Sentences with phrase «stick his neck out on»

«The company had such an amazing legacy... of not being afraid to stick its neck out on important social issues,» says Bergh.

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

Wenger has really stuck his neck out on this one and I think he's going to suffer for it as will we and as will sanogo.

• Only a fool or an editor would stick his neck out on a question like that.

This unwillingness to take ownership of the issue appears to stem from a general political reluctance of politicians in Scotland to stick their neck out on such a socially divisive issue.

Given all this, you have to admire the way Lent sticks his neck out on behalf of Neo-Confucianism.

I thought if Villeneuve had the cojones to take on one of the most loved sci - fis of all time and $ 150m of Warner's petty cash to make a devastatingly beautiful and complex art movie that bombed at the US box office, then surely I can stick my neck out on the Curzon blog.

While I am still comfortable with my argument that «human inertia» is the prime explanation for a long response time for doing anything about greenhouse gas emissions, I am very wary of efforts by California and the U.K. to stick their necks out on carbon reductions.

A Provincial Court judge is simply not going to stick their neck out on an issue such as this.

No law society would want to stick its neck out on such an issue if it didn't have to.

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The epithet implied that such lawyers lacked the tenacity and courage to roll the dice on tough cases and stick their neck out if they believed someone had broken the law.

What president would stick his neck out that far on a lie that is easily countered by Al Qaeda releasing another video?

Not many get past the young Spaniard, but if you are hoping that Arsenal may nick a goal, then maybe the 9/1 on offer for 0 - 1 may appeal to you, but I am going to stick my neck out and take Giroud to score the only goal of the game at a cool 40/1 from Ladbrokes.

If West Ham can keep it tight in defence and in central midfield then they have the potential to hurt Watford on the break and from set pieces; thus I will stick my neck out and go for an encouraging 2 - 1 victory.

I know it motivates me to want to support them, like because I feel they are on my team so to speak if they are going to stick their neck out there so they know a little bit in a way I feel like closer to them and I kind of want to support them a little bit more but Priya let's get your take on this a little bit, you know I know you are not breastfeeding or pumping now so you know, you couldn't have benefited of all the stuff is happening right now and the legislation but what is your take and I know you probably heard from moms too that are on the app and you know, they are reporting in and telling you about you know, these different types of lactation rooms so other moms can find out about them, so what's your take on all of this?

If in the next 18 months the city begins to sour on its new executive, the pols who stuck their necks out early will look like heroes with foresight.

All credit to Ken — on a day a poll shows him neck and neck in the battle for London, he's still sticking his neck out for a cause that he believes in even though the party is reported to have expelled eleven people for doing the same.

Stick your neck out with the adjustable neckline and feel free to multi-task thanks to the arm opening zips on either side of the main zipper!

I wouldn't dare to give any advice to women on how to dress appropriately for the occasion, but I am prepared to, humbly, stick my neck out for the men.

See, I actually did lots of homework on this with Tim, prior to sticking my neck out — while admonishing him that he'd better be right.

As a last resort I buttoned up the cardigan leaving the tie on the neck of the blouse sticking out.

I stuck my neck out back in February at the Berlin Film Festival and said that Vanessa Redgrave will snag a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination (at least) for her galvanizing interpretation of Volumnia in Ralph Fiennes's hopped - up take on Shakespeare's «Coriolanus.»

You can make a case for many different spots on the track being crucial for lap time, but I would stick my neck out and say that coming out of Turn 1 and uphill to the Esses is one of the biggest influencers.»

This might be a stupid question, (I'm known for that, but Il stick my neck out anyway): If you have a book translated into another language, is this listed as a totally separate product on the Amazon market place?

Last week I stuck my neck out and predicted -0.32 C + / - 0.05 C on Dr Roy's metric by September this year.

If Goldacre really wants to stick his neck out, why doesn't he try arguing against a rich, powerful, bullying Climate - Change establishment which includes all three British main political parties, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister, the President of the USA, the EU, the UN, most schools and universities, the BBC, most of the print media, the Australian Government, the New Zealand Government, CNBC, ABC, the New York Times, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, most of the rest of the City, the wind farm industry, all the Big Oil companies, any number of rich charitable foundations, the Church of England and so on?

Ottawa lawyer and long - time Supreme Court agent Eugene Meehan commented on Fish's announcement: «In Canada's national court he always stuck his juridical neck out for the little guy — Canada's best defence judge has now «gone fishing.»»

On further direct questioning from myself regarding Children's Social Services lack of recognition of parental alienation, the aforementioned social worker stuck her neck out and went so far as to say «we recognise parental alienation as a term.»

It is also hard for a lender to quantify the value of «room and board» and as banks have to justify their loans to the government I think you may have a hard time to stick their neck out for you unless your room and board is somehow listed on your paycheck.

This seems to be a case wherein a Judge relied upon other Judges» decisions in previous cases that somewhat mirrored the subject case details to explain away his decision, instead of sticking his neck out and incorporating good old common sense (from where good old English Common Law evolved from in the first place) to place the majority of blame where it 100 % rightly belongs, on the heads of the parties who created the problem in the first place... the sellers.