Sentences with phrase «kerfuffles in»

About a month ago, I advanced the hypothesis that Americans had seen too many of these kerfuffles in recent years to take the latest one seriously.

i have to BOIL them on the stove??! do you think i don't have enough to occupy my time, medela, with a small baby to look after??!!) and just couldn't bear the kerfuffle in the end.

Credit derivatives caused a minor kerfuffle in the markets in late 2008.

The kerfuffle in Russia and less enlightened corners of Alabama about a gay subtext to LeFou and Gaston's relationship is so absurd it hardly deserves mentioning: LeFou's man - crush is played for laughs, and earns them, and in any case - so what?

For those up for a multi-character kerfuffle in the bone - crunchingly popular Final Fantasy franchise, Square Enix has released a new trailer for...

I needed the slide today and was amazed there wasn't a big kerfuffle in the media about this.

Meanwhile there is a huge kerfuffle in Australia over the question of the culpability of climate change in increased bush fires.

Sure, «made with fresh and regional crane fly larvae and red - legged grasshopper» may not have the same ad appeal, but isn't service to the spin machine what got us into this food kerfuffle in the first place?

Interesting in light of the kerfuffle in England over the government's hiring of a management consultancy to, in the words of the Guardian, «enforce radical economies on HM Courts and Tribunals Service.»

Not exact matches

The tragedy of the recent Subway kerfuffle, in which a photo of an Australian diner's shorter - than - promised sandwich sparked a class - action lawsuit in New Jersey, is that it could besmirch the good name of sandwich merchants everywhere.

But here's the rub: These kerfuffles are precisely the sort of flashpoint that culminates in new regulation — regulation that applies to all businesses, not just titans like Facebook.

Perhaps the kerfuffle at University of South China is emblematic of the reason why postsecondary education in the United States — despite all its administrative shortcomings and financial crises and political mayhem — has yet to lose its spark.

A recent online kerfuffle underscores the power in harnessing the passion of a community.

The kerfuffle started when the chain tweeted about its commitment to using fresh beef in its patties last week.

The real issue at stake in Kentucky's religious liberty kerfuffle is not discrimination, but belief — a belief that will not bow to sexual progressivism.

I don't see why any of this should raise any sort of kerfuffle — he was a man just like any other in the manner of his living conditions, etc..

For now I'm ready to move on from this kerfuffle and work instead on building better frameworks for discussing masculinity, femininity, gender, and sexuality in the Church.

Here is an article about Trump voters in Johnstown, PA... written during the height of the NFL player protest kerfuffle.

I love the term beta marriage and wished we had used it in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels — a reminder that, yes, I am too old to have beta be the first thing that comes to mind when I think of what's new and uncharted — instead of using the name that caused a similar kerfuffle a decade or so ago, a starter marriage.

I have been following the kerfuffle over Susan Patton's letter in the Daily Princetonian, in which the former Princeton grad and mom to two Princeton - educated sons advises Princeton women to nab a hubby on campus before they graduate:

We love the term beta marriage and wish we had used it in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels instead of using the name that caused a similar kerfuffle a decade or so ago, a starter marriage.

Now, parents jump in to to solve the playground kerfuffle, spot with eagle eyes the dangers of tall trees and steep hills, and fail to let kids have any independence for fear they will be abducted or hit by a car.

I jumped over here from 100 days of real food and the kerfuffle about junk in the classroom.

For months, the campaign has been unhappy, and at times embarrassed, by the antics of Republicans in the House ranging from the kerfuffle over lawmakers skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee to Rep. Todd Akin's incendiary comments about «legitimate rape.»

The mayor rubbed more famous elbows last night at Macy's in Queens, where he attended Fashion's Night Out alongside Anna Wintour, Diane Von Furstenburg, and Kate Hudson, but to be fair, you could hardly go into any store without running into a celebrity last night: Mary - Kate Olsen was bartending at Bergdorf Goodman, Justin Timberlake drew swarms of tweens at Saks, Rihanna caused a kerfuffle at Intermix, and Lindsay Lohan was at Ungaro — where the accused coat thief plucked a leather jacket off the rack and wore it out of the store.

