Sentences with phrase «white knight of»

Unfortunately he is over moderating and is making KG look like a white knight of the denier movement.

Jeb may be considered the white knight of the Bush clan; but his little brother's POTUS terms have been described as a POTUS that there was no there there... either through incompetence, or corruption, or both.

So much so, they called in the white knight of redistricting, former New York City mayor and NY Uprising founder, Ed Koch, to defend their cause.

Whatever white knight of the right faces off against Notley in two years (Kenney?

Yet many self - proclaimed hackers are evolving a new role for themselves as the white knights of democracy.

Not exact matches

A white knight as well as a green one, Surace bought Republic's crippled assets out of bankruptcy and pledged to restore the factory and eventually rehire all the workers at their old pay levels.

But Ackman now finds himself planning a proxy battle, because CP's board and its chairman John Cleghorn have so far resisted the notion of Harrison as white knight.

When one stream dries up due to economic downturns, the other streams of income can come to the rescue like a knight riding on a white horse.

Teva could also become an unlikely white knight for Perrigo as it seeks to fend off Mylan, because Teva's proposed acquisition of Mylan hinges on the Perrigo deal's collapse, Teva said in its presentation.

Instead, a white knight usually appears to take over the distressed company and pay out money owed to members of the public.

During the recession of the late 2000s, he served as a white knight - at - large, coming to the rescue of Goldman Sachs, General Electric and Swiss Re, while rejecting pleas from Lehman Brothers Holdings.

In my view, there would be little public support within Canada for a bail - out of HCG, either directly or through backing white knights (domestic or foreign).

A bunch of white knight and entiled women further leading this country farther down the decline, lollzz

The fact that all of these estrogen filled white knights come out to defend her still is pathetic.

And maybe some of it is that some women feel there should be some grand karmic payback in the form of a dashing white knight for all the years they sacrificed to their kids and ex-husband.

There are neither purely «white knights» nor purely «black» ones; instead, there are many shades of grey among the external actors.

Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday for trying to portray himself as the «white knight» of the New York City Housing Authority,...

As the name suggests, Brodsky casts himself as a white knight, capable of protecting voters» finances, the environment and security.

Only a white knight, they were convinced, could save them from a humiliating defeat against Bush, and by the end of the summer, Cuomo was their last best hope.

«It's back to the hopes and dreams of Winston Farm and IBM and of white knights coming in and saving Ulster County,» O'Halloran said.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — David O'Halloran, who resigned last week as vice chairman of the Ulster County Republican Party, said the lack of GOP support for his plan to bring video lottery terminals to his Kerhonkson resort shows the party is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's economy.

Later that week, at almost the exact moment that Mr. Cuomo was in a Manhattan ballroom condemning the city's public housing as «disgusting,» Mr. de Blasio was on the roof of a New York City Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.»

I didn't envisage myself as princess Diana, I never had a fantasy of a white knight.

With almost 28 % of single moms admitting they've been dating online for over three years, this survey states that they might not be looking for a knight in white armor.

Being young, Russian girls dream of their knight in the shining armor or a prince on a white horse.

I am not the white knight in shining armor charging his gallant stallion across the field of battle with lance lowered.

Im a 37yo single white female in search of my knight in shining armor.

Many wealthy older men are secretly hoping to play the white knight and are more than willing to play the role of indulgent Sugar Daddy to a pretty young woman.

Sophocles, the son of Sophilus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeios Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for Oscar Zach is a red piller who detests white knights / manginas, whom he believes to be the actual source from where feminism draws its power to subvert men

A gaming experience utilizing a variety of classic FINAL FANTASY job classes such as the knight, black mage and white mage to aid Chocobo in his fight against evil.

Harris tries his best to make something more out of his one - dimensional white - knight character, while Gooding plays his vaudeville Rainman routine to the rafters.

But Zelnick puts it best when he calls Frost «the most unlikely white knight... but a man who had one big advantage over all of us.

A literal white knight, he's the empty vesicle for not quite enough white guilt to prevent A Time To Kill from being another movie that invests the fate of black folks in an unctuous cracker.

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, White knight Chronicles, and an early look at Metro 2033 fill out the rest of the opening to the show.

It's his wife Audrey (Lane) who calls him a «white knight» at one point, while a friend dubs him «guardian of the American dream» at another.

(Sorry for the white knighting, but if you've seen Brooklyn, you might understand why I feel so protective of this adorable lass.)

The well - meaning but entitled white knight may be alive and well in plenty of places, from patronizing politicians to your average rom - com hero; but in a wide - ranging crop of recent movies, he's being thoroughly, effectively knocked off his high horse.

Like knights astride white horses, they ride in and rescue students from the beleaguered classrooms of the district's overcrowded high schools.

They're the white knight, come to save us all from the evils of the Big 5.

Adan — I like Andrew's post, though I get a little flinchy when arguments are boiled down to superlatives to advance the thesis (for example, I think few authors who have really studied the situation think of Amazon as a white knight riding in to save indie writers» bacon.

Fine, they may not have liked these things at the time (or more likely didn't think much of it until victim points were up for grabs), but even you, in your lovely shiny white knight armour can't claim that is even close to rape.

The publishers did see one white knight on the horizon, in a fashionable black turtleneck, with technological know - how as strong as Amazon's, a proven track record of selling artistic products digitally, and infinite resources: Apple.

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I don't hate the big publishers, but white knighting them is at least as silly as blind adulation of Amazon.

Hugh is making a big mistake to view either of these forces as the white knight vs. Malificent.

I'm not suggesting Ryanair will necessarily be successful in its bid — in fact, I suspect the Irish government's desperately casting» round for any kind of white knight solution.

Her white knight arrived within a couple of minutes, in an unmarked Orange County Sheriff's Office car.

The practical lesson that I draw from all this is that it is a mistake for No Kill advocates to see the traditional shelter industry as the enemy, and it is an inaccurate view of history to see No Kill advocates as white knights who had to fight and defeat an industry full of lazy, incompetent people who liked to kill animals.

These white knights don't do well in apartments because of their high energy and frequent barking.

He doesn't need a white knight defending him and making light of fact that he committed a violent act against another person.