Sentences with phrase «pull the wool over the eyes of»

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

It appears that, once again, Arsene Wenger has managed to pull the wool over the eyes of the Arsenal fans and the football media.

What are your thoughts on this — companies trying to pull the wool over the eyes of unsuspecting public again?

But their lies beget more lies and soon they find themselves desperately unable to properly pull the wool over the eyes of those they claim to represent as they are confronted by the facts, leading to their ultimate demise.

Now in her seventh school, she plans to pull the wool over the eyes of her sixth - grade teacher, as she has done with many other teachers in the past.

Big companies with a lot of advertising money are not going to pull the wool over the eyes of this kitty's mommy!!

Instead of focusing on developing solutions the robber barons continue to pull the wool over the eyes of the masses spreading doubt just like the cigarette makers spread doubt about the deadly health affects of smoking cigarettes.

The whole notion that the Tobacco industry somehow pulled the wool over the eyes of the public strikes me as laughable.

Thus, by substituting the term «photo voltaic» for «solar», RC is attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of the scientific community to perpetuate their own belief system.

Dealers may use a wide variety of tactics to pull wool over the eyes of unsuspecting customers.

It was also nice to see industry members challenged like they were, you can't pull the wool over the eyes of the consumer anymore and it proves that the old scripts of what we do and what it costs simply aren't resonating with consumers today.

Guess which one successfully pulled the wool over the eyes of Chamberlain, the appeaser, all the while plotting to tear down the well - entrenched systems of government that did not meet with his version of a well - run order for humanity?

Not exact matches

Ubiquiti Networks is one of the latest companies to admit it's had the multimillion dollar wool pulled over its eyes.

by The banking - government industrial complex has been pulling the wool over investors» eyes for years when it comes to getting the masses to keep their savings tied up in ever rapidly devaluing fiat currencies instead of intelligently converting them into the only real money out there — physical gold and physical silver — that has -LSB-...]

As I saw / see it, they had the wool pulled over their eyes too, like so many of us have had in one way or another.

«the simple logic of cause and effect»... I wonder how many people never saw the wool being pulled over their eyes when they read that one.

Gay agenda is just that the gat agenda, not the rest of society unless they let the wool be pulled over their eyes on what normal is.

Smart, well meaning scientists are pulling the wool over your eyes by trying to sell books to the mediocre masses that don't recognize their convoluted definition of the existence of «something» vs. «nothing».

«Consumers are sick and tired of Woolworths trying to pull the wool over the eyes and hiding the fact they are destroying the Australian food industry by chopping and changing their food - sourcing agreements and potentially sending jobs offshore,» he said.

lets all thank arsene for finally doing the right thing only time will tell but have we finally signed the DM we need STRONG MINDED NO HOLD BAR MIDFIELDER WE HAVE ALL CRAVED, but lets take it back we all know it will take 2 or 3 more like minded players to make us great again, he has tricked us all buy buying one superstar in the last 3 windows ALEXIS, OZIL and CHEC great players but can't do it all on their own, spending huge amount of money and saying we can buy the best players, on the surface this looks great we are buying top top players big prices but instead of spending his usual 50 mill on 2, 3, 4, 0r 5 players he has pulled the wool over are eyes with 1 superstar thinking the fans are that dumb enough to believe it, infact he has never spent his budget only balanced on sales too purchases, i love arsenal but this summer i hope for more he needs to do that consistently through out the team spend the same amount on the team stop balancing the american owners, grow a pair say yes we will buy a top defender and a world class striker, stan we love arsenal please be one of us do whats needed then you will fell proud as we are and we will adore you for it.

Seems ramsey excursions at the euros have pulled the wool over some of you guys eyes..

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

like I've said before, Wenger is simply stating that Sanchez is staying so that he can regain some leverage when it comes time to make a deal and to shift the focus back squarely on Sanchez... this is 101 tactics in PR management... the very fact that he even mentioned RVP's name speaks to the utterance arrogance of a man that believes he answers to no one... before you harshly judge Sanchez think carefully about what the ultimate intentions of both parties involved... Sanchez wants to win trophies and get paid generously for his efforts, whereas the club wants to pull the wool over our eyes once again so that we blame the player for wanting the very things we told him we wanted when we brought him in... how many times do we have to go down this road before we realize the only common factor in each of these scenarios is the club itself... trust me, if we showed any ambition Sanchez's contract demands would be much different... just like in other major sports players will take a «home town» discount if they see those in charge making a truly honest attempt to fight for the highest honours in their respective fields... that being said, if they see a team trying to make disparaging remarks about them in the press and not following through on their promises, they will likely try to make them pay a premium for their services or seek greener pastures... btw if anyone simply looks at the score versus Bayern today and thinks that even for a second that this was a deserved victory, just watch the game and judge for yourself... actually save yourself the anguish and just know that if it weren't for Cech and Martinez this could have been a repeat of our Champions League flopping or worse

Our club has gone backwards regardless of what Gazidis claims, and the wool won't be pulled over my eyes.

