Sentences with phrase «goalposts in»

The moving goalposts in the misinformation movement have recently trumpeted «unfair» moderation and lack of courtesy as more important than reality and facts.

As the convention has been established, moving the goalposts in this way is a clear foul, a transparent attempt to stack the deck post hoc.

Confession time: mt, you're right, I did shift the goalposts in our argument.

Imagine trying to score a field goal in football with the goalposts in motion.

At seven seconds or so, its 0 - 60 time doesn't move the goalposts in this class, nor does handling or braking; this is a solid car that does everything reasonably well and offers an outstanding sound system, Bluetooth, large display screen and easy - to - use controls.

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.»

Stakes that are there to be merely winked at, goalposts in perpetual motion.

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

In my review of the Premier League season, I wrote about how Leicester City's fairytale title triumph has moved the goalposts in English football.

And most hope the money will be earned right here, driving balls between the goalposts in Barcelona.

Fortunately, Avengers 4 remains the next major goalpost in the MCU to answer many of Infinity War's burning questions.

Not exact matches

The Harper government is moving the goalposts to create a playing field that puts the Canadian big three telcos at a distinct disadvantage after spending billions creating that same playing field in wireless infrastructure.

«Abusive narcissists and sociopaths employ a logical fallacy known as «moving the goalposts» in order to ensure that they have every reason to be perpetually dissatisfied with you.

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.

Setting your goalpost or deadline 24 or 48 hours in advance gives your employees the freedom to get it done on their own terms, whether it's at 2 pm or 2 am.

We spend time optimising what is held in SIPPs, ISAs and outside tax shelters, make sure we use our CGT allowances (and try not to go over), then along comes inheritance tax, or a chancellor moves the goalposts.

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

And so, after a long afternoon's journey into night, butting our heads against first one goalpost, then the other, we had to admit that the opponent wanted the game more than we did, that in fact they had more guts, and as the sensible team we were, we began to take ourselves out of the chaotic field «with honor.»

The goalposts were moved once the team started winning the FA cup and the fact that last season we not only beat the champions Chelsea in the final, but Man.

The Brown Daily Herald, in an editorial, urged Brown fans to forgo any «disorganized mob tactics,» such as tearing down goalposts, if Brown won.

App State, as it's known in conference, play in picturesque, inhospitable, 16,500 - seat Kid Brewer Stadium, a.k.a. the Rock, where students tore down the goalposts last Saturday night, then deposited one of them on the front lawn of chancellor Kenneth Peacock.

He got Perry slanting toward the goalposts against cornerback Bryan Poole — a four - star talent and veteran in the Gators» secondary.

After Florida's 13 - 10 football victory at Florida State in Tallahassee in 1982, Gator fans rushed onto the field to tear down the goalposts.

He can be a top top striker if he is focused and posseses an instinct that tells him where exactly the goalposts are, He is strong in the air, has a good shot from either foot and is physically strong, lacking only in the hunger that should come with these qualities.

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.

He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95, keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.

There are no goalposts, because he's not hireable in the first place.

There was a famous TV shot of Davis signing Alworth to a contract under the goalposts after the 1962 Sugar Bowl, with NFL scouts gnashing their teeth in the background.

Since moving to La Liga, however, Martinez has struggled to find the goalpost, scoring just three times in fifteen total appearances between La Liga and the Champions League.

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.

There is a thump reminiscent of a nightstick on arioter's noggin, and, startlingly, the ball is aloft — the first touch of beautyin the whole ugly day — spinning back on itself with the busy geometrical actionof a satellite in orbit as it arches toward the goalpost.

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.

18 - year - old Australian goalkeeper Stefan Petrovski died after lightning struck goalposts at the training ground of Malaysian club Melaka United in April, 2016.

«As with folded arms I leant against the left goalpost, I enjoyed the luxury of closing my eyes, and thus I would listen to my heart knocking and feel the blind drizzle on my face, and hear in the distance the broken sounds of the game, and think of myself as of a fabulous exotic being in an English footballer's disguise composing my verse in a tongue nobody understood about a remote country nobody knew.

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

There are places to play football everywhere — even the trees in the school playground have been spaced apart so that they can make goalposts.

Thus a straight swap between the two clubs sees Gabriel to Sardinia where he'll get increased playing time, while Storari will defend Milan's goalposts as a deputy to Gianluigi Donnarumma despite rumours that had him transfer to Genoa, in the wake of Mattia Perin's season - ending injury this past weekend.

Thanks to his pace and dribbling he can do a job out wide in a wing role, but he has thus far done his damage inbetween the width of the goalposts.

Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.

Chances are, if you have watched more than a few youth soccer games, you have seen a player injured in a collision with the goalpost.

If some unusual situation occurs after the penalty kick is properly taken and before the ball is played or touched by another player, or before the ball hits the goalpost or crossbar, which necessitates a temporary suspension in play, the penalty kick shall be retaken.

Risks include collisions with other players, the ground, or the goalposts, resulting in sprains, fractures, or concussions; repetitive strain injuries, especially to the ankles and knees and especially in girls; and heat - related illnesses.

Work with the game or event administrator to remove tripping hazards and ensure equipment, such as goalposts, have padding that is in good condition.

Work with the game or event administrator to remove tripping hazards and ensure that equipment (such as goalposts and walls), have padding that is in good condition.

With Ike I didn't bother with the goalposts at all, but that's the luxury of experience — I know it would suck at first, then suck less, and then be worth it in the end.

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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 casIn 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 casin the cash.

Officially, there was not a single beach soccer pitch in the country, not even standard sized FIFA beach soccer goalposts, and not a single qualified beach soccer referee.

«The probe won't end in anything, there is only going to be shifting of the goalpost...,» he said on Peace FM's Krokrokoo on Wednesday.