
Maybe because he's British and therefore an outsider to the blue - collar Midwest he's depicting, he never gets beneath the surface of the class caricatures he peddles as representatives of American justice gone awry, and the whole film ends up feeling both slight and, like its protagonist, self - aggrandizing.
Hummer was easily the least sympathetic nameplate in General Motors» portfolio, peddling as it did pseudo-militarized versions of Chevy Colorados and Tahoes.
A lot of people who peddle themselves as retirement experts will prey on financially illiterate seniors, she says.
In Parabolic Bike, a child peddles as best she can along a nasty curve.
I get particularly upset with the campaign against e-bikes, especially when they peddle it as Vision Zero, which it most definitely isn't.
But peddling it as green when it is clearly not is just greenwashing.

Not exact matches

To these companies, there's much more to social marketing than peddling their brand story as bait for hollow likes, re-pins and re-tweets.
The reason for the shift stems in part from a campaign by controversial food blogger and non-scientist Vani Hari, also known as the «Food Babe,» who frequently peddles misinformation and sundry nonsense on her blog.
TapouT was launched as a T - shirt peddling business out of the trunk of a car in 1997.
It is peddling high - end clothes with Pepsi influences, and it is attempting to rebrand even its commodity products, such as Lay's chips, as cool.
Prior to identifying internal communications as a critical component to employee retention, Bruce Peddle, president of Risk Innovations in Atlanta, Georgia, told me he had made little effort to provide consistent companywide updates.
But whether Bitcoin can actually replace gold (let alone traditional government - backed currency) has been a matter of fervent debate — quite literally, as evidenced by an event last week entitled «Gold Versus Bitcoin,» held at a New York comedy club, in which well - known gold proponent (Jim Rickards debated James Altucher, a self - help author now peddling Bitcoin investment advice under the moniker «crypto - genius.»
That's when Peddle instituted quarterly «town halls,» where the company's performance and future plans were, and are, discussed as well as the status of current strategic projects.
In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.
Herbalife peddles products like energy drinks and stress management pills, and recruits people to work as independent sales staffers.
The company that began as a boutique delivery service, peddling craft cannabis grown sustainably under the Northern California sun, now seems poised to be the biggest thing to come out the Green Rush.
He sees it as a quintessential Gawker story — entirely true, about a celebrity who peddled a false narrative but brought public attention upon himself, and involving sex.
Or they just want to misdirect as many people as possible away from BTC, so they come running back to gold once the shitcoins they are peddling disappear.
Today, an increasing number of lenders are peddling loans with down payments as low as 3 %.
So go peddle your conspiracy theory someplace else as that is all it is....
And the Bible exposes such ones as part of a false religious «harlot», and given the name Babylon the Great (Rev 17:1, 2, 5), as ancient Babylon was the prototype in peddling false religion that has now extended to the ends of the earth.
The most massive FBI propaganda effort is now well known: the vicious campaign to take Martin Luther King «off his pedestal» by planting derogatory articles in the media, peddling secret tapes to journalists (such as Ben Bradlee when he was Newsweek's Washington bureau chief), and sending threat letters to King and his wife, Coretta.
Often both parents are working or are in school, and their young are peddled around just as many poor children are — to various neighbors, to tenement centers, or casual and haphazard child care arrangements.
However, peddling them to all and sundry as if they were the only possible true option is somewhat abhorrent.
Unfortunately there are many people who are bigoted; hopefully people such as yourself, Cindy, will continue to speak out against the lies they continue to peddle.
Contextualization, as a fetish of conflict - resolution - avoidance, peddled syncretism naming it Christianity.
You've touched the root of the problem Christians keep peddling their bronze age fairy tale as if it were relevant.
Throw out all His truth regarding bad behaviors (sin), then rewrite a book of their own to peddle their sinful baloney to the world as the NWO marches forward.
The book made Lively's career as an anti-LGBT activist, and though actual historians have dismissed it and refuted it, the anti-LGBT right continues to peddle it and its ideas.
Some deniers, Lipstadt indicates, have tried to peddle «the notion that it was technically and physically impossible for the gas chambers at Auschwitz to have functioned as extermination facilities,» whether because of their construction or because of the gas that was used (prussic acid, more commonly known as Zyklon - B).
This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.
Sapp cited conservative leader Chuck Colson who released a video condemning Rand's «Atlas Shrugged» as a silly novel that «peddles a starkly anti-Christian philosophy.»
We seek (to borrow a line of thought from Kierkegaard) to make things easier; Lewis always seemed, by contrast, to be determined (like Kierkegaard himself to offer as his contribution to make things harder — or, at least (to be fair) not to soft - peddle or back away from the difficulties that Whitehead's thought presented.
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