Sentences with phrase «sideswipe at»

The IPCC has now unequivocally conceded the discrepancy, even citing McKitrick et al 2010 (though not without taking an unwarranted sideswipe at us).

Although IPCC largely conceded the discrepancy, they couldn't help taking a thoroughly unwarranted sideswipe at McKitrick et al 2010, stating:

There's a sideswipe at the carbon footprint of middleclass Aga owners; a defence of Greens against the accusation that they're an overwhelmingly middle class movement; and a rather pathetic attempt at a class breakdown of Ryanair customers, before getting down to the main issue — an attack on Spiked and its principal contributors for their agnostic position on global warming.

The repeated use of these symbols appears like an ironic sideswipe at the mechanisms of the art market, where the signature seals the value and originality of the artistic oeuvre.

Hollywood, beset by scandal in 2017, wouldn't mind backing a movie about the power of the free press as a sideswipe at an unpopular president, much less a movie about the power of the free press that might be the most feminist film Spielberg has ever made.

With an opening that has Herzog immodestly laying out his mission statement as wishing to discover, in a roundabout way, why it is that men are obsessed with riding their metaphorical steeds into the wild unknowns, he illustrates the conundrum with a sideswipe at mankind, equating us with ants that hold other insect species as «slaves» and wondering why chimps, despite their intellectual sophistication, decline to domesticate goats to ride them on their own existential pursuits.

Of course, the Hiroshoma and Nagasaki anniversaries make the award apt, and it does provide a sideswipe at the French for their unnecessary nuclear tests in the Pacific.

One could also interpret Coffey's slam against Donovan as a sideswipe at one of his Democratic opponents, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, whose experience as a local prosecutor is similar to Donovan's.

It now seems that the Financial Times agrees, as Liberal Democrat blogger David Grace points out — taking a sideswipe at George Osborne's latest wheeze and its effects on public debt.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo is out with a new attack ad that isn't actually a direct hit at GOP / Conservative opponent, Carl Paladino, but rather a sideswipe at the candidate for hiring people to work on his campaign who have, as the Times put it, «tainted pasts.»

Gerard Pique was asked for his opinion on the matter following that win over Leganes, and he was evidently in a jovial mood as he aimed a cheeky sideswipe at Barcelona's rivals.

However, comments like these from Mourinho will only stoke the fire as the Portuguese tactician has seemingly aimed a sideswipe at his rival after they were knocked out of the FA Cup earlier this week.

or have dodgy social or political origins, whether it is Jack and Jill who were definitely up to more than drawing water, Goosy goosy gander making snide sideswipes at the Jesuits, Ring a ring o» roses listing the symptoms of bubonic plague or the hokey cokey parodying the Mass..

Then there was the Amish woman who sideswiped us at the grocery store in her effort to get to the sale flour before we did.

There's no castigation of officials, no dragging of his own players, and no sideswipes at unfriendly journalists.

Not exact matches

At the same time, the telephone directory publisher was sideswiped by the implosion of its core industry.

What used to be simple routine — heading to the gym every day — got sideswiped by a demanding puppy, a terrible cough that kept me up at night for weeks (and with a voice that sounded like a tortured James Earl Jones), and travel to my slushy hometown for work, which made me rely more on Ricola than I would care to admit.

According to FOX 2 in Detroit, Steve Vines claims that Suh sideswiped Vines» car, left the scene of the accident, and then yelled at Vines at a stoplight.

Rep. Charles Rangel is having a tough time at home in Harlem this week: Five days after his apartment was robbed of thousands in cash and jewelry, he sideswiped a parked car just outside his building.

Rep. Charles Rangel is having a tough time at home in Harlem this week: Five days after his apartment was robbed of thousands in cash and jewelry, he sideswiped a...

At first the galaxies sideswipe each other, their gravitational fields tearing off streamers of stars and nebulae tens of thousands of light - years long.

SideSwipe is the work of Matthew Reynolds and colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle.

SideSwipe will be presented at a user interface conference in Hawaii in October.

 Starting today, XBox360 and Playstation 3 fans can pre-order Transformers: Dark of the Moon at Gamestop to receive code to unlock Sideswipe or at Amazon.com to unlock Ratchet for use in the game's various online multiplayer modes.

Awarded a Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival «for originality, for daring and for audacity», Crash was still sideswiped with controversy in many places for its graphic sex and disturbing violence.

The best and closest look yet at the new topless Corvette Stingray Concept comes from this cell video which captured Sideswipe in alt - mode on Chicago's Michigan Avenue during filming of Transformers 3.

At which point you either pull off the road and stop, or press it again for engine restart, or freak out and maybe get rear - ended or sideswiped if you saw at the wheel and don't keep your wits about yoAt which point you either pull off the road and stop, or press it again for engine restart, or freak out and maybe get rear - ended or sideswiped if you saw at the wheel and don't keep your wits about yoat the wheel and don't keep your wits about you.

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It doesn't care if you are in your lane or have drifted a bit into the next and are at risk of sideswiping another car.

What was really startling about Warren's early work was how unexpected it seemed - its expressive plasticity, those malleable, cloddish forms, even more than the sideswipes she was taking at her male antecedents.

While hazards can be detected at any speed, most systems are optimized to detect vehicles while the car moves at highway speeds as these are the conditions most likely to result in sideswipe crashes, according to safety officials.

Sideswipe accidents also increase the risk for chain reactions that may involve three, four, five, or more vehicles — especially if the vehicle that initially made impact was traveling at extremely high speeds.

At a ninety - degree angle, a sideswipe becomes a T - bone accident instead.

Our Phoenix sideswipe accident lawyer will review all the details of your case in order to determine who was at fault.

Most recently, two freight trains sideswiped each other and derailed at a railway crossing in Toronto's midtown, spilling more than 1,000 litres of fuel.

So the Internet's structure of nodes and alternative routing does not protect against law enforcement willing to sideswipe legal activities to get at the illegal ones.