Sentences with phrase «hand wringing by»

This prompted an angry shot yesterday at Derek Corrigan from Premier Notley, and hand wringing by a columnist for the Calgary Herald, the fearless champion of the multinational petroleum industry, which may just sense the way the prevailing coastal winds are blowing.
He did so with express forethought, against the advice of nearly all his important advisors, and to immense hand wringing by Western journalists.
For example, a drone crash - landed at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September, causing significant hand wringing by law enforcement but no injuries.

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So as BlackBerry is battered by the competition, and we wring our hands wondering where the country's next Research In Motion will come from, look to Mike.
Despite all the hand - wringing outside of Austin, within South by Southwest, tech entrepreneurs hope to be part of the solution to the recession, the LA Times reports.
Nat privileged me by asking me to introduce him at that event, where I lauded him as «a superb writer and first - class public intellectual,... a man of consistent, steadfast principle; a moral purist in an age of hand - wringing accommodationists.»
That said, and if you'll forgive the bluntness, we won't achieve this by hand - wringing about Obama under the banner «Evangel.»
«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.
It is as though the Father, in requiring the love involved in Christ's Passion, stands by, helplessly wringing His hands during His Son's travail, as though His omnipotence has limits.
Important: Wring out the spaghetti squash by wrapping portions of it in paper towels and squeezing hard with your hands over the sink.
There has been much wringing of hands after a tired Arsenal side were bullied into defeat by a battling Everton side on Tuesday.
Word of the upset traveled across the All England Club as an interesting bit of news, but nothing more: There was no moaning by fans and no hand - wringing about how this year's tournament, already battered by a rash of withdrawals, couldn't survive his departure.
Since we're living longer than ever and since women fare better by delaying marriage, why are we still wringing our hands about this?
By Jillian Lauren After months of hand - wringing and waiting, we finally transitioned a new three - year - old son into our home!
The only area of potential variability is that I'm compressing by hand, so I can't guarantee that I'm doing the same level of wringing each time.
Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?
All of the hand wringing about how small businesses will be decimated by the increase in the minimum wage is a L - I - E.
Secondly, I doubt there will be any such hand wringing when, right on cue, USDAW and Community deliver their support for Liz Kendall by an identical method.
If the former then how much does that involve crapping on the working class and poor from a great height as countless Labour councils have been doing for years now by implementing cit after cut, job loss after job loss and without even bothering anymore with some ritual hand - wringing — I assume a great deal given Corbyn and McDonnell have made it very clear that local councilors must not fight back.
But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.
Because it is true in education that what gets tested gets taught, ATC21S is preparing for the international hand - wringing from low - ranked countries by offering videos of classrooms where the researchers say teachers and students are getting it right.
«All of the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth with reference to the deficit seems to go by the boards when the Republicans talk of tax cuts,» said Representative Steny Hoyer (D - MD), the second - ranking Democrat in the House, at press conference earlier this week.
Notes: Never spray silk with perfume or deodorant Never bleach silk Never expose silk to direct sunlight for longer periods of time Don't spray silk with water while ironing Don't treat individual stains with water Always iron the backside only Never wring dry In contrast to the widespread opinion that silk can only be dry cleaned, silk products can be washed by hand without being damaged.
«Crash» was a political film too, but in the lily - livered, hand - wringing, don't - say - anything - unless - you - say - something - offensive - by - mistake vein — so of course it snatched the big prize.
Normally, this hand wringing would all feel like Oscar bloggers justifying their own vocation by drumming up artificial suspense, but the fact is that more films out of this year's nominees are still thought of as being in the mix than have been ruled out.
by Walter Chaw A completely pointless exercise in winsome, pathetic hand - wringing, the navel - gazing Bobby is just one of this year's inevitable examples of the power of nepotism in dictating who gets to continue churning out the worst films anyone's ever seen.
Aimed at administrators, policy makers and parents, it uses well - developed arguments, supported by research and manages to avoid the emotional hand - wringing that typifies a lot of advocacy papers..
The New Yorker wrung its hands at the sinister threat posed by DeVos having attended a religious high school.
In many charters, incredible growth, success, and graduation rates can be overshadowed by a Board hand - wringing over demographics when a charter doesn't look exactly like a highly segregated district school.
So despite the hand wringing and doomsday talk — as evidenced by its clueless president's speech and out - of - touch delegates — NEA is showing no signs of contrition or willingness to change.
