Sentences with phrase «yore when»

McCollam summarizes the evidence of demise — declining profits for partners and the massive layoffs — and notes that in contrast to days of yore when lawyers found a way to make money in boom times or bust, the prolonged recession combined with the unsustainable growth of law firms has forced them up against a wall:

As you might expect from a commentary titled «Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers», he proposes that, with settled issues such as global heating, newspapers return to their glorious «muckraking» days of yore when advocacy journalism was all the rage, and before journalists were stripped by editors and newspaper owners of their authority to advocate for what is right.

Eventually we will tell stories of yore when we used to put circles in drives that made noises to play games.

You yearn for the days of yore when Web design was not something to be fussed over.

Tonto remembers the days of yore when he road sidekick to the masked man.

Worst of all is Sandler's and director Dennis Dugan's conviction that endlessly referring to its title character's «package» is in and of itself a laff riot: the character Biggus Diccus in Monty Python's Life of Brian notwithstanding, the only time a huge penis in the movies is funny is in certain triple - X rated movies from the days of yore when John Holmes used to almost trip over his own.

«The outcome of this election has come as a pleasant surprise to APGA and non-APGA members, against the background of threats by IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) to disrupt the election and fears in some quarters that there might be executive interference as in the days of yore when membership of the ruling party conferred automatic victory.

Gone are the days of yore when you'd boil bottles and stuff in large pots of water to sterilize them.

Not exact matches

In a brief demonstration with a Figment prototype, I found the flipping action tremendously fun and addictive, giving me the same satisfactory sensation that I felt when playing around with T - Mobile's Sidekicks of yore.

You might remember that 280 - pound Nigerian defensive end Osi Umenyiora (OH - see YOU - men - yore - ah) was the player the Chargers asked for when New York and San Diego were working out the 2004 draft - day deal that would bring Manning to the Giants.

Wow, talk about a piece designed to bring a tear to the eyes of conservatives yearning for a return to the storied days of yore, when leaders were leaders and Republicans stood for all that was right in the world... or so it seems through the rose - colored glasses of GOP political memory.

Wow, talk about a piece designed to bring a tear to the eye of a conservative yearning to return to the storied days of yore, when leaders were leaders and Republicans stood for all that was right in the world... or so it would seem through the rose - colored glasses of GOP political memory.

As an aside, when I worked the police beat in days of yore, there were two stories people begged — begged!

When alerted to interesting changes on the reef, they quickly gear up and swim out, like Koblick in the lobster - tracking days of yore, to supplement that information with their own firsthand reports.

When the pioneers of yore set out to explore North America, they didn't load up their horses and covered wagons with wood, bricks, and endless food or water.

Remember those junior high school dances of yore, when the boys would line up on one side of the room and the girls would line up on the other, and both sides would talk a big game but no one could actually bring themselves to actually get close to each other?

If only this film had entered into the Oscar races of yore, when a well - mounted epic was guaranteed a certain portion of the vote, «Dunkirk» would already have its name engraved on a few little gold men (though in that case it probably wouldn't be called «Dunkirk»).

When a guy is a drunken mess with no family who speak to him and only one friend — his old mob boss — a nickname like The Gravedigger tends to conjure better days of yore.

The story of Song of the Sea is simple, but when set against the trials and woes of yore, it reveals layers of suffering and, more importantly, the human capacity to endure it.

But if the classic pirate scores of yore might have been just a bit serious and symphonically dense in their wonderment, what makes «Cutthroat» into their worthy successor is that Debney's approach is surprisingly light on its feet, replete with the self - aware sense of humor that Harlin gave to the film, especially when the composer engages in a snooty harpsichord waltz.

That means a return to the days of yore, when filmmakers used film cameras and not digital.

Akerson also agrees with Yore, Craig, and Maguire (1995) when they point out that the reading process parallels the process of scientific inquiry: Both areas require skills in questioning and setting a purpose, analyzing and drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

It's still not the seasoned off - roader of yore, but when it comes to hauling a truck full of kids and a boat in tow, at least on paper, the 2017 Nissan Pathfinder is more ready than ever before to perform.

While I applaud all speed in theory, 85 mph is a rate of knots Defenders of yore achieved only when their chutes failed to deploy after they'd been tossed out of airplanes.

In football days of yore, when leather helmets sans facemasks were all the rage, two - way players — players who played both offense and defense — were prevalent.

Integrated graphics are much better than days of yore, but they still fall short when playing any of the more demanding modern games.

Rather than relying on the usual gameplay found in familiar games of the genre, Generation of Chaos: Pandora's Reflection uses a battle system called the «Attack Chance» where additional damage is delivered when the player pushes the button in time with the on - screen thythm prompts, like the music games of the days of yore.

In times of yore, the Xbox Live Store was hardly the most intuitive place to spend your hard earned Microsoft Points / pennies - an experience that migrated all its issues over to Xbox One when the poor Windows 8 - inspired UI spent a good two years on the eighth - gen console.