Political commentators often paint Mike Pence as an impotent toady.
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Only an ambitious toady would accept such an ugly assignment.
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You would never guess that this toady in a suit works for us.
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As we watch them toady along behind this president, nothing could be more clear.
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To be sure, Haspel is not a toady, unlike so many in the administration.
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This is not of toady, this is not of, you know, the tax reform.
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Indeed, his pugnacity and pride should have told Trump he would be an unlikely toady.
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Britain's Conservative government is accused of sacrificing the steel industry to toady up to China.
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"He was not a toady or an advocate for the science community," Dr. Sarewitz said.
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Manuel Noriega was a U.S. toady before the George H.W. Bush's administration turned on him.
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Manuel Noriega was a U.S. toady before the George H.W. Bush's administration turned on him.
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Mark Meadows accepted the toady role, standing up to say that people across the country support the President.
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There is only one option here for Americans: Turn being a toady for the gun lobby into political oblivion.
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Even those who follow politics in a casual way know that Pence is a toady of the first order.
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He singled out former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as nothing but a toady for President Barack Obama.
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She has attacked Mr. Macron as a toady of global interests who would do little for the common citizen.
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Marty O'Donnell And there are still a few lines in there like "toady about," and "sod off," little British colloquialisms.
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But Donald Trump, Jr. and presidential son-in-law/toady Jared Kushner will not have the same sort of insulation.
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Trump's loyal toady, Senator Mitch McConnell, has ruled out an independent investigation of the Russia connection, never mind these latest events.
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One was anchored in laissez-faire economics, worshipped the "gospel of individualism," and served as a toady of big industry and banking.
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J.K. Rowling dragged Piers Morgan via Twitter on Saturday, mocking the commentator as a "celebrity toady" for his defense of President Donald Trump.
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Their nemesis had not been turned from a frog into a prince, thank heavens, but he had become something rather better: a toady.
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He would defend Social Security and Medicare, crack down on trade, and wouldn't be a toady of Wall Street like Crooked Hillary. Whoops.
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"Why not demolish all Western-style apartment blocks…so as not to toady to foreign powers?" wrote one contributor to an online forum.
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That's because Romney is still a Republican, but no one is likely to cast him as a toady for the Trump White House.
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But more importantly, Ben Rhodes explained it to us when he said they had created an echo chamber of compliant, obsequious and toady journalists.
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"The Senate is going to want promises that this person will be independent of the White House and not be a toady," he said.
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With instincts that recall the Stalinist intelligentsia of the 1940s, they mix the logical elasticity of the sophist with the unflinching loyalty of the toady.
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It's a cop drama, with a take-no-prisoners lead character who has a giant blue dildo and a young fanboy toady who worships her.
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Global Times, a state newspaper, described Australia as an American toady "with an inglorious history", not even a paper tiger but "a paper cat at best".
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In June Hainan's government published a list of 53 places and buildings, including many hotels, with names that "worship foreign things and toady to foreign powers".
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It's true as far as it goes: Giuliani is not merely a Trump toady who serves no purpose other than to help Trump grow his business empire.
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Find a long-forgotten government institution; target an official with no hope of promotion; then "be a shameless toady" to get the institution's seal to register your company.
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In the interview, Trump said Sessions was being "very unfair to the president," which surprised the rest of us, who thought Senator Jeff had been basically the biggest toady around.
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" Harry Litman, writing in the Washington Post, urged the Senate to block the Ratcliffe nomination, saying he had a "well-earned reputation as a political partisan and a toady to the president.
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As you've made clear, the practice of faculty recommendation puts pressures on law-review editors that may involve the abuse of power, temptations to toady and a host of other unfortunate effects.
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For his part, Mr. Blunt and those groups supporting him have tried to cast Mr. Kander, who was a state representative before becoming secretary of state in 2013, as a toady for Mrs.
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Ms. Louis-Dreyfus handles Selina's moral and tactical U-turns with the same brilliant disingenuousness, and Selina's dehumanizing dance with her body man and love-struck toady, Gary, is as funny as ever.
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So now we have another, which puts a different spin on that message of racial unity, bringing in some white voices to denounce that toady fucker and play Trump's own racial prejudices against him.
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He's pompous, humorless, ruthless, a toady and a bully both, unreasonably convinced of his own brilliance—one of those insufferable people who thrive in life because they don't know or care what others think of them.
