Sentences with phrase «as moving goalposts»

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«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.

He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95, keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.

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.

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

«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.

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

Mr Hobby added: «For a significant number of young people and their schools, moving the goalposts in this way will jeopardise not only places at sixth - form college and other arenas of post-16 education but university applications and beyond as well as the schools» status with regard to the government's own benchmark.»

No use arguing with him, as he is using the fallacious argument of raising the bar, AKA moving the goalposts.

One of the problems is that the goalposts are constantly being moved back and forth from «Skeptics don't deny climate changes, only the attribution,» to «Skeptics don't deny AGW, only the degree to which it is occurring,» even as there is an underlying attack on the very notion that there are any phenomena that can legitimately be attributed to «climate change.»

The goalpost moving that is so painfully evident in AR5 («ok, maybe it won't warm so much in the text decade or two as we said in AR4») would be funny if it were not so sad a commentary on the IPCC process.

As the convention has been established, moving the goalposts in this way is a clear foul, a transparent attempt to stack the deck post hoc.

The moving goalposts in the misinformation movement have recently trumpeted «unfair» moderation and lack of courtesy as more important than reality and facts.

And as a personal opinion (note too how it's moved from «the law has been broken» to «the spirit of the law», watch those goalposts fly!)

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.

As the argument degenerates on my side due to my increasing frustration at the ludicrous resistance I'm receiving from the RC person, they will refine their argument, move goalposts, argue over the precision and accuracy of my forecast, yabba on about how all orbital models of the inner solar system are wrong due to GIGO (which is rather ironic), and so forth.

But I'm chasing moving goalposts at this point because as I save, the prices are also climbing.