Sentences with phrase «wringer by»

One of these companies has been taken to the wringer by the US government and itself.

From this phase, the employees of the companies have to undergo wringer by the department of accounts of companies.

Another year passes; another crop of edtech gear gets put through the wringer by Tech & Learning's expert panel of judges for the Awards of Excellence.

Lonely woman Ida Lupino is put through the suspense drama wringer by bent handyman Ryan.

, a far more chaotic study of a young woman put through the psychological wringer by the male creative ego.

It's great fun, if sometimes confronting, as a well - to - do family's life is put absurdly through the wringer by a home invader and his several inscrutable colleagues.

Not exact matches

Your great grandmother used cloth diapers with pins, washed them either by hand or in a wringer washer, and hung them to dry.

Sure, it brings you joy and hope, but it also puts you through the wringer with a growing list of aches and pains that get harder to deal with by the day.

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.

Katja is put through the ultimate wringer throughout the film, constantly veering between utter hopelessness and defiant anger; it would be easy to fall into the trap of portraying a woman suffering such unspeakable horrors by resorting to hysterics.

When Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller), a recovering junky trying to set his life straight after the birth of his daughter, tries out for the squad, he's put through the wringer, particularly by Christopher MacKenzie (Taylor Kitsch), who knew him from an EMT course they took and feared that he would drag everyone else in the crew down with him.

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

STAR ONE by David Coggeshall Two co-dependent female best friends's friendship is put through the wringer after a blind date gone awry sends them on a dangerous, all - in - one - night adventure with a drug dealer.

The exhibition title comes from the young adult book «Wringer» by Jerry Spinelli, which tells the coming - of - age story of a boy refusing a small town's tradition of pigeon shooting and the subsequent «wringing» of the necks of pigeons to ensure death.

For the hand - wringers who imagine this would trash the canon, I'll note that cramming in 50 more paintings by women would still keep their presence below 16 percent.

«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.

Monckton of Brenchley wrote: «I'm intrigued that so many of the bed - wetters, hand - wringers, and wolf - criers who populate the Church of Canutism are so mesmerized by my status as a member (albeit non-sitting and non-voting) of the House of Lords.»

I'm intrigued that so many of the bed - wetters, hand - wringers, and wolf - criers who populate the Church of Canutism are so mesmerized by my status as a member (albeit non-sitting and non-voting) of the House of Lords.