Sentences with phrase «gamesmanship in»

Preventing gamesmanship in litigation through choice of court, while not a comprehensive fix to problems within the patent system, would go a long way toward stopping a longstanding abusive practice that harms legitimate innovators, the economy, and the public.»

rock leanings come through in this brand of orchestra and samples for the high - tech political gamesmanship in a distinctly low - tech country.

But the gamesmanship in «Chéri» is far more nuanced.

Chin added that political gamesmanship in Albany should also not prevent the legislation from passing quickly.

We need leadership, not political gamesmanship in order to pass the budget,» concluded Hoyt.

WALTER HOVING Executive, Bonwit Teller and Tiffany New York City If golfers indulge in gamesmanship in a humorous manner, in a spirit of give and take, I think any amount of it is permissible.

King, who calls himself «politically homeless,» says that while both parties talk about faith and invoke Scripture, he and other young evangelicals he knows sense an undercurrent of political gamesmanship in all the religious talk.

Not exact matches

«If they held this in their back pocket, and brought it out at a strategic moment to maximize its impact, that would suggest a level of political gamesmanship that is conduct unbecoming [of] senior members of the US Senate,» he said in an email.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is either the most reckless politician on the planet or he is engaging in gamesmanship at a level few in financial markets can comprehend.

«Down one road — a road defined by the commission's failure to put in place meaningful open internet rules — is an internet that looks more like cable TV, one characterized by legalized discrimination, carriage disputes, gamesmanship, and content blackouts which harms consumers.

So when, in Junkin's account, Judge Smith of Baltimore County admonishes a prosecutor who has lost sight of the difference between fact and fiction — «It isn't gamesmanship we are playing here.

So two very competitive players who are no longer team mates engage in gamesmanship and the conclusion is they hate each other?

This is actually a precursor of the Guts bungee - basketball thing, but it works a whole lot better than Rocketball and, as in the above clip, sometimes a Gladiator will haul off and pop a dude in the mush because of gamesmanship.

This is now likely to be just another little bit of gamesmanship on Wenger's part (as we ALL know for a fact that Coquelin would not be playing against Spurs in the Capitol One Cup even if he was fully fit).

Netherlands goalkeeper Tim Krul has defended his behaviour in the penalty shoot - out, in which he appeared to engage in some gamesmanship with the Costa Rican penalty takers:

Despite the recent spate of dubious / unsavoury incidents in the PL we are also miles behind in terms of gamesmanship and simulation.

Everyone of their players is drilled to the nth degree as when to foul, what types of fouls in what areas of the pitch, taking gamesmanship to the very brink of what is acceptable.

In this case, with a full investigation underway and counter complaints against New York now part of the mix, there's obviously something more happening here than the usual case of gamesmanship between teams.

But as I was reading about that in The Mirror today I spotted what looks like a slip of the tongue from their mouthy manager and I could not help thinking that he has inadvertently admitted to the cheating (or gamesmanship) that Arsenal fans have long suspected.

Real talk: If the Dodgers were a sporting team, and if they were interested in gamesmanship at all, they would have replaced Kershaw with a starter that had half the strikeout rate last year, too.

In the case of golf gamesmanship, I rebel against this thinking.

Most of it has been eliminated in medal play where there is no time for gamesmanship.

There is much to be said pro and con but, in my opinion, gamesmanship is unfair in politics, it is unfair in love and it is unfair in golf.

The 18 - year - old was then given a taste of his own medicine, hauled down in a breathless heap after the Bayern winger showed a bit of his own gamesmanship to out - muscle his marker.

This article details how many of the Erie County Conservative Party's leadership has been appointed to positions in government, suggesting some sort of political gamesmanship.

Read a little differently, the bill is part of the increasingly level of gamesmanship — or an outright game of chicken — between the two chambers in the final three weeks of the legislative session.

Setting one date — April 3 — for all the pre-trial motions to go before the judge «would conserve judicial resources, avoid gamesmanship and ensure a fair process for the consideration of all defense motions,» Bharara wrote in the letter to the judge.

