Sentences with phrase «youre moving the goalposts»

The Harper government is moving the goalposts to create a playing field that puts the Canadian big three telcos at a distinct disadvantage after spending billions creating that same playing field in wireless infrastructure.

«Abusive narcissists and sociopaths employ a logical fallacy known as «moving the goalposts» in order to ensure that they have every reason to be perpetually dissatisfied with you.

We said whatever equipment you are currently racing with, we'll make sure you have an appropriate runway where your «stuff» will be viable and competitive... and we won't move the goalposts on you.

Franken called this «moving the goalposts.»

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.

We spend time optimising what is held in SIPPs, ISAs and outside tax shelters, make sure we use our CGT allowances (and try not to go over), then along comes inheritance tax, or a chancellor moves the goalposts.

There's a time and place for everything, but my experience working with money managers and asset allocators alike is that these measures are often used to confuse the end investor or move the goalposts after underperformance occurs.

Care to move the goalposts some more?

it's not «moving the goalposts» to appeal to the ORIGINAL definition.

so don't move the goalposts.

@ sortakinda — what you just did is called moving the goalposts.

I want our club to go forward and be successful, but I do want others to appreciate what our club has / is achieving and stop them moving the goalpost to try and ridicule our history.

THAT is moving the goalposts!

moving the goalposts comes to mind.

Moving the Goalposts is another initiative ready for its scale - up.

A striker that can't run, can't dribble, can't head, on the up side he does have a great shot if they start moving the goalposts to row Z.

If you want to move the goalposts to get Pierre at the top spot, that's easy to do.

The 25 - year - old is banned for the first three matches of Euro 2012, but after initially intimating that no players involved in Poland and Ukraine would be selected for the Olympics, the FA appear to have moved the goalposts.

We've been cruising on the credit card of promise and the moving goalpost of various future assets for a few years now.

And you are saying that its the detractors who are moving the goalposts?

If so, i'd remind you to once again remember what you said about moving those goalposts.

No need to move goalposts or satisfy me, just get us a QB and stick to him.

Now I know you're the type that likes to move the goalposts when it suits, but when we couldn't find players good enough improve our squad this summer does that not mean our aims should've been League and CL competitiveness?

«He moved the goalposts.»

Talk about moving the goalposts.

In my review of the Premier League season, I wrote about how Leicester City's fairytale title triumph has moved the goalposts in English football.

He moves the goalposts continuously to suit his position.

In his post-referendum speech in Dalgety Bay in Fife on Saturday, he moved the goalposts again.

But over the past decade or so more impressive - seeming results have gone along with radical and non-transparent redefinitions of who or what counts as «administration,» so that it has become effectively impossible to distinguish the effect of moving the goalposts from the quality of management.

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.

The source added: «To spend the entire time buggering around moving the goalposts is hard to see as anything other than playing politics.»

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

«You can't keep moving the goalposts on hard - working people you need to get to work, who need answers, deserve deadlines that the MTA can actually accomplish,» said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.

Syracuse's Director of Planning and Sustainability Andrew Maxwell accused the Syracuse Common Council Monday of «moving the goalposts» on enacting the city's 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which would be a guide to future zoning and land - use policies in the city.

The Conference in Manchester heard that the introduction of a new grading system will move the goalposts on what is considered to be a «good» pass, with negative consequences for pupils and teachers.

«What really frustrates teachers is the repeated interference from government ministers, resulting in constant flux and moving goalposts.

Nominations have been moved to the end of July, why, we have already nominated for the NPF etc, at the 10th June deadline, who moved the goalposts?

Never mind: they've just moved the goalposts, insisting their «plan» is working after all.

Britain accused of trying to «move the goalposts and do away with the referee» in Brexit negotiations

The feat moves the goalposts in the fight for quantum supremacy, the effort to outstrip classical computers using quantum ones.

Professor Crowley's finding therefore moves the goalposts back at least 60 million years, which, given humans have only been on the planet for around a tenth of that time, is not an insignificant drop in the evolutionary ocean.

Rather, were taking a more day - to - day approach to self - improvement, continually evolving the goal (moving the goalpost, even), and celebrating the small victories along the way.

I was lead into a false sense of security at the start, thinking this month would be more relaxed (relatively speaking), but it ended up like all the others — full of deadlines and moving goalposts.

It was letting us build ourselves up while quietly getting ready to strike us down, and then move the goalposts several miles beyond our current position the instant we got to our feet.

Scenes like these ask you so suspend disbelief and not question plausibility in a world that has already laid down the rules, but then ultimately moving the goalposts to suit.

It's the same as replacing the yardstick, moving the goalposts, or sending in a different movie reviewer.

However, according to Annie - May Roberts of First Wave Adventures, change is the biggest challenge teachers and schools are facing today: «Changing systems and moving goalposts are challenging teachers every day.»

There are some isolated yet worrying indications that a few local authorities are beginning to «move the goalposts» in relation to local eligibility criteria for statutory assessment.

The policy itself has implications for other states in that it moves the goalposts for common practice.

Superintendents in Buffalo and Syracuse are criticizing the changes, saying that the move to raise the passing scores is akin to moving goalposts.