Sentences with phrase «public beating of»

Now it has to be granted, of course, that there is no end to pulpit tricks and sneak attacks: the manufactured tear, public beating of the breast, slaying dragons on loan from the taxidermist, and thousands more.

Not exact matches

I've worked with countless CEOs of companies big and small, famous venture capitalists, and founders of startups that beat the odds and went public.

But the GOP congressman, Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, minced no words: «If you want to serve the public, particularly as a member of a president's staff, I don't care who you are, even if you're a Rhodes Scholar, you can't beat the hell out of your spouse.

Mike DeAngelis, the company's director of public relations says that the company set October as its deadline to be tobacco - free and «worked hard internally» to beat it.

According to the now (in) famous Kauffman report last year, just 20 % of venture funds generate returns that beat a public - market equivalent by more than 3 %.

In its first earnings report since going public, fitness center operator Planet Fitness reported second - quarter profit of 13 cents a share, topping estimates by a penny, on $ 79 million in revenue, which beat projections of $ 77 million.

Amid the rise of Facebook, technology start - ups are beating a path to the public markets, looking to cash in early while investors still have Silicon Valley fever.

Shares of newly public cloud company SendGrid were unchanged in late trading despite beating earnings expectations and raising its outlook for the year.

Lefcourt said that the way the judge who handles Shkreli's criminal case views his public conduct could affect the judge's decision on pretrial motions and arguments, which in turn can affect Shkreli's chances of beating the charges.

The drum - beat of war — trade and military — is meant to deflect the public's attention from the underlying economic reality.

Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.

In Liao Yiwu's God is Red, which recounts the struggles of the Chinese Christians in the Maoist and post-Maoist years, the pastor's son recalls how, because of their faith, his family was beaten, bound, and spit upon during public condemnation meetings.

All About the Beat and The Art of the Public Grovel; American Earth and American Pests; The Lost Spy and The Terminal Spy.

If you haven't noticed, Christianity has been beating a steady retreat from the cultural and moral center of Western public life.

The proper understanding of religion in public took a bad beating in this election year.

It seems ok for muslims to beat there wifes for showing to much skin in Public, that is an expression of their morality, conversley in western societies it seems ok that we can dress our young kids up as adults early and show countless degrading images of women across the media.

Since beating Court he has kept busy throwing out bright and trite new lines reminding the public he is «the heavyweight women's tennis champion of the world» and that there are all kinds of deserving challengers around.

Let's face it goalkeepers tend to march to the beat of a different drum and Szczesny certainly fell into that category, but most of his antics were relatively harmless and simply reflected a certain level of immaturity that isn't uncommon for someone thrust into the limelight at such a young age... lord knows we've seen that happen with numerous players throughout the years and very few were ever banished for such behaviour... the only on - field action that drove me crazy was his inability to take a deep breath and not try to rush the play with an ill - timed throw at certain points in the game when common sense suggested holding the ball and slowing things down... the fact that he continued to do this probably had a lot to do with the glaring lack of coaching time spent with the goalkeepers... ultimately he made the fateful decision to take his frustrations out into the public sphere and paid dearly for it... in the end, his services were wanted by several of the best Italian squads, which is significant considering the historical importance placed on the defensive side of the ball in Serie A... all I know is that if someone asked me to pick the most athletically gifted goalkeeper we have had in our squad since the arrival of Wenger, without hesitation, he would be my pick and for that reason his departure is more than a little disappointing... what else is new though

The timing of this, and the public spotlight on it, highlights the stupidity of Conor's actions, but endangering a pregnant woman is worse, as is beating up a spouse or girlfriend when you're a professional fighter (Mayweather).

Trend to know: The Jags are getting lots of love from public bettors after beating Houston 45 - 7 in Week 15.

and accurately reflect the overwhelming opinion of the public and the polls, which have established a field of teams and a team to beat.

SportsInsights» March Madness system would «Bet Against the Public» and select «Big Underdog» (more than 10 - point dog with less than 40 % of the bets) to beat «the spread.»

Canada's national carrier regularly takes a beating in the forum of public opinion.

Mention can also be made of the Petroleum Funds which include the Stabilization Fund and the now famous Heritage Fund which the NPP government through its Senior Minister, had only last week hastily earmarked to fund the lofty Free SHS programme until public opprobrium forced them to beat a retreat in the matter.

