Sentences with phrase «poisoned chalice of»

Taking leadership of the country now, and being the one who pushes the irreversible button of Article 50 to commence separation from the EU, must surely be the most poisoned chalice of recent history.

In the Season 2 finale, tragic news for the Borgia family is followed by a shocking revelation from Cesare; Lucrezia surprises herself by falling for a new suitor, Alfonso of Aragon, and accepts his proposal of marriage; Cesare tortures the rebel leader Savonarola but can't extract a confession, so he fakes one and burns the heretic; the assassin finally strikes with a poisoned chalice of wine.

Omotosho charged Nigerians to be vigilant «now that the target of the APC lies are the Army and other Armed Forces» and resist the «poisoned chalice of the party.»

If Mendelson is as smart as he's supposed to be, he'd see this coming, listen to what Mervyn King had to say, and hand the poisoned chalice of government in 2010 to Cameron.

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The «poisoned chalice» has been a political trope since the day it was uttered on stage in 1606 during the first run of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a bitter aftertaste was pretty much the only thing the PC party left behind for Notley.

The job at the City of Manchester Stadium is a poisoned chalice to say the least.

So it passed to Belgian defender Thomas Vermaelen for whom it acted like some sort of poisoned chalice.

Personally I'd be happy to have him as the England manager but it's a bit of a poisoned chalice just now.

He had a good record at Everton, picked up something of a poison chalice at Old Trafford (despite being recommended by Sir Alex) and was woeful at Sunderland.

It can be a poison chalice, plenty of rest, but other teams enjoy a better match fitness level playing two matches a week for much of this part of the season.

The job at the helm of the Giuseppe Meazza has become something of a poisoned chalice in recent years.

A recent home affairs committee report showed that the granting of asylum often turned out to be poisoned chalice for those fleeing persecution, with the approval decision activating a period of financial uncertainty which lasted up to four months.

One option might be to offer Nicola Sturgeon the full fiscal autonomy she has asked for — a poisoned chalice in the view of many.

It seemed like a poisoned chalice when Lord Smith of Kelvin was handed the task of chairing a cross-party commission to advise on devolving further powers to Scotland after September's referendum.

France has adopted what many are calling «the poisoned chalice» of EU presidency, just as the Union struggles to overcome rifts in its membership.

While most would consider this a poisoned chalice, I suspect Cable could be persuaded that a capable pair of hands are needed, and that he should do it for the greater good.

She's held the Home Office brief - often something of a poisoned chalice - since 2010, and is a former Tory party chairman.

Though we never find out why it's taken so long for Gleeson Mark II to come out of the woodwork, there is much humour to be had as he takes over his sibling's life, usurping him in the boardroom and the bedroom only to realise what a poisoned chalice he's inherited.

As one of gaming's most fondly remembered titles, GoldenEye was always going to be something of a poison chalice for those developers tasked with bringing it back.

It was considered a «poisoned chalice,» farmers all over the world have for thousands of years, saved some seeds from each year's harvest to replant in the fields the following season.

i think that's inaccurate shx, the scientists did their work, and from what i could gather tried very hard not to overstate their case, the media did the scare - mongering and the media have then turned like the whores they are in the other direction, al gore's film upped the tempo and although it seemed like a good thing at the time, i think with hindsight it was a poisoned chalice, but lets be clear, doing research in multiple areas and having the results point to potentially catastrophic climate change and asking for changes to be made to avert this is not scare - mongering, its common sense, accepting that their is margin for error but erring on the side of caution since the stakes are life on earth as we know it is not scare - mongering, it is the application of the precautionary principle and common sense

While becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer in the circumstances was clearly a poisoned chalice, it would have been impossible to reject.

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