Sentences with phrase «take flack»

by Adam Hartling from Halifax, NS Jonah is a hard as nails ex cop who doesn't take flack from anyone.

I know I'll take some flack for this but to me it's just a gimmick anyway because the small amount of blue light the frontlight produces isn't close to enough to cause sleeping problems.

The crux of the matter is this, a manager's glowing career has steadily being chipped away over the last 10 years because a billionaire family haven't got the necessary knowledge to do the job, and they are quite happy to allow Wenger to take the flack for their incompetence.

As great an offseason as the Denver Broncos and John Elway have had, Elway will take some flack for this.

He recalls that in the early 1990s, the Mulroney government initiated controversial changes to Canada Post's service levels, and the minister in charge, the late Harvie Andre, spent long hours in the House of Commons taking the flack.

President Obama has taken flack for not speaking empathetically to the fears of many Americans, while certain candidates have been accused of stoking such fears for their own political purposes.

He's also taken flack for everything from being too wealthy, to riding a jet ski while on vacation with his family - all characteristics that make us think he has some uncanny similarities to another presidential hopeful, John Kerry.

Hastings has taken some flack over the years for requiring conference - call questions to be sent by email in advance rather than letting Wall Street analysts question him in real time.

I think its bullshit that marisa takes flack for little things like a nursery in her office for her baby when dudes like jeff immelt literally had a chase plane flying around with shareholder money (a private jet following the CEO's private jet in reserve for parts).

Now, he is taking flack from those who should be his strongest supporters.

He took some flack for it but I knew immediately what he meant by it, offering a taste of home - brew.

Giroud takes some flack and we want an upgrade but hang on we all admit giroud is a good sqaud player.

MacArthur also took flack for how he earned his millions in an ugly GOP primary to succeed retiring Rep. Jon Runyan, R - N.J. MacArthur's primary opponent, former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, said insurance adjusters affiliated with MacArthur made families «jump through hoops» to receive insurance money after their homes and properties were destroyed from a natural disaster.

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow set the political world ablaze with a single tweet, announcing at 7:36 p.m. that she was poised to reveal Trump's tax returns on her 9 p.m. program, taking flack from fellow reporters who were angry about the delay.

This makes it more likely Cameron will stay on for as long as possible, so that he takes the flack for the reforms and leaves his successor to smooth ruffled Tory feathers.

Camel racing, a favorite pastime in the Middle East, has taken flack from human - rights advocates for the young boys imported to jockey the humpbacked desert beasts.

Chronicle (February 3; Fox) Another film that we took some flack for, but seeing as this is the closest we'll get to a live action Akira in the next few years, it's totally fair game.

The organization has done great work on behalf of our children, and in some ways, it is wrongfully taking flack for Florida's sudden failure to articulate a strong case for sustaining reform (as well as for the Sunshine State's troubling backslide on at least one key principle).

We took some flack for saying that the manual transmission didn't seem like the appropriate option for the Golf R, and we stand by that.

Apple may be currently taking some flack for its frankly embarassing maps service that renders the UK...

It's a Call of Duty title — and because it sells well, people have been unneccesarily bashing it since around the time of World at War, and now that Black Ops 2 is genuinely undeniably good, Declassified is taking that flack instead — and it's a Vita title: it's a simple fact of life that a bizarre number of sites and writers just slate everything to do with the Vita, not reporting anything positive, but then overblowing any tiny thing.

He already has taken the flack.

I've heard of Congress taking flack, but this is ridiculous: Members of Congress can now use taxpayer money to buy bulletproof vests, the Washington Post's Mike DeBonis reports.

Not exact matches

Despite taking quite a bit of flack for the decision, Yahoo claimed it worked.

Flack Steel's business took a hit from all three crises in 2011 and 2012.

The Prime Minister takes a lot of flack when he constantly poses for selfies at public events.

After the flack he took last season he is well within his rights to answer a question honestly.

Cousins was drafted in the 4th round and the Redskins took a lot of flack for taking two quarterbacks in the same draft.

This scenario is putting pressure on fans and the club alike, and tensions have been up and down throughout the campaign, but one player is keen to take some of the flack off of manager Wenger, stating that too much blame is placed on his shoulders.

and has a stale old fool acting as his puppet to take all the flack..

