Sentences with phrase «straws when»

You probably remember using straws when you were younger, but may have forgotten (getting older is not fun).

By accepting, you're committing to saying no to single - use plastic straws when drinking on the go.

My kids love blowing the papers off their straws when we eat out.

It's been far too quiet on the Villa front just recently, with journalists seemingly clutching at straws when it comes to takeover rumours and...

Clutching massively at straws when the author comes out with statements like «2 wins in a row», that's not a row....

You guys are really pulling at straws when you have to go back to the 1930s to talk about Arsenal success before Wenger.

They taste like cheese straws when cooked this way.

My aunt had glass straws when I was little.

it is a grasping at straws when people try to discredit Jesus of the Bible by using the myths... by the way Promethius and Horus were notborn of virgins

You know a delusional believer is lying and grasping at straws when they misquote known atheists.

I know there is no recipe for these horrible mind things (been depressed myself so know full well how what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another) but I was grasping at a straw when I asked you for some insight.

Sorry to put you on the spot, Ray, I know there is no recipe for these horrible mind things (been depressed myself so know full well how what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another) but I was grasping at a straw when I asked you for some insight.

That was our last straw when we left our most recent church.

I like to pair these silicone sleeves with a drink topper and a glass straw when I'm sitting at my desk, to prevent messes and potential spills.

Apart from his lack of consistency and his inability to stay fit for an extended period of time, I believe the new formation is the last straw when it comes to Theo's future in an Arsenal shirt.

I thought she was crazy, what 8 month old could know how to use a straw when they couldn't even use a sippy cup?!

Love that the cover protects the straw when not in use.

• Jack Straw when he was home secretary, Peter Mandelson when he was trade secretary and Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell;

I also drink it through a straw when I remember to minimise the exposure -LRB-:

Music and drama teachers often draw the short straw when it comes to a multi-staffed department support network and available resources.

It seems as though men tend to get the short end of the straw when it comes to the court's decision on divorce.

Not exact matches

But on Monday he said, «The final straw came this weekend,» when Trump appeared on This Week With George Stephanopoulos and discussed how he's made sacrifices for his country by building and providing jobs.

While it's certainly unfortunate that it took mishandling user data on a large scale to do so, the incident has become the straw that broke the Facebook camel's back when it comes to privacy — and that appears to be catalyzing change.

When prices climbed 33 % in March 2017 - this may have been the straw that broke the home buyer's back.

When people ask what life is like for a dog with brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS), veterinarian Sean Wensley will sometimes hand them a plastic straw.

Bill, When you incorrectly state that Colin has «been repeatedly discredited as a bigoted, illogical constructor of straw men».

Also, I have never, implicitly or explicitly, claimed to be a god — that would be totally inconsistent with believing there are no gods, and a straw man claim made by believers when they can not prove their own delusions.

When a person needs to build up a Straw Man like that it's very telling about the person.

Personally, I cringe when I hear terms like «the slippery slope», «straw man», and «cherry picking».

The final straw was when I was condoned by them for being an advocate for other families who have a child with a facial difference.

So 98 % of the time («almost always»), you can confidently state that when someone «accuses» somebody of using a straw man, that they must be lying, employing some sort of «magic» trick.

On the anniversary of Guy Fawkes» Day, when a Catholic plot to assassinate the Protestant King of England was disrupted, American soldiers would often mark the day by torching a straw pope.

we are not intending to force anyone... nice try at straw man of Golden Rule when you misjudge the intentions

I love the part of the bible when the Virgin Mary promises to give her first - born child to the Angel Gabriel if he can spin all the straw into gold..

Well, it doesn't ever feel fair when you draw the wrong straw, but neither did it feel fair when I believed in God and therefore had to believe that he / she / it was willingly allowing me to suffer.

The last straw was when I got the opportunity to take my wife on a date, and we gagged all the way to dinner and all the way home.

He actually won the Iowa straw poll by a mile when you consider how many votes Bachman bought for herself.

when most of America hadn't: the kitschy well - meaning illustrations on the endpapers of the Watch - tower books from the Jazz Age and the Depression: a Mexican family all in sombreros, an African family in embroidered A-line robes, a clean - cut white family, a Chinese family in their conical straw hats, all the families standing together, their faces raised toward heaven, where a pale, bearded Jesus rides down on a horse.

When Germany finally surrendered, Gilbert was in Britain to witness the emotional outpouring that marked the War's end, which included huge celebrations, and bonfires filled with straw images of Hitler and Mussolini.

If I may: I think bob is suggesting you are being dishonest in your argument when you said he said he KNOWS God doesn't exist, and then you proceed to challenge this assertion he didn't make (which is the straw man).

But the last straw was waiting for that happy moment when the plane begins its descent and every baby on board starts wailing.

Accordingly, when Griffin contends that it is implausible for FWTs to believe «that every basic structural aspect of the world can be justified as necessary to the promotion of creatures with moral and spiritual qualities» (ER 16), he is attacking a straw man.

The last straw was when the parish council precluded any children from attending Sunday mass as that is a quiet time and that children should only come to mass on Saturday nights.

2) Create the straw man that this is about «divorce» when most of the comments are about the abuse of power.

When the children first arrive from their rescue, they are often malnourished, their black hair the colour of dried orange straw.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

This, along with similar measures, helped her cope for a time; however, the final straw came in 2005 when she was chairing a medical conference.

The construction worker was very revealing when he said that middle class Americans (hard hit by the downturn), are fed up with being ignored and that «this was the last straw».

As Rosenthal goes on to say,» Kiefer is uncomfortable when his art is positive or perceived to be so,» Thus, the use of straw, hinting as it does of a certain «manure of hope,» is overwhelmed in the burned - out context of the artist's larger vision, That which might have opened the door to hope is explored for its potential to symbolize despair.

Enforceable universal background checks, an end to gun trafficking, and prosecution of straw purchasers (when someone with a clean record buys a gun legally and then sells to someone who would pass a back ground check) are all commonsense measures we can take with action from our elected officials.