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.