Paul Bissonette, better known as BizNasty and for his Tweeting than playing for the Phoenix Coyotes, takes a lot of flack for not getting a lot of playing time and for being a bad hockey player.

He ain't pretty he just got it done, took a lot of flack for our clubs other deficiencies!!

Alexis Sanchez is taking a lot of flack for making his move to Manchester United, but maybe is the best move he could have made.

Verratti took a huge amount of media flack after PSG's 5 - 2 aggregate defeat by Real with Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport writing «he is incapable of keeping a cool head», an issue it said would also compromise his international career.

• Infants whose fathers take paternity leave during the first year are significantly more likely to be breastfed at two, four and six months of age (Flacking et al, 2010).

I have taken so much flack because I only want to start @ 6 months.I think people just do it because its the next thing to do - and thats not how it should be.

In the room, he assured that bipartisan group he would «take the heat» if they caught flack for the contents of a bipartisan immigration bill.

^ I said it «took them over a year...» because a year ago Wilson was not running for office and you, his paid flack, were not yet spreading rumors.

Said a Faso flack in a prepared release last week, «Before he even takes the oath of office (for a fourth term as executive), Hein is orchestrating an elaborate charade attempting to create an impression that he is being drafted as a candidate.

My thanks to the Freedom Zone for allowing us to use their room, and to my fellow panellists for taking part and publicising the event: JP Floru, John Flack, Stuart Wheeler, Teresa Coffey and Zehra Zaidi.

We took a lot of flack for that.

«I'm personally gratified that I was able to read the tea leaves correctly, because God knows I took quite a bit of flack from colleagues,» says molecular biologist John Mekalanos of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who published evidence that the strain came from South Asia in a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine in January.

I'll give you another reason to keep doing these posts, despite the flack you get and the risk that some people will take it as prescriptive and try and duplicate it.

E Harmony has taken a lot of flack lately regarding their dating site not allowing gay singles to join.

As much flack as Bay regularly takes and as downright bad at the Transformers films got, it's nice to see him get back on track with the kind of material that is right in his wheelhouse.

Sound Ray Beckett — «Zero Dark Thirty,» «The Hurt Locker» Odin Benitez — «Frozen,» «Silver Linings Playbook» Ron Bochar — «Mortdecai,» «Moneyball» Jason Canovas — «The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,» «World War Z» Thomas Curley — «Whiplash,» «The Spectacular Now» Michael Dressel — «American Sniper,» «Interstellar» Mary H. Ellis — «Vacation,» «Prisoners» Stephanie Flack — «Jupiter Ascending,» «Ender's Game» Martín Hernández — «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» «Biutiful» Dean Humphreys — «Taken 3,» «The Pianist» William Johnston — Vice President of Engineering, Formosa Group Shawn Jones — «Iron Man 3,» «Drive» Daniel Laurie — «Inside Out,» «Big Hero 6» David Lee — «Unbroken,» «The Matrix» Craig Mann — «Dope,» «Whiplash» Kyrsten Mate — «Tomorrowland,» «Guardians of the Galaxy» Shannon J. Mills — «Inside Out,» «Big Hero 6» Bryan K. Pennington — «Transformers: Age of Extinction,» «Promised Land» Juan P. Peralta — «Tomorrowland,» «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» John Ross — «Danny Collins,» «American Hustle» Peter Staubli — «San Andreas,» «Skyfall» Mark Taylor — «Edge of Tomorrow,» «Captain Phillips» Addison Teague — «Big Hero 6,» «The Amazing Spider - Man» Jon Title — «San Andreas,» «The Divergent Series: Insurgent» Thomas Varga — «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» «The Immigrant» Ben Wilkins — «Whiplash,» «Star Trek»

With the release of The Last Airbender this past weekend, M. Night Shyamalan has been taking a lot of flack for his work as a writer and director, with a lot of people essentially declaring his career to be dead.

Plus, Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» could not be better placed when it's time to watch Thor kick ass and take names in the big climax.THE FLICK FLACK: Sure, RAGNAROK is a movie that could be easily dismissed as a CGI - overload, battle - heavy no - brainer that blends with the noise of Marvel movies for those experiencing superhero - movie fatigue — and have no humor.

You know, like when the communications flacks at the state teachers union office forget to take a look at the work done by the national union research team.

It flacks louder and faster when revved or during take off and at idle deceleration but not at higher speeds like maybe 30 plus