Sentences with phrase «runaway train»

And sadly, the «low fat» campaign seems to be an unstoppable runaway train.

The scheme — which Mr Clegg said he hoped would stop the «runaway train of bureaucracy» — asks teachers to complete a survey to find solutions to unnecessary tasks.

Cannon went on to produce A CRY IN THE DARK starring Meryl Streep and RUNAWAY TRAIN with Jon Voight, collaborating along the way with John Cassavetes and Jean Luc Godard.

Voight's performance is one for the ages, a deliriously perverse turn that joins Olivier's evil dentist and Voight's own irredeemable baddie from Runaway Train in the rogue wing of the Bad Accent Hall of Fame.

Ebscer have now released a new game that is just as addicting — Runaway Trains for the PlayBook.

, $ 1.8 million: A veteran engineer and his novice pal attempt to halt runaway train loaded with toxic chemicals.

This one has the map of London, art book, soundtrack, collector's box and the bonus Runaway Train mission.

Mechanical failures, especially of the brakes, made runaway trains common in the early days of railroading — mindless monsters rolling out of control for many miles up and down grades until they crashed into another train or derailed at high speed on a curve.

After making his movie debut in director Hal Ashby's final film 8 Million Ways to Die (1985), Lister spent the rest of the 1980s working primarily in A and B movies heavy on action, including Runaway Train (1985), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), and Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice (1987).

Directing his 16th action - packed thrill ride, Tony Scott takes us on a high speed adventure involving a deadly, unmanned runaway train in Unstoppable - hitting theaters everywhere this weekend.

We've seen films about runaway trains before, and it's a great suspense - building device, but Bong isn't as concerned about things like logic and plot as he is energy and surprise.

Bottom line is I don't have faith in the wasteful, runaway train monster governments and don't want to give them my hard earned money that I want to use to stabilize my family, finally.

Have you ever seen the movie Runaway Train?

As the campaign group Human Genetics Alert accused the Government of «setting the lights to green for the genetics runaway train», the Science Media Centre asked fertility experts to comment.

More notably, the film is bookended by a pair of absolutely crackling runaway train action sequences, arguably director Gore Verbinski's best since «Mousehunt».

Urgent calls to rescue victims from burning buildings and runaway trains also weigh heavily on him.

Eric Clapton — Runaway Train Outro: Toploader — Dancing in the Moonlight

They must not only manage and run schools — a task one leader describes as a «runaway train most days» — they're expected to narrow the achievement gap and at the same time raise achievement for every single student, even in the most demanding environments.

BNSF will have to spend a lot of money to deal with the need to stop runaway trains remotely.

The Gunstringer rides his trusty steed or tears through the countryside on foot shooting up oil fields, boarding runaway trains, and hopping on some other unexpected modes of transportation like a statue of Andrew Jackson.

We've written before about isolated examples of these clauses, and some sites including provisions preventing customers from writing negative reviews about them online, but the trend towards including them looks like the proverbial runaway train.

Three: Inspired by a real life 2001 runaway train in Toledo, the story plays right into Mr. Scott's wheelhouse with action and heroic testosterone.

A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train — effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

But little time was spent considering the risks associated with the alternate mode of transport, and the illusion of safety was shattered forever when a runaway train loaded with crude oil unleashed hell on a small Quebec town.

If I hadn't paid attention to that piece of advice, I might have also gotten caught up in a runaway train and perhaps never gotten control of it.

Like a runaway train, they speed down the track out of control, unable to stop and turn at critical junctures.

But pay attention: Greenfield is driving yet another runaway train on the DAF express.

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

Automating bad strategy, bad tactics, and creating a «spinning wheel» of continuous changes only accelerates failure like a runaway train.

being in U2 is more like riding a runaway train, hanging on to it for dear life.

He is a marvel in the open court, where he looks like a runaway train with that combination of size and speed.

The home side came into the game knowing that a win would be enough to take them to within touching distance of promotion and they started the game like a runaway train, going close to an opener after just two minutes.

But there are many things you can do to keep your budget from becoming a runaway train:

But having said that I also want to say this stroller is harder to stop turning making it feel a little like a runaway train, Quinny Buzz Xtra 2.0 Stroller Review stroller is hard to push with one hand and even with two hands it is not easy to turn quickly.

I fear that once this runaway train leaves the station there will be no stopping it.»

The runaway train of outrage over executive pay is now unstoppable, crushing all those bosses who find themselves in its path.

Furthermore, it commits thefallacy of the runaway train.

There is a runaway train on the white elephant line.

Had Democrats won on Tuesday, Mr. Golden said, «we'd be on that runaway train again.»

She called for her fellow members to «stop a runaway train from continuing down a path of destruction.»

Even former Democratic Gov. David Paterson ripped the mayor's plan to shell out $ 2 billion on the homeless (about $ 25,000 for every homeless person)-- spending Johnson slams as «a runaway train.»

As a result, the Warren Spring closure now resembles a runaway train.

How long would you hesitate before pushing someone in front of a runaway train to keep it from killing five other people?

The initial set of scenarios involved a variable personal factor: In one setup, the choice was whether or not to push someone onto a railroad track to prevent a runaway train from killing five other people; in another, the choice was whether to flip a switch that would route the train from a track where it could strike five people to another track where it would kill only one.

But wayward stem cells can turn into a runaway train without a conductor.

I get anxious and my mind runs off the rails like a runaway train.