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When a Democratic senator, Mazie K. Hirono of Hawaii, accused him at a widely watched congressional hearing of abusing his public office, lying to Congress and serving as Mr. Trump's toady, he just stared at her impassively.
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An Irish immigrant and Civil War veteran, Byrnes joined the New York Police Department as a patrolman in 1863 and — though he was no toady for the powerful Tammany machine — advanced through a corrupt system in which payoffs led to promotions.
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Being national security adviser has destroyed McMaster's public credibility, but we also know that Trump will happily replace him with a compromised toady; Trump has reportedly even complained to confidants that he misses his first, disgraced national security adviser, FBI suspect Michael Flynn.
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Amid a melodramatic plot worthy of Douglas Sirk, Olivia, seeking security, weds Bernard, a lovestruck toady with a savior complex, while Antonio suffers the moods of his wife, Danila, a harpy who has fallen under the spell of his ne'er-do-well Fascist brother.
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The results were published by McMillen (and a fictional co-author named Tim Toady) in a joke-filled white paper available here, but far more interesting is the online art gallery of paint splatters showing which ones generated valid code (plus the results of that code) and which did not.
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DOUTHAT: But the reason for our aggressive Korean policy seems to be the policy views of H. R. McMaster, who may be deeply wrong about the issue but is nobody's idea of a hack, crony or Trumpian toady; he's the sort of figure who could be making policy in any G.O.P. administration.
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In Hawaii, Twigg-Smith had the reputation of iconoclast and rogue, not at all a toady of old money, after having ousted his uncle in a takeover bid at the Advertiser and directing his paper to endorse Daniel Inouye, a Japanese-American, when he first ran for US Senate in 1963 against a scion of the white upper class.
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How could one man—some unholy combination of the Grinch, the Winter Warlock, Mr. Potter, the kid that beat up Thurman Merman, Scut Farkus, and his toady Grover Dill—bestowed with such an important high-profile media position get something so seasonally important, so Christmas-y centric, so jing-jing-a-ling-ly vital, so damn wrong?
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" (Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror in 22017 for publishing fabricated photos of British soldiers torturing an Iraqi prisoner.) After Morgan wrote that the "superior, dismissive arrogance of rabid Remain/Clinton supporters like [Rowling] is, of course, precisely why both campaigns lost," the author shot back: "The fact-free, amoral, bigotry-apologism of celebrity toady Piers Morgan is, of course, why it's so delicious to see him told to f— off.
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"Toad" later evolved into "Toady", which featured on Ginger Baker's Air Force 2 (1970).
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He and Toady often argue which results in them falling out. They always make up at the end of the episode. Toady (voiced by Jenny McAlpine) A tin toad with a short temper. She often gets mad at Ted and the two often argue.
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Toady can also analyze maxed weapons and make suggestions for synthesis combinations. These suggestions are recorded in the "Frog Log". Toady will also warn the player if an attempted combination is going to result in a decrease in stats, or with a weapon for which the player's level is not yet high enough.
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Shortened from bum fodder. Slang term for toilet roll.CED 1991, p. 213 ; bumsucker : a toady, creep or someone acting in an obsequious manner.
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He was a tuft-hunter and a toady, but he did not know that he was doing amiss in seeking to rise by tuft-hunting and toadying.
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Each episode begins with a boy leaving his bedroom for school. Toady and Ted both come to life and Freddy the Mouse jumps out of his Globe. Ted and Toady will sometimes argue, and Freddy will then tell a story from a specific part of the world. The story will usually follow the antics of a certain animal (a dingo for example) and tell fictional stories of what the animals get up to using Amphropomorphism.
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If you have an ability, don't be selfish with it. If other people have an ability, don't lightly denigrate them. Don't toady to the rich; don't be arrogant to the poor. Don't despise the old; don't favor the new.
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CED 1991, pp. 203 & 1521 ; brown bread : Dead (Cockney rhyming slang).Green 1999, p. 154. ; brown-tongue : Sycophant, toady or someone who attempts to curry favour with another (from the idea of licking another's backside).Green 1999, p. 155.
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Callimedusa atelopoides is a species of frog in the family Phyllomedusidae. It is known from Amazonian Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, and is likely to be found in adjacent Colombia and Ecuador. Common name toady leaf frog has been proposed for it.
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Freddy (voiced by Lenny Henry) An optimistic mouse who likes exploring. Freddy lives inside the Globe in the boy's bedroom and jumps out when he is gone. He often laughs when Toady gets Mad. Ted (voiced by Ricky Tomlinson) A lazy Teddy Bear who is somewhat dim-witted.
