Sentences with phrase «farce if»

Clearly frustrated by the slow progress in the negotiations, Miliband also said «It would be a tragedy if we failed to agree because of the substance but it would be a farce if we failed to agree because of the process», refering to the fact that the talks keep getting bogged down in procedural issues.

However, while the distributor avoided scoring lower than 50 in 2012, a rare misfire came in 2013 in the form of Canadian farce If I Were You.

MP Steve Baker, a key figure in Vote Leave, said: «It would be a complete farce if ministers had to prove their Eurosceptic credentials before campaigning.»

Not exact matches

«It's a farce to claim to be offering «free college» to employees when what's being offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.

Even if you really want to bend over backward for your customer, if you mix statements about commitment with statements that say what the customer's not allowed to do, the customer is going to see your «commitment» as a farce, corporate jargon, just a way to save face, or all talk and no action.

But those that are willing to spend thousands of hard earned dollars on «what if» insurance, and then stomp their foot and insist that any religion is a farce and aren't willing to spend a few free hours of their time to just learn a little more are the ones I'm concerned about.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

I really don't care if you worship that mythological farce till you're blue just try not to shoehorn that concept into sociopolitical issues.

If history, as often noted, replays grandeurs as farces, and if T. H. Huxley truly acted as «Darwin's bulldog,» then it is hard to resist thinking of Dennett, in this book, as «Dawkins» lapdog.&raquIf history, as often noted, replays grandeurs as farces, and if T. H. Huxley truly acted as «Darwin's bulldog,» then it is hard to resist thinking of Dennett, in this book, as «Dawkins» lapdog.&raquif T. H. Huxley truly acted as «Darwin's bulldog,» then it is hard to resist thinking of Dennett, in this book, as «Dawkins» lapdog.»

That is ALL religions do... judge you on 1) if you are religious and 2) which religion you are... religion is a man - made farce to keep people like you donating 10 % so they can sit on gold thrones... idolize much?

Therefore if Evolution is true (and it is) then Christianity is a man - made farce.

And now we meet Paul's question: If we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farcIf we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farcif godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farcif our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farce?

If he is deriving major (neurotic) satisfactions from «running the show,» his use of democratic techniques will be a half - hearted farce, foredoomed to failure.

If we can regroup after the international break with Mustafi, Welbeck and Ospina back in contention for first team places and our winning streak at the Emirates we'll close the gap between top to what it was before this farce of a match ever happened.

If Mayweather knocks him out in the first round, it immediately exposes the fight for the farce that it is.

Now if Liverpool who are no joke and upped there bid for Lemar (75m + Origi) really quickly, get him (guess they know what to do with that Coutinho $ $ $) it will be a total farce and Wenger will look like a utter fool and it will be official that he wasn't off the table but that Wenger's offer and valuation in today's market was off the table.

You look at the PSG and BM farce from last year and you think if VAR was implemented, both would have been eliminated, but decsions made by the officials swung it in their favour.

If so, then the Barca farce could be quickly forgotten, and he'll remain an integral figure in this Liverpool team.

Anyway, we still have 2 more years of this «farce» unless he resigns if we make a «faux pas».

I have been a fence sitter for a while on the wenger issue but if he makes no more buys then I shall hitch my wagon the the wenger out brigade cos it's a bloody farce coming out with this old crap!!!!

If McGregor is stripped Ferguson gets promoted to full champ, injured or not (for precedent see GSP / Whittaker) That means Khabib can fight for the interim title vs Holloway, the legit, lineal LW title belongs to McGregor or Ferguson, Khabib has no claim to it whatsoever without beating one of those two, this whole situation is a complete farce and the only reason you «fans» aren't complaining about it is because you all ride Khabibs dick so hard for some reason.

If we're going to avoid this becoming another Thiago / Fabregas farce, we need to stop messing about and match Juventus» asking price, as well as offering Vidal a contract that proves we know his worth.

Because, if the mother is not helped, the alleged choice whether to breastfeed turns into a farce.

