Sentences with phrase «about gamesmanship»

Discovery is not about gamesmanship, and parties are expected to engage in meaningful negotiation about the terms of discovery agreements.

Not exact matches

King, who calls himself «politically homeless,» says that while both parties talk about faith and invoke Scripture, he and other young evangelicals he knows sense an undercurrent of political gamesmanship in all the religious talk.

He joked about how being able to wear Jordan cleats on the field is even part of his gamesmanship — opposing batters are always trying to sneak a look at his shoes, so he'll make sure to pull the pants up and make a show of tying them, so his opponents are thinking about the kicks and not the next pitch that's coming.

But as I was reading about that in The Mirror today I spotted what looks like a slip of the tongue from their mouthy manager and I could not help thinking that he has inadvertently admitted to the cheating (or gamesmanship) that Arsenal fans have long suspected.

While one political party has questions about the distribution of the ballots, others say that's just political gamesmanship.

Guaranteed to fan antigovernment sentiments among its audiences, Dinosaur 13 is less about paleontology than it is about prosecutorial overreach, political gamesmanship, dinosaur swindlers and true crime — if in fact crimes were even committed, and / or committed by the people accused.

He devised the story — about a Niagara Falls couple (Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos) whose young daughter is abducted and held prisoner for eight years by a foppish psychopath (Kevin Durand)-- and his screenplay, co-written with TV - movie vet David Fraser, employs his usual structural gamesmanship, leaping to and fro in time and withholding crucial details.

Their scenes, and Johnson's scenes with J. Edgar Hoover (Dylan Baker) focus on the political gamesmanship required to bring about change.

When it comes to comedies about corporate gamesmanship and career assassination, The Promotion doesn't blaze any trails.

Nor did Duncan admit that one reason why states and districts complained about No Child's accountability and proficiency goals was because of their own gamesmanship, failing to elevate (and in some cases, deliberately lower) standards and proficiency targets more - rigorous in the first place, then moving to ramp them up just a few years before the 2014 target would come into play, aided and abetted by Duncan and his predecessors.

Only last year, after reports about the cheating of kids from Washington Examiner editorialist Barbara Hollingsworth and others, did state officials finally put the kibosh on the gamesmanship.

I hold special scorn for those who want to tear away funding for programs that mostly benefit the disadvantaged, because this is pure gamesmanship — if politicians were serious about balancing the budget, they'd either tackle defense and entitlement programs, or do something that would be much, much better for the economy than slashing government spending: raise taxes on the wealthy.