Sentences with phrase «with grist for the mill»

Five - to fifteen - minute sessions of role - playing are usually long enough to provide the group with grist for the mill of productive discussion.

Not exact matches

The problem lies in the fact that the internet grist mill of gargantuan marketing campaigns by the newsletter community are now inundating inboxes with every other form of social media blitzkrieg designed to pump and promote designated junior names for a «fee,» which has been escalating sharply as the stakes behind «distribution» are recognized.

Insisting that what is important is not the amount of aid but its quality (a point of agreement with Edwards), Lancaster makes a number of sensible proposals for reform which are mainly of interest to specialists, and certainly grist for policy mills inside the Washington beltway.

For example, liberal groups are assembling examples of Trump's perceived sexism, with his years of appearances on reality TV and talk radio providing plenty of grist for the miFor example, liberal groups are assembling examples of Trump's perceived sexism, with his years of appearances on reality TV and talk radio providing plenty of grist for the mifor the mill.

At its most cynical, look at it this way: high visibility with their constituents is grist to the mill come election time, and only the most idiotic or arrogant politician would dismiss an opportunity — any opportunity — to present him or herself as «working hard for you.»

Now there's more grist for the rumor mill, as The Playlist reports that Cate Blanchett is in talks to tag - team the film with Bullock.

Almost as shocking as its narrative — which tells the story of literally tens of thousands of children, and the terrible abuses they suffered after in many cases being told that their parents were dead — is the fact that it is hardly known in the United States, where tales of adolescent mistreatment and murder are typically seized upon with a white - hot tabloid fervor, grist for the mill of the 24 - hour cable news channels.

And with war brewing between England and France, such a damning charge against Hamilton, an avowed admirer of the British, would be grist for the mills of the new anti-Federalist faction so entranced by everything French.

In the past, they've put out such research reports as I thought I wanted an ETF or how top ten active funds are allegedly better than index funds that for the most part tried to pass along marketing spin as serious research and provided us with plenty of grist for the mill.

Meeting notes, phone logs and calendars to show just who federal employees and grantees spoke or met or communicated with is and has always been grist for the mill... Bush's energy policy, Hilliary!

it doesn't need to involve my SAW or AHH's AGW) that doesn't admit an obvious decomposition resembling Figure 10 of my poster, and instead has a component more like D'Aleo and Easterbrook's graph at WUWT that was mentioned here earlier, this ought to be excellent grist for their mill, as well as hopefully satisfying those objecting that SAW has nothing whatsoever to do with ocean oscillations.