Sentences with phrase «kerfuffle by»

Jodie Foster's Money Monster drew stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts (who caused a kerfuffle by going barefoot on the red carpet when the RULE is that you MUST wear heels... I kid you not), while Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick turned up for their voiced roles in the animated family movie Trolls.

I wrote about the need to eliminate shall from your writing, and created a bit of a kerfuffle by doing so — some lawyers seem to have an almost romantic attachment to it.

In the wake of an embezzlement kerfuffle by Roberto Cearsolo Barrenetxea, a former finance director, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ran into more trouble in 2008, when Basque investigators checked into acquisitions made by Thomas Krens, its former director.

Last spring, I kicked up a kerfuffle by proposing that research on race and intelligence, given its potential for exacerbating discrimination, should be banned.

Park Ranger Photo Kerfuffle By Joe Flood With this photo...

«The Me Generation - TIME Main Resolving the «should hedge funds be able to pay their stooges on corporate boards of directors» kerfuffle by private ordering»

Resolving the «should hedge funds be able to pay their stooges on corporate boards of directors» kerfuffle by private ordering

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The media followed with articles like «Cargill Link to Anti-GMO Group Spurs Criticism From Farmers» by Bloomberg and «How a moment that looked like PR win for Cargill turned into a kerfuffle» by the Minneapolis Star - Tribune.

Now, parents jump in to to solve the playground kerfuffle, spot with eagle eyes the dangers of tall trees and steep hills, and fail to let kids have any independence for fear they will be abducted or hit by a car.

For months, the campaign has been unhappy, and at times embarrassed, by the antics of Republicans in the House ranging from the kerfuffle over lawmakers skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee to Rep. Todd Akin's incendiary comments about «legitimate rape.»

The kerfuffle caused by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs» acknowledgment that there are enough seats in play to flip control of the House this fall has eclipsed another interesting political debate: Could Republicans win the Senate majority too?

In one sense, the kerfuffle is trivial: another tilt at the Coalition by Liberal Democrat backwoodsmen.

A periodic survey of U.S. federal scientists by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) caused a bit of a kerfuffle at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month.

Planets by One Ring Zero The great kerfuffle over Pluto's demotion from planet status inspired dismay, confusion, and finally, music.

These produced stories including wartime black humor in Iraq, musical diplomacy by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, a kerfuffle over the plumbing in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Pakistani artists» struggle with religious extremism in Lahore, and the Syrian civil war's spillover into neighboring Lebanon.

Hardcore Ab Fab fans are unlikely to be deterred in the slightest by the kerfuffle.

Amid the kerfuffle over the generally baffling awards given by the jury headed by George Miller at last year's Cannes Film Festival, a fair bit of attention was paid to the award for Best Actress, which was given to Jaclyn Jose, the ostensible lead of Ma» Rosa, the film directed by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza.

The events have also been complicated by the fact de Blasio has let charter schools grow and operate virtually untouched by the administration since his kerfuffle with Moskowitz in early 2014.

-LSB-...] to the AmazonFail / Macmillan Kerfuffle, a lot of writers — many of them published (especially those published by Macmillan and its imprints) have written a lot about the state of the publishing industry right now.

My only awareness of the kerfuffle was when books by the bigs were no longer being discounted and I had a sad.

So I'm a bit confused about this kerfuffle — I thought Amazon always ranked sellers by price.

This is kinda just a sideline to the current PlayStation 3 launch kerfuffle, but I'm fascinated by the provincial European reaction to the launch - and Matteo Bittanti has a good round - up of the Italian issues - which, it turns out, revolve almost entirely around video game soccer!

And this will not happen by any scandalous kerfuffle, or in consequence of any contractual obligation, but rather for the one and only good reason: that upon sober reflection, and before 2012 is over, Anthony Watts will conclude, as an individual citizen, and solely of his own free will, that a thoroughgoing, uncompromising, and unequivocal embrace of «Be First with the Truth» is essential to rational skepticism.

b) I think this grew out of 2007's kerfuffle: The May / June 2007 issue of Skeptical Inquirer published a straightforward article explaining AGW by NASA scientist Stuart Jordan..

I'm niggling away at the Pielke - Holdren kerfuffle and will open the budget by extracting a comment I worked out for DotEarth when Revkin did his all too predictable waffle in support of his friend and favorite hedgers, in this case Martin Hoerling.

After some kerfuffle, the paper was accepted by «Theoretical and Applied Climatology» and appeared on February 26 on the journal's web site.

«A ton of litigation is made possible because of drafting screw - ups,» said Gary Sangha, pointing to the kerfuffle over five words («exchanges established by the state») that nearly derailed the Affordable Care Act last year.

The kerfuffle over this data collection, first reported by the website Ars Technica, follows a week of turmoil for the social network involving charges that it allowed political consultants to steal the data of 50 million users in order to influence elections.

The kerfuffle goes back to before / r / btc even existed, as detailed by last year's brief history of the goings - on, also worth reading for those curious about the debate.