Sentences with phrase «hand wringing from»

Diane Abbott's appointment called forth a torrent of racist and sexist abuse, but minus the hand wringing from the usual suspects.
New Yorkers deserve more than rhetoric and hand wringing from our elected officials, they need real reforms to respond to what the US attorney has called a «culture of corruption.»

Not exact matches

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.
As the costs of higher education have continued to climb, everyone from parents to policymakers are wringing their hands over student loans.
That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of...
That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.
And if that weren't enough damage, US T - Bonds were hammered down -20 %, the price in free - fall from 82 to 66... as the then President Jimmy Carter was wringing his hands in his feeble foreign policy confusion and desperation in the White House.
Just when you were starting to get used to no bitter fighting, mudslinging or hand - wringing from the White House, here comes the new nominee for Secretary of Defense.
Folks will almost always give celebrities passes and if their fan base is large and rich enough, all the crying and hand wringing will not matter from those who are not his fans.
On the other (wrung) hand, the concept of safety itself depends on, and derives from, one's ethics.
Until this week, that is, when my hands — without permission from my brain — grabbed a container of hummus from the grocery store, paid for it, carried it home, spread it on a (wheat - free) pancake, fed it to my son, and watched, hands wringing.
Aside from a few fringe elements, there appears, despite all the angst and hand - wringing, a sense that we are closer than we have been for at least 8 or 9 years to achieving something.
So while we can wring our hands over all the dropped points from Rudi Garcia's tailspin or during the club's mid-to-late April swoon, third place is probably what Roma deserves.
Parliament itself continues to treat this piecemeal, reacting and wringing its hands in horror when cases such as those of Criado - Perez or Mary Beard hit the headlines - but otherwise focussing on the easy moral panic over porn and doing little to protect women from online violence.
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?
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.
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.
There is much hand - wringing, with recent comments ranging from, «Why make Grandma cry?
Fans of Freaks and Geeks and Silicon Valley will already be aware of Martin Starr's talents as a comedic actor and here he is perfectly cast, wringing every last drop of humor from scenes which might have fallen flat in a lesser actor's hands.
(If Boyle wanted to wring his hands over the state of cinema, he might as well have focused squarely on this, or potentially the recent glut of superhero franchises from Marvel and DC, all of which are easily financially more influential than anything Pixar's made.)
The inner workings of Ben Bradlee's newsroom are a churning, riveting, sometimes mundane series of events that hop from hand - wringing over the tone of coverage for the Nixon wedding to sending an intern to New York to scope out what the Times is working on.
When Georgia announced its decision to drop out of one of two federally funded assessment consortia aligned with the Common Core, it sparked a lot of Twitter hand - wringing about Common Core implementation from Andrew Smarick and Rick Hess, not to mention a Politico article using verbs like «crumbling» and «unraveling.»
And then there's the most recent «plenty of money» comment from Governor Scott's office when asked about the money allocated for increased school safety and security, which clearly has most school district officials hand - wringing over yet another underfunded mandate from our state's capitol.
But while the majority of hand - wringing these past two weeks has been from Democrats wondering how they lost the Midwest, there is another subtext to the election that warrants introspection: The cities and metropolitan regions that voted Democratic are increasingly the major generators of economic value and population in America.
And I thank Acura for this because it was time spent with its second - generation 3.2 TL, produced from 1999 to 2003, when I first discovered this ideal balance — and it came with a significantly lower price point that caused a lot of hand wringing amongst its competition.
Last spring Facebook started hosting stories from the New York Times, BuzzFeed and other publishers directly on its iPhone app — a move that generated much chatter and hand - wringing about the Future of Media.
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-...]
You might also recall the hand - wringing from a few years ago, when Citi mailed some customers 1099 forms listing «miscellaneous income» they received in the form of reward points for opening a bank account.
Despite excitement at the 2010 show over coming titles from Japanese publishers, like Ni no Kuni from Level 5 and The Last Guardian from Sony, Japan's game developers were mainly wringing their hands.
There's been a lot of hand - wringing and second - guessing about Paul Schimmel's departure from LA MoCA but Kelly Crow has the best retrospective quantifying Schimmel's experience and legacy:
This would change the psychology of the climate change issue from one of burden to opportunity, and change the likely outcome from one of hand - wringing about failure to excitement about tangible action to build a better world.»
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.
Viewed from a Pelagian lens, the real danger to be avoided is the temptation to wring our hands fruitlessly while the world burns.
Remember the recent United Nations Climate Summit in New York featuring President Obama and other world leaders collectively wringing their hands over the alleged imminent danger from anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming?
We have argued before that what emerges from the hand - wringing about the few moments of broadcasting that challenge environmentalism is not the exposure of the conspiratorial network of «well - funded denialists that environmentalists and the likes of David King and Bob Ward want us to believe exists.
And the problem of political over-reach on the part of the RICO initiative is equally balanced, IMO, by the hand - wringing and pearl clutching that's emanating from the «skeptics» camp 24/7 since the letter — where «skeptics» seem to me to be trolling for a reason to self - victimize.
I'm not going to hand - wring and pearl - clutch and moan from my fainting couch (I just got a new one, btw) about McKtrick — but I will point out that until folks like Judith and other «skeptics» (and «realists) are less selective in their «outrage,» nothing will change.
For all the concern about the paper, and the rhetoric of the authors (some of which I think is ligit, btw), and the reaction of the authors to the criticism — for all the hand - wringing, pearl clutching, and moaning from fainting couches, what we get in the end from «skeptics» is something like this — a comment I'm borrowing from Climateaudit:
Of course — so lets focus on the meat of the discussion, and not hand - wring and pearl - clutch and moan from fainting couches about «mafia.»
From where I sit, the «conspiracy theory» line — that climate change scientists apparently are so well armed financially they can spearhead such a major and global conspiracy, where as the poor ol Sultan of Omar has to sit weeping on his piles of billions, wringing his hands in impotency — seems a little hilarious.
Looking outward from Hurricane Harvey to the upcoming congressional session, Milbank wrings his hands:
This thread is a Godwin - a-polooza (a quick perusal returns analogies to McCarthy — the most favored — and we are told was a «lightweight» in comparison), Goebbels, Sandinistas, Naz * s, terrorism, Stalinism, Russian and Chinese communists, Lysenkoism, etc., full of pearl - clutching, drama - queening, and hand - wringing from fainting couches about events that apparently not one can even describe in any detail, and only a tiny % has been done by females.
This thread is a Godwin - a-polooza (a quick perusal returns analogies to McCarthy — the most favored — and we are told was a «lightweight» in comparison), Goebbels, Sandinistas, Nazis, terrorism, Stalinism, Russian and Chinese communists, Lysenkoism, etc., full of pearl - clutching, drama - queening, and hand - wringing from fainting couches about events that apparently not one can even describe in any detail, and only a tiny % has been done by females.
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.
BBC News 24 and their highly trained cadre of autocuties, now with absolutely nothing to do following their return from the Inauguration and Ascension of Barack Obama to the Office of The People's President, will now go into an orgy of completely pointless coverage, angst ridden speculation and much wringing of hands.
There has been a big debate regarding the law in this area, and a lot of hand - wringing from the Law Commission, but really, the time has now come to start dealing with this properly.
Marty Douglas: My guess is that 20 years from now we'll be wringing our hands over the similar results from a futuristic gaze into the same old navel.
My guess is that 20 years from now we'll be wringing our hands over the similar results from a futuristic gaze into the same old navel.
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