Sentence examples for extract a pound from inspiring English sources
But the urge to extract a pound of flesh, researchers find, is primed in the genes.
One official asked how the central bank could best extract a "pound of flesh" from the bank.
Mr. Davis said a desire "to extract a pound of flesh" was behind many of the arguments for capital punishment.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Why Revenge Is Sweet Revenge may be frowned upon, but the urge to extract a pound of flesh, researchers find, is primed in the genes.
These measures will be discussed at a weekend meeting of top European officials.And Warren Buffett is making the most of the opportunities presented by the financial crisis, taking advantage of fear and weakness on Wall Street to extract a pound of flesh from the bluest of blue chip firms.
The government is destined to extract a pound of flesh from the middle class because this is where the money is; there simply aren't enough millionaires around to pay for everything.
After the procedure, they posted photographs of the surgery and tumor on the photo-sharing site Flickr.com under the heading "Extracting a Pound of Flesh" (flickr.com/photos/littlecrumb/sets/72157607218121711/).
"They are taking much harder lines and are much more interested in extracting a pound of flesh and raising the public posture of the department".
And the centrists, predictably, extracted a pound of flesh — not, as far as anyone can tell, based on any coherent economic argument, but simply to demonstrate their centrist mojo.
Judging by the evidence in Connecticut and elsewhere — as opposed to the unproved promises of the companies' executives — the watchdogs need to take care to extract a few pounds of customer service flesh or kill the deal outright.
Nonetheless, Memorial Day found Foord working underwater in the shadows of cargo ships chugging overhead, scaling a forty-foot wall to carefully extract a ten-pound brain coral with a sledgehammer, while keeping an eye out for an unoccupied crevice to hang on to, lest the outgoing Gulf Stream current sweep him away to the Bermuda Triangle.
