Sentences with phrase «defensive crouch»

The FT contrasts that defensive crouch with how Siemens handled its bribery scandal in 2006, bringing in an outside chairman and CEO, and ultimately taking legal action against former executives.

Democrats were in an eight - year defensive crouch under Mr. Obama, and they will have to overcome their recent dysfunction and division to make the sort of gains they are hoping for.

There is a lot of leeway on these commands so that they can still be done from defensive crouch, and the old 360 commands still work too.

In the face of strident antigovernment activism, McConnell and many of his colleagues had largely assumed a defensive crouch.

One of the most common ones is that a series of negative headlines featuring biopharma players like Martin Shkreli and Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) has tainted the industry - at - large, sending skittish investors into a defensive crouch.

A high - energy sales pitch might win one person over, but force someone quieter and more deliberative into a defensive crouch.

That means managing your finances in a defensive crouch.

Also, if he is going to run for president, Walker needs to get more comfortable talking about social issues and recognizing that going into a defensive crouch has been the problem.

After spending the first seven months of the 2008 cycle in a defensive crouch, House Republicans are trying to regain momentum by launching radio ads against five Democratic incumbents.

Federal prosecutors subpoenaed a slew of records from the Working Families Party in December 2009, forcing party officials into a defensive crouch and presenting a potential headache for Democrats around the state elected with the party's support.

Lee started game five with a similar strategy to the previous game, grabbing territory in the corners in a defensive crouch, inviting AlphaGo to overplay in the middle.

It's unclear how Stiller keeps a straight face, because it's a dead - on critique of the way he plays the stumbling character — and so many of his tentative, beleaguered heroes, guys who forge through life in a defensive crouch, anticipating insult.

It's a movement cowed into a defensive crouch by late - night comedians.

The College Board initially went into a defensive crouch and dismissed critics as uninformed know - nothings.

The player graphics are beautiful, with or without an HDTV, and the controls have slightly improved since the game's appearance on the original Xbox (players can now enter into a defensive crouch by tapping on the left trigger button).

By holding down on the appropriate trigger you'll snap - to cover, but tilt the analog stick just a bit and you'll effortlessly shimmy away from it while still in a defensive crouch.

And now, with Democrats potentially gaining control over the judicial branch for the first time in a generation, the pendulum swings again: progressives are urged to abandon our «defensive crouch» and reassert a muscular left constitutionalism.