Sentences with phrase «sinking ships»

Perhaps they aren't doing well, and they want to trick investors into investing in sinking ships.

There's sinking ships, superheroes, pirates, blue aliens and big old sharks.

The six islands (with more awaiting completionists) unite a ton of nifty themes, from savannah brushfires to sinking ships, and the difficulty scales up at just the right pace.

January 24, 2005: When rats flee sinking ships of scams and public corruption they dive for the portholes: later they surface on witness stands.

They spend a lot of time dodging bullets, escaping bombs dropped from overhead, and fleeing sinking ships.

Benchmark has a very big problem: a winning net position valued at around $ 8 billion, but no way to get off the sinking ship and liquidate that position before things get even worse.

Finally, identify the icebergs that exist between port and the island that will sink the ship.

Three weeks ago, Aereo gutted its staff in New York and Boston, leaving only a skeleton crew of executives to man the sinking ship.

«When people ask me if I miss it, I tell them «I feel as if I jumped off of a sinking ship.»»

As the saying goes, loose lips sink ships and these e-mails are the iceberg to Sony's Titanic - sized reputation (ok, technically the James Cameron flick was a Fox / Paramount Production, but you get the point).

«Hiring and retaining rock stars is key to every company's success,» LinkedIn spokesperson Joe Roualdes tells Inc. «But it's particularly crucial among small businesses where hiring the right person can propel the company forward, and hiring the wrong person can sink the ship.»

Sinking Ship Entertainment (No. 120); 51.

The truth is that my team influenced my decisions greatly over the years — particularly when it came to major issues, the ones below the waterline that could potentially sink our ship.

These are multi-billion dollar companies, but the profit has come from using and abusing our data like it is a treasure chest they found on a sunken ship.

The question everyone was asking was why would anyone want to buy a sinking ship?

And remember, finally, that bad earnings news kept rolling in for both Dell and its industry throughout the bidding process, prompting Indigo Equity Research in August 2013, for instance, to call Dell a «sinking ship,» and to label Michael Dell's turnaround plan as «fundamentally flawed.»

Loose lips sink ships.

All of which is to say, Toronto is not a sinking ship.

Sinking Ship Entertainment PROFIT 500: No. 120 Growth (2011 — 2016): 586 % Revenue (2016): $ 10 — 20 million Headquarters: Toronto, Ont.

Refusing to take on the role of captain of a sinking ship, he stated that just last year the company was in its «survive stage,» and is now moving on to «Phase Two» in a three - step recovery process.

It was a tight - knit cult convinced of its mission to connect everyone, but with the discipline of a military unit where everyone knew loose lips sink ships.

The Euro is a sinking ship and Greece would be best advised to abandon the Euro - Titanic as fast as possible, and leave other countries to come to the same realization.

Then he launched a barrage of trial balloons, like flares flying off a sinking ship, to test how just how «tough» he dared to be.

No one wants to stay in a sinking ship.

And, to be fair to Jim Prentice, there is a maritime tradition that the captain should go down with his sinking ship.

It is a gaping hole above the waterline, which could sink the ship if rates are raised to combat inflation.

Anyways, it looks like the biggest «rat» left the sinking ship.

One colleague at my leaving do said, «This is the only occasion where a rat has joined a sinking ship.»

Loose lips sink his ship even if he thinks he could say just about anything about everybody.

Which one would you trust on a sinking ship?

Lolololol... I think I read the slogan somewhere that was used during the 2nd world war... LOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS... but of course in this day and age it's television shows... oh and good riddance boys.

It is rather to contend that their attempts to shore up the sinking ship of traditional theism were finally to no avail.

We're not looking for a Pastor - in - Chief, we're looking for a Commander - in - Chief to lift this badly listing and sinking ship.

If China boards the sinking ship of globalization, it will share in the impending catastrophes.

All demons are in the same sinking ship.

Higher paying passengers on the deck of the same sinking ship.

They are only higher - paying passengers on a higher deck of the same sinking ship.

You sir, are on the sinking ship.

a sinking ship... I'd say you may be clinically depressed.

Or I could choose to believe that we were going down like the fastest sinking ship.»

Of course, I'm in the same sinking ship, but on a smaller scale.

Holistic life connections is not about starting or tweaking any church program or ministry, but rather abandoning the whole sinking ship, and joining with community groups that already exist, not as a way to support and prop up «the church,» but for the purpose of being the church.

Well, God doesn't take disobedience too well, so He sent a storm that about sunk the ship.

I would much rather spend my days on a sinking ship with those who love me, knowing that no matter what the future holds, I tried my hardest to lift people up and not slam them down.

Whatever the reason, God doesn't take disobedience too well, so He sent a storm that about sunk the ship.

G. K. Chesterton once suggested that «it is a good exercise, in empty or ugly hours of the day, to look at anything, the coal - scuttle or the bookcase, and think how happy one could be to have brought it out of the sinking ship onto the solitary island» (Orthodoxy [Fontana.

While we might be momentarily fascinated by and occupied with tweaking the existing order of things, renovating and managing it, it is like this cartoon illustrates: we are only rearranging the furniture on a sinking ship.

Camosy said Richards «absolutely» gave momentum to the pro-life opposition and wondered whether she «decided to abandon a sinking ship» in light of the Justice Department inquiry.

Running through the chaos of a sinking ship; watching a tiger wrestle a shark; exploring a mysterious island; devising ways to catch turtles and gather fresh water» these are but some of the novel's small pleasures.

he has given up on us, same as we fans have given up on the team, but he still shows he care and still fight as much as one can in a sinking ship... can we say the same bout the other players?..