Sentences with phrase «goalposts for»

Owen Hathway, policy officer with the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Cymru, said it was «simply unacceptable to move the goalposts for boundary grades half way through the process, especially having not given any prior warning to teachers and pupils».

The policy itself has implications for other states in that it moves the goalposts for common practice.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

Hisfamily home is just a block from the John Swett football field, and he reportswith a wistful smile, «They put up the goalposts for me when I'm in town, so that I can practice kicking.

But it was the jump in US 2 - year note yields that provided the extra boost to the US dollar as shorter - dated tenors provides investors with better goalposts for determining how the market is viewing Fed sentiment

He gave her a set of golf clubs when they were married a month or so ago, and she gave him a regulation - size football goalpost for the backyard.

Not exact matches

In their attempts to deflect criticism by redefining the problem or moving the goalposts, Facebook and Google risk discouraging young women and people of color from having ambitions of working for tech.

The White House's ever - shifting goalposts have made it all the more difficult for senators to strike a deal to provide a permanent solution for DACA recipients — which everyone, even allegedly Trump, wants to do.

There's a time and place for everything, but my experience working with money managers and asset allocators alike is that these measures are often used to confuse the end investor or move the goalposts after underperformance occurs.

It's Football speak, like: it's a game of two halves (as recently used by AW), «we gave 110 %» & jumpers for goalposts (maybe not this one).

No moving of goalposts by me, ready for the change and just enjoying what our club has achieved, wanting more, but not dismissing what we have achieved.

Moving the Goalposts is another initiative ready for its scale - up.

Deprived of goalposts, the Tigers tried to run for the conversion.

The 25 - year - old is banned for the first three matches of Euro 2012, but after initially intimating that no players involved in Poland and Ukraine would be selected for the Olympics, the FA appear to have moved the goalposts.

We've been cruising on the credit card of promise and the moving goalpost of various future assets for a few years now.

A player of your undoubted calibre doesn't want to use jumpers for goalposts or play on a second - rate paddock; that is why you need to search out your nearest Goals football facility this January.

Gunner22, this slow deterioration is down to Wenger, even though goalposts have been moved to ensure our three FA cup wins have been demoted to tarnish the manager and teams achievements What would Liverpool and Spuds give for just one FA cup win?

Once you've played well with the big boys, it's probably a tad difficult to motivate yourself for an U-21 game, which must resemble a jumpers for goalposts - style kickabout in comparison.

Back in the days of jumpers for goalposts, the owner - investor model was how pretty much every single club in England was run.

Mike Atherton seems have developed into a proper columnist and sports writer, and while his column may the type of wise after the event piece you have in mind and are warning about, I think it was well judged and that the centre - left doesn't need to go into «jumpers for goalposts» nostalgia to strongly agree with this.

In the end, I decided that the tendency to retreat to «jumpers for goalposts» was a barrier to reform, because it leaves the Samaranch - Havelange tendency as the only people able to bring in the cash.

By trying to separate confidence from dissolution and moving the goalposts to 55 % for that, you are trying to insulate yourselves and enjoy the same protection from dissolution a majority Government has.

And then, thanks to boundary changes demanded by Nick Clegg as the price for a failed referendum, you find the goalposts are shifted.

I have paid into the system for 37 years and then at 56 the goalposts have been moved.»

The Conference in Manchester heard that the introduction of a new grading system will move the goalposts on what is considered to be a «good» pass, with negative consequences for pupils and teachers.

Nominations have been moved to the end of July, why, we have already nominated for the NPF etc, at the 10th June deadline, who moved the goalposts?

The feat moves the goalposts in the fight for quantum supremacy, the effort to outstrip classical computers using quantum ones.

Never the gentlest of sports, football is now coming in for a new type of criticism: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that falling soccer goalposts killed 18 people in the US and wounded nine between 1979 and 1983.

Professor Crowley's finding therefore moves the goalposts back at least 60 million years, which, given humans have only been on the planet for around a tenth of that time, is not an insignificant drop in the evolutionary ocean.

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And Other Tips from a Beleaguered Father (Not That Any of Them Work) is an owner's manual for anyone who If you're in the dating game you need to know that the goalposts have moved.

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If nothing else, this blog is an outlet for voicing my astonishment From the magazine The new rules of dating If you're in the dating game you need to know that the goalposts have moved.

8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally From the magazine The new rules of dating If you're in the dating game you need to know that the goalposts have moved.

The prologue of the film indicates the word «Sicario» is either Hebrew or Mexican for «hitman», but at its core, the film postulates the ever - shifting goalposts of federal law enforcement (both American and Mexican) while slowly revealing the broken conscience of both States — as if someone thought to remake Soderbergh's Traffic and shoot it over the template of Michael Mann's Heat; all awash in dust motes, artillery and desert sunsets.

There are some isolated yet worrying indications that a few local authorities are beginning to «move the goalposts» in relation to local eligibility criteria for statutory assessment.

Mr Hobby added: «For a significant number of young people and their schools, moving the goalposts in this way will jeopardise not only places at sixth - form college and other arenas of post-16 education but university applications and beyond as well as the schools» status with regard to the government's own benchmark.»

The goalposts move so fast with Ofsted that each time new frameworks for inspection are announced headteachers wait to get the lengthy updates sent by the brilliant people at the governors» services.

for LCFF grants would mean changing the funding goals that the LCFF established, in essence moving the LCFF goalpost further down the field.

Here's why: Boosting the targets for LCFF grants would mean changing the funding goals that the LCFF established, in essence moving the LCFF goalpost further down the field.

I'm not well - versed enough in the details of this technical fix to vouch for its merits and efficacy, but the authors don't even mention the issue, favoring the dismissive rhetoric «moving the goalposts.»

That's why we moved the goalposts a little in our favour for this video at VMAX 200.

Now in its fifth generation, it continues to move the goalposts and make supercar performance accessible for the family man.

Their role is to maintain liquidity by offering to buy or sell ETF units when nobody else will, and also to set the «goalposts» for the bid and ask prices.

Offering a reward first as the goalpost can provide more intrinsic motivation for the child and make him or her want to save rather than feel as if he or she is being forced to save.

badz149 there's no goalpost changing, saying an «updates are updates» is pretty weak or just downright foolish knowing what we know about how important it is for software to be user friendly.

We have come a long way since jumpers for goalposts, football has evolved both on and off the field, turning from the pastime of the working class into a massive financial behemoth.

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Jacques has worked across many different titles, consoles and console generations, allowing him a broad perspective: «Every console generation [sees] the goalposts move a bit... although where we are now, they don't move too much for music — more so for sound designers, especially with VR and AR etc..

Scarecrow (2015), an unusual apparatus for a nonexistent sport, is part goalpost, part concrete flag: at its center is a cartoonish inflatable eagle, whose tumescent arms are pumped up in victory.

«For too many years, Nestlé, Mars and Hershey have cherry - picked their [palm oil] targets and then moved the goalposts when they don't achieve them.