Sentences with phrase «person in the straw»

As I pulled up beside them at the light, I saw that the person in the straw hat was a young man with a handsome, smiling face, and that husky's smile was even more handsome.

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What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

Are you related to one of the 2,293 people who voted for Tim Pawlenty in the Iowa Straw poll?

We must resign on behalf of America's working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups,» Trumka said in the statement, calling Trump's most recent remarks «the last straw.»

That's as opposed to starting with something that's just cheap and then trying to figure out why, he seems to think it is more efficient in trying to look for the straw hats in the winter as in the winter, people don't buy straw hats, so they're on sale.

Instead of critiquing the straw man accusation in this instance on its merits, instead you «appealed to ridicule,» mocking the concept itself, as if by mocking the concept, «magically» (your word choice) people will no longer see the straw men we employ, and we can continue with our sophistries unchecked.

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

«A straw man or straw person, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, [1][2] is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.

Perhaps few or none of the people at Belbury knew what was happening; but once it happened, they would be like straw in fire.

As in it being a fiery place of torment that God sends some people who would never had the opportunity to know Jesus never mind «repent» then I think that is a straw man god and I don't think that love condemns anyone to a place of torment with no way out.

People who do not want to believe in God will grasp at any straw to try and disprove His existence.

People are scared of new ideas in architecture, but with a little bit of researching it becomes clear that straw bale building is perfectly viable, not so much a risk as just not yet common.

Studies in which I've been engaged began with the thought that the new religious consciousness that seemed to be developing among young people in the San Francisco Bay area might be some harbinger, some straw in the wind, that would tell us of.

LOL — the church is grasping at straws to keep young people in the church — I wonder how many times the pedophile priests have to post their confessions and how many «Hail Mary's» they have to say — most «Catholics» I know got baptized by their parents and had to go through confirmation classes and get confirmed and then never set foot in church until someone dies or gets married...

Some people prefer big chunks of watermelon in this, but I like mine smooth enough to drink through a straw.

Being a Muslim in the middle of my own fast, that one thing was the straw that broke the camel's back and brought me to tears - the idea of people not even having a plate of dates to share.

There has even been a petition launched urging UK government to charge people for using plastic straws, in the same way consumers are charged for plastic carrier bags.

While it's true that some cities now require composting, more restaurants are banning unnecessary plastics like straws, and more people are trying to reduce waste in their own homes by using food that would usually be discarded (like broccoli stems), Americans still have a huge problem with waste.

«I went to the director, Milos Forman, and said, «I've been wrestling in Memphis for 20 years and I've never seen people dressed in bib overalls and straw hats to the wrestling shows.»

We don't see a whole lot of people working as thatchers in America these days because we no longer construct our roofs from straw.

Two Bachmann aides with iPads strapped to their hands like catcher's mitts mill around the crowd, signing people up to vote for Bachmann in the straw poll.

Like when you let out that you were using straw men in these conversations that were really just you and not another person.

Singh said he again suggested he would use straw donation — which typically entails contributing in a person's name, then reimbursing them in order to skirt campaign finance limits set by law — when de Blasio asked for help with a state senatorial campaign.

In the Commons yesterday, Labour's Jack Straw quizzed Nick Clegg's Tory deputy, Mark Harper, on whether the reduction is seat numbers would respect historic boundaries and whether the Isle of Wight would be broken up as a constituency with a second seat covering people on the island and the English mainland.

Straw acknowledged that Brown brought some talented allies with him to No 10 but added: «He also always employed some people who were skilled in the dark arts and that undermined trust in him and his trust in others.»

Lib Dem MP and former defence minister Nick Harvey backed this up, commenting that Straw's definition fell short of addressing how often people expect MPs to be in their constituencies, and remarked how much more a way of life than a regular job being a politician can be:

They both participated in a scheme to use straw donors — people who donate on behalf of others — to swell the coffers of Liu's mayoral war chest.?

A straw poll of my PhD studying friends suggested that 70 % of - in this case politically interested and academic young people - thought he shouldn't be in there, and those who thought he should didn't quite have the most pro-George reasons.

There's one other intriguing possibility - which some Labour people suspect may have happened - that in a desperate moment Gordon Brown privately offered Lib Dems AV without an referendum, but failed to tell Jack Straw or any of his other colleagues or the Labour negotiators about his offer.

With most people focused on elections 15 months away, Brooklyn residents will vote — really vote, not just be straw polled — in a hotly contested election just four weeks from now.

His net popularity (the proportion of people with a positive impression of Straw minus the proportion of people with a negative impression) has short up fifteen points since his comments, from minus 15 to a net score of zero in the most recent figures.

Mr. Pan, according to the charges, sought to send the money to Mr. Liu's campaign by using 20 straw donors — people who are recorded in campaign finance documents as giving to a candidate but actually serve as conduits for money from an unseen large donor, the person said.

These include filters for household water stores, drinking straws with filters that people can carry with them, the pesticide Abate to kill water fleas in ponds, and «containment huts» for people to go to when a worm appears, to keep them away from water supplies.

A paper on the findings showed, among other things, that the restrictive policies regulating gun shows in California resulted in fewer illegal «straw» purchases — in which someone buys a gun on behalf of a person legally barred from doing so — than in other states.

However, Randall White, an archaeologist at New York University in New York City, says that the paper's authors have set up a «straw person,» saying that he «know [s] no credible archaeologists who adhere to the stupid Neandertals view.»

They may make a decision to change their diet on day X in reaction to news or information Y, but I'm guessing that there were probably many experiences prior to day X which made the person open to information Y («the straw that broke the camel's back») when it came along.

-LCB- Free People Dress c / o Straw Hat Tibi Mules, old but similar here Celine Bag Karen Walker Sunnies Clinique Lipstick in Berry Pop c / o -RCB- First of all, I have a serious obsession with scalloped edges.

Singles events normally work by making you mix and interact with other singletons, however the Red Straw event simply puts a higher percentage of single people in one place, and then relies on you to do the rest.

Glorifying these people's way of life would be a much tougher job if the main character was to wind up slurping NHS sludge through a straw after being found comatose in a nightclub toilet.

In the very middle of these remarkable people sat Becky Straw.

If you were to conduct a straw poll asking people to name the 3 most exciting, unpredictable and watchable leading men working in movies today, it goes without saying that all three of these men would figure prominently on such a poll.

Straw Dogs does have one advantage over its original, in that it actually discusses what the term means, and then associates them with people whose lives seem to end after high school.

In so many ways Christine kept drawing life's short straw, and the many people that might have helped her, didn't.

The gang - like brutalizing of Rodney King was the last straw for a fed up community and, in its wake, people were not going to see another black man go down in a white system.

Three is possible, but the sculpted shape of the electrically adjustable outer seats means the person in the middle would feel robbed of head room and miffed that they drew the short straw.

The People thought all great cities had pigs in the streets and great muddy rivers of mule piss attracting hysterical swarms of wasps, and that all places were built of dirt and straw.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

Nominee Loans / Straw Buyers There are people who use stand - ins to do real estate transactions.

That's as opposed to starting with something that's just cheap and then trying to figure out why, he seems to think it is more efficient in trying to look for the straw hats in the winter as in the winter, people don't buy straw hats, so they're on sale.