Hired Gun

Last July, a federal appeals court -- inundated by Wall Street lawyers and hired-gun "experts" -- agreed with the Street. ❋ Robert Reich (2011)

We know the difference between casting director and line producer so when was it ever a hired-gun director's (who didn't live up to the media's prediction after his first film) final call when it comes to casting a studio's project? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, since it began writing proposals for rules in July 2010, the CFTC has literally been buried by the pushback from industry lobbyists, hired-gun lawyers, derivatives broker/dealers and virtually every industrial corporation with a trading desk that depends even marginally on derivatives activity to protect or augment profits. ❋ Daniel Dicker (2011)

Cooper is a star lawyer for the right-wing, and has had a long time to think of an answer to that question; he was, after all, the hired-gun appellate attorney brought in to try to overturn the historic first freedom to marry trial we won in Hawaii in the 1990's The reason a smart lawyer like ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a way, this is surprising, given that their lead attorney, Charles Cooper, was also the hired-gun brought in by the state of Hawaii to shore up its case in 1990's. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Think of it as a battlefield filled with muscled-up, militarized intelligence operatives, hired-gun contractors doing military duty, and privatized “native” guard forces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A drug deal that implies an underworld that implies a crime boss who will want his money back ... and a hired-gun who'll be sent to recover it. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

This is the arrest of the black-hatted, black-garbed and black-hearted villain -- not the Cattle baron behind the scenes purportedly running the show, but the Jack Palance hired-gun who is the real villain of the psychodrama in his Otherness, in his representation of the Jungian Shadow. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Indeed, in one recent arbitration a broker, a senior executive and a hired-gun expert witness from a major firm all testified that structured products are unrelated to options, so the options rules don't apply. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The pinstripe package is richer and longer, but the core of the team is homegrown, not hired-gun. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm surprised by how much better it feels to be working on something that is challenging and creative, something I believe in, as opposed to the hired-gun stuff I was doing before. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hillary is paying a faithless, hired-gun, Mark Penn, 2 million dollars to give her bad advice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You don't have to be a hired-gun, smooth-talking lobbyist or know all the answers in order to participate in the legislative process. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The idea that individual investors cant beat the market is called the efficient markets thesis, but the general notion that investment markets are efficient has another half, which is the idea that publicly traded corporations run by hired-gun executives are efficient allocators and managers of capital. ❋ Michael Kinsley With Conor Clarke (2009)

Instead of tying his own hand with counter-productive rules, he could instruct his staff to avoid dealing with hired-gun lobbyists, putting interest groups on notice not to hire them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Me: "I spent $300 at the club last night, at the bar alone, because there was this bad ass [light-skin] black chick with [triple D] titties and a fat ass working behind the bar. I though to myself "Oh my god...That's my wife!" So I kept on going going back to the bar to buy drinks from her the whole night. She was all smiling at me alot. After about five [Hennessy's] and Cokes ,I gushed and whispered in her ear that I thought she was beautiful. Soon enough she told me she had a boyfriend. I'm a fucking dumbass." Friend: "You gotta have some serious game to pull one of those bitches. She's one of them hired guns. " ❋ Stay Intoxicated Never Sober (2008)

[Why do] we have to [go with] [hired guns] ❋ Workforce (2019)

I'd rather [write] [for myself], but my work as a hired gun pays [the rent]. ❋ HoneyB (2006)

[Hired guns] rocks i saw them and my balls [exploded] on the first song due [to rock] ❋ Caflisch22 (2006)