Sentences with phrase «bending over backwards»

Kerr, who sounds as though he is bending over backwards to be fair, writes,

Mike Jonas Great to see your scientific exploration following Richard Feynman's «bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong» high standard of scientific integrity You say: «clouds are a major driver of ocean surface temperature, and hence of climate» — yet say «The ocean oscillations are not, as far as I am aware, caused by clouds».

noel: «I don't need anyone bending over backwards, fabricating an apocalypse, claiming to be my savior, and then asking me money for it.

A (short term) protection for you, from the climate change deniers, will, if done by bending over backwards to extreme levels, simultaneously seal a permanent record of irresponsibly under - stating certain risks to humanity, surely not what this site aims to accomplish.

The fact that accomplished climate scientists have provided you a forum where you could learn and discuss a science, a forum monitored well beyond normal working hours, where even your unwarranted aspersions and useless drivel are allowed as civil discourse should be viewed as meaning people are bending over backwards to enlighten you.

Already Portland, Oregon, is bending over backwards to convince BYD to set up its US operations in the city.

I don't need anyone bending over backwards, fabricating an apocalypse, claiming to be my savior, and then asking me money for it.

I find it rather bizarre that the so - called «Auditor» is bending over backwards and scrambling to defend sub-par work.

But in bending over backwards to make sure that no one gets the silly idea, on the evidence of a single datapoint, that global warming has stopped, they open the door to alarmist nonsense every time they update their graphs.

While bending over backwards to stress that, due to natural variation, a single data point that is not as ominous as it could have been in an ideal world does not mean there's nothing to worry about, the BBC is entirely reliant on ignoring that very same natural variation in order write something — anything — about the latest installment from the NSIDC.

So The Economist is, in essence, bending over backwards to manufacture its own data.

... I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is... bending over backwards to show how you are maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist.

The first principle is you must not fool yourself — and you're the easiest person to fool... you should not fool the layman when you're talking as a scientist... I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to do when acting as a scientist.

But the producers seemed intent on bending over backwards to suggest recent droughts were unnatural and caused by rising CO2.

And why is everybody bending over backwards to accommodate them?

I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist.

As if the battle wasn't uphill enough, we now have witnessed the first round of elections post-Citizens United, in which powerhouses like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised tens of millions of dollars from the corporate titans it serves and funneled the money into attack ads, sending a warning message to politicians who aren't bending over backwards for big business, if not delivering a crippling blow to their election campaigns.

Maybe it is just me but I see that red mean curve taking one very, very long time to ever bending over backwards on the downward slide should that happen in the unknown future and might be a flaw in the way you create the mean curve.

If these fine folks are truly NOT manipulating they data, then they should be bending over backwards, doing back stands, doing whatever it takes to respond to the «data credibility questions» of the AGW skeptics.

Despite bending over backwards to fast track coal projects, Modi's administration now faces serious setbacks to advancing coal power.

Venture capital is throwing oceans of money to development of solar, and utilities and the public (at least here in California) are bending over backwards.

I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to do when acting as a scientist.

Chris Ofili, Bending Over Backwards for Justice and Peace; The Green Mirror; in «All the World's Futures» curated by Okwui Enwezor at #VeniceBiennale

Bending over backwards to find something worthwhile to say about the Thea Westreich / Ethan Wagner donation show at the Whitney, he calls the show a sign of the Whitney's new role as an important alternative to MoMA and the Met.

I remember seeing a lot of companies, including my own previous employer, bending over backwards to avoid the dreaded Adults Only label.

It doesn't take itself seriously, in point of fact it does the exact opposite, so why the hell was I bending over backwards to quantify it in a way it didn't want to be quantified?

I also witnessed them bending over backwards for other guests on numerous occasions.

I'm well aware why Marriott is bending over backwards to keep SPG members happy at this point but I don't think it's going about this the right way.

So the pirates strip out the DRM and continue sharing files illegally, and the actual customer (who we as content creators should be bending over backwards for) is annoyed, limited in how they can use the music or e-book they purchased, and sometimes has to buy it again just because they got a new computer or e-book reader.

This really marks the first time an author has a copious amount of control that major companies are bending over backwards and making their customers visit a 3rd party website to purchase these books.

Rushing and bending over backwards to get a book deal now feels to me like being one of those poor fools who rushed to get one of the last few steerage tickets on the Titanic.

The only way you can really even begin to justify the large (relative) sum of money you're spending on the Oasis is by looking to its cover — and even then you're bending over backwards.

As a result, don't be surprised if a dealer isn't bending over backwards to cut an amazing deal on a vehicle.

Only in the former, with its ability and willingness to spend without any obvious limit, could such a plan be possible; only in the latter, with its confusing politics and its endless supply of people bending over backwards to participate in or hype the industry, would such a scheme fly under everyone's radar.

You might have noticed in recent decades how the movies seem to be bending over backwards to not offend Chinese sensibilities.

The show is calculatedly and determinedly, not all that successfully, bending over backwards to not over-assign blame to either party and to make you think that it's sweet the way they're retroactively trying to change and become better spouses to each other in their new living situation.

I didn't even realize that I was bending over backwards to the whims or someone else until about six months later when I woke up for the 12th night in a row from having night sweats, stress dreams, constantly thinking about the verbally sharp, pointed at me emails that were going to greet me in the morning.

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We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.

Without a hint of irony, the same Mayor who has twisted himself into a pretzel, bending over backwards to accommodate developers like Cappelli and Forest City / Ratner, was suddenly a stickler for process and immovable deadlines.

«In recent years we've seen public bodies bending over backwards to translate documents up to and including their annual report into a variety of foreign languages.

«With their last minute 421 - a bill, Senate Republicans are bending over backwards to help their developer donors but refusing to lift a finger to strengthen the rent laws and help tenants,» said Delsenia Glover, Campaign Manager of the Alliance for Tenant Power.

«The Senate has shown its hand by bending over backwards to protect the abusers and the institutions who harbor them.

Many moms fret over their tiny angels, often bending over backwards to do «everything right,» and don't consider that t...

Many hospitals are bending over backwards these days to try and meet women's needs (c.d players in the labour suites, birthing balls / bars / pools / showers, electric oil burners, electric «candles», double beds for couples to share, etc.).

If you find yourself bending over backwards to get your child going in the morning, you're not alone.

When Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain turned down a new contract offer from Arsenal this summer, worth something like # 180,000 a week according to some Arsenal transfer rumours, it was a real kick in the teeth for the Gunners and Arsene Wenger who appeared to be bending over backwards to please the England international and persuade him to stay, even moving Hector Bellerin to the left to accommodate the wantaway player.

To me it seems since the Hurdle Hullabaloo, Javy has been bending over backwards to display humility on offense.....

But it did look suspicious that AS was in the directors box, rather than with the other players, it seems like Arsenal are bending over backwards to please him while he stabs them and the fans in the back.

Lei and Ranieri were bending over backwards to keep title talk from of their lips, didn't want to jinx it, only admitted they were in the running when they had it almost sewn up.