Sentences with phrase «taking sledgehammers»

By way of analogy, your car depreciates as it ages and wears out; you're devaluing it when you take a sledgehammer to the bonnet.

Louis C.K.'s routine, however, takes a sledgehammer to this reasoning and essentially dares us to take a clear side.

All the same, many of these essays have the air of someone taking a sledgehammer to a swarm of gnats.

I told a story about someone outside taking a sledgehammer to a Harley in an attempted to get my friend to go outside.

FLORHAM PARK, NJ — $» Todd Bowles took a sledgehammer to it.

Whether your baby / babies arrives via vaginal birth or cesarean birth, it will feel as though someone has taken a sledgehammer to your lower abdomen, pelvis and lady garden.

For a fee, said event chairwoman Martha Ritter, you can take a sledgehammer and pound away on an automobile.

Rather than follow the usual practice of passing them on to second hand stores or employees, Zhang lined up all the defective fridges, took a sledgehammer and, with the help of Haier employees, smashed them to pieces to show that the company would not tolerate poor quality.

Anti-gambling activists took a sledgehammer to a slot machine in front of the Capitol to demonstrate their opposition towards a ballot amendment to legalize gambling casinos in New York.

The son of one Kingston powerbroker and brother of another, Gallo nonetheless positioned himself as an outsider who would take a sledgehammer to the entrenched Democratic Party political elites.

Without this, workers can not defend themselves against abuse and unscrupulous employers will continue to take a sledgehammer to wages and working conditions.»

«The Trump budget takes a sledgehammer to the middle class and the working poor, lavishes tax breaks on the wealthy and imagines all of the deficit problems away with fantasy math,» Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D) said.

Anti-gambling activists took a sledgehammer to a slot machine in front of the New York State Capitol, to demonstrate their opposition a ballot amendment to legalize gambling casinos in New York.

Comptroller Scott Stringer vowed Sunday to «take a sledgehammer» to the city's voting system following the disappearance of 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from election rolls that came to light during last Tuesday's primary.

«We've got to take a sledgehammer to this.

«This Republican budget takes a sledgehammer to America's competitiveness and working families» said top Budget Committee Democrat Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.

Anti-gambling activists took a sledgehammer to a slot machine in front of the New York State Capitol to demonstrate their opposition to a ballot amendment to legalize gambling casinos in New York state.

The exact dimensions aren't known, but how does a researcher find a chamber like this — what they're calling a «void» — when they're not exactly allowed to take sledgehammers to a 4,500 - year - old structure?

That can make it hard to make subtle changes to a gene — like introduce point mutations corresponding to natural variations linked with human disease — without taking a sledgehammer to the entire gene locus.

With eight hours» notice, he removed all of his belongings from their home, taking a sledgehammer to her heart in the process.

Then take a sledgehammer and use it to break your toes.

I know when I take my sledgehammer outside to swing it, my thumbs blow up like hot water bottles.

Bujalski takes a sledgehammer to the carefully ordered surfaces and dramatic conventions of narrative cinema, favoring instead an unpredictability in which the crosscurrents of quotidian life collide on the screen in a series of brilliantly alive patterns.

BEST DEATH SCENE (Potential spoiler alert) Gwyneth Paltrow, «Contagion» Christina Hendricks, «Drive» The guy who gets his head caved in in «Drive» Harry Potter, «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II» The bus of children, «Hobo with a Shotgun» The death by sewer grate, «Hobo with a Shotgun» Colin Farrell, «Horrible Bosses» The guy who takes a sledgehammer to the balls in «Immortals» Ben Foster, «The Mechanic» The whole planet, «Melancholia» Kevin Pollak, «Red State» Ellen Page, «Super» Noah Emmerich, «Super 8 ″ The first college kid, «Tucker and Dale vs. Evil»

The movie pokes fun at everything and it takes a sledgehammer to the fourth wall.

It demands a lot to make a complicated character like Davis sympathetic, especially as we watch him take a sledgehammer to his life.

When they work, they're brilliant, but when they fail they can make you want to take a sledgehammer to your touchscreen.

They literally took a sledgehammer to the rear quarter of the bed of the truck.

More than once on my journey to write and publish my novels PEACE BY PIECE and CAPE MAYBE, I considered abandoning my dream, taking a sledgehammer... [Continue reading...] about Four Sure - Fire Tips on How to Achieve Your Writing Goals, by Carol Fragale Brill

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Ulysses S. Jenkins sums up his ambivalence from a wheelchair, while taking a sledgehammer to a bank of TVs: «you're just a mass of images you've gotten to know / from years and years of TV shows.»

Take a look at the cabinet stocked with deniers who have taken a sledgehammer to the sound but wholly inadequate policies in place for tackling climate change.

To display the strength of the material, he took a sledgehammer to the rear panel.

Matthew Amey suggests there may be some changes that could be made to make the market more competitive without taking a sledgehammer to the whole system: «The cost of ATE premiums in the PI market are sustained at unnecessarily high levels due to the existence of contractual guarantees to the insured claimant that they will never be liable for any premium shortfall following a successful challenge to the premium at detailed assessment.

Some have taken sledgehammers to it but without success.

While this is a complete misconception, as CEO, I'm ready to take a sledgehammer and knock down the ivory tower facade.

«I'm ready to take a sledgehammer and knock down the «ivory tower» facade.»

Take a sledgehammer to the turquoise room with brown linoleum.

I have watched one too many episodes of «fixer upper» and took a sledgehammer to our bathroom.

«Within a week, we'd taken a sledgehammer to the kitchen,» Leanne remembers.

Before we could take a sledgehammer to the kitchen, we had to remove everything.

Not exact matches

There was another wall we took down (I believe I was quoted as saying, «it's not our house until we use the sledgehammer!»)

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is ready to take a «sledgehammer» to the city's voting system following the disappearance of 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from election rolls that came to light during last week's primary.

«We were ordered by our prophet to take down idols and destroy them,» explained an unidentified Daesh representative in a video widely distributed earlier this month, which showed men pushing intricately carved statues off their plinths and smashing the remains with sledgehammers.

Only occasionally do fighters destroy pre - Islamic material for the cameras: In the first months of 2015, ISIL militants overran the Mosul Museum, smashing many of the collection's artifacts, and took bulldozers and sledgehammers to Iraq's fabled first millennium B.C. cities of Nineveh, Nimrud and Hatra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

«When doing this sensitivity analysis, we ask what it would it take to knock our results over — a feather, an arm or a sledgehammer, and these are pretty close to sledgehammer results,» Frank said.

If you're ready for a conditioning workout, but also want to take some agression out (but don't have time to jump in the ring for a sparing session), sledgehammers offer the next best thing.

From there, they take a 10 - pound sledgehammer to a giant truck tire.

Over the last 7 years I've taken up many forms of non-conventional training, kettlebells mainly, along with strongman, maces, sandbags, grip training and over the last 2 years heavy sledgehammer training.

You should take it outside, lay it on the sidewalk and hit it with a sledgehammer or you could find a sucker..