Sentences with phrase «sort of parachuting»

«We've done everything you could possibly do short of calling the military with some sort of parachuting ability,» he said.

Even if they get replaced by angry shareholders, the management typically gets some sort of parachute if the company survives, and far less in bankruptcy.

Not exact matches

(I'd bet a parachute's worth of Junior Mints that more than one poor marketer was called into her boss's office this morning and tasked with staging some sort of «Best Picture» moment.)

Some executives took advantage of insider knowledge to sell off their company stocks before the bubble burst; and most chief executives enjoyed golden parachutes to escape future financial contingencies of the sort that ordinary earthlings face.

(Sort of like permitting skydiving companies to assure customers that the parachute rig is safe even though there's no parachute.)

LG: The funny thing is that I don't even like to... I don't really like to decorate that much, and I've been followed by this Parachute Home ad on Instagram for months now, and everything is the same sort of very, I don't know, southern California aesthetic.