Sentences with phrase «taking shots across the bow»

It'll also be taking shots across the bow of the Genesis G90, Lincoln Continental and Lexus LS provided that buyers can look past the badge and see the value.

Prior to Huawei's CES scheduled press event on Monday, the Chinese company took a shot across the bow of high - end smartphones, reports the OLED - Info site.

If Apple wants to take a shot across the bow of Amazon, they should offer audiobooks and books as part of Apple Music.

Not exact matches

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

«This ruling fires a shot across the bows of a Tory - led Government which is taking the NHS backwards by prioritising finances over patient care and riding roughshod over people.

One senses the conspiracy maniac champing at the bit in the stray shot across the bow at how we're going to avenge this blow against our country (by taking down a Middle Eastern nation because its despot once tried to kill our current leader's daddy, apparently), or in recycled footage of Bush Jr. jetting across the country, pausing long enough at the stray landing strip to deliver robot platitudes and promises of vengeance — yet Stone resists politicizing the events of 9/11 by presenting what can most delicately be described as an entirely unexceptional film about completely familiar events.

As one character is obsessed with Elvis, it strikes as ironic that Elvis's blue - eyed soul reflects a lot of the same marketing success as The Commitments outrageously popular soundtrack album — making one character's line about the Irish being Europe's black folks interesting for more than just the realization that Parker is taking another oblique shot across the bow at America's race record.

Michael Haneke's latest shot across the bow of the bourgeoisie is a suspenseful yarn about a middle - aged French couple who find themselves under surveillance by person or persons unknown — videotapes start showing up at their doorstep, some of them accompanied by crude, vaguely threatening drawings that seem to make all too much sense to the husband who quickly attempts to take matters into his own hands.

Regardless, such a device is a clear and present shot across the bow of the Kindle Fire, the de facto owner of the low - end tablet market thus far — the «sub-iPad» space for individuals unable or unwilling to shell out up to $ 829 for Apple's 9.7 - inch take on the «post-PC era.»

But those turned out to be unnecessary, because the fax and calls were all it took; a «shot across the bow» one city commissioner later described it.

The Team took this as a direct shot across their bow and went into high gear to discredit it, even though, as we have seen in the CG emails, their were those in the team who had some good things to say about SB03.

At the beginning of the month, Larry Bodine took the first shot across the bow, denouncing Twitter as an ineffective tool for lawyer marketing.

Although the company phrased its statement as a move designed to standardize the experience for Twitter users, developers and others in the broader Twitter ecosystem clearly took the post as a warning shot across the bow — especially since the company simultaneously shut down a cross-posting partnership it had with LinkedIn (s LNKD).