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Her mouth has been described as toady and she always wears bright red lipstick. Her hair is styled in a butterfly style. She also wears deep blue and dull purple eye shadow. Costumes: In the Real World, Ferocia wears a knee length purple dress with a black belt and matching boots.
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According to a biographer: "Skilled in the arts of self-preservation, he was not a toady."Nicholas Murray, Andrew Marvell (1999), p. 117. In 1661 Marvell was re-elected MP for Hull in the Cavalier Parliament. He eventually came to write several long and bitterly satirical verses against the corruption of the court.
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During the story Ted and Toady will sometimes speak to each other and ask Freddy questions about the animals in the story. After Freddy has finished the story, the boy will arrive back home and everyone will rush back to their original positions that they were in before the boy left (apart from Freddy, who goes back inside his globe).
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Yuan also resented what he regarded as the corruption of Chinese food by Manchu cooks. The appeal of Manchu cooking was in their stews and roasts, while Chinese cooked broths and soups, but when Manchus serve Chinese dinners and Chinese serve Manchu food, "we lose our originality" and we "toady to each other". Hsiang-Ju Lin and Tsuifeng Lin. Chinese Gastronomy.
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With the help of two of Brandon's friends visiting from university (a dissipated young nobleman called Viscount Cinqbars and his toady, Rev. Thomas Tufthunt) the 'duel' takes place, though the pistols in fact are not loaded.(Thackeray uses a similar plot device in The Luck of Barry Lyndon). The "duel" is interrupted anyway by the arrival of a wealthy lady previously besotted with Fitch, who impetuously carries him off with her.
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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) is a United States "national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups, parents, and individuals who care about children [and is] the only national organization devoted to limiting the impact of commercial culture on children." The group was founded by Susan Linn. It sponsors the annual Fred Rogers Integrity Award and the TOADY Award. CCFC concerns include catalogs for children that might be inappropriate and child privacy rights.
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The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp is a 1968 album from the English group Giles, Giles and Fripp. The United States LP had a different cover from that of the original UK version. The music shows a mix of pop, psychedelic rock, folk, and classical influences. In addition to 13 songs, the album contains two comedic spoken word pieces, "The Saga of Rodney Toady" and "Just George", which are interspersed between the songs that appear on their respective LP sides.
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Fraser decided to write Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an "illustrious Victorian soldier" experiencing many 19th-century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in the British Army, acclaimed as a great warrior, while remaining "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward—and, oh yes, a toady." Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who often runs from danger in the novels. Nevertheless, through a combination of luck and cunning, he usually ends each volume acclaimed as a hero.
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When the experience and the elemental damage are both at maximum, a weapon is "Mastered" and cannot be improved any further. However, once a weapon is maxed, it becomes available for synthesis with another maxed weapon of the same type. When two maxed weapons are synthesized, a stronger weapon is created, and must be maxed again to become available for subsequent synthesis. Synthesis is carried out by a character within the game called "Toady", a frog who can swallow two weapons and then regurgitate a new weapon.
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On two occasions, Capitol refused to release Freberg's records. "That's Right, Arthur" was a barbed parody of controversial 1950s radio/TV personality Arthur Godfrey, who expected his stable of performers—known as "little Godfreys"—to toady to him endlessly. The dialogue included Freberg's "Godfrey" monologue, punctuated by Butler imitating Godfrey announcer Tony Marvin, repeatedly interjecting, "That's right, Arthur!" between Godfrey's comments. Capitol feared Godfrey might take legal action and sent a copy of Freberg's record to Godfrey's legal department for permission, which was denied.
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Based on years of abuse and knowing full well he was a freak, Mortimer developed a severe inferiority complex, becoming servile to anyone that showed him the slightest bit of affection. Later, he was recruited into Magneto's original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, becoming Magneto's sycophantic 'toady'. Toad believed that Magneto loved him, while the mutant mastermind considered this henchman little more than a human shield. He also developed a crush on his teammate Scarlet Witch, but she did not return his feelings as she was repulsed by his appearance, mannerisms, and lack of hygiene.
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On "Birling Day", the crew toady to Birling in the hope that he will give them all large tips. Every Birling Day Douglas attempts to steal Birling's whisky and sell it on while Carolyn and the rest of the crew try to stop him. Another recurring character is Captain Hercules "Herc" Shipwright (Anthony Head), a former colleague of Douglas who now works at Scottish airline Air Caledonia. Herc is an occasional rival to Douglas and a love interest to Carolyn, though she is reluctant to reciprocate Herc's affections.