It is truly disappointing to see that when a real chance to act upon unfunded state mandates presents itself, and that effort has been scrubbed of all potential political disagreement, some of my colleagues seemingly prefer to engage in political gamesmanship.

New York's Republican conference remains solely in power thanks to terribly gerrymandered districts rubberstamped by Cuomo in 2012 and the IDC's gamesmanship.

The political gamesmanship being shown in Washington serves no one.

DiNapoli, in a statement, denounced «political gamesmanship» in Washington, D.C. and said the move could harm the broader economy in New York and nationally.

It was Ed Miliband, never forget, who scuppered that option in a bout of parliamentary gamesmanship that should have shamed him (but conspicuously didn't).

It's a disgrace and Cuomo's wrong, there will be a lot of mud sticking to him as a result of this political gamesmanship he's engineering, but still attempting to avoid taking unwanted credit for in the State Senate.

New York can not afford anything like the scandal, gamesmanship and weakness that have marked the governor's office in the past four years.

Soares charged that the governor's failure to act in response to his request smacked of political gamesmanship.

«Political gamesmanship must not be allowed to jeopardize the leadership, committee structure and staff of the New York State Senate,» Felder reportedly said in a statement.

Political gamesmanship has adversely affected the business of the chamber when the Democrats were previously in control.

Counsel David Lewis, also throws in a jab at Democrats in the motion, claiming that «political gamesmanship» was a hallmark of their two - year term in the majority.

«In an era of partisan gridlock and political gamesmanship plaguing Congress, Rep. Grimm stands out among the rest as someone who has worked across party lines to get things done, and his conscientious voting record demonstrates this much - needed pragmatism.»

In answering that question Tribble provides us with a provocative and disturbing glimpse into the gamesmanship of getting orphan drug status; using Medicare as a cash cow to the tune of $ 11 million - a-year; that cozy relationship between Pharma and patient advocacy groups mentioned above; and how a pill goes from $ 80 to $ 550 and can cost a patient $ 180,000 annually.

The clipped dialogue, the scientific detecting, the camera tricks, the computer gamesmanship, the back - and - forth progression of the stories — the bricks that really matter in the construction of a TV show — are all quite the same [as CSI].

Had Howard built this irony directly into the movie, it might have resulted in a juicy pop - culture jape — that, or some of the eerie, you - are - who - you - act - like gamesmanship that ricocheted through that media - age hall of mirrors, The Truman Show.

Guaranteed to fan antigovernment sentiments among its audiences, Dinosaur 13 is less about paleontology than it is about prosecutorial overreach, political gamesmanship, dinosaur swindlers and true crime — if in fact crimes were even committed, and / or committed by the people accused.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

I say disturbing because there is plenty that happens in the movie's second half that should not be divulged, except to say it aspires to — and often reaches — the psychological gamesmanship of Alfred Hitchcock's «Rebecca.»

It's not impossible to mix sentimentality, raunch, corporate gamesmanship and the G - 8 Summit in a comedy, but this one doesn't pull it off

The thrill was in the inventiveness of the hunt, the idea that the transgression required of horror scenarios is actually taken out of a perverse sexual curiosity (locating Barker's fantasia in fairytale) rather than some kind of adolescent gamesmanship.

Altman is less interested in emotion and psychology than in emotional and psychological gamesmanship — in mind - fucking that has a rich tradition in the more obsessive and political films of Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, and Joseph Losey, to name but a few of Images's most significant influences.

He devised the story — about a Niagara Falls couple (Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos) whose young daughter is abducted and held prisoner for eight years by a foppish psychopath (Kevin Durand)-- and his screenplay, co-written with TV - movie vet David Fraser, employs his usual structural gamesmanship, leaping to and fro in time and withholding crucial details.

As written by Matt Charman and Joel & Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies is an intellectual exercise in political gamesmanship that is constantly being messed with by real people.