Sentences with phrase «stuck their necks out like»

We need more politicians to get out there and lead as they did in New York — whether that means being a driving force like Gov. Andrew Cuomo or sticking your neck out like four GOP senators here.

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He would sit back, fold his arms, stick out his neck, and his eyes will be swinging from side to side like a pendulum, while just does a very fat nothing.

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

it feels like it don't mater who plays these days i have lost hope now, it was only the other day when i stuck my neck out and said we will finish 3rd in the EPL how wrong i was

-- but it also may mean finding others of like mind who are, well, less VOCAL than I am and would like to have somebody willing to stick their neck out for this.

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 was good for Eliot until groups started endorsing Stringer, probably because no one wanted to stick their neck out and endorse a walking, talking controversy like Spitzer.

He stuck his neck out, just like all of us do,» Parete said.

Say what you like about Peter Mandelson, but he's not afraid of sticking his neck out.

Timber buyers do not like to stick their necks out over a wood they do not know, says Charles Townsend of the merchant Milland Fine Timbers.

It's safer for an editor at a mainstream publishing house to buy a book that reads a lot like last year's bestseller, than to stick out their neck in support of an unproven concept that might not deliver.

I'm going to run the risk of sounding like an awfully old - fashioned fuddy - duddy, but I'm going to stick my neck out and say, Hugh, your aims are going to be difficult to achieve, as there simply are no exceptional people in advertising.

So when a paper like the Guardian does try to get it right the scientific side needs to appreciate the fact that they are sticking out their necks for the truth.

No — in smaller markets, like Canada, it may make publishers more timid, and less likely to stick their necks out because the economic consequences of straying too close to the line are so serious.

When I asked about this, they said things like, «I love it when my dad's veins start sticking out of his neck» or «It's cool when I can get my mom so mad that she spits when she talks.»