Sentences with phrase «peddlers on»

Cairo is awash in plastics, the water bottles from which everybody drinks, and worse, cheap knock - off - clothing, sneakers, flip - flops and household items imported from China spread out by peddlers on the streets.

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.

You won't see any high - rises or beach peddlers on the Mayan Riviera, but if you're culturally inclined, the Tulum ruins are only six miles away.

Daniel Nathel and his partner started the company after being successful as pushcart peddlers on the Lower East Side of New York City, setting up shop in the city's Washington Market before moving up to the Huntspoint Market in the Bronx in the 1960s.

@klin who told you am a common man, by the way am drug peddler on the london street, tell police to come arrest me.It seems you do nt want me here!

Zemurray started out as a fruit peddler on the docks of Mobile, Alabama, and — through that classic combination of tenacity and instinct — eventually became the head of United Fruit, one of the wealthiest and most influential companies in American history.

I found a t - shirt with this cool peddler on it, and it kind of reminded me of this great t - shirt on Etsy.

Not exact matches

Because you genuinely believe it is a poor investment (and because you sell annuities), you quickly cite the case against it and emphasize your point by criticizing the «gold peddlers» on the radio like Glenn Beck.

From the mission statement, though, it would seem that Fitbit has its sights set on being more than just a peddler of tech products.

Suffice it to say if you're asking this question early in your sales process, just go ahead a tape a sign on your forehead that says, «Hi, I'm a peddler.»

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

If those cute little cookie peddlers aren't posted outside the market, it may be tough to get your hands on these — the most popular cookies sold by the Girl Scouts every spring.

With Ted now able to focus on purchasing and warehouse operations and Joe overseeing sales and finance, Peddler's Son was able to more fiercely contend with the competition, while maintaining its customer centric mindset.

A vestige of the era when «appetizing shops» were commonplace on the Lower East Side, this century - old institution is now one of the last smoked - fish peddlers standing.

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack pic.twitter.com/XjVnmQqm 0u

The very words «yachting togs» on his catalog probably would have embarrassed Joe, who started as a peddler.

Perhaps a grand jury would be a better use of time on Friday than trying to fulfill promises to a strong - arming influence peddler.

Restrictions on stop and frisk have made cops afraid to make arrests — even of suspected drug peddlers — a black police officer told Mayor de Blasio on Friday.

He also said that five drug peddlers were apprehended with gallons of unidentified chemical substances and Indian hemp on Oct. 14 by troops of Sector 5, 243 Battalion at Agbara area of Lagos State in conjunction with men of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

On the dislodgement of drug dealers, CP Awunah said, «The Command through actionable intelligence and with the cooperation of members of the public has dislodged about fifteen (15) drug peddlers in the State, disrupting their supply chain.

He's had a front row seat on the seamy side of politics, the go - between bagmen, the wheeler - dealer influence peddlers.

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.

August 31, 2001 Added material on Jack Cuozzo's book Buried Alive Added a review of William Fix's book The Bone Peddlers Added a response to Wayne Jackson

It's currently the hottest weight loss supplement on the market thanks to high - profile snake oil peddlers like Dr. Oz.

American actor Malcolm Atterbury may have been allowed more versatility on stage, but so far as TV was concerned he was the quintessential grouchy grandfather and / or frontier snake - oil peddler.

by H.G. Lewis; «Two Thousand Maniacs Can't be Wrong» filmmaker Tim Sullivan on H.G. Lewis» gore classic; «Hickspoitation: Confidential» visual essay on the depiction of the American South in exploitation cinema; «David Friedman: The Gentlemen's Smut Peddler» tribute to legendary producer David F. Friedman featuring interviews with H.G. Lewis, filmmakers Fred Olen Ray and Tim Sullivan and editor Bob Murawski; «Herschell's Art of Advertising» in which Lewis shares his expert opinion on the art of selling movies; «Two Thousand Maniacs!»

Based on a true story, the film is about an unlikely romance between a folk artist and a reclusive fish peddler.

A version of this review appears in print on October 26, 2012, on Page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: Cocaine Peddler Pays a Bloody Price.

In Maud's case, this is Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke), an ultra-masculine fish peddler who reluctantly takes on Maud as a housemaid but who gradually finds himself falling in love with her, at least in his own gruff ways.

Although said elisions are titled with a smut - peddler's desperation (e.g., «Lindsey on Toilet,» «Lindsey Takes a Bath»), there's some noteworthy material here, such as a longer version of the prologue — which veers closer to Farrelly pathos than anything that reached the final cut — and a scene set in a sports bar heretofore glimpsed only in the trailer.

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.

The California Fair Political Practices Commission shows that by far the biggest political influence peddler in CA is the California Teachers Association, which spent over $ 211 million between 2000 - 2009 on candidates, ballot measures and lobbying.

Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

Tinkers is about a man on his death bed who revisits his father, an «epileptic, itinerant peddler,» through memory.

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.

The reader shifts between a classic narrative style, which Harding uses to tell the peddler's story, and a more innovative narrative approach, describing the delusions, memories and dreamscapes of a man on his deathbed.

Peddlers of credit monitoring essentially claim their service is valuable because erroneous information frequently appears on your credit report.

These plastic peddlers often set up booths on campus to get your attention and to get you spending on credit sooner.

Puppy - peddlers rely on internet sales to hide the true nature of their business.

Peddler Village offers a relaxed setting to browse boutiques and specialty shops before taking a break with a delicious meal at one of the various on - site restaurants.

Consider it a fixed price, store version of what the beach peddlers usually tout you while you enjoy your massage on the beach.

On the beach, there are many peddlers along the street, selling various local specialties, such as crafts, T - shirts, beach clothes and accessories.

Guests may also take a spin on the innovative human - powered watercraft powered by two peddlers and up to six paddlers.

March 13th, 2017 - Independent developer Pixel Titans and virtual murder peddlers Devolver Digital have announced that the greatest game of all time, STRAFE ®, will now release on both PS4 and PC May 9 after a slight delay due to an unforeseen polygon shortage.

When not tending to their storefronts, any one of your desert denizens can accompany you on your many misadventures, from the most neurotic of ice cream peddlers to a toy merchant crippled with daddy issues.

This edition of Bullshit Roundup relies heavily on the more common definition of the word «bullshit,» as two of our stories describe intense peddlers of it.

So, we can choose to believe a commenter on a political blog claiming people who understand that there is a broad, clear understanding of the primary driver of the observations are «alarmists», «climate cult ``, «duped doomsday climate cultist», «real deniers, of the science and empirical data»,» peddlers of CatastrophicAGW - by - CO2 ``,.

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.

So, like all ambitious peddlers of newfangled widgets, they're going where the buyers are: in this case to China, which over the past decade has become the biggest coal burner and carbon - dioxide emitter on Earth.

The Verge recently did an excellent exposé on the scuzzy world of internet marketing, where snake oil peddlers promise huge profits.