Sentences with phrase «with hobgoblins»

And the cover blurb: Since Bryanna grows up in Scotland, she is familiar with hobgoblins, selkies and kelpies from the tales of her mother country.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Now from time out of mind people have been pleased to think that witches, hobgoblins, gnomes etc. were deformed, and undeniably every man on seeing a deformed person has at once an inclination to associate this with the notion of moral depravity.

Travel with me back to the infancy of the current legislative session, when the most hidebound, most intransigent, most easily vilified political hobgoblin on the political scene was the teachers union.

For the MSU era, observations are consistent (hobgoblins and all) at the low end with IPCC theory.

As the very perceptive H.L. Mencken noted, «The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»

So the PETM, like the atmosphere of Venus or a lot of other really «scary» hobgoblins that are presented to frighten the unwitting public, have nothing to do with the reality of AGW.

H.L. Mencken also was prophetic in his statements «The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary» and «The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.»

«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»

H.L.Mencken said, «The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»

Most climate hobgoblins in Canada come through the Federal Government, particularly Environment Canada (EC) with the singular objective of proving the hypothesis that human production of CO2 is causing global warming.

The public is bombarded daily with «science» (usually medical or nutritional) that is utter rubbish, and this is compounded by scares of varying hobgoblins (lipid theory, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc.) Vapid journalists exacerbate the problem by breathlessly reporting on impending doom (AGW will bring malaria northward.

«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»