Sentences with phrase «riding herd»

In the meantime, top officials riding herd on BP and the Deepwater Horizon response team said they remained confident that the company, with assistance from a variety of government agencies, was doing the best it could with the seafloor leak.

After that comes the need for fire and liability insurance, finding tenants, collecting rents, negotiating leases and mortgages, finding and riding herd on trades people to maintain the place for you, complying with zoning, rent controls and other legislation, and so on.

He's reminded of that sobriquet early on by one of the very policemen he's meant to be riding herd over.

And so they go to work, with Spotlight editor Walter «Robby» Robinson (Michael Keaton) riding herd over reporters Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d'Arcy James).

One of the biggest challenges facing any director is riding herd on the wildly fluctuating budget for the decennial census.

More than just riding herd on molecules, such subtle forces make it possible for structures to assemble themselves into an ever more complex hierarchy.

Musical chairs is common at these committees early in election cycles as veterans who have spent two (or four or more) years riding herd over a large number of races begin to grasp the enormity of doing so again.

Has been for 10 years, riding herd on such successful endeavors as the Producemobile, a farmers - market - on - wheels that brings fresh produce to neighborhoods ranging from Englewood to Humboldt Park, as well as the welfare - to - work food - service training program called Chicago's Community Kitchens.

Stars from the glory days are riding herd in front offices.

In the U.S., Judge Breyer is pushing the class action forward on a very fast track and appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to ride herd on the parties to settle.

People (including church people) will indeed ride herd on you, but Jesus will gently say, «Come, follow Me.»

How else to explain a special legislative «oversight committee» to ride herd on the county's largest county public works project since the jail, the $ 12.2 million Family Court project in the Town of Ulster.

he rode herd over the DNC and had great influence before the Dem Convention..

Yes exactly GJJ, Howard Dean rode herd on the fractious Democrats.

In September 2015 a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine proposed a quasi-independent board to ride herd on those regulations.

Convinced that college deans were just what he needed to ride herd on the first volunteers, he assigned the Dey family to Southern Luzon in the Philippines.

Faith Maloney, known as «Chief Dog,» rode herd on the dogs while construction of the Sanctuary was underway.

She «rides herd» over the clinical staff.

Not exact matches

Johnny Haynes, the first # 100 a week footballer, what a passer of a ball, saw him play as a ten year old in an early 60's 2 - 2 draw against Arsenal over the Easter period at Craven Cottage, David Herd scored both our goals, remember it well as a youngster for the longest bus ride I'd ever done at that time, 22 bus, East London To Putney.

Those Yamnaya pastoralists herded cattle and sheep, and some rode newly domesticated horses, says archaeologist David Anthony of Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.

For example, one particularly influential hypothesis argues that horse riding and nomadic herding societies developed during the late second millennium BCE, as a response to drought and a worsening climate.

The study may also shed light on whether today's changing climate will help or hurt the central Asian steppe, where riding and herding are still mainstays.

Markings on horse teeth indicate that the Botai tethered the horses with bits and either rode or herded them, suggesting some degree of domestication.

If its herding steers or just riding horses I enjoy it.

Ex-lawman turned rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley Sr.), ride up and accuse him of having stolen the cattle and killed their owner.

You ride your horse, herd your animals and sell their meat and hides.»

Red Dead Redemption fans will remember that there was a surprisingly fleshed out system for riding alongside the herd and driving them where they needed to go.

Coming home, we rode along in what seemed like a herd of crossovers: the Acura MDX, the BMW X5, the Ford Flex, and the GMC Acadia were among the more heavily represented.

The first truck I remember riding in was my Grandpa Compagner's silver Chevy; even though I was a baby then, he probably would have washed my mouth out if I told him his ride needed a cattle herd's worth of leather trim and massaging front seats.

Instead of using it to herd their cattle, her owners entrusted it with a more demanding job - entertaining people while riding a bull.

In her spare time Ashlee enjoys helping out with the family Black Angus cow / calf herd, riding her horses, and learning all there is to know about her eclectic chicken flock.

I personally don't care much for «trail rides» where you walk at an excruciatingly slow pace for an hour, nose - to - tail in a line of 20 horses with a herd mentality.

For the adventurous, activities that can be enjoyed on - site are scenic walks, cycling paths, horse riding, sheep herding as well as other seasonal farm activities.

At dinnertime, they rode past a herd of bell - wearing goats that were headed home to eat.

But all of that starts to fade away when you're riding atop a mechanical steed, galloping alongside a babbling brook through a glistening meadow, the sun beginning to set overhead as you spot a herd of hostile Machines in the distance.

Nearby in the Jægersborg Dyrehave, a horse - drawn carriage ride showed the artists herds of deer grazing peacefully in what was once the royal hunting ground.

These works recall Griffith's horse treks in Botswana and South Africa, in which she was able to ride with herds of antelope, kudu and wildebeest.

Best Buy, the nation's leading electronics retailer, used to be known for its killer hours, herd - riding bosses, and high turnover.

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