Sentences with phrase «fallback position»

It is nice to see that the final fallback position of «global warming is good for you» now seems to be the dominant theme.

It's the kind of story Woody Allen writes best - examining the relationships between people - love, lust, hate, and how other people get used as fallback positions.

So there are fallback positions if the market deals us a bad hand.

That's no final fallback position.

• Before the bishops adopted a program for implementing Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the document aimed at renewing the Catholic identity of colleges and universities, Tim Unsworth of the National Catholic Reporter anticipated the move and outlined the liberal fallback position.

Write below the three to five proverbs you would like your children to really get, the ones that are going to be your parenting fallback position as your children grow through new developmental stages.

Scientists were left with a generally unsatisfactory fallback position: Avian brains must simply be wired in a completely different fashion from primate brains.

A possible fallback position is to have an «in - between» pre-k program that could be described as «broadly targeted» or «near universal».

But this is the latest fallback position from the phony skeptic barricades with their dragon's teeth.

A common fallback position when losing an argument is to assault your adversary personally.

Self - confident and comfortable with mobility, they want to keep their options open and maintain fallback positions, so they tend to resist traditional pathways to power and to keep the firm at arm's length.

For them a college degree represents at least a fallback position for gainful employment.

We are coming up against a global recession, our debt levels are again greater than they were in 2007 before the last recession, and this time we do not have the fallback position of the emerging markets like we did then.

It also caused Hawking to adopt spontaneous creation (not me) as an alternative to God (or god) and or use multiverse as a fallback position.

2) Know Your Fallback Position.

Nicolello replied that lawmakers did not authorize the borrowing as «a fallback position for the county to pay for any other expenses that came forward.

Another sign of seismic change: civil unions, once regarded by gay - marriage supporters as a best - we - can - hope - for compromise, have become a fallback position of the anti-marriage camp.

The incumbent had hoped that the Independence and Conservative party lines could provide a fallback position in the event of a loss in the Democratic primary.

But he stressed this fallback position must be «very very limited» and only long enough to get the practical arrangements for a frictionless free trade deal in place.

Too many people fail to enjoy the keto benefits simply because they do not eat enough fat and they then fell hungry and so revert to their all fallback position of eating carbohydrate.

It seems to be a fallback position of many academics and researchers and others who tend not to live in the real world.

Whatever it takes to eliminate your plan B or your fallback position.

My dream was to become a great songwriter and poet, and be the next Bob Dylan (studying physics and math was just a fallback position).

«This isn't some fallback position.

Their fallback position is to simply walk away if things go bad, laughing all the way to the bank as teachers, parents, and local property taxpayers try to put their schools back together.

«If you don't have insurance or any type of fallback position, you're faced with a gut - wrenching decision.»

I think when the Wii became an unexpected launch success, Nintendo decided to that committing fully to these gimmicks — motion control, 3D, a second portable screen — was the only way they could compete on the console market (Sony and Microsoft would follow suit, but they had a fallback position).

Some cynics have long argued that «ocean acidification» is little more than a green urban myth: a fallback position for when the man - made - global - warming theory finally collapses and another excuse is needed to justify the increasingly unjustifiable war on carbon dioxide.

There is a silver lining in this cloud of obfuscation - climate contrarians appear to be retreating more and more away from the «it's not happening» and «it's not us» myths, toward the «it's not bad» fallback position.

This is Spencer's fallback position, i.e. when it becomes obvious even with his own derivation how much the world is warming, he will attempt to cast doubt on even that and conclude «we know nothing», thus achieving his pre-determined objective that we don't know enough to do anything.

Hence the need for a fallback position — an environmental theory which would justify the massively expensive and disruptive ongoing decarbonisation programme so assiduously championed by politicians, scientists, green campaigners and anyone making money out of the renewables business.

... NASA and James Hansen have a fallback position... namely, the previous climate hysteria predictions they and the press were pushing on Congress and the -LSB-...]

In contrast to the Kyoto days, when the fallback position of most US companies was to remain silent, a remarkable amount of businesses — over 1,100 of them — have come out publicly in support of the Paris Agreement.

The fallback position here, if this result is robust, like the fallback positions of Spencer's other work and Lindzen's work is that these are diagnostics that the models fail.

Not only have those denying the reality of human - caused global warming lost all credibility but the fallback position of «it's real but it's too costly to do anything about it» has also collapsed.

That was one of the reasons the «ocean acidification» scare was invented: as a fallback position in case it were to become clear — as it increasingly has — that anthropogenic global warming theory is a busted flush.

The following day (June 25 — email 4712), Wigley clarified that he was not really trying to ensure that the individual series had merit, but only that they chose «sufficiently ambiguous» language in their text to give them a fallback position if they were criticized — a practice that one sees all too often in this field,

Bratton is not alone in perceiving that alternative fee arrangements become difficult when there is unpredictability, and as a result, hourly fees and time tracking become the fallback position for determining value.

Resist the temptation to generalize as a fallback position; have confidence in your ability to serve your chosen niches and make it what you're known for.

Today, as I listen to leaders who speak for those in marginalized communities, I have the sense that their fallback position remains passive support programs.