Sentences with phrase «who flaks for»

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Uber, meanwhile, is taking flak for enabling unlicensed drivers to take money away from those who are playing by the rules.

Buffett, whose Berkshire held an 8.59 % stake in IBM as of the end of last year and who has caught some flak for his stake, said his cost basis in IBM was around $ 170 a share and that he had still never sold a share.

For a player who i believe scored 5 goals in his last 6 international matches (correct me if i'm wrong) to receive so much flak for not scoring in one game is a damn shaFor a player who i believe scored 5 goals in his last 6 international matches (correct me if i'm wrong) to receive so much flak for not scoring in one game is a damn shafor not scoring in one game is a damn shame.

And yet, no one has really taken more flak for the result than manager Jose Mourinho, who has, in fairness, put together an expensively - assembled squad that continues to go missing in the most important games.

Of course it will be Champagne Charlie who will take the flak of the fans if said transfer flops, oh wait no — you'd probably end up on the Wenger out bandwagon calling for his head.

Reading these captions is a laugh - out - loud experience for most people, but Howerton receives flak from critics who feel this feed is child shaming.

I took a lot of flak for that and because of the nasty comments I received (including a horrible woman who flat - out told me my baby would probably die of a horrible plague because I was using formula instead of breast milk and robbing him of antibodies), I am actually very passionate about letting women know it's okay to choose to formula feed, that it is nothing to be ashamed of.

Chief Treasury secretary David Gauke is variously seen by MPs as the government's unsung hero — or the poor bloke who has to take the flak for Osborne when the going gets tough.

Yeah, I mean the job creators who hire people like you to flak for them!

It's a tough job taking the flak for the various Tory MPs who have been piling in to the Corbyn Czech spy row, but someone has to do it.

Despite getting flak from civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.

Molinaro, who already has taken flak from those on the right for backing Rep. Michael McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), knows that there will be political fallout from the Cuomo nod.

Donovan, who caught flak from Borough President James P. Molinaro in 2007 for recusing himself from a case involving Molinaro's grandson, is handling two hot potatoes, including one involving embattled Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez, that Kings County D.A. Charles Hynes had to pass on.

Ellison, who recently caught flak from liberals for taking a photograph with IDC State Senator Marisol Alcantara, added that he is «willing to do whatever might be helpful» in uniting the splintered Democratic sects.

He just wants to tell the story of a couple who received flak simply for, well, loving one another even though their skin was different colors.

The writer - director's characters all have them: a rebellious high school senior (Abby Quinn) flirting with boys and heroin for the first time; her soon - to - be-married sister (Jenny Slate), who questions everything after a hookup with an old flame; their mother (Edie Falco), who works around the clock and takes flak from all involved; and their father (John Turturro), a wannabe playwright who may or not be carrying on a decade - long affair (the discovery of a dirty poetry stash sends the sisters hunting for answers).

If we don't maintain other avenues for establishing a literary reputation and finding some kind of readership — things like traditional publishers and reviewing, where the writer could just be a writer and not have to wear the flak hat, the salesman hat, the editor hat, the publisher hat — if we don't maintain those, then we hand over the literary world to the personality types who are, I would say, less suited for the kind of work I care about.

For all the flak that cats get for being precociously independent, there actually are kitties out there who are just a bit too needy and clinFor all the flak that cats get for being precociously independent, there actually are kitties out there who are just a bit too needy and clinfor being precociously independent, there actually are kitties out there who are just a bit too needy and clingy.

And the Wii has long - since received flak from undeservedly self - important nerds who deride the console and its motion controls for not pandering to them.

P.S. I've got a post at Cato making a related point: is it really libertarians who should catch flak for being too indulgent toward persons who want to be excused from vaccination?