Sentences with phrase «who foisted»

grouped with the men who foisted that ignorant scrawls making hockey sticks are a «whole new branch of mathematics!»

If he wasn't, he wouldn't have found himself grouped in with the men who foisted that a battery drill is too difficult to get into the woods to take bores on trees,

grouped with the men who foisted that the magic hockey stick looker, makes a bore hole, a treemomitur

So let us not grieve for the corporate bosses at RealTime Worlds who foisted this Battlefield Earth of MMOs on the gaming public.»

Who foisted an unelected leader on its own membership?

These are the same 5 justices who foisted Citizens United and McCutcheon on us.

Not exact matches

The idea that «trying» is what counts — regardless of results — is a dreary commentary and a cheap excuse foisted on the real doers and the winners by sad sacks and also - rans who just can't cut it.

«The people who gave us John McCain and Mitt Romney — losers — now want to foist Marco Rubio off on us.»

The issue is the method by which it was rescued - who was protected, and who was not; why a consortium was not used instead of a single firm; why the claims of Bear's bondholders should be secure while the public bears the risk of the toxic waste foisted upon us.

That is important to me — if one side foists their view on the rest then we just have endless arguments, but if we can move past our selfish desires to not be challenged — then who knows what God might do.

Admittedly this particular thread is relatively tame compared to some I've seen, but I'm always amazed at the degree to which those who practice the religion known as «Atheism» feel a compulsion to foist their beliefs on others.

@Peggy and you don't consider foisting Christianity on non-adherents who wish not to have to be subjected to it to be an act of show?

Her observations were for the living, specifically those like her professor, who think the living have the power to foist their prejudices on how they think the living need to guide the dying to death.

But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

But try to foist it on me, as the religionists who make atheist movements like these necessary, and we'll have a probem.

Prostitution of ones body to put bread in our children's mouths can't be compared to the wicked who have foisted this life style on to the marginalized.

But, please, don't try to foist your beliefs off on those of us who neither want nor need them.

If i screw up, I screw up - I don't try to foist my mistakes on god or Jesus or the guy down the road who handles snakes and thinks he has a magical insight into everyone's heart.

The presentation of how desperate our situation is has already distressed those «conservatives» who want nothing more than to be the regime's «loyal opposition,» forever offering half - hearted dissent to whatever decadence the dominant culture foists upon us.

Dare we discern anything so outrageous as the idea that here God is making an atonement toward man for all that his desired creation costs man in the making: that he was making love's amends to all those who feel, and have felt, that they can not forgive God for all the pains which life has foisted, unwanted, upon them?

A stimulating environment doesn't mean flash cards, videos, or the many other commercial products being foisted on naturally naive new parents who want to give their child the best possible start in life.

It was foist upon us by home monitoring companies who wanted to make thousands giving SQ terbutaline infusions at home.IIRC they only monitored contractions, not FHTs and you would get calls when your son was coming up for his first Little League at bat and the home health nurse would say, «Your patient is now having contractions every 7.5 minutes and the cut off is every 8 minutes and the terbutaline is set at blah, blah, blah... What?

It's an attempt to figure out how we got so much more worried for our kids in just one generation, and to separate the real dangers from the ones foisted upon us by the media, and by other folks with things to sell (like baby safety product manufacturers who have to scare us about a remote danger like «traumatic head injury from toddling» before we'll buy their products, like the «ThudGuard» — a helmet for kids to wear all day when they're learning to walk).

One of the major issues foisted on new moms is family members, friends, and even complete strangers who insist on touching your baby without first washing their hands.

Clegg wants those who most need it to get extra help, but parents who don't check where their kids are on a night of rioting across England are unlikely to foist extra school on them — and their certainly not going to go of their own accord.

The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added that «in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.»

He added: «There is not an electoral mandate on this issue so all you are finding is a political elite — those who draw pay from representing us — foisting their liberal views on the people.»

Ologbondiyan said, «It is shocking that on the face of the colossal failure of governance leading to hunger and starvation, ethnic division, bloodletting and killings in our land, Mr. President is more concerned about a selfish agenda of foisting himself on a people who have become despondent of his leadership.