The kerfuffle caused by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs» acknowledgment that there are enough seats in play to flip control of the House this fall has eclipsed another interesting political debate: Could Republicans win the Senate majority too?

A case in point was the recent kerfuffle over Nigel Farage's possible candidacy for the disgraced MP Patrick Mercer's newly vacated seat.

This 100 % in line with anything so far known about Trump, and definitely not an earth shattering revelation about his character or tactics (remember the kerfuffle about GOP nomination acceptance vs. 3d party run if he loses the primaries?).

In one sense, the kerfuffle is trivial: another tilt at the Coalition by Liberal Democrat backwoodsmen.

The kerfuffle over neuroscience is just the latest chapter in a long - running saga.

In all of the kerfuffle, the film that isn't getting mentioned at all is the black sheep of the «trilogy».

These produced stories including wartime black humor in Iraq, musical diplomacy by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, a kerfuffle over the plumbing in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Pakistani artists» struggle with religious extremism in Lahore, and the Syrian civil war's spillover into neighboring Lebanon.

Hardcore Ab Fab fans are unlikely to be deterred in the slightest by the kerfuffle.

The recent kerfuffle over the Han Solo movie was the best evidence yet for Disney's insistence on adherence to a wider brand, as the celebrated directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (who made 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie, among others) were dismissed over «deep fundamental philosophical differences» in filmmaking that reportedly centered on their comedic, improvisational tone.

In all the James Bond and Star Wars kerfuffle this weekend, we missed the second, more spoiler - heavy trailer for Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming 70 mm Western.

That entire Big Shell kerfuffle and the ensuing mission in Arsenal Gear?

Now, this entry may be a controversial choice due to the whole ending kerfuffle, but when 99 % of the journey is fantastic, that last percent being bad shouldn't ruin the whole thing, even if it is the ending - plus the free DLC which expanded and slightly changed the vanilla ending is satisfactory in my opinion.

In a case of a little mistake turning into a major kerfuffle, the Chicago Public Schools system was left apologizing to families for sending an...

Last week, new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stirred up a kerfuffle when, after a visit to Washington DC's Jefferson Middle School Academy, she said that the teachers seemed to be in «receive mode.»

So, if only to avoid the charge that I wrote them with an eye to today's kerfuffle, I'll share a few thoughts from a commentary I penned for Education Week fourteen years ago, back in 2003.

In the example below, we linked the cupcake image to page 3: «Cupcake kerfuffle.»

It's worth stepping back from this kerfuffle to wonder why the president making a speech to the nation's school children while they are in school is such a big deal.

In the latest kerfuffle, the district's school report card included a measure of early literacy that many say is based on an unreliable measure that artificially inflates school performance ratings.

Meanwhile, on another front, there is a great kerfuffle over teachers involved in inappropriate relationships with students.

The events have also been complicated by the fact de Blasio has let charter schools grow and operate virtually untouched by the administration since his kerfuffle with Moskowitz in early 2014.

BangShift.com's Bryan McTaggart provided a followup of his Ford vs. Ram tow rating kerfuffle with a second story about Ford vs. Chevy for the right to claim which manufacturer actually provides the highest tow rating in America.

Some could view the Mitsubishi brand as a problem child, being stuck in a kerfuffle as it tries to shift its lineup to meet the overwhelming demand for crossovers and SUVs.

I've read countless blogs and articles on the latest Hachette / Amazon kerfuffle, with more hyperbole and tortured rhetoric in both directions than a Chicago election.

Welcome to round two in the Hachette vs. Amazon kerfuffle.

There was a minor online kerfuffle over one librarian describing as a «design flaw» the absence of a glossary for Isabel Quintero's brilliant Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014), which makes extensive use of Spanish without italics or insta - translations.