Sentences with phrase «fallback position of»

It was the fallback position of the claimant that a modest sum be awarded for suffering even if the primary claim were to fail, as indeed it did.

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.

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.

Because that claim — foreseeably (and strictly IMHO)-- is going to emerge as the primary fallback position of GHE skeptics.

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

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.

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 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 exact matches

• 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.

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.

On the other hand, while she was filming one of those pilots, the producers of «Ghost Whisperer» came by and pitched Hewitt their show, thereby providing her with an instant fallback position which she was more than glad to take when «In the Game» fell apart.

If she isn't able to find that kind of position, she has a fallback plan until her children reach school age.

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

It's also useful to slip into a new part of the room to begin setting up a «fallback» position

And for those who don't deny the temperature trend, the usual fallback position IS that it's not our fault (with the next fallback of «oh well, there's nothing we can do about it»).

Fallback position is to ignore those cases where people are trying to provoke an emotional reaction instead of a logical debate.

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.

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.

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.

Stone and McKee found that female students grappled with the combination of future careers and family, and regarded motherhood as a «fallback position.»

We all have preferred ways of coping with stress and distress: Some of us favor going inward to find our emotional footing, while for others, seeking comfort and reassurance from another is the fallback position.