Sentences with word «poobah»

The self - proclaimed Grand Poobahs of morality, the Cardinals, Bishops, and a couple of popes did not comply, nor did they even deal with it effectively themselves.

None of those PR blunders compared to the grand poobah of campaign disasters — the infamous «47 percent» remarks.

of the Assistant, Associate, Deputy Commissioners, Special Assistant Deputy poobahs, etc..

Numbers - crunching poobah Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group has compile another one of his patented spreadsheets on campaign finance filers up until this point.

«De Blasio wants to be the progressive poobah, and Andrew Cuomo wants to run up such big numbers that he will be seen as a serious guy running for president,» Sheinkopf said.

Well - funded poobahs of autonomous duchies, they have no reason to change.

(human nature being what it is, various commissions, study groups and poobahs feel compelled to change the terms and classifications at regular intervals - at just about the time that physicians, veterinarians and the public become comfortable with the terms that are currently in use.)

And to top it off, Julius Sanders was Worthy Primo — the chief poobah, that is.»

There is nothing real about someone being named grand poobah of the moose lodge or whatever.

SharePoint is touted as Microsoft's fastest growing software and the grand poobah of content management and collaboration.

the government should move immediately to suspend the church's tax exempt status until they cough up every single pedophile priest — and every bishop or grand poobah or whatever they call the guys who consistently protect these priests — so they can face a very public trial and hard time in federal prison, where they can have all the man - on - man they want.

While the movie's star — and ruler, and ship's captain, and grand poobah — is Haneke himself, his actors are sublime.

Last we saw Vin Riddick, he just killed some space grand poobah and accidentally became king of everything.

Steve Konkoly (seen menacingly at left), the major domo, the grand poobah of the Perseid Collapse series — now a Kindle World on Amazon — throws me the tough questions in an interview on his web site.

As you get further into the paper, the conspiracy theories become broader and more extreme until you get to my personal favourite — maths professor Kevin Judd being the grand poobah of the «global climate activist operation» at the University of Western Australia.

With the cultists very excited about the prospect of hounding skeptics from the public square by accusing them of secret allegiance to Demon Oil and its evil petro - dollars, Pielke found himself targeted by Rep. Grijalva, who is essentially prosecuting him for the crime of saying something inconvenient that even the grand poobahs of global warming at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the United Nations admit is true: