Sentences with phrase «scare stories about»

Bonus Prediction: Once San Francisco home prices start to fall, the media will run scare stories about U.S. home prices falling.

Instead of terrifying the public with scare stories about climate change caused by CO2 emissions, why aren't governments actually doing something about it by replacing fossil - fuel power stations with nuclear ones (and crushing any protests which try to stop them)?

But the other thing to keep in mind is that there has been an ulterior motive behind the spread of a lot of the scare stories about dependence on foreign lithium, I think at least.

Maybe Hansen is a nutter, who created scare stories about seas boiling, apocalyptic storms, Venusian tipping points, because people weren't taking much notice of his fixation that coal was evil.

I especially would like to see Guardian columnist George Manbiot barred from the cruises, as he has done nothing but write scare stories about the fate of the world.

I especially would like to see Guardian columnist George Monbiot barred from the cruises, as he has done nothing but write scare stories about the fate of the world.

The take - home point, made by Sam Kazman, the group's general counsel, was: «As this 1922 story demonstrates, scare stories about the environment should always be treated with a degree of skepticism.»

It would be easier to swallow this response if Nature hadn't just published the AJC paper (and Stainforth et al previously) to a fanfare of scare stories about the threat of 10C warming.

You may have heard scare stories about red meat and how we should restrict it, but this is based on epidemiology with so many possible confounders.

(The fact that this hasn't had catastrophic effects on Earth, if it happens at all, is one reason that researchers at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, are so confident that scare stories about black holes being produced by their Large Hadron Collider are baseless.)

Last night, after the Conservatives overturned a 5,000 Labour majority to win the Norwich seat by 7,348 votes, Labour MPs gave warning that, unless the party did more than peddle scare stories about possible Tory spending cuts, it faced a wipeout at the next election.

Tory Leaver Michael Gove is swimming in the same moral cesspit as floundering Farage after the UKIP leader peddled his scare stories about Turks coming to Britain.

We've heard scare stories about hospitals not being able to cope if a Paris - style attack happened during the strike, and Jeremy Hunt has done his best to portray the strike leaders as politically motivated rather than actually caring about patient safety.

You can now hear for yourself the arrogant and outrageous way that Harriet Harman continued to peddle scare stories about the Tories scrapping the winter fuel allowance and Sure Start Centres, when challenged by Ben Gummer on Thursday.

From Vote Leave's absurd claims that Turkey is about to join the EU (along with their implicit threat of millions of Turkish people coming to Britain) to scare stories about hoards of foreign criminals arriving in the UK — it's been a one - way deluge of negativity about free movement.

But today's report warns that, while the health risks of smoking are well documented, the risks associated with passive smoking do not justify a ban, and suggests ministers may have been unduly influenced by media scare stories about the issue.

In May we had scare stories about the banning of the England shirt and the flag in The Sun and The Express - which eventually turned out to be groundless.

In February, scare stories about potential defaults set off tidal wave of selling.

The old scare story about fasting was that your body will break down muscle when fasting for the purpose of creating glucose from the protein.

First, JCH throws up an air ball on some PDFs at a bunch podunk villages and then you fall for a scare story about a golf course where the water has risen in the last 100 years to the tune of the thickness of 5 dimes.

The scare story about methane is based on an imaginary 72 times higher climate sensitivity than CO2.

Not exact matches

I asked Kevin Shortt, lead story designer, about whether Watch Dogs is going to be guilty of technological scare - mongering, and he doesn't think so, in spite of the trailer.

The whole story about some god punishing a person for all of eternity for not believing in your particular brand of religion might scare a child enought to believe but most adults are way past such a silly concept.

Long story short, I get very cold / lonely / scared at night, and my new bedtime routine is to cocoon myself in the bed and fantasize about being koala hugged by Logan in front of a fire while eating a piping hot bowl of Stuffed Poblano Quinoa Bake.

So peaceful, in fact, that you are literally lulled into believing that the stories you have heard about new parenthood are lies meant to scare you.

We've shared our war stories, and talked about how we all despaired of ever having children, and how scared we were when we did get pregnant again.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

This is a great story about children feeling sad or scared when mom is not right near.

Before a baby takes his or her first breath outside of the womb, its parents have received more tips, scares and funny stories about parenting than they can process.

Some of these include older mothers relishing in telling horror stories about cracked nipples, thrush, clogged ducts, etc; pediatricians who use weight charts based on formula fed infants and scaring new mothers into thinking their babies aren't gaining enough weight; and the pervasive, but false, belief that formula is just as good as breastmilk for babies.

Before a baby takes his or her first breath outside of the womb, its parents have received more tips, scares and funny stories about parenting

Or to find out more about these great parent resources for kids who are afraid of the dark or scared of monsters, click here for the «Stories» Page

«For the people like John Faso who say, oh, this is some stunt, I wish they could come here and see the sincerity of the people here who are telling their stories, who are talking about serious health issues in their own lives and who are scared to death about what the Republicans are doing,» Maloney says.

«This is a story about the patients and people of the NHS, and the staff that have dedicated their lives to helping others at their most scared and their most vulnerable.

The banks used to threaten, the banks used to conjure up scare stories, the banks used to talk about the impact of regulation, and the Conservative party supported them.

According to her the recent false story about her was reports that she won't film in a cemetery again because she is scared.

Q. «I've always had a fantasy about having sex in the ocean, but I've heard some scare stories.

It's barbecue time, and scare stories are already in the news about the dangers of cooking meat, fish and poultry on the grill.

I confronted him and got his sob story about how he knew I was the one and it scared him, didn't know how to take us to the next level, all that BS.

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Simply put, the stories never engage the audience or seem concerned about constructing a storyline that can thrill, scare, and intrigue or even amuse the audience.

The film's few scares and gory moments fail to compensate for the fact that the story really isn't about anything other than a big monster living in the basement.

Despite fairly mundane scares and a too - typical score, as well as a disappointing use of sound, it's still a riveting little story about sacrifice and familial bonds.

As other critics ranging from Roger Ebert to random Amazon users will attest, there isn't too much that's original about the basic story in Running Scared.

Basically, there's no story worth following; it's about as interesting as your annoying sibling who seemed to love hiding in closets or behind furniture just to scare the bejeezus out of you at random times.

Director Steve Beck is less interested in telling a coherent story (though, to be fair, it's not as if screenwriters Neal Marshall Stevens of Richard D'Ovidio have come up with one), establishing characters worth caring about, coaxing believable performances, or coming up with a decent scare than coming up with a reel of cool visuals.

Horror stories like that scare me because I can imagine a near - future where critics nervously avoid writing about films with sensitive subjects.

Students in Jenna Brohinsky's classes came at Poe themes from all angles; writing poe - ems about the author, writing about being scared or feeling guilty in their journals, and writing scary stories.

Callum tells the story but Stockman shows that he's lying about one thing — he jumped off a bridge because he was scared, not because Paragon threw him, which explains how he didn't get busted — so we establish that Callum is a bit craven, not like your average noble bad guy.

When you hear scare - stories about rising rates leading to plummeting yields, first, remember, a sturdy bond portfolio shouldn't have that far to move to begin with.