Sentences with phrase «farcical round»

Amid the policy wrangling and a farcical round of «referring up» — this crowd's euphemism for passing the buck — heart - stopping scenes follow the mission's undercover operative (Barkhad Abdi of «Captain Phillips») on the streets of Nairobi.

And then there was an almost farcical round robin of screwups that included the hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO in September, 2010 only to fire him a year later, largely due to the Autonomy deal which degenerated into charges and countercharges of fraud between HP and former Autonomy execs.