Sentences with word «figleaf»

It's not science substantiated, it's just a scheme to seek money and power, trying to hide behind a tiny figleaf of scientific fraud.

Any policy that is announced will simply be a con, an environmental figleaf to cover a determination to do nothing.

This is a convenient figleaf for Osborne.

Fanesca — soup of bacalao (salt cod), figleaf gourd, pumpkin, chochos, lupines, fava beans, lentils, peas, corn and more (a total of 12 beans and grains).

The fact is that wind turbines are much better at making money for speculative private interests and providing an ecological figleaf for the privatization and deregulation of electrical generation than they are at generating electricity.

Meanwhile, environmental groups see carbon capture as an industry figleaf to shield the EPA from pushback against its climate rules that will still allow the use of fossil fuels, albeit with lower emissions.

I doubt many people really believe the deniers, but the number of people who feel that their immediate interests are threatened by structural change has been heightened by the GFC, and the lavish coverage to the delusionals in the press has allowed those who want an excuse to wave a more impressive figleaf.

«The Liberal Party is currently led by people whose conviction on climate change is that it is «crap»... Any policy that is announced will simply be a con, an environmental figleaf to cover a determination to do nothing,» he wrote then.

This will provide the figleaf for which the PLP will be desperate.

In response to argument from the claimants» legal teams - that parliament never contemplated Ripa being used as a figleaf for undercover sex - Justice Tugendhat suggested that most MPs were aware of accounts, albeit fictional, in which James Bond does just that.

The Davies review is used as a figleaf to avoid talking about airport capacity in London, odd when Miliband's most high - profile contribution to the 2010 manifesto was the no third runway at Heathrow pledge.

Labour peer Lord Alli said the amendments were «a figleaf» to enable those opposed to the bill's purpose to fight it.

She described feeling «demoralised, disillusioned, and full of dark fears that I have been stitched up - that actually the «art world» [whatever that is] has already decided who will win the 2006 Turner Prize and that I am brought in purely as a figleaf».

Barber's statement that she felt «demoralised, disillusioned and full of dark fears that I have been stitched up - that actually the «art world» (whatever that is) has already decided who will win the 2006 Turner prize and that I am brought in purely as a figleaf» is widely circulated today.

She described feeling «demoralised, disillusioned and full of dark fears that I have been stitched up - that actually the «art world» (whatever that is) has already decided who will win the 2006 Turner prize and that I am brought in purely as a figleaf».

But after six months in the art world, I feel as adrift as on the day I started, thoroughly demoralised, disillusioned, and full of dark fears that I have been stitched up - that actually the «art world» [whatever that is] has already decided who will win the 2006 Turner Prize and that I am brought in purely as a figleaf.

I'm talking about the book — have never seen the movie — and found the features that you describe to be more in the way of a figleaf to provide plausible deniability than a sincere expression of admiration etc etc..

All McI wants to do is provide a figleaf for the denialists who dismiss the science in its entirety.

In essence, guidance has been issued to all judicial office holders (not just magistrates), clearly warning them off blogging (although it says it's not a ban, IMHO this is a bit of a figleaf).