«But Peter Obi reneged in that agreement by foisting Obiano who is from Aguleri in Anambra North senatorial district on the people of the state.

Mbaka, who had in the past faulted the President for not appointing the right people and listening to the wrong advice, said the hardship in the country was foisted on Nigerians by a cabal that had «kidnapped» the President.

Could those MPs who so hate the idea of a socialist leading the Labour party not have waited even a week and instead concentrated on the Brexit disaster that Cameron has foisted upon the country?

Members in seats like Pendle may well be concerned that they will have foisted on them a displaced sitting MP with no local connection rather than a local figure who has spent the previous few years campaigning in the area.

leaving it much later will prove annoying for those who have cumbersome selection procedures or those seats who have some Westminster darling foisted on them by surprise... the chances of the latter increase after June of this year..

But we have no right to simply foist this problem on future generations, who will be ill - equipped to address it if we do not start amassing the necessary expertise and infrastructure now.

Even though he's hoofing the same animal - sidekick territory here as he did in Mulan, Murphy dominates the dialogue, portraying a donkey who's as motormouthed as he's supposed to be stubborn, the perfect foil to Myers» anti-social, Scots - accented Shrek (quite why Myers insists on repeatedly foisting this fake - Caledonian twang on us is a mystery, but, what the hell, it works well enough).

Reciprocating, Steven spends an evening with Martin and his mother (Alicia Silverstone, almost unrecognisable), who keeps trying to foist her home - made apple pie onto him.

I would worry however, because back when actors such as Robert Carlyle, was foisted into our imagination for his part in movies like Trainspotting in the 1990's, I'm not entirely sure there were movie directors around, who could make as good use of his abilities ever again.

Who knows whether the erstwhile comic has lost his talent entirely or merely lowered his standards to foist as many take - the - money - and - run ripoffs on the public till his fans catch on?

This is the first DreamWorks production to be distributed through new parent company Disney, who unfortunately have foisted some hammy special features on the film for Blu - ray.

Be warned, this article contains spoilers for The Cloverfield Paradox, though the biggest one of all was foisted upon everyone who...

Forgetting for a moment the movie's many slick but false moves, and the manner in which it contrives to put Palicki in first workout clothes and then a cocktail dress, what's most notable about «Retaliation» is the litany of small indignities it foists upon its big - stakes, wham - bang conceit, like the fact that the American President's national popularity is said to soar after, in the wake of a nuke going missing, he decides to push for a worldwide nuclear disarmament summit; or that Israel — who's never officially admitted to possessing nuclear weapons — is part of the gathering, along with global pariah North Korea.

The game is not on, exactly, until Dominika is foisted on a CIA agent, who has spent considerable time softening up the enemy and hardening his body.

We have them draft «I can do X, Y, and Z» testimonials that foist an «adult - centric sense of personal agency on kindergarteners who really couldn't care less if they can «use and understand verbs and adjectives by knowing their opposites.

The Common Core standards have drawn criticism from conservative activists who contend they're being foisted on the state.

Wendy's article is the clearest description to date of the dishonest, disastrous and counter-productive evaluation system that Governor Malloy, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and his State Board of Education are trying to foist upon the teachers, administrators, students and parents who are part of Connecticut's public education system.

Curt Nath, a high school Spanish teacher who leads Ocean City's union of 210 teachers and staff, said he'd rather be part of the development process than have it foisted in his members.

One thing we were glad to see missing was the ginormous panoramic glass roof most car companies (Subaru) foists onto buyers who opt for top trims.

This is the kind of thing I imagine being foisted on literary readers by those who would defend flash fiction as something that appeals to the short attention span.

The Chileans won and then were treated to a typical Colombian lunch that they probably choked down out of politeness, who knows what folk dishes were foisted on them — suckling pig, tamales, fritters, figs with caramel cream, or all of the above — and then they went back to their hotel to digest it while at the club the revelry went on, everyone getting drunker by the minute.

Authors should monitor posts by A.C. Crispin, Victoria Strauss, and Richard White to Writer Beware (r) who's main job is to expose scams and shady deals foisted upon unsuspecting authors.