Sentences with phrase «raked over the coals»

Google is getting raked over the coals in Europe for its allegedly anti-competitive search results.

«He's got no energy plan, no financial analysis, if he thinks he's going to sell it off and the private sector is going to come in and invest, that is a recipe for Puerto Rico being raked over the coals by private interests,» Tom Sanzillo, director of finance for the Cleveland, Ohio - based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

During the presidential campaign, hackers cracked open all of the Democrats» secrets and splayed them out for everyone to see, while Hillary Clinton was raked over the coals for using an insecure server for her own personal email.

And I don't think it's raking them over the coals, I think it's holding them to minimal editorial standards.

We both get raked over the coals because we can't compete at the levels or abilities that are expected of us by the able bodied.

I do believe that Jesus is the righteous judge of the world and that we will all stand before Him to give an accounting, and that based on the judgment of Jesus, some will be eternally separated from God... So don't rake me over the coals too much for that title....

So Rob Bell is in the news being raked over the coals because of his ideas.

Second Question: Who will give a public apology to this young man that was raked over the coals then told it was all a big mistake?

A state employee praises Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is threatened with termination, resigns, and gets raked over the coals anyway.

Speaker Silver, trial lawyer in charge, makes sure that the taxpayers in his home city get raked over the coals, so lets not pretend that taxes are not high enough or the tax code is not progressive.

Yet Johnson, a former union leader himself, has curiously decided that now is the time to rake over the coals of Labour's recent leadership contest and called for union influence over the party to be further reduced, thus proving the old adage that former poachers make worse gamekeepers.

While 16 Republicans are raked over the coals in the report, Cuomo and Kentucky's Steve Beshear were the only Democrats.

It was only after the press raked him over the coals repeatedly — for his lack of Christian compassion towards the victims of sex abuse by priests — that the pope managed to scrape up some faux concern for the victims of abuse.

I was raked over the coals, with people analyzing my scarf, my jewelry, my tears.

This is why raking over the coals of ancient ways of doing things is so depressing.

At least Holly, myself, Lara, and Hannah have the ovaries to continually put our work out there into the world, at the risk of getting raked over the coals by people like you.

She was raked over the coals the night before about her single status.

Leigh clearly relishes her character's villainy, almost as much as the film takes pleasure in raking her over the coals, subjecting her to constant verbal abuse, beatings, and much worse (I'll steer clear of specifics to avoid spoiling the film's incredibly demented conclusion).

Thus the stage is set for some soft but no less entertaining (and very timely) satire on commercialism in contemporary society, particularly in the burgeoning teen pop music market (which is further raked over the coals by a spot - on, if brief, opening parody of boy bands).

Tylerh1701: Nintendo seems to get a free pass on a lot of things that, if other companies tried, they would be raked over the coals.

Chapter 1: The Slowest Internet in Mississippi Chapter 2: «They Rake Us Over the Coals» Chapter 3: «Washington Gave Us Leverage»

Can a reformer not be happy about the Parent Trigger being raked over the coals, yet surviving, or that many of Michelle Rhee's reforms are still in place despite leaving her post as D.C. Schools Chancellor after a major push from the American Federation of Teachers?

Is the shop raking me over the coals?

Completely distraught at the price I thought I would have to pay it because I thought another toyota dealership would rake me over the coals as well so what would be the point to take it to another one?

And before anyone objects that Weir is now with Crown Publishing — his proving ground was the same «corrupt» indie publishing world being raked over the coals here, making a pretty good argument for self publishing to * attract * a trade publishing contract, if that's on your bucket list.

but when your staff comes to you with examples of consumers being raked over the coals every day something needs to be done and if that something is pulling together an effort to help law makers and regulators understand whats happening then at least i feel that i am standing up for consumers.

I feel like i am being raked over the coals with fees.

Why is ExperTox a legitimate authority on the detection of lead, yet is being raked over the coals in its detection of Acetaminophen?

As I stated last week, even if Nintendo was will within their rights as an employer to dismiss someone who they felt no longer properly represented the company's image, its handling of the entire situation was nothing short of abysmal and they should be raked over the coals for it.

Nintendo's actions have been pretty shameful in this whole affair, and they need to be raked over the coals for this.

There's being raked over the coals, and then there's face - planting the embers yourself before the whole world starts piling on, cheering and fist - pumping the ensuing chaos as you're struggling for air.

Rossko, the man who doesn't like Spyro, would have raked me over the coals if Blinx hadn't made it to this list.

But every Dowd review I've read typically includes a thread of people raking him over the coals for making cromulent but unpopular assertions.

It's kind of a tricky situation, wanting to praise DICE for creating an otherwise great Star Wars game while simultaneously raking it over the coals for monetization systems that were, in three words, gross as hell.

It's not fun to get raked over the coals.

Salt has been raked over the coals for his comment, with Millennial bloggers pointing out that, if you eat brunch once a week, it would take 9,100 $ 22 smashed avocado toasts and 175 years to save a 20 percent down payment for Sydney's median house price of $ 1 million.

IBM was really raking us over the coals with a $ 100,000,000 per year fee to license some of their patents.

Mind you, when BP executive Tony Hayward was being raked over the coals this summer — deservedly — for the Gulf oil leak, it was Representative Barton who apologized to him for the treatment.

I got raked over the coals by my graduate advisor for making that mistake, and didn't do it again.

He then rakes over the coals of SA

Nobody would ever know if they paid a fair premium or were raked over the coals.

But if you know you're getting raked over the coals, it is hard to even write out the name of the auto insurance company without cringing.

Microsoft would be rightly raked over the coals for this.

At long last Mark's day has arrived, as, in light of recent events, both Congress and British Parliament feel he's eminently qualified to be raked over the coals.

YouTube is in hot water again after it failed this week to catch a conspiracy theory video before it topped the Trending section — proving the company still doesn't have a handle on its own algorithms, despite being raked over the coals for this multiple times in the past.

A portly performer with a mercurial temperament, this egg - shaped fellow will rake you over the coals and chill you to the bone with his breath weapons, never mind the headaches his dance will cause.

While we expect Google to issue a software upgrade to the Nexus 5's camera soon (much as it did for the Moto X shortly after that device was raked over the coals for sub-par optical performance), we're not sure how much of the Nexus 5's problem is addressable via software.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding, but sounds like you're being raked over the coals.

Not exact matches

«I spent a lot of time arguing that financial firms can be profitable and strong without raking their customers over the coals,» Cherny says.

In a trio of public hearings, members of the Senate Judiciary and Senate and House Intel committees raked Facebook's legal stunt double over the coals, occasionally tossing a question to Twitter or Google.