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They are the shabby genteel people of the title, having dubious backgrounds but a small private income (inherited from Juliana's mother, who kept an inn) which allows them to give themselves airs as gentlefolk. Viscount Cinqbars: a young nobleman, still at university, whom Brandon had previously tutored on a continental tour. He admires Brandon as the sort of rakish seducer he fancies himself to be – though Cinqbars is both small and ugly and his only personal attraction is his money. Reverend Thomas Tufthunt:A 'tuft-hunter' was university slang for a toady or sycophant.
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He is especially sadistic towards Beau's class of recruits, hoping this will get them to reveal to him which of the men is the author of an anonymous letter Dagineau has received threatening his life. Although he has no proof, he suspects Beau, which earns Beau particularly brutal treatment. To ferret out more information, Dagineau uses the services of the slimy toady Boldini, who has reenlisted in the Legion promoting him to Corporal as reward for his spying on the men. Beau's background leads De Ruse to nickname him Beau "Geste".
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Some of its features attempted to present the darker side of celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Steven Seagal, Martha Stewart, and especially, the real-estate tycoon Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump. Pejorative epithets of celebrities, e.g., "Abe 'I'm Writing As Bad As I Can' Rosenthal," "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump," "churlish dwarf billionaire Laurence Tisch," "bum-kissing toady Arthur Gelb," "bosomy dirty-book writer Shirley Lord," and "former fat girl Dianne Brill" became a Spy trademark. In the summer of 1992, the publication ran a story on President George H.W. Bush's alleged extramarital affairs.
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The entire action is confined to an evening party hosted by Damyanti Rane (Vijaya Mehta), a rich middle-age widow and well-known patron of the arts in the city. All the cognoscenti of the urban milieu make a beeline to the event. The party is hosted in the honour of Diwakar Barve (Manohar Singh), a celebrated playwright, who has just been awarded the prestigious National Literary Award. There are gradual revelations in conversations between attendees of the party — by turns catty, outraged, resigned and cynical — that he got the award because he is Damyanti's lover, who wields political clout, or a toady of the establishment.
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Red Cap Tales (1904) London: Adam and Charles Black. New York: Macmillan. Maid Margaret (1905) London: Hodder & Stoughton. The Cherry Ribband (1905) London: Hodder & Stoughton. Kid McGhie (1905) London: James Clarke and Co. (published as Fishers of Men in the US) Sir Toady Crusoe (1905) London: Wells, Gardner, Darton and Co. The White Plumes of Navarre (1906) London: Religious Tract Society. Little Esson (1907) London: Ward, Lock and Co. Me and Myn (1907) London: T. Fisher Unwin. Vida (1907) London: James Clarke and Co. Deep Moat Grange (1908) London: Hodder & Stoughton. Princess Penniless (1908) London: Hodder & Stoughton. The Bloom o’ the Heather (1908) London: Eveleigh, Nash.
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Oscar Núñez, 'The Proposal', June 18, 2009, Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times, In some episodes he is described as the smartest in the office. Martinez refers to himself as being in the "Coalition for Reason" with Jim and Pam Halpert.Toby Flenderson was formerly a member, but Oscar states that Toby checked out mentally, and Toby seems to agree with him when asked about it, and as can be seen in the episode "Mafia", where Oscar is the only one to see that an Italian American insurance agent is simply an insurance agent. According to Núñez, the three "are there to set up the comic situations" for boss Michael and Dwight Schrute, Michael's toady.
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He had been promoted because of his willingness to function as Hitler's mouthpiece. He was known by his peers as a "blindingly loyal toady" of Hitler, nicknamed "Laikeitel"; or "Nichgeselle" after a popular metal toy nodding donkey. During the war he was subject to verbal abuse from Hitler, who said to other officers (according to von Runstedt) that "you know he has the brains of a movie usher ... (but he was made the highest ranking officer in the Army) ... because the man’s as loyal as a dog" (said by Hitler with a sly smile). Keitel was predisposed to manipulation because of his limited intellect and nervous disposition; Hitler valued his hard work and obedience.
