Sentences with phrase «rather infamous»

When it comes to user data, Google is rather infamous for its business model: Its users are its product.

Being famous for her charity work in Calcutta, the show deranges the perception of Mother Theresa and brings it in close proximity with a rather infamous depiction from which her undying holyness displays certain similarities to the immortality and behaviour of vampires.

@mushroomer: to add to what Tom said, in case you missed it a couple years back, here's a rather infamous example of ad - space not buying NL's love — that one ran with an ad and still scored a 4.

The Prime Minister is shown here with her good friend President Ronald Reagan and his rather infamous Bouvier des Flandres «Lucky».

In 2010 Education Reform Now ran a rather infamous television commercial in New York State that included a «parent» saying, «Stop listening to the teachers union.»

Writer Kim Fuller (the person responsible for another, rather infamous «girl power» comedy, Spice World) often strains to come up with convincing reasons for the women to stick to their often - failing plan, and while there are more than a few grin - worthy moments, there is a clear dearth of any that induce audible laughs.

It is interesting to see him working with Christian Bale being that both of them are rather infamous for the tirades they've had on set.

The Challenge began thanks to The Henley Boy — a man whose actions at the time appeared to be a mystery, and who is now rather infamous!

Several years after his rather infamous comment to the effect that «corruption was as old as Adam», Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, has explained that, the comment was not an endorsement of corruption, as some have frequently referred to it in their justification of government's inability to tackle the canker effectively.

In response to Eve's comment that implied that we need to accept the god of the old testament no matter what she might find herself in rather infamous company.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump's administration floated a rather controversial idea on Thursday for how to pay for his infamous border wall with Mexico: a 20 % tax on Mexican imports.

Rather than be remembered as that infamous corporation that abandoned its responsibility, be the corporation that saved the industry and created universal health insurance for the entire United States of America.

When I consider such a place, I have to agree with Ingersoll — «If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

His variety of tricks didn't stop with simple nutmegs though; for example, he employed an infamous and rather comical playground classic at Old Trafford: with the ball up in the air, he shouted «Leave!»

The Bengal Famine of 1943, a defining scar on the Bengali psyche, has been infamous internationally since Sen demonstrated — first in an article and then in his book Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981)-- how famine did not occur due to «food availability decline» but rather the deterioration of «exchange entitlements» of particular groups in rural Bengal which denied them access to food.

Despite Powell's sacking as shadow defence secretary within a day of making the infamous speech, the public mood was rather different.

In the presentation to the public — see the figure in the Nature article itself, once again, there is the infamous splice between reconstruction by proxy (up to 1980) and the instrumental record thereafter (once again Jones» CRU record, rather than the satellite record).

I'm not referring to the infamous Westside Barbell box squats here, but rather, using a box or a bench as a target that you touch with your glutes at the bottom of your squat.

The talk show host dressed up as Sofia Vergera — or rather, Sofia's infamous Emmys wardrobe malfunction on the Ellen Degenres Show today (pictured, right).

Rather unsurprisingly starting an hour late, and so around the same time Tom Ford's runway show began, the infamous VFiles kicked off New York Fashion Week with a show at Brooklyn's Barclays...

Rather than take on the entire movie — which includes an inexplicable ending, piss - poor greenscreen, and at least a dozen other noxious elements — let's look at the two most infamous moments, which represent everything wrong about this film.

The bulk of the film goes back and forth between the attempts to bring him back, and the kidnappers and their captive — including a botched escape attempt as well as the infamous and rather graphic depiction of Paul's ear being cut off.

Despite the generally solid performances — that is, aside from an awkward turn from director Arthur Hiller and his infamous pompadour, who are inexplicably cast as Edwards's deaf father)-- Murphy fails to give us a compelling reason to care about these rather sketchily characters or their equally hazy epiphanies.

For what it's worth as regards The Incredible Hulk, I'll restate the fact that I've never been one to hop on the anti - sequel / anti-remake bandwagon (I'd rather see more double - bills of films like Capote and Infamous than «original» films lacking in soul or depth), and despite his many offenses (most of them relative in my book), nor will I take part in the seemingly mandatory pastime of kicking M. Night Shyamalan when he's down.

There's a good argument to be had concerning whether or not Lucio Fulci is a «good» director, and rather than have it again, I'd offer that Zombie, Fulci's infamous quickie - cash - in on Dawn of the Dead, does a couple of things very well and the rest pretty badly.

Rather than being remembered as a fairly light - hearted comedy about an intercontinental hit job, the film is primarily associated with the infamous Sony hack that went down just prior to its release, which was seen as a retaliatory act by North Korean hackers and led to the film being pulled from most theaters.