They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.
by Rep. Mark Pocan (CA - 41) January 12, 2015 With a new year upon us and the midterms now firmly in the rear - view mirror, Democrats are moving past all of the ink, tweets and hand - wringing that dominated the last few months.
2 min readWhen eBooks really started to take off around three years ago, their success was accompanied by the typical doomy, gloomy apocalyptic hand - wringing about the future of the printed book.
There's hand - wringing and finger - pointing at Simon & Schuster over the soft performance of Hillary Clinton's «Hard Choices,» for which she got a $ 14 million advance, sources said — and which was replaced at No. 1 on the best - seller list this week by an «exposé» about Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Interview (Starts at 6:03)-- Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of The Idea Logical Company in New York, spoke with me on April 23rd by Skype about why there was so much hand wringing at the recently concluded London Book Fair, what's ahead for authors and readers if Amazon's dominance of the book business grows, and how his father, the late Leonard Shatzkin, who also had an illustrious career in publishing, probably would have been more inclined to applaud Amazon's disruption than is Leonard's son.
When eBooks really started to take off around three years ago, their success was accompanied by the typical doomy, gloomy apocalyptic hand - wringing about the future of the printed book.
The hand - wringing by friends of the big publishers in the mainstream media over the Department of Justice's moves has been something to behold, but it comes as no surprise.
So progressives like me might wring our hands over the conditions faced by Amazon's warehouse workers, but at the end of the day Amazon has more progressive titles and more progressive customers than any other bookstore.
There's much weeping, wailing and wringing of hands, most of it due to a blog post by Porter Anderson that seems to vaguely extrapolate from this TEDx talk that e-books are going -LSB-...]
There's also a land - grab element to all this — people wring the hands over declining costs - per - click, but that's only natural (& obviously more than offset by clicks paid growth)-- increasing the digital advertising pie & grabbing as large a slice of the pie as possible is what matters now.
2017 was a hard year for some high - profile singleplayer games, and there was more than a little hand - wringing that the genre as we know it might be dying, replaced by «games as a service.»
After months of harrowing hand - wringing by PlayStation 4 owners eager to experience the same features as their Xbox One brethren, Bethesda announced...
In the wake of last year's group exhibitions The 5th of July and It Can Howl, which featured work by New York - and Los Angeles - based artists such as Martine Syms, Nancy Lupo and Katherine Bernhardt — as well as the more regionally inclusive revival of the Atlanta Biennial, co-curated by Fuller, ART PAPERS editor Victoria Camblin, Jacksonville - based independent curator Aaron Levi Garvey and Joan Mitchell Center director Gia Hamilton of New Orleans — there has been some local hand - wringing about whether Atlanta Contemporary's exhibition schedule prioritizes Georgia artists or the rising stars of the New York scene.
Correa remarks: «Though much of my recent work has utilized print making techniques, I don't have any training or expertise in printmaking; what I like about it is it's physicality (I print by hand) and I like to think that my naivete allows for some diy ingenuity, or wrongness in printmaking can make rightness in painting... I've got a group of paintings made by painting on wine bottles and then wrapping and wringing canvas over them, and another group is made by painting through a blank silk screen, the screen clogs as I go, making it's own marks until its no longer useful.
It turns out that Limits to Growth was right on the money and 30 years of spectacularly ineffective hand - wringing and brow - beating by clueless environmentalists such as these has not changed our trajectory one iota.
Nuclear is absolutely needed not just to stop the hand - wringing over climate change but to free mankind from the erstwhile shackles of fossil fuels, which by comparison, is dirty, expensive, inefficient, dangerous to mine, transport, and refine, and fraught with geopolitical dangers and uncertainties.
Not this hand - wringing by deniers that argue we can't figure anything out, we can't afford to do anything, it's all a vast hoax, and we shouldn't try.
Anyhow, not the point, the reason for the hand wringing is that what has happened in the last decade was not predicted, not expected and todate can not be explained by the processes and models that were thought to be indicative of this planet's climate.
But if the radiative physics you so rely on shows only that the world will be warmer — but not by how much, then all the doomsday hand - wringing flies out of the window too.
Plenty of hand - wringing, but nothing about professional censure, suspension or expulsion... Simply, the acknowledgment that Gleick resigned, surrounded by plenty of rhetoric.
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