George Graham won in Europe three years before Wenger joined, and although he (Wenger) claimed to have not seen Arsenal in the champions league a lot before he joined that's because only the winners of their Nations league went into it and English clubs were banned for a few years, under GG we were in it once and should have been in it once more in his reign, Wenger three in his, Wenger maybe tactically naive but his ability to pull the wool over peoples eyes is amazing.

While analyzing the sensationalistic tactic by which most of our press often depicts motherhood, Valenti articulates the wool that is consistently being pulled over mothers» eyes.

Not one to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, Henci lets the reader in on her whole thinking process, providing scientific references, summaries of the articles, and logical recommendations — all in a highly readable, user - friendly format.»

Kids generally don't like having someone try to pull the wool over their eyes, so just as we've made them savvy about the tobacco industry's insidious techniques to get them to use cigarettes, we need to show kids that the food industry is, in a very direct way, making money at the expense of their own health.

Instead of trying to come up with safe ways to serve food they would rather spend money on pulling the wool over our eyes or using the political system give us no choice in the matter.

New York's minor political parties have long pulled the wool over voters» eyes, but now one of them — labor's Working Families Party — is caught up in outright criminal...

A man accused Bishop of trying to «pull the wool over our eyes.»

For years you've been lied too, had the wool pulled over your eyes - even unknowingly put your health at grave risk - all so food manufacturers could profit off of cheap food products!

When you realize the wool that's been pulled over the collective eyes of society regarding nutrition, it's easy to become obsessed with your newfound knowledge.

And the wool that big Organics is pulling over the eyes of us idealistic - minded consumers is important information to absorb.

Luckily, my daughter hasn't really caught on to the fact that a lot of the boxes in the mail contain presents for her, and it's still pretty easy to pull the wool over her eyes.

Not everyone knows the purpose of the Navy SEALs, so it's easy to pull the wool over our eyes, but damn near everyone knows how schools operate, right?

J.J. Abrams, the man who barely gave anything away in the trailers for the biggest movie of last year, and his Bad Robot team had once again pulled the wool over our eyes without us even realizing it.

For a while it seems like the smart and charismatic Moonee is blissfully unaware of her single mother's financial struggles but no one can pull the wool over this kid's eyes.

It soon becomes apparent that Genevieve is trying to take over Starla's place in the town spotlight, and although Starla clearly sees the schemes for what they are, the rest of the town has the wool firmly pulled over their eyes as the the sweet, young Frenchie's intentions.

These shenanigans by the district and the union have been presented to the public in a way that is designed to pull the wool over people's eyes: «The result has been a perversion of the evaluation system and a knowing effort to deceive the public using educational jargon.»

Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, says yesterday's «Day of Action» is no more than the latest attempt by the powerful teachers union to pull the wool over the public's eyes: «Randi Weingarten doesn't care about reforming schools in the name of quality education; she cares about exploding government budgets in the name of filling her union's bank account.»

He highlights the most important things to look out for before signing a contract which doesn't require a degree in law or applied mathematics in order to understand and goes on to show how publishers can pull the wool over your eyes in any number of ways with excessive printer markups, royalties that sound too good to be true, and not releasing production files without a fee should you decide to end the contract.

It's possible to pull the wool over the auditors» eyes, because most of them are totally and completely ignorant of the basics of GAAP as it applies to publishers, much less FASB regs on publishing, but in general, very few of the large publishers have any intentional irregularities.

If you know the kind of interest rate you should see, lenders will not be able to pull the wool over your eyes.

Luckily most people are very weak mathematically so the wool can be pulled over their eyes easily (I include most MBAs here since the level of mathematics involved is a joke - start talking about autoregressive moving - average models over generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic processes and see their eyes glaze over and then hit them with the money pitch on why our particular high - frequency strategy can volatiltiy pump - more nonsense - and sign»em up).

It is so easy to have the wool pulled over your eyes with these slick websites, many of which show Cavalier photos that have been pirated from other websites.

We tell you what each place offers, what it costs, and where it is, as well as do our best to give you a realistic picture of what it looks like - so sleek looking photographs don't pull the wool over your eyes.

It seems as though this is just another story of «The Wolf Pulling The Wool Over The Sheeps» (Our) Eyes».

Seriously, this group has either got to be outright stupid, or active participants in an on - going criminal enterprise intended to not only defraud the planet, but to also pull the wool over peoples eyes by diversion of reality.

I'm thankful that there are so many here, including Monckton of Brenchley, that are not ignorant of the composition of the wool that Goraphiles are trying to pull over our eyes so they can pick our pockets while they restrict our freedoms.