Sentences with phrase «like rubber stamps»

The Nigeria police is so predictable in terms of setting up innocent persons whose only crime is that they are independent voices from the positions expressed in official quarters inside the presidency which controls the police like rubber stamps.

Every year, the R.G.B., like a rubber stamp, votes to jack up rents, as landlords, following script, complain about rising heating oil costs, property taxes, and other charges.

Sometimes cabinet meetings only lasted 20 minutes - it was like a rubber stamp.

Not exact matches

The people you need to watch out for are the unaccountable senior officials authorizing these unconstitutional programs, and unreliable mechanisms like the secret FISA court, a rubber - stamp authority that approves 99.97 % of government requests (which denied only 11 requests out of 33,900 in 33 years http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spying-opinion-reject-request.

You will need: Posterboard or index cards blank on both sides, scissors, a hole punch, valentines day or heart theme rubber stamps, one or more ink pads, stuff to color with, any other card decorating supplies you'd like, tape, and a bag of Valentines day lolly pops.

City Council, will you rubber stamp a contract renewal for SodexoMAGIC this summer, or would you like to save millions of dollars and provide DC's kids with better food?

Lafferty said while he would like to be a consensus builder, he doesn't plan on being a rubber stamp for the so - called six member board majority bloc.

The administration has since then conducted all manner of public works projects — bridges, buildings, renovations and the like — with nary a word from the legislature other than its rubber stamp on the results.

It was so very interesting to watch, observe and see Senator Greg Ball, a Republican, accomplishing his agenda by including exactly what he wanted into the gun legislation bill, and then — oh, how he played Columbo like a real master, using the Democratic Conference as a rubber stamp!

«What they do recognise is that the UK legislature has a distinct and sometimes different voice from the UK executive and we're not going to behave like some simple rubber - stamping mechanism,» he said.

As a result, the administration has also had to adjust how it operates, knowing the Legislature will not simply rubber - stamp items like it did during the first two years of the County Executive's term.

People still have freedom of speech in this country and criticizing Donnelly's record of rubber stamping things like Obama's failed stimulus, ObamaCare, the Iran deal, taxpayer funded abortion and Obama's gun grabs don't make someone a Senate candidate.

The others are just rubber - stamps — or, like the Women's Equality Party, a single candidate's personally controlled machine — that merely cross-endorse major - party candidates.

Kealoha Pisciotta, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and a plaintiff in the case against the TMT permit, said she believed the board had rubber - stamped the permit, and the decision seemed like a foregone conclusion.

We float the graphene particles on the surface of water, then pick them up with a rubber stamp, a bit like a potato stamp, and lay it on top of the silver nanowire film in whatever pattern we like.

However I did purchase some tiny buttons that I can use on the cards I like to make with rubber stamped doll images.

And the winner is: Louis - Dreyfus won her first SAG Award for «Veep» last year, and, given voters» propensity for rubber - stamping, we like her chances to repeat.

The book's font has a hand - stamped look, and what appear to be rubber - stamped pictures float lightly beneath the text, just like the replicated pages from Jane's childhood journal.

This one, though, does seem like a bit of a stretch, so I can't rubber - stamp it.

Any governmental «science court» would be nothing more than a rubber stamp for the politicians in power, more like a kangaroo court most likely.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean,

When a supermajority of the public wants action on climate, it's worth it for the Kochs to buy the allegiance of candidates who will walk the climate denial line, work to protect fossil fuel subsidies, and rubber stamp pet fossil fuel projects like the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

This looks like a textbook case of rubber stamping...

But this contention, like the contention that the FISC is nothing more than a rubber stamp, is beside the point.

Sam Glover: Yeah, I mean for many people what it looks like is you overcome all of those challenges to get to court to watch the judge quite literally rubber stamp a document that decides what happens to your case.

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