Sentences with phrase «pointed jab at»

These aren't the first Android phones to omit the legacy port, but given that it made a pointed jab at Apple for doing so last year, there's a bit of egg on Google's face right about now.

It's Astorino's most pointed jab at Trump to date, as both men consider mounting a challenge to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Sen. Kathy Marchione questioned whether the money for public financing would be better spent on gap elimination aid for education, while Sen. Greg Ball threw a pointed jab at Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, wondering out loud about independent expenditure groups funded by «Soros.»

At a rally Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took a pointed jab at his GOP challenger, former state assemblywoman Sharron Angle.

FENTON, Mo. — As GOP Rep. Ann Wagner prepared to introduce candidates in a Republican Senate debate here Friday, she took a pointed jab at one contender who didn't make it — front - runner Josh Hawley.

Last week, Adidas CEO Herbert Hainer made a pointed jab at Manchester United's style of play under Louis van Gaal.

Since most of the solar panels in the US come from China — the world's leader in solar power production — the move is a pointed jab at Beijing.

The account then followed up with a pointed jab at Trump, joking that the Republican nominee might have been permitted to use Harrison's 1970 solo song «Beware of Darkness.»

Not exact matches

Just this weekend, he echoed that statement, with a more direct jab at Facebook, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, telling the audience at a conference in China, «The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist.»

They talk at the same time, and point and laugh and jab Vinny in his biceps, which is what people do to boxers.

Back in the winter of 2014, when de Blasio was pushing for a major expansion of pre-kindergarten and after - school programs, he absorbed months of jabs from Cuomo — who at one point tried to outflank de Blasio on the left by saying the mayor's proposal could create «more inequity and inequality.»

She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).

It's exactly the clever jab at 21st century vanity this franchise should own; instead, with its delusions of comedic grandeur, it turns into the same navel - gazing that its satire has been designed point out.

Chipo points at the thing and keeps jabbing at the air in a way that says, What's that?

While the games are both point and click adventure games that take jabs at a specific subgenre of crime shows, they're completely different experiences and handle a well - tread path using different strides.

The Existential Void (2012) takes a jab at the intellectual classicism of the art world, declaring itself a «META pot» and pointing out the art - culture faux pas «Picasso napkin syndrome.»

Just this weekend, he echoed that statement, with a more direct jab at Facebook, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, telling the audience at a conference in China, «The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist.»

Ross I do see your point and your intentions are good, but if the local Boards are doing a good job why take an unneeded jab at CREA?