Sentences with phrase «sacred cows»

In «Creative Age», you destroyed a very sacred cow of the agency world, The Brand.

What sacred cows in education are due for an overhaul?

Most of my successful posts have been of this type: taking aim at sacred cows.

We need people who aren't afraid to ask challenging questions about sacred cows.

Some require us to reconsider such sacred cows as the secret ballot; they may prove vulnerable to manipulation and mob rule.

Those are off limits, sacred cows so to speak.

In the sports nutrition game, there are very few sacred cows.

The only deal they might accept is one in which they get carbon taxes and carve - outs for regulatory sacred cows.

And why wouldn't it be since it was developed off the back of the industry's most sacred cow.

But now the financial well is running dry, and a number of formerly sacred cows are coming under careful scrutiny.

So here we go with chapter one, sacred cow number one.

There were also a few sacred cows to be had.

Mr. Magu said apart from bringing corrupt public officers to justice, the EFCC under his leadership is determined, in line with the stance of the current administration under President Muhammadu Buhari to send «unmistakable message» to everyone, that no Nigerian shall be regarded as above the law or treated as sacred cow as far as the fight against corruption is concerned.

The NBA Internet made celebrities out of cult favorites like Monta Ellis and cast aspersions on sacred cows (sorry, Kobe).

«After a certain period of time,» he says, «you almost have to make fun of things that become sacred cows.»

He tipped sacred cows.

The government is likely to start slaying sacred cows left and right.

PLUS: Bombardier's sacred cow status

Jordan, which sacred cows would you want to see presented for sacrifice by these four organisations?

The group submitted a petition entitled, «Demand for arrest, prosecution of Patience Jonathan, probe of APC campaign fund and no more sacred cow in the anti-corruption crusade.»

ANOTHER SACRED COW TREATMENT Well, read one too many articles about the stupidity of giving a traditional author an advance so they could be free to write their book.

They're what fuels the outrageousness of the scenarios (a «bottomless party» in Miami, Harris branding a prostitute, sky - diving to safety over Crawford, Texas), and otherwise allows Schlossberg and Hurwitz to tackle sacred cows and semi-topical socio - political humor.

Beggars has the earmarks of a savage gem in its own right, slashing as it does sacred cows and spoofing TV's executive culture with wickedly sophisticated abandon.

Dean Wesley Smith takes on one of the biggest sacred cows of the writing business — namely, the idea that first drafts are worthless, that a story or a novel is only any good if you've revised and rewritten it...

So, in conclusion, yes, Rand Paul is right to raise spending as an important economic issue and take sacred cows out for fair examination — but let's not forget that the Federal Reserve deserves its share of blame both for confusing economic planners as well as monetizing budget deficits.

This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

«This Senate will not confirm any anti-graft boss who is not ready to treat senators as sacred cows even if they are corrupt.

I recorded an entire detailed lecture on this topic tonight that will be ready next week, and I will be back here shortly (or after the Anthology Workshop that we are holding here at the coast is finished) with the first of the new indie sacred cows to be led to slaughter.

But the only sacred cow was its market - leading position in the United States.

Religion is the ultimate sacred cow.

I'm agnostic, but the way people attack Christians and pretend Islam and Judaism are still sacred cows irks me.

The evangelical subculture is not alone in uncritical acceptance of family - related sacred cows.

And so between the three or four «points» that mark the dull deductive trail he plants humor, anecdotes, illustrations, poetry, or perhaps enlivening hints of heresy and threats of butchering sacred cows.

I could relate to her predicament, for even I — the self - proclaimed sacred cow tipper — wondered for a time if I should share my story chic - lit - style because I am a woman.

I think to dismiss the possibility that further public expenditure savings can be made would be unjustifiable, although making further savings in the next parliament may most easily be achieved by targeting the Tory sacred cows that have so far been protected at the cost of greater cuts elsewhere.

He said that the public wants officials who will protect them and that Spitzer is «not afraid to attack sacred cows.

Eliot Spitzer never really got a chance as governor but as attorney general showed that he wasn't afraid to tax sacred cows and he wasn't afraid to tell it like it is, which is what you really need from a comptroller,» Paterson told WCBS 880.

It's a first salvo in what's expected to be a protracted budget battle as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gears up to fulfill his pledge to make deep spending cuts — most likely by goring the ox of some heretofore sacred cows, including the public employee unions and education aid.

Cameron is in a fairly strong position because Labour is in Kinnock mode: electoral realism fatally compromised by inability to slay unpopular sacred cows.

Labour should focus on overcoming these challenges — which may require the slaying of some Labour sacred cows — and not presume that we are stuck in an inescapable secular stagnation.

An outrageously hilarious look at the sanctity of marriage, one that routinely skewers both the proponents and detractors of one of life's most revered and time - honored sacred cows.

In episode 305, Penn and Teller turn sacred cows into cheeseburger when they reveal the dirty truth about so - called enlightened spiritual leaders such as Mother Teresa, Gandhi and the Dalai Lama.

The most brazen of the bunch may be Im Sang - soo, whose work is founded on his irreverence toward national sacred cows.

You could fill skips with the amount of cinematic sacred cows Hollywood accountants have exhumed for disastrous sequels, remakes and reboots.

Like many other sacred cows of the teaching profession, Back - to - School Nights are undergoing a facelift.

Not for her the passing satisfaction of fawning headlines as alleged sacred cows are slaughtered.

Writing Slow Equals Writing Better is a complete myth, a nasty sacred cow of publishing that hurts and stops writers who believe it.