Well - known sporting figure beats GB up, thus releasing wave of public sympathy when he has to appear at a European Council meeting with two black eyes.

Following the path beaten out by the Plain English Campaign (now in its 30th year) and their Golden Bull Awards, organisations such as the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestability.

Including recently when I ran into him at an event and snapped a quick photo of him to which he immediately said: «Ya know, I no longer work in the public sector, which means I can actually beat the S #!

«We have more vigorous cops on the beat, defending the public trust, than ever before — but prosecutors can only respond to the symptoms of a system that is very, very ill,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

YOUR LOT - are about to make it an offence to film police officers going about their lawful business of beating up members of the public.

During and after, they don't want to miss a beat in trying to shape the public's perception of what happened and what's happening.

When Michael Howard had his one to one interview befre the election on BBC1, he said that we'd been wrong to say that public spending should be less than 42 % of GDP, beat his breasts about the evils of Section 28, and pledged increases in public spending.

Now that a Buffalo cellblock attendant has pleaded guilty in the brutal beating of a defendant in May 2016, The Buffalo News has filed a new legal motion to force Mayor Byron Brown's team to let the public see video of the crime.

Public polls took a beating from Republicans this year, most of whom insisted they were inflating Obama's numbers to discourage GOP voters.

Thanks in part to Jason's efforts, which included extensive leafleting, public meetings and activities with other anti-fascist groups, the BNP was beaten into fourth or fifth place in the three Parliamentary constituencies, and lost in all of the City Council wards they contested.

Officer in charge Police Public Compliant Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU), Assistant Commissioner of Police in Charge, ACP Abayomi Shogunle gave details thus, «On 30th May, 2017 a motorist (names withheld) came to the Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU) FHQ Abuja and reported that while driving his vehicle on 29th May, 2017 (12:30 pm) along Wuse market road he was accosted by two Traffic Wardens who accused him of «beating traffic light» despite the fact that he did not.

The arrogance of a public servant selling his influence and abusing his office illustrates just how far off the beaten path a pathetic, narcissistic and power crazed elected official can become and why term limits ate so important.

This is the first time the father of two has sought public office, but for him to enact his vision for the post he'll have to beat retired teacher Gold in the September election.

Public Policy Polling (D) has released its first survey of the race and found the Republican candidate, former Rep. Pat Toomey, beats both Specter and Specter's primary opponent, Rep. Joe Sestak (D), in a general election matchup.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration continued to beat the drum on its call for the State Legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo to give the mayor permanent control of New York City's public schools.

Kindlon, as Law Beat previously reported, has overhauled the office with new assignments and roles for attorneys, right down to transforming the former media room on the first - floor of the judicial center to an office where public defenders can meet their clients.

Given those gains, Republicans believe 2012 is the cycle where they finally can beat Conrad and have ramped up public pressure on him in the early stages of the race.

If Ukip beat Labour on Thursday in the European election, expect much of the dissent currently rumbling just beneath the surface across both the right and left of the PLP, to explode into public view.

Cuomo, of course, has gotten beaten up recently over being anything but transparent, from his use of PIN - to - PIN function on his Blackberry, eskewing emails and keeping some of his documents from his time as attorney general out of the public view.

While it is true that there are elements within both republican and loyalist paramilitarism who still want to march to the beat of unsettled scores and manufactured grievances, the vast majority of us, politicians and the general public, just want to move ahead into an era of normal bread - and - butter politics.

MoveOn Political Action commissioned Public Policy Polling to do surveys of registered voters in 24 House congressional districts currently held by Republicans, and they say the surveys show a generic Democrat would beat the incumbent Republican member if elections were held today.

Labor leaders and some public - education advocacy groups, on the other hand, are hoping for a majority of exclusively mainstream Democrats which would be more inclined beat back pro-charter legislation and a controversial tax credit proposal.

Niagara County SPCA officials are asking for the public's help identifying an individual involved in the brutal beating of a snapping turtle last month.

There is a public war of words in the struggle to beat Corbyn, with each calling on the other to step back from the leadership contest.

The report outlines a series of first steps, including holding fewer people on bail; expanding diversion programs for drug offenders and those with mental illness; and changing state law to treat some low - level offenses — like fare - beating, marijuana possession in public view, prostitution and possession of so - called gravity knives — as civil rather than criminal matters.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders today named the members of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the latest incarnation of an anti-corruption watchdog on the beat.