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Junior confesses to Tulip that he was supposed to fire her, and a saddened Tulip leaves with Jasper to meet her family while Junior continues alone to deliver Diamond Destiny. Cornerstore's pigeon employee Toady learns about Diamond Destiny and informs Hunter, who reroutes her address beacon and leads Junior into a trap. Hunter fires Junior and has Diamond Destiny taken away to live with penguins until she is an adult in order to silence the incident and prevent more plummeting stocks while Junior is tied up and gagged until his waiting attempt to death. Tulip reunites with Junior from being coughed to demise and they return to Stork Mountain during the highly anticipated Storkcon event to save Diamond Destiny from the penguins.
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This reference includes the text of the letter and names of the signatories. Hawkins afterwards (29 May 1897) married Andrew Grūber, author of the petition and characterized by J. H. Symon as a manipulator and Kingston's (whom he loathed) toady and informant as well as being a fomentor of the Hospital troubles. Under pressure, five of the nurses withdrew their support for Hawkins, but Graham refused to retract and was urged by her superior, Matron McLeod, to resign, and Dr. Way suggested she take a position at the Port Adelaide Hospital. A Royal Commission found that her protest was justified, but insulting terms had been used against the Government and the Hospital Board, and if these were retracted Graham should be reinstated.
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Simon said he had watched Carroll and Marimow "single-handedly destroy" the newspaper and that he spent over ten years trying to get back at them. > Anything I've ever accomplished as a writer, as somebody doing TV, anything > I've ever done in life, down to, like, cleaning up my room, has been > accomplished because I was going to show people that they were fucked up, > wrong, and that I was the fucking center of the universe and the sooner they > got hip to that, the happier they would all be. One of the actions Simon took was to name a character in The Wire after Marimow and make the character "a repellent police-department toady." Carroll left the Baltimore Sun to become editor at the Los Angeles Times and resigned in 2005 after budget cuts were announced.
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However, unlike standard monsters, quarries must be purchased before they become available. Once the player has purchased the quarry, they must locate it on the map, and then use a specific item to initiate the battle. The game also features a completion chart, which records the player's progress through various aspects of gameplay; "Hunter Ranking" (the goal is to top the league of hunters), "Rare Items" (collect all nine rare items in the game), "Quarries" (successfully defeat all available quarries), "Hunting Record" (attain maximum hunter points by killing all of the specified enemies), "Insectron" (win the highest tournament rank), "Revelation Flow" (complete every character's Revelation Flow), "Frog Log" (have Toady analyze at least one-hundred weapons, and produce at least fifty), and "Factory" (produce all forty items available in the factory). When any single aspect is completed to 100%, an award is given, usually in the form of a new costume for one of the characters.
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Official Records, 15th Session of the UN General Assembly Upon hearing this, Khrushchev quickly came to the rostrum, being recognized on a Point of Order. There he demonstratively, in a theatrical manner, brushed Sumulong aside, with an upward motion of his right arm—without physically touching him—and began a lengthy denunciation of Sumulong, branding him (among other things) as "a jerk, a stooge, and a lackey", and a "toady of American imperialism"Other translations exist, see Nina Khrushcheva's article and demanded Assembly President Frederick Boland (Ireland) call Sumulong to order. Boland did caution Sumulong to "avoid wandering out into an argument which is certain to provoke further interventions", but permitted him to continue speaking and sent Khrushchev back to his seat. According to some sources, Khrushchev pounded his fists on his desk in protest as Sumulong continued to speak, and at one point picked up his shoe and banged the desk with it.
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Most comprehensive is The Galloway Collection. Given the ephemerality of magazine publication it is impossible to give a complete list of all his serialised work or published short stories. Dulce Cor (1886) London, Kegan, Paul and Co. The Stickit Minister (1893) London T. Fisher Unwin The Raiders, (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin Mad Sir Uchtred of the Hills (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin The Lilac Sunbonnet (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin The PlayActress (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin Men of the Moss Hags (1895) London, Isbister and Co. Bog Myrtle and Peat (1895) London, Bliss,Foster and Sands. A Galloway Herd (1895) New York, R.Fenno and Co. Cleg Kelly (1896) London, Methuen and Co. The Grey Man (1896) London, T. Fisher Unwin. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1896 Sweetheart Travellers (1896) London, Wells, Gardner, Darton and Co. Lads’ Love (1897) London, Bliss, Sands and Co. Lochinvar (1897) London: Methuen and Co. The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion (1897) London: Gardner,Darton and Co. New York: Frederick A. Stokes The Red Axe (1898) London: Smith, Elder and Co. New York: Harper & Bros.
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