Sentences with phrase «wringer at»

«Instead, the Woodstock Town Board should be supporting developers like us, who are spending substantial amounts of time and effort to follow the rules through the regulatory wringer at great expense while Airbnb gets a free ride.»

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Like a washcloth through a wringer, the mountains squeeze more rain of the system — «at least on the order of 10 to 30 percent compared to moving over flat terrain,» he says.

Tweets and excerpts during the campaign trail from Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump put the biotech cohort through the wringer via taking aim at drug pricing.

Roy, an engineer by training, plans to put his enormous data set through the wringer in an attempt to identify patterns in the way he, his wife (Rupal Patel, a professor of speech language pathology at Northeastern University in Boston) and the young one speak as common concepts are taught and lessons are learned.

Normally, you wouldn't expect them to work together, which may be why they're the perfect fodder for humor, as they're shot at, punched, mauled and generally put through the wringer.

While she thanks director Russell for giving her the chance to prove that she could do more than play sweet, wide - eyed innocents, Adams has admitted that life is too short to put herself through that wringer again, especially with a six - year - old at home.

They put Steve Buscemi through the wringer as a naive visitor trapped by bizarre circumstance while waiting at a Metro station.

And that's just the first five minutes of this nastily effective comedy - horror, which takes genre clichés and runs them through a candy - coated ADHD wringer, leaving you bloodied and smiling at the end.

But once the two arrive at the massive suburban estate of Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford), Chris is put through the casually racist wringer.

When we heard about Waterfi's custom waterproof Paperwhite, we were delighted at the prospect, but reserved final judgement until we could put it through the wringer ourselves.

While it can be more time - consuming to manage a large portfolio, most people are better off aiming for at least this number to avoid getting put through the volatility wringer.

«All change starts with one person,» he said at the event co-sponsored by EII and the David Brower Center, and encouraged us to stop being «bystanders» and «hand - wringers» and take action to build a better world.

I'd been putting myself through the wringer for six or seven months in an attempt at kicking my results up a notch, only to have the opposite effect.

Turtle Beach's new i30 and i60 headsets are aimed in large part at Apple fans and have clearly gone through Apple's design wringer.