Sentences with phrase «poster child of»

None of them want to be the poster child of financial ruin.»

«The East Loop is always the poster child of market abuse,» said Richard Schuham, executive vice president with tenant representative firm Studley Inc., which isn't involved in the deal.

He is the epitome of and the poster child of the position of f *** you.

The poster child of blockchain is Bitcoin which, as we have seen, has grabbed headlines across the globe.

The case of Pets.com, the poster child of what went wrong during the dotcom era, should contain plenty of lessons for crypto stakeholders.

It's fair to say that such virtual currencies have soared in recent times, with Bitcoin very much the poster child of the fledgling peer - to - peer digital payment system.

Bitcoin is a poster child of the problematic escalation in power demanded from a large blockchain network.

This year, Forza 7 becomes the 4K poster child of Microsoft's Xbox One X, the most powerful console ever made, as well as becoming the first full Forza Motorsport title to launch on the PC with Xbox Play Anywhere.

Google's Android Wear may not be about any one smartwatch, but it's clear that Motorola's Moto 360 with its circular face and classical wristwatch styling has become the early poster child of the project.

The change for Twitter, meanwhile, comes amid comments from Dorsey that the poster child of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, will be the world's universal currency in 10 years or so.

Smoking is the poster child of detrimental habits and has been linked to an alarming number of serious health issues, including lung cancer, COPD, oral cancer, and throat cancer.

The rigors of working at a white - shoe law firm such as White & Case might drive some young lawyers towards the edge, but one former associate has ended up as the poster child of Cracked.

If the Federal Patent Court rules on this before Apple and Samsung settle, and if there's a finding that Samsung filed a patent on something right after it appeared in a standardization document, it won't enhance Samsung's reputation and will make Apple a poster child of a certain, rampant form of abuse of the standard - setting process.

The Ontario legal regulator has done absurd things over the years, but the most egregious is to attack Joe Groia and make him the poster child of a civility campaign.

But in recent years, the country has struggled to achieve further reductions in line with its own climate targets, tarnishing its image as poster child of international decarbonisation efforts.

But it's probably a stretch that this colossal addition to the desert is a (self - proclaimed) «poster child of sustainability.»

(Yes, I do think the environmental movement does hold some responsibility for this — Al Gore may have done a lot to raise awareness, but making him the poster child of the issue may not have been the smartest move...)

The big exception to the above, however, is solar PV — which many would call the poster child of the cleantech - as - a-service revolution.

Like many of the Tintin adventures the culprit is no longer at large (at least in Brussels) and now the city has become the poster child of European sustainability.

Nuclear power will do the heavy lifting, just as is has been doing in France for the past 30 years where it has been supply in 75 - 85 % of France's electricity with its CO2 emissions just 15 % of Germany's and Denmark's (the two poster child of the renewable energy advocates).

Instead it has become the poster child of political capitalism run amuck.

«We're not afraid of park - and - ride,» said Espaillat, whose district skirts the asthma - plagued South Bronx and includes «the poster child of buckling platforms» at Dyckman Street on the No. 1 line.

Given the acknowledged uncertainties and limitations expressed in the title, it is hard to believe that the graph showcased in the paper would later become the poster child of certainty for a scientific consensus on global warming — but it would become just that.

Polar Bears are the poster child of the man made global warming alarm.

They were surprised as anyone (including myself) to hear what came out of my mouth that day, and I am desperately hoping that they distance themselves from me and my presentation ASAP, as I am already being trumpted by the skeptic's echo chamber (see WUWT, SPPI, UtahClimate, et al.) as the nutjob poster child of «the new AGU.»

They have financial relationships with the poster child of mountaintop removal, Massey Energy.

Based on the official university whitewashes of Climategate thus far in support of such corruption of science for political ends, the odds must be that they will surely find something, somewhere to pin on Wegman, to punish him for failing to validate the Hockey Stick, the poster child of alarmism.

Dessler is a poster child of politiczed science, having worked under Gore to promote fear of AGW.

A FEW weeks ago I wrote a story for DeSmogBlog looking at how Lord Christopher Monckton — a poster child of the climate science denialist movement — had agreed to launch a new Australian political party fronted by an anti-Islamist Creationist preacher.

I think the much more likely reason is because the Mann Hockey Stick, the poster child of greenhouse warming and justifying the Kyoto Protocol, has been shown to be a dud, and some people are having difficulty coping with that reality.

Investment in biofuels — once the poster child of renewables — fell 26 percent in 2013, to its lowest level since before George W. Bush kick - started the corn - to - ethanol race in the U.S. almost a decade ago.

Funny how Mann forgot to mention the uncertainties when his work was made the poster child of global warming.

The polar bear has been the poster child of species loss risk from climate change, but the emergence of the extremely rare «grolar bear,» the offspring of a grizzly and a polar bear, is new evidence of how climate affects species.

«Metal is the poster child of sustainability.

But in 2007, when his 1991 White Canoe, a nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

That Cing, the poster child of the experiment, went bankrupt in 2010 tells its own story.

Grand Theft Auto is the poster child of the breadth game, and it illustrates the difference clearly.

Facebook is the poster child of what's wrong in America, and the world, so no, I don't want to support OR now.

The poster child of the «release today, fix tomorrow» mentality, and just how utterly stupid and s ** ty it has been, and continues to be.

Small cap is probably the poster child of equity markets, with any company beyond 251 in terms of total market capitalization.

More than anything, however, my lending experience has taught me that nobody — not even the poster child of freelancing stardom — is immune from the harsh realities of debt, and that options exist to help keep it under control.

DRM was the poster child of being a recipe for disaster when it was launched to destroy the reader's trust.

Amanda Hocking continues to be the poster child of «indie author makes good» and has landed major book deals from a major publisher due to the success of her ebooks.

The Pebble, likely the poster child of smartwatches only has a two day battery life, the Onyx should last a month.

The New York Times is the current poster child of implementing a solid paywall strategy and seeing the largest gains.

Netflix has been the poster child of this movement and they release an entire season of television episodes in one shot.

If there was a poster child of the selfie movement, it would likely be Kim.

With its classic shape and prestigious motorsports pedigree, the iconic Porsche 911 is the poster child of speed and elegance.

Despite the number of hybrid vehicles introduced over the last dozen years or so, none have really been able to take too big of a bite out of the sales figures for the poster child of hybrids, the Toyota Prius.

Since Kia scooped up Peter Schreyer from Audi and named him their Chief Design Officer in July 2006 he has taken the brand from being the ugly duckling of the bunch to the award - winning poster child of how to design stylish cars without blending in with the rest.