Granted there are people who just do not really try to make it work, but on the other hand, there are those of us who got married, had children, and believed in the institution enough to make it through, even if part of it was a farce.

The ship is clearly not child friendly, the food situation was a farce and if ever we booked and something like Ant & Dec cropped up, we would cancel without a moments hesitation.

If Florida in 2000 was tragedy, McCain / Palin is farce: this round of conservatism ends not with a whimper, but with a ragged fearful howl in the dark.

If it weren't so tragic, it would be mere farce.

Right now the UK seems to be in a stalemate in regards to the Irish border situation post-Brexit: If they don't leave the Single Market, Brexit would be effectively a farce as the UK would be forced...

The former Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown told the BBC the Lib Dems wanted to see debates «anchored as part of the established process of the British democratic right at an election» - and would take part even if the first debate turned out to be a farce.

Marr is lampooning the establishment, although it is hard to know if he has a serious message behind the farce.

Westminster sinks into farce again - unforgivable when discussing #WMD - speaker now deciding if calling colleagues «robot» is allowable: -LRB-

If it hadn't been for this ridiculous descent into farce, made worse by the appalling quality of feline - based puns on offer from everyone from the Tory party chairman downwards, we would have been left twiddling our thumbs.

If this bill is passed into law, good governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights of Nigerians would become a farce in the country.By gagging civil society from criticising the National Assembly and the government, the bill will undercut the rule of law, shrink civic space, and expose vulnerable Nigerians to greater level of injustice and repression.»

Scott Rief's RIDICULOUS and TOTALLY INACCURATE statement that these staff people volunteer because they share and agree with the policies and governance of the Senate Republicans is a lie, and a farce and if ANYONE believes that I have a bridge in Albany to sell you.

If the Bronx Democratic Party endorses him, the farce will only continue.

What a mockery of ethics it would be if he tried, and what a farce it would be if the state Board of Elections let him.

If Labour's failure to vote against the 50p rate cut they've criticised was yesterday evening's Commons farce, a small number of Conservative MPs helped to provide the serious fare.

After playing a bit part in Almodóvar's outrageous, if unpolished, Pepi, Lucy, Bom (1980), Roth starred as the unsubtly named Sexilia in the director's sex farce Labyrinth of Passion (1982).

If this schizophrenic mishmash were only guilty of being painfully unfunny, then I could have dismissed it as just another lowbrow farce.

Don't be duped, if this premise sounds at all appealing, for Delta Farce is easily one of the worst films released this year.

The filmmakers can't decide if they're making a teen romance, a wry look at suburbia, or a broad farce.

The plot has the makings of a broad farce, but even the broadest requires subtlety to deliver much of the humor, and if there is anything that

But while The Emperor's New Groove gave us a passable farce where we could have had a genuine epic, this film gives us an interesting if flawed look at another culture where we could have had another rote, crass princess story.

If Carry On ever decided to remake the Pink Panther series as a social - realist drama this well could be the end product, a warped farce of a farce that doesn't quite know what it is.

(Actually, if you bought a ticket to see «Delta Farce,» you probably can't read, and will therefore never see this, but whatever.)

The film is unable to decide whether it's too smart for its audience or a part of its audience — it's in love with overt Hitchcock homage and looming oil portraits of Davison though never sure if it stands as a thriller, a shrine, a melodrama farce, a Theater of the Absurd, or an Oedipal love story.

But if there's anyone here who could help us possibly get over that farce, it's Ruth Negga as Mildred Loving.

If you watched «Delta Farce» and thought to yourself «What this movie could use is more Larry the Cable Guy,» then «Witless Protection» is for you.

(It might dawn at some point in the film that this is exactly like an execrable Spanish sex farce called Kilometer 0 — and if it does, hand - in - hand with that recognition is the realization that you've wasted an awful lot of your brain retaining memories of terrible movies.)

The first release from his multi-film Netflix deal, Western farce The Ridiculous 6 is part of his attempt to see if an original serving of his broad comedy stylings will work for the streaming service's audience, and the first trailer is now online.