Sentences with phrase «thumb noses»

* Joshua D'Cunha's «classmates and lawyers derided the program, insisting that employers would thumb their noses at LPP grads.

«True spammers will thumb their noses at this.

But what really matters to me is that we humble listeners have yet another way to thumb our noses at substandard legal fare.

Or, lastly to the politicians and Judges and Justices who support and enforce caps, when you or your family member gets injured, maimed, or killed, you tell me how much the insurance company should be required to pay and what the value of life is to you, or your family member, and be okay when you are treated cheap and have the wrongdoers thumb their noses at you.

They thumb their noses at the rest of the world because of their economic prowess.

So, while the notion that small, colorful, chewed - paper sculptures could in any way threaten Smith's legacy or his market is laughable, Ms. Clay's works are threatening, but only because they thumb their noses and poke a little fun at macho, self - important, Ab - Ex sculptures.

While we would have loved to have seen the fourth title included to cover the entirety of in a single game, it's hard for us to thumb our noses at three complete games in one package for about 40 bucks.

Despite the weather, the surefootedness provided by the standard, all - wheel - drive 4Matic system in the 2014 S63 AMG allows us to occasionally thumb our noses at the rain and use the twin - turbo 5.5 - liter V - 8's 577 hp and 664 lb - ft of torque to take advantage of rare openings in traffic flow.

While we would have loved to have seen the fourth title included to cover the entirety of in a single game, it's hard for us to thumb our noses at three complete games in one package for about 40 bucks.

And have the courage to thumb our noses up against what society claims to be «age appropriate»!!!

Right now wearing pastel colors seems like a great way to thumb our noses at winter!

But the truth is, esports has been and will be popular whether or not traditionalists thumb their noses at it.

And if the FIA do want to ban bits of cars that are deemed «ugly», then why have we still got things like stepped noses and thumb noses?!

There was a bit of disappointment that the cars still had the bizarre little thumb noses, though.

In a letter to Imam Faisal Rauf that will be delivered on Tuesday, August 10 by MCC's board member Raheel Raza, the MCC says, «Many Muslims suspect that the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation, to thumb our noses at the «infidel.»

Considering there is the small matter «separation of church and state» I think those religious leaders are looking for a pay raise from their sheep, and not staying tax free is what they seem to thumb their noses at.

We supply all these countries with aid and while it is accepted, they in turn thumb their noses at us and make deals behind our backs.

«The Post» shows Graham herself evolve from a meek manager who enjoys the luxuries of power to one who finds her footing and thumbs her nose at it.

«They thumbed their nose at other people,» says Caldwell.

You saw it in Apple's «1984» Super Bowl spot, in which a lone, colorful rebel dares to resist a monochromatic horde of IBM users, and in Virgin Airlines» cheeky campaigns, in which a fun and sexy upstart thumbs its nose at staid and respectable airline brands.

So Rourke approached the Bolton, Mass., facility of Future Electronics, a parts distributor that had worked with Quartet back when other suppliers had thumbed their noses at the start - up's small volume of orders.

«By shirking its responsibilities to pay its workers,» states the document, the «defendant is in essence thumbing its nose both at their workers and the taxing authorities of all states and the U.S. government.»

He essentially thumbed his nose at authorities, who were trying to hunt down a man whose last photo was a confident - looking young man, in a jacket and tie, hair brushed back from a broad forehead, taken decades earlier.

Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook have all but thumbed their nose at short - term shareholders and continue to invest in research at very high rates.

Back then 80 % of Americans thumbed their nose at the sight of soy.

It's now facing a response to having thumbed its nose at Cisco that is altogether conventional.

Had Trump traveled to the snowy Swiss town to thumb his nose at the global elites?

Seated in his chair, Prasad quickly thumbed his nose twice, like a boxer watching a fight from outside the ring.

«Stripping and burlesque — and even porn, ultimately — overlap significantly with parody, satire and thumbing your nose at political, social and religious elites,» he says.

But even the fact that some entrepreneurs are thumbing their noses at Benchmark speaks to just how controversial the lawsuit is in the industry.

As the messaging - app owner was thumbing its nose at democratic capitalism by selling shares conferring no votes, the maker of specialized integrated circuits converted its super-charged shares to regular ones.

By choosing to interpret it so loosely as to refer to the Fed's own discount rate (or «primary rate»), among other proxies, the Fed has managed to pretend to conform to the statute, while actually thumbing its nose at it.

For in metaphorically thumbing his nose at the Council's clear injunction (not to mention the rubrics in the Missal), Father Freelance is de facto asserting his own superiority over the liturgy.

How could a woman who grew up in a secular home and spent a lifetime thumbing her nose at Christ and Christians possibly be an evangelist?

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

We thumb our nose at the World Court when it tries to exert some authority in relation to us.

thumbs his nose at it, but it's always there.

Then in June they thumbed their noses at Illinois Nazis by declaring the 1980 comedy The Blues Brothers to be a «Catholic Classic.»

They thumb their nose at seperation of church & state and amass wealth while enjoying their tax free status.

I see an awful lot more of people thumbing their noses at the «stupid white people» than I see white people giving grief to blacks and mexicans.

It seemed so committed to economic globalization that, whereas it thumbed its nose at the World Court and vetoed anything it did not like at the United Nations, it obeyed WTO rulings.

My point, or question, I hoped to convey, and it would seem I failed, was how is it visible and invisible evidence is weighed in a court of law, but outside the courtroom we thumb our nose at it?

If you want to thumb your nose at god and keep eating bacon cheeseburgers, fine.

They decided to thumb their nose at traditional values.

Conclusion # 2: 100 out of 100 christians thumb their nose at «god».

As football coach at Amherst, before he came to Brown, he had effectively thumbed his nose at Princeton's famed Coach Bill Roper when the arrogant Roper decided to play his second team against Tuss's boys, since they were so obviously minor league.

The Mavericks wouldn't thumb their nose at his return, either: He could upgrade the defense significantly, supplying shot blocking, along with 6» 11» Raef LaFrentz, that would enable the Mavs to play tighter D on the perimeter.

Four months after Liston won the title, Esquire thumbed its nose at its white readers with an unforgettable cover.

Wenger is back to coaching because of favoritism and out of spite — to thumb his nose at the fans and his critics.

Tony Romo thumbed his nose at those that would question his ability to make big plays late in games, leading the Cowboys on a seven - play, 80 - yard touchdown drive to give the Cowboys a huge win on the road against the Giants.