Sentences with phrase «damage limitation exercise»

The government was thrown into a high stakes damage limitation exercise today when details of the expenses were published.

Lord Mandelson led a desperate damage limitation exercise, pleading that the Prime Minister was «slightly tired» and «letting off steam» but admitting there could be «no justification» for his remarks.

Senior Tory party figures launched a major damage limitation exercise late on Wednesday night when it became clear that the documents had been leaked to the BBC hours before they were due to be released publicly by the Commons public administration select committee.

Madrid were already two up from the first leg so it was a damage limitation exercise for the home side in Pamplona.

At 2 - 0 the tie was virtually over and it became a damage limitation exercise for the away side.

It will surely be a damage limitation exercise for Maribor at Anfield.

But Downing Street appeared to be keen to launch something of a damage limitation exercise.

AV expresses that much better than the stricter First Past The Post system, which forces many of us to substitute our actual beliefs for a damage limitation exercise, where we vote for a party we don't really like just to stop a party we like even less getting in.

David Cameron has dispensed with the services of Andy Coulson, the editor who left the NoW when the scandal broke, but remains vulnerable over his closeness to Rebekah Brooks, Mr Coulson's predecessor, now in charge of the Murdoch empire's damage limitation exercise.

It is playing for time so as to get past the local elections as well as a damage limitation exercise to enable No. 10 to gauge -LSB-...]

The Liberal Democrats were undertaking a damage limitation exercise arguing the local election results showed the party could hold on in many of the parliamentary constituencies it currently holds.

It is a damage limitation exercise that will only erode public confidence in the exam system further.

His statements were effectively a damage limitation exercise on behalf of the Catlin expedition, an insurance - sponsored venture that spectacularly failed to provide much at all in the way of data.

It was that which presumably prompted the Society to run Dixon's blunt missive in full, not in a spirit of candour, but as a damage limitation exercise.

No doubt his lawyers will be working overtime, but it's a damage limitation exercise from the time the police search was reported in the media, and this most abhorrent stain on his character will exist in some form whatever happens from here.