Sentences with phrase «say fig leaves»

Perhaps legal correspondents prefer to pick over testimony from the glamorous Leveson Inquiry as opposed to complicated government proposals involving clunky phrases — some would say fig leaves — like «Closed Material Procedure» and «Special Advocate».

Some veterinarians say fig leaves aren't toxic for dogs, however, the sap in fig leaves can cause allergic reactions and rashes in humans, so I would keep my dogs away from the tree.

Not exact matches

Sorrell said: «Privacy is used as a fig leaf not to do things.

Those provisions, she said, outweighed the «tiny fig leaf» of additional money the bill provides for biomedical research and combating abuse of addictive opioid drugs.

Jesus said «When you see the Fig Tree in leaf....

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Well, that is to say, we can only reach so high into our two huge fig trees and leave the rest for our feathered friends — it's like a feeding frenzy when the trees are «abuzz» or chirping with the many flocks OH, and let's not forget the thousands of bees.

IOC president Avery Brundage was so adamant about keeping commercialism off the ski slopes — he tried to outlaw visible manufacturers» labels on equipment and clothing — that the great French ski coach Honore Bonnet said, «If M. Brundage has his way, our racers will be performing in fig leaves.»

She said: «They have been told it's a constitutional crisis, which is a fig leaf, frankly.

Mr Cable said the government had finally acknowledged a «problem of inequality» in the tax system but attacked the «fig leaf for redistributive policy» presented by Mr Darling today.

And Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called it a «fig leaf», saying it would not cover up Britain's «rotten» political system.

It is, of course, the judo - like practice of using terms that are appealing to an audience as fig leaves for practices that the same audience would find repugnant — turning one's own language against one's interests, you might say.

-- didn't I tell you HotWhopper just loves my stuff?!!!] at language from the gutter [a sensitive issue here since it involves a lady, and everything (and we all have had some episodes in our past, I dare muse, that — shall we say — benefit from the application of one or more, memory - gap, figurative, fig - leaf pasties), but I sense that HotWhopper speaks with real authority here, and (unlike your typical hive, B. S. - er type) can truly appreciate and savor the fine points that separate «good» gutter - language from «not - so - good» gutter - language)... but [ah!

Like you've said, science is the fig leaf used to justify whatever the person [s] is / are using it for.

«I really see it as a fig leaf,» says Williams.