Sentences with phrase «game of musical chairs»

In practical terms, the available seats for this political game of musical chairs is a lot less than 14.

It's all one big game of musical chairs.

I always like to swap things out when the seasons change, and pictures on the wall are not safe from a constant game of musical chairs.

That is, in fact, its whole raison d'être — a high - stakes game of musical chairs in which family members and executive are scrambling for a place in 93 - year - old Sumner Redstone's estate plan.

The vague «Centers of Excellence» proposal just continues the state's empty promises over community mental health services while creating winners and losers in an absurd political game of musical chairs with state psychiatric centers, which provide the backbone of mental health services in many communities.

The risk for the independents is if they play hard to get for too long they'll end up standing out in the cold when this high - stakes game of musical chairs ends.

Travelers stranded in the crippling outage were left to play a massive game of musical chairs to secure seats on other flights.

It claims that outdated scheduling methods and the time - consuming game of musical chairs with shifts creates continued stress, and that «training and reviewing hourly workers is rarely done well, draining costly resources.»

He's a good player getting hosed by a 30 - team game of musical chairs.

Tape them to the backs of the chairs and set up the seats just as you would for an ordinary game of Musical chairs.

It's been like a very intense game of musical chairs.»

And these children are now rendered invisible by the DOE's superstitious game of musical chairs under the auspices of students» best interests.

Students played a quick game of musical chairs and when the music stopped, they spent seven minutes sampling the book that was at the spot where they stopped.

One sick game of musical chairs.

Adoptions in the 1970s were like a giant game of musical chairs, with not nearly enough chairs.

Rachel Uffner, one of the early dealers to open in the neighborhood, has joined the gallery game of musical chairs, trading her Orchard Street space for new digs at 170 Suffolk Street, the former home of Show Room, which has moved to Brooklyn.

The news today from the seemingly endless game of musical chairs among New York's commercial galleries is that Galerie Perrotin will be leaving its Madison Avenue digs for the Lower East Side.

In a world of flat demand, the electricity market is a ruthless game of musical chairs — where the slowest and most unwieldy power sources keep losing their seat.

There was an article in Vanity Fair a couple years ago that debated whether this was Bubble 2.0, and those on the side of bubble argued that the companies are living off of this VC game of musical chairs.

«The challenge is that without a significant increase in aggregate demand for the economy as a whole, retail tenants will play a damaging game of musical chairs, abandoning existing leases in older properties for newer properties touting better services,» he said.

In order to make room for Little Man's arrival, we had to play a little game of musical chairs and moved my daughter out of the nursery and into our guest bedroom and had to move everything out of the guest bedroom into....

The appointment of a new Brooklyn district attorney after the death of Ken Thompson could set of a political game of musical chairs in New York City.

it addresses Gov. Andrew Cuomo vague «Centers of Excellence» proposal for consolidating state psychiatric services in an absurd political game of musical chairs.

«Cuomo is orchestrating a big game of musical chairs,» one Albany insider says.

In the latest play in the tech world's game of musical chairs, eBay has hired Apple executive RJ Pittman to run its products division.

It's just a game of musical chairs.

Needless to say, this game of musical chairs does not work.

It's hard enough when it feels as if this whole dating scene is a crazy, drawn - out game of musical chairs.

The only possible sense I can make out of this is by way of the game of musical chairs I learned as a child.

It seemed that way with each genuinely sounding rumor, a game of musical chairs you might say.

But whilst Renault, McLaren and to an extent Honda can all take positives from the game of musical chairs, Toro Rosso appears to have been left holding the short end of the stick.

There could be movement at the biggest clubs too, Aubameyang, Muller, Greizmann, so a game of musical chairs could pursue.

You're in the trenches and what the staff officers are doing doesn't really make much difference...» — in Do No Harm he writes that governments turn the life of clinicians into a game of musical chairs, with the coalition's controversial NHS reforms the equivalent of changing the entire orchestra.

In the 60th AD's game of musical chairs, former City Councilmember Charles Barron easily took the Assembly seat over Leroy Bates, by a margin of 94 to six percent.

«There needs to be dramatic reforms implemented to avoid mistakes of the past, otherwise this is a game of musical chairs where we are changing people and not the policies,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of good government group Citizens Union.

LA are disposable - every two years its a game of musical chairs anyway - and in any event, most worker protections don't apply.

The oft - maligned «three men in a room» is beginning to look like the children's game of musical chairs.

«But the bottom line is until there's a seat for every child, it's a game of musical chairs.

«This was the opportunity for them to show we're not just involved in a game of musical chairs,» said Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey.

Finally, the atoms in the supercooled state must form a solid lattice, and like in a game of musical chairs, the iron and aluminum atoms end up being trapped in random positions within the lattice.

Every species, native or alien, must vie for limited niche space, like a game of musical chairs or like mailmen battling over access to a handful of mail slots.

At Assoulin's presentation, the models participated in a game of musical chairs, gleefully tripping over their fruit - embroidered and crinkled - gingham gowns with abundant layers of flounce and frill.

Fast - moving Tinder - style dating apps treat dating like it's a game of musical chairs.

Man Utd midfielder Paul Pogba was spotted back at training as he returns from a Love swaps seats faster in Hollywood than a game of musical chairs, but are celebrities just looking for themselves?