Sentences with phrase «peddlers for»

I didn't trade three hundred pounds of steak to a slick city peddler for a few magic beans (it was jalapeño seeds).

Jeff Holmstead, who is often quoted in newspapers as a former Air and Radiation Administrator for the George W. Bush Environmental Protection Agency or a «partner» (read: lobbyist) at Bracewell & Giuliani's corporate law firm here in DC, is rarely credited as an influence peddler for some of the most notorious polluters in the country.

Not exact matches

«Manafort, like dozens of other influence peddlers, has been operating in plain sight for years,» wrote Silverstein, the long - time foreign - lobbying reporter.

The self - appointed crusader, for one, would like the world to believe that he is a «dragon slayer,» in Parloff's words, who has set out to expose the dietary shake peddler as a predatory scammer.

Like YouTube, the platform had become a channel for trolls and fake - news peddlers to claim that Hogg and fellow students are actors.

Nor will independents be so willing to believe that more than $ 1.5 million was paid for Gingrich's advice as «a historian» rather than for services as an influence peddler.

[Peddler's Son Produce's] ability to handle our business has been a benchmark for our growth.»

Baseball magnates have been charged with monopoly, criticized for standpatism, characterized as flesh peddlers.

They hired a peddler of performance enhancing substances, paid for stolen documents and canoodled with a potential witness.

The answer must come fairly quickly, too, because, as was not the case in the old days when Ben Kerner roved the land with a franchise in his pocket, much as other peddlers had hawked pots and pans, the stakes are too high now for any protracted fight for survival.

He bought this boldly painted six - board chest in 1936 from Horace Porter, a former egg peddler who became one of Wells» favorite sources for all kinds of antiques.

Not said by the usual peddlers of political commentary and punditry, but by the Republican nominee for President, Mitt Romney.

A bill being introduced Wednesday afternoon would authorize the city Department of Transportation to establish rules for activity in the plazas — which could mean those street entertainers regarded as nuisances as well as assorted peddlers are confined to a designated area or driven away entirely.

«Otherwise there will be another scandal and another one after that which all have the same source, namely the desire for wealthy interests to buy access and the willingness of influence peddlers to sell it.

«I enjoin you to avoid the temptation of being influenced by peddlers and chasing for lands for yourselves, family, and friends.

It is important for us to have an accurate idea of possible locations of hotspots and peddlers of hate speech, discuss these with security agencies and examine ways to address them well before the election.

With that being said, the Queens - Politics editorial board would like to say that Quinn and her merry band of influence peddlers should have been thanking God for the nice run they had instead of attacking His little ones in the womb and disrespecting His creation in the horse and carriage industry.

The NYC is taking the first legislative steps to regulate the proliferation of topless painted women, costumed characters and other peddlers who hustle for tips in Times Square's pedestrian plazas.

I thought that if we could help elect a true independent, a genuine reformer, that all of these sacrifices would not have been in vain, but alas the Independence Party has become the Incumbent Dependence Party, a tool for influence peddlers like Tom Connolly to cater to the state's most powerful leaders.»

Under New York State law, honorably - discharged veterans (or surviving spouses) are permitted to obtain a Peddler's Permit that can be used for the sale of items at various locations.

Thousands of banner - waving protesters poured across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday for a Manhattan rally condemning the killing of street peddler Amadou Diallo and police brutality.

With the party looking to form a government next May this was the last chance for the usual retinue of lobbyists and influence peddlers to ply their trade to shadow ministers who just might be making actual decisions in a few months» time.

Prior to Spitzer's tenure, it was mostly used for smaller financial violations, such as «shady pharmacists, Ponzi schemes, and peddlers of fraudulent Salvador Dali lithographs,» according to a 2004 article in Legal Affairs by Nicholas Thompson, published prior to the revelation of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, for which Andrew Cuomo used the Martin Act when he was attorney general.

Street - level drug peddlers use pay phones and pagers to communicate to avoid police eavesdroppers, and the phone company has waged war on them for decades.

Later that year, an investigation by Science uncovered an underground market for fake academic credentials, in which some peddlers may have used SCIgen to save themselves the effort of writing «authentic» fake papers by hand.

