Sentences with phrase «end run around»

Now Rhoads worries that the owner is making an end run around the homeowner association to convert half of the course into new homes and a winery.

«I have the power to go to consumers and say, «Yes, you can afford more,» before they ever begin shopping for a house,» says Barbara VanAntwerp, senior vice president, who participated in a panel discussion at the MBA convention titled «Scoring With Consumers: How to Make an End Run Around REALTORS ®.»

The real estate industry fears the worst, that Zillow will start selling properties directly and doing an end run around real estate agents directly to the consumer.

For REALTORS ®, who've been battling for years to keep big banks out of real estate brokerage and property management, the OCC action looks like an end run around the will of Congress, which for the last several years has prohibited national banks from entering real estate.

I'm not sure that a buyer agent delivering a full price non conditional offer could do an end run around the listing agent and sue directly if said agent brought the offer and the listing agent did not sue for commision in the first place.

[FN121] The section appears after a detailed Child Support Guideline that has been interpreted as applying to all proceedings * 798 to determine the care and custody of minors, and seems to be a gratuitous reference intended to neutralize criticism of the joint custody presumption as an end run around child support.

«For years, I've repeatedly raised concerns that this amounted to an end run around the Fourth Amendment.

Like regular gold farming, power leveling offers customers an end run around the World of Warcraft grind — except that instead of providing money and other items, the power leveler simply does the work for you.

This said, The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, representing 56 Islamic countries and the Palestinian Authority, are now and have been for some decades, seeking an end run around the Charters and Constitutions of Western countries solely for the purpose of silencing all commentary and criticism of Islam, Muslims and issues of terrorism and the Grand Jihad as related to the same.

I would have thought one wouldn't be needed to say «Don't post confidential information about you client online and don't seek to do an end run around the Court's process!»

The dangers of such an approach, in an era where administrative law decisions makers have increasing power, is to allow legislators to do an end run around Charter protections by delegating discretionary authority to administrative rule makers, rather than imposing clear rules, subject to robust Charter challenge.

To help make that point, Senator John Kerry also showed up at The Huffington Post this week to clarify that the Congressional cavalry is not coming (at least not in the form of legislation) and to urge the FCC — and to urge all of us to urge the FCC — to fight back by reclassifying the Internet as a «communications service» instead of an «information service» and make an end run around Comcast.

«Supreme Court's punitive damage clarity: Lower courts may have tried a legal end run around the high court in a tobacco case, but the justices have indicated that may be coming to an end.»

Certain steps that were taken in the action led the trial judge to conclude that defence counsel had a proper basis for alleging negligence on the part of the third party and the trial judge accepted that the third party, or her counsel, had employed tactics amounting to an attempt to make an end run around the defendant.

Obviously, medical malpractice lawyers (both plaintiffs» lawyers and defendants» lawyers, who fear the loss of business, too) take a very different view, contending that charitable is an end run around what is a very profitable business.

The CBA and other critics also feel that lumping so many crime bills together, many of which have failed in Parliament before in the last five years, is a bit of an end run around the democratic process.

My take is that he was recommending that young, unemployed workers gain experience via unpaid internships, which is arguably an end run around employment standards laws that prohibit contracting out of the minimum wage.

They are all part of a broader movement to reclassify matters as «administrative» or «civil» to do an end run around the usual safeguards of criminal law.

Whether EPA's decision was based on expediency or as an end run around the normal bureaucratic process is not known, but both motivations appear plausible.

All make a sort of end run around cutting carbon emissions — though the authors explicitly and rightly acknowledge that we need to do that too — by addressing other sources of warming, namely black carbon soot and methane emissions.

The possibility of doing work has to be «forbidden» by e.g. quantum barriers or the like, and even there there have to be no channels for transfer of energy (such as second order, two photon processes) that can make an end run around the quantum barrier.

The social pressures against running an article about problems with alarmist science were enormous, but a scandal allowed them to make an end run around these social norms.

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

They have been criticized by environmentalists as an end run around the international climate talks aimed at drafting a new treaty on climate by the end of 2009.

That initiative was widely criticized, particularly in Europe, as an end run around United Nations talks on a new climate treaty.

Mr. Bush's initiative was criticized by some countries and environmental groups as kind of an end run around international climate - treaty negotiations that involved all countries, small and large.

But in these same places, explosive expansion in mobile phone subscriptions and fast - dropping costs for smart phones provide the architecture for a partial end run around such bottlenecks.

It's fun to compare this description, particularly of events on Dec. 18, with that of the White House, which described Mr. Obama as essentially crashing a meeting in which China appeared to be conducting an end run around the United States.

It sounds like the call for openness in science is often an end run around these restrictions.

I don't doubt her, given how foolish it would be, after what happened in Copenhagen, to try an end run around any group of countries in these deliberations.

Manufactured meat, in theory, provides an end run around these issues.

It appears that, for now at least, Watson is able to shift from his longstanding prime target — the Japanese fleet harpooning in Antarctic waters under a program described as research but widely criticized as an end run around a moratorium on commercial whaling.

And while selling directly out of his studio — essentially doing an end run around his dealers — is traditionally taboo, some say more power to him.

«They are trying to come into court and try to end run around it and hold other people responsible when at the outset if they really believed there was the evidence there, if there was the justification for holding other officers individually accountable criminally, for the financials they could have brought those charges but they didn't.

To name a few, they sustain rather than solve the «overpopulation» issue; they effect an end run around responsible breeders; they open a door to potentially devastating diseases and parasites not currently found in our country; and they ensure a future in which the supply of healthy, well - bred dogs and cats will be severely limited.

Published in Chicago Tribune on March 12, 2017 — Print headline: «Kill this Illinois puppy mill scam - An attempted end run around Chicago and Cook County rules»

As I've written many times here at the Smashwords blog, Kindle Unlimited represents Amazon's end run around agency pricing (under agency pricing, publishers and indie authors set their own retail prices, and retailers don't discount).

Amazon kicks off the end run around Apple's in - app purchase restrictions with a snazzy HTML5 app that will likely be emulated by other publishers.

BB just accomplished an end run around the competition for both infrastructure and devices.

You can opt out and make an end run around the potential danger by self publishing, thereby maintaining total control.

The New Author Platform allows not only well - established authors, but unknown, first - time beginners to do an end run around the conservative gate - keepers and reach readers directly.

A self - made man who tried an end run around early - twentieth - century racism, Long Lance lied about his age to get into an important Indian school and kept right on inventing himself.

Finally, congressional Republicans were angered by what they perceived as an end run around Congress, and House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) questioned the secretary's legal basis for the waiver commitments» quid pro quo.

«I believe [teachers» unions] are using the bill as an end run around the judge's ruling,» said Arun Ramanathan of Education Trust West, an Oakland - based educational policy research group.

Congress historically has bristled when the Executive Branch has sought to do an end run around what it views as its authority.

If policy advocates can not make an end run around democracy, nor can they hide behind technocracy (loosely defined as «rule by experts»).

Authors of the policy brief found that ESAs appear to be an end run around state constitutional prohibitions against using public funds to support religious activities.

«It's an end run around higher standards.»

Educational savings accounts are an end run around that challenge because they offer the funds directly the parents, who can then use them in a variety of educational expenses, including tuition, tutoring and school supplies.

The biologist William D. Hamilton made an end run around this problem in 1964 by invoking a strategy that Maynard Smith had called kin selection.