Sentences with phrase «rained on the parades of»

Looking through their World Cup wins you could be forgiven for thinking they've rained on the parades of some of the best sides to have graced the game.

Leave it to science, what with all of its testing and analyzing and conclusions, to rain on the parade of monster hunters the world over.

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Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The falling yen is raining on Japan's parade of overseas acquisitions, which had a record - breaking year in 2012, when the yen was rising.

Sorry to rain on the parade, but let's hear it for the medicalisation of childbirth.

Thanksgiving is wonderful, I mean it is all about eating, but it's usually around my birthday so it kind of rains on my parade.

Dan said he didn't want to rain on the parade but (I paraphrase) the quality of their opponents has been pretty low.

He's not saying yet, and he certainly had no intention of raining on Perez's parade Sunday with a retirement announcement of his own.

But, of course, there are those that want to rain on our parade, one of a number of things that grated this weekend, so I thought I'd dive into each point and break them down.

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but in developing countries children are weaned (as there's usually another child on the way), and you do see alot of kids that are as young as 3 or 4 helping out with work or on the farm.

I critiqued that post here («Why I Just Rained on Someone's School Food Reform Parade «-RRB-, arguing that improving school food is in fact quite difficult, and that the subject of the post, Jane Hersey of Feingold Associates, was a little too blithe in dismissing those difficulties.

Enter stage left the perennial villain of the transgender story: the radical feminists, who for no discernible reason but their own bigotry and mean - spiritedness want to rain on Maria's trans - inclusive parade.

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

But Chairman of the Monroe County Republican Committee Bill Reilich says fellow Republicans will not let Isaac rain on their parade.

Not content with deliberately raining on the Chancellor's parade (which was nowhere near as wildly optimistic as Vince suggests), he would only say that Ed Balls was wrong on «much» of his critique - and that as a reluctant response.

Well the weather here in NY has in fact reminded me of why I moved to LA... all of this rain and fog is raining on my parade (literally + figuratively haha)... I wanted to shoot blog photos and clearly that isn't happening:p But at least that leaves me plenty of time to cuddle up with Charlie!

I have a sad reality to confess (especially to any younguns out there who dream of becoming a marine biologist so they can spend their days sunbathing and swimming with dolphins): Although I hate to rain on the Awesome Job Fantasy Parade, most of the time we sad seafarers are in the lab looking down a microscope at once beach - dwelling things, or writing papers about that one time last year we got to go to the beach and do field work, or we're writing grants to fund the time we want to go to the beach next year.

Paradoxically, Red Sparrow itself puts its glum - looking star through a parade of indignities: The movie's most shocking feature isn't any of its twisty plot reveals — mainly involving Dominika getting romantically mixed up with a CIA operative (Joel Edgerton)-- but the exploitative brutality it rains down on Lawrence.

Audi's first foray into the all - electric field will look to rain on the Tesla Model X's parade, in the form of the Audi Q6 e-tron, which we'll see in concept form at the Frankfurt auto show in September.

-- The remnants of tropical storm Ernesto rained on Corvette Racing's parade as qualifying for Sunday's Grand Prix of Mosport was canceled due to treacherous track conditions.

Heck, a few days after the»07 show, DaimlerChrysler was already pimping the fact that they would be unveiling the production version of the long - awaited Dodge Challenger at next year's Chicago Auto Show (not to rain on their parade, but we're holding out for the retro Plymouth Superbird).

It would appear that Mercedes Benz was trying to rain on Mazda's parade when a group of slightly camouflaged pulled up in front of the same hotel that the Japanese automaker was keeping journalists on a recent press trip.

The damp, chilly air, portending rain, reminded Raymond Ambler of playing baseball as a boy on such a day, the grass recently starting to grow in green, forsythia bright yellow against the dull gray of the day, daffodils bobbing in the cold wind in the yards of row houses across the street from the parade grounds in Windsor Terrace.

I seem to be the «rainmaker» most of the time, but the reason is so no one rains on the author's parade later on... in the form of not reading (buying) the book.

Of course, the Bank of Canada could rain on the variable parade as early as its next rate meetings on May 30 or July 1Of course, the Bank of Canada could rain on the variable parade as early as its next rate meetings on May 30 or July 1of Canada could rain on the variable parade as early as its next rate meetings on May 30 or July 11.

This weeks gaming podcast rains on a lot of parades, talking about the Sony PS3 and its issues in the market, Microsoft's scratch disk conspiracy and ugly sales figures for some games.

A resdesign of Nintendo's portable hardware could be just the shot - in - the - arm needed to keep them ahead and really rain on Sony» parade.

Everyone here knows I'm MGS megafan # 1, but MGS4 kind of rained on my parade.

The ESA attempted to rain on Ouya's parade by moving big trailer trucks in front of the so - called Ouya Park.

As to renewable energy there are a number of blog sites that are related; however, most are related to beginners and old salts like me end up raining on their parades.

But, ever keen to rain on the wind industry's parade, here's a couple of pieces that point out one or more inconvenient truths.

I don't want to rain on your parade but the temperature at the top of the atmosphere is in the thousands of degrees.

Which brings me to my point: Not to rain on anyone's parade (we deserve a moment of celebration), but this is only a small step in the right direction.

It is one of those rare moments when some «rain on the parade» would actually be a good thing.

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, I'm just pointing out that there may be a different interpretation of that particular statement.

Of course, these results shouldn't be seen as rain on the iPad Pro's parade.

Samsung's had its chance (s) to bring out the big guns for the upcoming holiday season, largely spoiled by a series of unfortunate exploding events, companies like Sony, Acer, Asus and Lenovo shared the IFA 2016 spotlight, LG did everything in its power yesterday to rain on iPhone 7's parade, and now, it's finally time for Apple's big day.

Not to rain on anyone's parade but it's always best to be prepared should the forecast say «showers» on the day of hosting an outdoor gathering.