IN the streets of Kathmandu, where drug peddlers and holy men compete with shoeshine boys and rickshaw drivers for the tourist dollar, a new trade is springing up.

I read Bone Peddlers some years ago, and no longer have a copy handy for evaluation.

I'm going to be posting an interview with The Flour Peddler himself early next week, so stay tuned for a wealth of information about this amazing flour.

An outrageous self - described «smut peddler», Flynt made a name for himself as a crude and obnoxious pornographer.

It may be too ponderous for some, and an appearance by Anjelica Huston as a snake - oil peddler near the end is a touch too surreal, but if you're a fan of Westerns the way they used to make them, you'll be mesmerised.

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx - Oddball romance with Gene Hackman as a Dublin peddler of horse manure who falls for American student Margot Kidder.

Sony Pictures has unveiled a UK poster and trailer for Maudie, which is directed by Aisling Walsh (Fingersmith) and tells the true story of the unlikely romance between folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) and reclusive fish peddler Everett (Ethan Hawke).

But The Rock, for all his screen presence and affability, seems content to be the peddler of soft quips and sanitised violence in the world of the broad, brainless blockbuster.

These special effects are merely the epitome of Stargate's second - hand wonder; part of the film's value as a curiosity piece is its New York street - merchant vibe: like peddlers of the Rolux watch or Parda handbag, Emmerich and co - producer / co-writer Dean Devlin are selling us an approximation of a blockbuster by a licensed hitmaker, and we excuse them the same way we allow for the smudgy print of carbon copies or the colour bleed on VHS dubs.

I was sampling a V - 8 smorgasbord at Hillbank USA, the stateside headquarters for the South African speed peddler.

One more thing: I recently encountered a fascinating local author, Jonathan Papernick (google him), who will be participating in our Self - Publishing Authors Panel in October (see http://www.watertownlib.org/one-book-one-watertown/obow-events for details) who is known as The Book Peddler.

And it's not all doom and gloom for the print peddlers, since Waid swears he's looking to make the books available in print versions if they sell well enough on the Web... although if artists become too enamored in stuff like the zombie eye - opening effect, they'll never translate well.

Amazon, who's publishing imprint is headed by Larry Kirshbaum (formerly the CEO of Time Warner Book Group), stands to dominate the future of print, digital and audio publishing, and veteran book creator / peddler Tim Ferriss has now driven this message home once and for all!

Then there are the companies that may be known for CSR but that I would not want to support, such as the world's second - biggest manufacturer and peddler of soft drinks.

As this fascinating timeline from the Center for Educational Telecommunications shows, Chinese peddlers were transforming the streets of New York back in 1830, and by the start of the 20th century, Korean immigrants were forming churches and mutual assistance societies in Hawaii and California.

But for the career peddler, the only options left that «paid anything,» were annuities and whole life insurance.

Puppy Mill Awareness of SE Michigan is a grassroots organization dedicated to ending commercial breeding «puppy mills» and protecting families from puppy peddlers, pet stores and bad breeders by lobbying for stronger laws, setting up information booths, completing research studies and launching pet store campaigns.

For a simple and very local snack, try some crackers, boiled peanuts or steamed sweetcorn (around IDR 5,000 a cob) sold by peddlers at the roadside.

Perfect for a relaxing stroll or a full day of retail therapy, the family - oriented Peddler's Village sets the scene for recreational activities ranging from shopping and dining to events and festivals.

For the house of Contra and Castlevania to become a peddler of IAPs and cut - down mobile versions of its beloved franchises... well, it makes you think that maybe Kojima and his cohorts will have made the right decision, if they do end up leaving Konami at the end of 2015.

It also means that 15 percent of all Washington lobbyists spent at least some of their time on global warming in 2008, based on a tally of the total number of influence - peddlers on Capitol Hill by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Unfortunately, for people who care about the future of humanity and the vast variety of species were are dragging to extinction [PDF] through the climate crisis, profit is the key factor for fossil fuel barons and their influence peddlers.

Peddlers of this myth push the assumption that climate science can not take place independently of the influence of policy debates, accusing the climate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personal gain.

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For in - print titles, we use Yankee Book Peddler among other sources.