Sentences with phrase «fob off»

If the interviewer tries to fob you off, is unable to come up with recent, solid examples of how others have progressed within the company or is unable to talk to you about a clear career path, it could be time to consider a quick exit.

Nonetheless, the chart does a good job of demonstrating just how hard it is to get people to accept immediate sacrifices in order to protect long - term climate stability: they are not fully exposed to the risks, and they have ample opportunity to fob them off on others, so as to avoid making changes in how they live their own lives and how the political and economic systems in their states operate.

You can pursue these or you get points for each run that you can spend to fob off the chore of doing them.

This isn't a game that you can just fob off, a lot of work has gone into making Super Street Fighter IV a great game.

And maybe a fob off with a business card 10 seconds after immediately introducing yourself.

They tried to fob me off with a scratchy blanket but eventually relented and gave me a small heater.

Almost all of those subprime loans ended up in securitized pools; indeed, the reason banks were willing to issue so many risky loans is that they could fob them off on Wall Street.

So if any airline tries to fob you off with this rubbish, they are talking nonsense and you should fight»em.

If any airline tries to fob you off with this rubbish, they are talking nonsense and you should fight»em.

He's sort of a frustrated politician, see, when he's not furiously writing plays that he hopes to fob off on some other playwright.

A girl in that situation has probably joined on the recommendation of a friend and wont appreciate a nice guy talking to her because she will automatically assume there are other nice guys that haven't matched with her yet and will keep her options open, so she will fob you off when you try to plan a date.

I always assumed that the petitions site was designed initially to fob off the Lib Dems when they were in coalition, and then later to make people think they were being listened to by having a little debate with no power or influence that was always ignored.

Our members care about the lifeline services they provide and they want to be able to help people properly, not have to fob them off.»

I put a question to the Metropolitan Police on this very matter at the MPA meeting today and the answer was yet another fob off - they'll apparently be looking into it as part of the HMIC review.

I definitely agree health care people should listen to parents concern rather than fob off, as if you don't know what your talking about.

Souleymane was subsequently invited to Stamford Bridge in order to attend the second leg as a guest of honour but declined the offer, claiming that Chelsea are attempting to fob him off by treating him like a child.

Could also be that clubs were using this as an excuse to fob him off.

So funny, my boyfriend says the exact same thing when I try and fob him off with sweet potato brownies!

Being partially bojon, I can't exactly fob off sweets on an office full of bored / gluttonous co-workers.

Whole grain flours just need more time, and more hydration; those dense bricks of «healthy» bread they tried to fob off on us in the 70's are truly a thing of the past.

When a partner of mine has a hard time or the dance floor is particularly traffic - filled, and we bump and collide with other couples, I fob it off.

In A Common Faith Dewey suggests that organized religion once provided a useful sense of the whole, but that now it has abandoned that task and, instead, attempts to fob off on newly emergent societies the basically irrelevant sense of the whole generated by an earlier society in a different history If this last judgment is harsh, it was harsh because «the religious» was so important to Dewey and because he still hoped for a religiousness capable of setting forth a functional sense of the whole.

Besides inflation, the provincial government has fobbed off a whole array of additional downloaded costs to local school districts — costs the government largely controls, but doesn't provide sufficient funding to cover.

It is thus a pity if the laity are fobbed off with peripheral devotions.

This is not fobbing you off because we have no answers, this is pleading with you not to allow yourself to be robbed of the most incredible adventure of your life.

I have really enjoyed seeing some of the comments from Chelsea fans on various websites, as many of them seem to think that Cech is a player on the wane and Jose Mourinho has played a blinder in fobbing him off on an unsuspecting rival.

For the last 12 years we were fobbed off with lie after lie, deceit and non committal but what you have to realise is that the blind fold has dropped and the supporters have seen the lack of tactics, the lack of adventure, the lack of committal this regime has, answer?

As it is we feel fobbed off yet again.

Or perhaps they are just happy in taking the money from their loyal fan base and fobbing them off with a substandard product..

Iv» e said in previous posts we need a manager top bring in new ideas, have alternative plans for when things aren't working but most of all a manager that is strong with the board and who won't stand for being fobbed off

You can blame the press in a way, they ask the questions we all want to know the answers to, yet get fobbed off by Wenger with the attitude that EVERYBODY who asks these questions are stupid, Its always the refs fault OR the linesman or the other teams dog, OR every pundit in the world is wrong and cant see the genius that is AW's plan of action ect ect.

I grew up in Norway, and we'd have been miffed if they'd fobbed us off with Denmark or Sweden as school trip destinations.

«I feel that despite my best efforts, I keep getting fobbed off when all I want to know is, are my eyes going to be screened and if so when?»

«It is completely unacceptable that I have been refused access to Yarl's Wood for more than a year and it would be extraordinary for the home secretary to continue to ignore my reasonable request by fobbing me off with false assurances.»

But instead of admitting this, we get fobbed off with secret Treasury models that supposedly show 28 % as the rate for CGT which raises the most money.

No it would be crazy not to have an English Parliament, as such its is appreciated that Scots think the West Lothian question is a problem, how big of them, but then it matters not one jot, for the Scots voted for what they wanted, and got it, now its long past the time when English people get to vote for what they want, and if they want to be fobbed off with some rubbish Grand Committee fine I'll go along with it, but English people should also be given the opportunity to vote for an equal settle to what the Scots vote for themselves, unless you are saying Britain no longer does equality?

so go and see your regualry GP if you are being fobbed off by midwifery or obstetrics.

So Shrek, Donkey and Puss sail off to find young Arthur and bring him back to Far Far Away, while Princess Fiona is left waving goodbye at the dock, to be fobbed off with a cursory girl - power scenario at the end of the movie.

A road - trip odyssey, it fobs off nonconformity as a spiritual virtue.

When their kindly union rep, Albert (Bob Hoskins), encourages the women to bring their grievances to Ford, Rita, along with the shop steward Connie (Geraldine James), are fobbed off with minor concessions.

After being fobbed off three consecutive times, CeX finally delivered my new PlayStation 3 with no mishaps.

He has just got his girlfriend pregnant (he fobs her off by giving her his beat - up old car).

It reminded me of how I was fobbed off by the assistant principal at Western Middle School in Greenwich when I went to complain about bullying my son was experiencing.

A 2WD SR5 might be good for small camping trailer duty, the Trail model is the obvious choice if you really need a 4WD ute, and the Limited could be debadged and fobbed off as a V - 6 powered Lexus GX substitute that looks better dirty.

The traditional rights sales system essentially fobs off the global responsibilities of the U.S. - based publisher.

The only person who has any value at all in this process, the only one who creates something out of nothing, the author, is disrespected, treated like dirt and gets fobbed off with a pittance.

while i admire your affords to have dividends paid by zamano the directors of irish companies treat shareholders like serfs who should be kept in the dark so you will be fobbed off.

If a company fobs you off by saying «go to the maker instead», it's wrong.

I complained to the BBC at the time, and, after being fobbed off the first time, escalated the complaint to the Executive Complaints Unit, who have now published the above judgment.

Well, when I kept being fobbed off..