Her father is the infamous Italian soft - core - horror - movie director Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red), and from a rather innocent age she has appeared in his movies, often in highly provocative, sexually fucked - up situations.

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.

It is rather a novelization of a true - life incident, the kidnapping of oilman Charles Urschel by infamous (hence the title) desperado George «Machine Gun» Kelly.

My other concern, of course, is the availability of the specifications required to run the Tablet at its full capacity; I'd rather opt for some other crappier and more expensive tablet whose peripherals have full specifications and / or open - source drivers available rather than having to deal with the infamous nVidia binary blobs once again.

These co-branded cards often still provide the infamous first - purchase discount, but most now have ongoing programs very similar to regular reward credit cards (gather points and redeem rewards) and cash back credit cards (earn rebates from purchases) that encourage long - term loyalty rather than a one - time spending spree.

The infamous rumour mill has been at yet again with the latest issue of Xbox World magazine claiming some rather impressive specifications for the next generation Xbox, claiming that devkits, which are special consoles allowing the developers to test their games, were sent out to some of the top developers in -LSB-...]

Rather than being the next iteration in the smash hit inFamous series, inFamous: Festival of Blood deserves more to be called a spin - off.

Still, it's quite odd (and rather ironic) that an infamous predictor managed to actually get something right just by making a joke.

It might have been a rather good year: Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart 8, Infamous: SS, Titanfall — all these would be on the same «system.»

Sticking to the infamous difficulty of the series, Dark Souls III would rather chop off your hands than hold them.

Even though there have been a long line of bundles released, including the Infamous: Second Son, Watch Dogs, and The Last of Us: Remastered bundle, another bundle has been revealed: the Driveclub bundle, which will include the PS4 console, the full game (rather than just the PS Plus edition), and a DualShock 4 controller.

One infamous quirk is that when a monster defends, they nullify all damage rather than merely reduce it.

In many cases, it seemed like the Sonic franchise just leached its way onto anything, and that the developers at Sega would rather be making something else entirely (quite literally in the case of the infamous «Sonic the Hedgehog» 06»).

Despite the numerous letdowns, I've been cautiously optimistic about Spidey's next - gen debut, although this is more of a port rather than something purpose built for the new machines like Infamous: Second Son.

Rather than using images of carnage and gore, for which ISIS videos are infamous, Badach's edit reveals a vast, enduring, and majestic landscape that dwarfs the players in the conflict and exposes the futility of war.

On the one hand, something feels too akin to pure showmanship rather than to art or science, despite the half inch of forward visibility, as if to give new relevance to Michael Fried's infamous dismissal of Minimalism as theater.

This is the same NPR which permitted book excerpts from Laurie David featuring a false accolade about Ross Gelbspan, the same radio network which allowed Gelbspan to prominently mention his favorite leaked memo «accusation» bits where zero time was allotted for rebuttal, the same radio network which interviewed him more than one time, and the same radio network which years later featured Al Gore's bit about the infamous «smoking gun leaked industry memo phrase» «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» where the NPR writer offered not one word of curiosity about that awkward phrase.

Josefino Comiso is a co-author of the infamous Steig et al. research that attempted to take real warming in the Antarctica Peninsula area and then magically spread it to the rest of Antarctica using rather bizarre techniques.

Much like wanting to see the infamous leaked memo phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» in its full context, I wanted to see this so - called attack by Senator Inhofe on Naomi Oreskes.

First, the setup for Ron's article: Back late 2009, in my efforts to figure out where the infamous «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase came from — the line spelled out in Al Gore's movie and in Ross Gelbspan's book «The Heat is On», which they portray as a sinister top - down industry directive that skeptic climate scientists are paid to follow — I ran across Naomi Oreskes» widely repeated Powerpoint presentation from 2008 where she said the leaked memo set containing that phrase was in the archives of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

But from the time when the infamous leaked memo phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» came out in the media in late May 1991 until December 1995, essentially nobody of any memorable significance was trumpeting it to the public.

The surprise to me with this lawsuit is that it doesn't feature sensational evidence like others did — the older Kivalina v Exxon case and the newer San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach v. Chevron cases — by citing the infamous «leaked memo set» headlined with «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» which are universally accepted among enviro - activists as smoking gun evidence of skeptic climate scientists being paid to push misinformation to the public at the behest of sinister corporate handlers.

The appearance of it there bothers me, considering what I wrote about regarding the appearance of Ross Gelbspan's infamous «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» at Wikipedia.

Like the infamous Dr. Smith — rather than face a Disciplinary Hearing this psychologist chose instead to «voluntarily» retire from the profession and agreed not to seek to practice anywhere in North America — ever again.