Sentences with phrase «getting rubber stamped»

«Politicians play a blame game and talk about safety, but new terminals keep getting rubber stamped and built,» said LaPoint, «If elected officials won't stop the fossil fuel takeover, we'll have to do it for them.»

Now we have evidence that her employees sought to help TransCanada get a rubber stamp.

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By using a private member's bill rubber - stamped by the Conservatives, the Tories have created the possibility of a major piece of constitutional legislation getting through the Commons without any of the usual scrutiny.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

This pretty red box gets a custom label with a rubber stamped piece of muslin, corrugated cardboard and twine.

As the awards season gets underway and you see one critic's group after another rubber - stamp the same basic set of winners (with only a few notable variations) the Board's sensibility seems increasingly valuable.

«And these kids take it, and then they get rubber - stamped at the end of the test, «you are a failure.»

Seasonal Story Starters Writing Get students started on story writing by using rubber stamps of objects in a rebus story format.

If I were the court, I would get out my «fuck this shit» rubber stamp and deny the motion to intervene.

Of course, it's going to get you shunned and banned by all right thinking lockstep rubber stamp «journalists».

Also, do mortgage insurance companies typically try to get more money out of the sellers at this point to cover there loss, or is this more of a rubber stamp required to close?

There'll also be plenty of opportunities for you to get interactive, with rubber - stamping stations in the room, and one - to - one screen printing workshops with Anthony on Wednesday 24 May, 2 — 5 pm, offering Design Undefined visitors an opportunity to discover the process behind his artwork and create their own print.

And in 2011 they got a rubber - stamped place in art history when Penguin books included them in much talked - about anthology 100 Artists» Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists.

What has more truthiness is that a giant corporation employing world - class IP law firms can get just about anything rubber - stamped by the US PTO if they obfuscate it sufficiently.

But the more times the process is repeated, the greater the incentive of people who want their views to get authoritative support to get themselves or their friends positions of influence within the organization, to keep those they disapprove of out of such positions, and so to divert it from its original purpose to becoming a rubber stamp for their views.

In other words, coal companies draw up the lease themselves, obviously charging as little as they can get away with, and await the offer to get rubber - stamped by the Bureau of Land Management in a sham «auction.»

Sam Glover: Yeah, I mean for many people what it looks like is you overcome all of those challenges to get to court to watch the judge quite literally rubber stamp a document that decides what happens to your case.

On the basis this will get rubber - stamped it will become effective six months after coming into force.

I got all the rubber stamps, all the paper, all the ribbons, all the embroidery kits, the beads, the markers, the colored pencils, the photo albums, the stickers, the glue, the washi tape, etc..

I got a vintage rubber stamp holder on Ebay a while back, and can't decide if I'm going to use it in this room, or my Office.

This pretty red box gets a custom label with a rubber stamped piece of muslin, corrugated cardboard and twine.