Sentences with phrase «deck chairs on»

Have you ever felt that you were «arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.»

«It's just more shuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic,» says Joe Milstone of Cognition LLP, a firm that provides lawyers to other firms and companies on an as - needed basis.

Hank Roberts # 62 — Looks to be lots of effort at rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

If we can not virtually eliminate coalworldwide within a couple of decades, then the sum total of all of our other efforts to reduce our carbon footprint will be like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

From a national perspective, offsets may be an option; from a global perspective, they amount to a rearrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic.

I mean people are talking here about sensitivity and theory when really it's just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Until your questionnaire gets down to that level, I fear it's deck chairs on the titanic from my perspective...

So all these other discussions of «what we can or should do» are just a charade, moving the deck chairs on the Titanic, and they will go on and on and on like a Celine Dion song until planetary habitability declines so badly that civilization collapses anyway from our inactions and repeated mistakes.

The DEA's stall tactics are nothing new — the agency is notorious for its ability to endlessly rearrange the deck chairs on its bureaucratic Titanic.

We need to stop shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic and realise our own power as individuals.

I'm not saying this is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic as it either A) more quickly or B) more slowly heads toward the ice berg, but I think we (as people, if not as scientists) should now start being concerned about reaching milestones in the warming (whether we reach them faster or slower) at which positive feedback loops kick in — even if this is difficult scientifically to quantify or prove.

Just raising minimum wages is like shuffling the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic.

In the end I fear that this is a lot of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Short of a guarantee that they won't go revenue based on the redemption side, the new chart is just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Deltanic.

There are deck chairs on the beach and you can rent a variety of water sport equipment such as kayaks, banana boats and jet - skis.

This is the equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Another analogy has to do with deck chairs on a certain large, doomed cruise ship.

Meaningful evaluations systems can be developed, but relying on faulty measures is simply rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Legislators willing to forfeit future federal funds by voting «yes» on AB 5 are not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic - they are throwing life - preservers overboard as the iceberg looms.

Too much of this plan merely rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The Senate's version «rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic,» he said.

There is a sense, however, of worrying about deck chairs on the Titanic.

and a whole bunch of other infections, and you're still eating poorly, or you have other food allergens in there that are causing leaky gut, I see the fecal transplant is kind of like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, so to speak.

«The revised Guidelines recommend even more stringent reductions in animal fats and cholesterol than previous versions,» says Fallon Morell, «and are tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Doug Gurian - Sherman, senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C., and a former regulator for the Environmental Protection Agency, likens traditional breeding to rearranging the deck chairs on a familiar ship.

That is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Andrew Berman, the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, likened the modifications to «rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.»

But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said the Republican proposal «just rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic» without helping seniors or the poor.

Holding companies responsible for complying with ethics laws felt like «shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic,» Hui Chen wrote.

«The Collins - Faso amendment is nothing more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,» Schumer said.

creating more non-productive Government jobs to boos jobs numbers is nothing more than shuffling the deck chairs on the sinking upstate NY Titanic

«What is needed from the G20 is a radical shake up of the global economy, what we got was world leaders desperately rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic,» he said.

The mechanisms debated today are of course important, but there is an element of moving the deck chairs on the Titanic about this debate.

Got ta love those «fiscal conservatives» — paying all this money to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Recajiggering the electoral college is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic at this point.

Sometimes when you try to make a big change in your life you simply «change deck chairs on the Titanic».

It's what Dr. Susan Rubin, one of the «Two Angry Moms,» calls «rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.»

I'm always a little concerned that, as a PAC member, I'm slowly being co-opted by HISD / Aramark — snowed by news of small, superficial changes when all we're really doing, as Dr. Susan Rubin (of the Two Angry Moms) might say, is moving deck chairs on the Titanic.

School menu changes or lessons on eating better are like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Just rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking ship.

Done poorly, it's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic: The piece are all in new places, but the problems still haven't gone away.

Love Marc as a player and he is an Arsenal man through and through but honestly this «appointment» is simply rearranging deck chairs on AFC Titanic.

At the end of the day we are simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Auba here, Laca there we are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Let's rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic again.

None of these teams are contenders so they are just shuffling deck chairs on the titanic or something

For me to suggest that much of what followed right into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is not intended to be dismissive of intellectual giants whose efforts far outstrip my own.

Most of our best - intentioned efforts seemed more like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic than like taking part in God's work of gradual bringing of Shalom.

Not exact matches

On a lazy day, I like to place a large bowl twenty feet from my back porch, take a seat in my porch rocking chair and pitch a deck of playing cards one at a time to see how many will spin just right and go into the bowl.

David — I like how you did that with the can on the deck chair looking content and likewise with this smiley face.