Sentences with phrase «by moving the goalposts»

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In their attempts to deflect criticism by redefining the problem or moving the goalposts, Facebook and Google risk discouraging young women and people of color from having ambitions of working for tech.

No moving of goalposts by me, ready for the change and just enjoying what our club has achieved, wanting more, but not dismissing what we have achieved.

«Unfortunately, despite the new owners fulfilling all the requirements of the Football League and the creditors, and agreeing and signing up to the required terms of the purchase of the club, at the 11th hour the goalposts have been moved by Mr Gaydamak and this has now made the deal impossible to complete.

By trying to separate confidence from dissolution and moving the goalposts to 55 % for that, you are trying to insulate yourselves and enjoy the same protection from dissolution a majority Government has.

I've been through the last - minute panic on the night before the deadline, the first leaked news that we had been successful in the evaluation, the lengthy contract negotiations, when I felt the goalposts were being moved by the Commission all the time, to the first AGM when I finally met all the people I had exchanged hundreds of e-mails with.

«The goalposts are moved as the story or contents of the film change, and having several layers of approval — often from people who neither understand nor care about the game adaptation — means that schedules can be thrown off by no fault of of the developers, and all the time they're facing down an unchanging release day.

But by telling a story about journalism and a president's contentious relationship with a free press, The Post risks having its goalposts moved with every presidential tweet.

The goalposts move so fast with Ofsted that each time new frameworks for inspection are announced headteachers wait to get the lengthy updates sent by the brilliant people at the governors» services.

We fully anticipate that some climate contrarians will move the goalposts by saying «we don't dispute that humans cause some global warming.»

After successfully getting the project slashed by more than 70 percent, and therefore depriving inhabitants of much - needed water, the Sierra Club lawyers moved the goalposts and demanded the project be cut by another 55 percent.

It doesn't matter; non-AGW scientists are «proving a negative» since they indulged AGW without requiring proponents prove it as an alternative hypothesis by standard methods, and so now they attribute EVERYTHING to global warming — that's why now they call it «Climate Change,» i.e. since now they claim that hot and cold are caused by human pollution; i.e. they keep moving the goalposts so that everything's a touchdown.

Fourth, in relation to this issue of linking weather forecasts of the Met Office to Phil Jones, you once again try to move the goalposts by putting words in my mouth.