Sentences with phrase «using scare stories»

Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin says in a press release accompanying the launch: «Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne have tried to fool the public using scare stories from cronies or subordinates.

What matter are publicly funded green / left advocates who use scare stories to try to coerce the public into accepting policies they would otherwise never accept.

Not exact matches

They used stories of vengeful gods to scare the tribe into doing the leaders bidding.

Some of these include older mothers relishing in telling horror stories about cracked nipples, thrush, clogged ducts, etc; pediatricians who use weight charts based on formula fed infants and scaring new mothers into thinking their babies aren't gaining enough weight; and the pervasive, but false, belief that formula is just as good as breastmilk for babies.

The banks used to threaten, the banks used to conjure up scare stories, the banks used to talk about the impact of regulation, and the Conservative party supported them.

It's now the career route of choice: they can use that platform to attack this Government and make their name, lining up alongside former special advisers, MPs and councillors to argue for more spending, or to spread scare stories that are often exaggerated or wholly untrue.

It's time to get past the scare stories and start discussing the real uses and abuses of machine learning

Blue Man - The story of Paul Karason - a mass media deception orchastrated by pharmaceutical interests to scare the public away from using colloidal silver products.

Having grown up listening to horror stories told by my friends» parents who used to live there, I was scared.

Because as long as writers keep making millions by scaring teens with stories of mean adults and nasty technology, there will be producers making even more millions by using smart adults and new technology to turn them into movies.

This jump scare is used as a form of story progression and the eventual loss of a character.

Despite fairly mundane scares and a too - typical score, as well as a disappointing use of sound, it's still a riveting little story about sacrifice and familial bonds.

It uses modern tropes, like the true crime documentary, to tell a modern story of a woman who has been scared for 40 years.

One of the worst trending features of the horror genre is focusing on scares and using them cheaply to compensate for a fragmented story.

Do nt be scared away by horror stories about countless shots in the stomach the current procedure is much less unpleasant than it used to be, and is certainly preferable to risking the disease.

I remember stories of the outhouse being out back and how the brothers would scare the sisters as they would go to use it at night,» Philena recalls.

Speaking of which, since «An Inconvenient Truth» used the satellite image of hurricane Katrina as the single most scary image in that scare story of a wannabe documentary, will the sequel (there always has to be a sequel) contain a satellite image of the cloud free open ocean we've seen for most of the last two years?

There should be support for things that will better define climate response to forcing, like better quality aerosol data and better cloud data, but much less for duplicative modeling efforts, studies that use wildly uncertain models to make wildly uncertain predictions, and silly chicken - little scare - story studies of utter doom.

When you start thinking like a scientific skeptic, you will see that CAGW is a baseless scare story, used as a front for money, control, status, and similar rewards.

Earlier today we broke the story about dozens of scientists outraged at the use of their good names in an article by Heartland Institute's «Senior Fellow» Dennis Avery (inset) posted on their website entitled 500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man - Made Global Warming Scares.

Moreover, climate sceptics would recognise Goldacre's criticism of the media's use of «scare stories».

The National Geographic magazine also touted this scare story in a lengthy article using hurricane Sandy to enhance the scariness of the supposed threat.

And the uncompromising verdict of Dr MÃ ¶ rner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.»

If you're on the road you've got everything on your computer but you need Internet access, you hear all the stories about or even in a coffee shop, people being able to look at what information, what sites you're visiting, if you're using an unsecured provider and that ought to scare the heck out of all the lawyers because you just can't afford to have your confidential data be compromised in any way.

Adult support could be talking or drawing about what the child is scared of or worried about, helping him or her know what to expect (for example, at a Halloween party), or using puppets to act out a story in which a child is a little bit scared of something and then figures out how to deal with it.