Sentences with phrase «backhanded way»

Note Bauserman's rather clever backhanded way of touting sole father - custody as perhaps equal to joint custody which in turn is — according to Bauserman's meta - analysis and notwithstanding all those problems divorced children ostensibly have — equivalent to an intact family.

In backhanded ways, certain bits of DNA or RNA — a molecule that normally transmits a genetic message — can actually suppress a gene's information.

While it probably wouldn't change Sessions» mind on the issue, the CBO found that in an oddly backhanded way, requiring women to register for the draft would actually save the government tens of millions of dollars in the years ahead.

I suggest that this notion, in however backhanded a way, was present in our frock - coated minister, and that we should recover it and bring its attitudes and methods up to date.

«Mandatory drug testing for public welfare recipients is a really backhanded way to target poor people,» she said.

Wilko does it again backhanding his way to the champion...

Actually, I have to wonder if this is backhanded way of emphasizing the * otherness * of immigrants in light of the current illegal alien controversies that seem to be making news recently.

Hyperloop Tech's rhetoric may even show, albeit in a backhanded way, that it takes HTT seriously as a long - term competitor.

Lying on your dating profile is a backhanded way of trying to manipulate someone while simultaneously implying that he or she isn't even clever enough to notice.

But in a backhanded way, this considered, half - fictional approach perfectly serves an artist who has always been in the process of making and remaking his own mercurial image.

In a backhanded way, this considered, half - fictional approach perfectly serves an artist who has always been in the process of making and remaking his own mercurial image.

Three days after shoegate, festival director Thierry Fremaux apologized in a backhanded way, after a frantic news cycle full of contradictory information.

But this rush job done on what became the Every Student Succeeds Act, now going to the presidents» desk to be signed, is a blatantly sleazy, backhanded way of avoiding any exposure of the truth.

It was a backhanded way of working, perhaps, but it was the only way I could figure out how to make something in the round.

I'd love to see this regulatory approach be copied in coal - dependent states by legislators who see it as a backhanded way to limit pot use.

But saying that he never replied is a backhand way of attacking someone, and unfair.

But hiring more lawyers to run up the cost of special education litigation and making it more difficult for parents to pursue meritorious claims seems like a backhanded way to reduce costs.