Sentences with phrase «making bold pronouncements»

The «independentiste» Boards have held a vote which failed to give the «desired result», have re-entered (half - hearted) re-negotiations starting from a dream - come - true, eat - their - cake - and - have - it - too position (and never conceding much of anything) and now are making blustery statements on abuse - of - process and historic - neglect by members from the Rest - of - CREA and are making bold pronouncements about «quitting» (again) as apart of a demagogic warm - up to a 2nd one - member - one - vote plebiscite that (with hope) will actually be the final decision.

Willem Dafoe and Ken Watanabe under pounds of latex — made up to look like Vincent Price and Incredible Hulk nemesis The Leader, respectively — standing around, making bold pronouncements with the implied message that they'll have more to do if the powers - that - be greenlight the next instalment.

Cuomo has developed a long track record of making bold promises that he does not keep and, like many politicians, of making bold pronouncements that are less than accurate, but his willingness to attack critics, as he has attacked de Blasio, has generally meant that he has few people criticizing him.

It was the governor's longest State of the State address so far — by about a minute — and, according to Tom Precious, of The Buffalo News, «offered a toned - down plate of major spending ideas,» and «made no bold pronouncements for historic spending initiatives, as Cuomo did last year with promises for record education funding from Albany.»

Not exact matches

To make matters worse, the material in the footnotes often casts doubt on the bold pronouncements made in the text.

These days, Hess seems to be more - obsessed with making «bold» and «contrarian» pronouncements that do little to advance much - needed systemic reform than the rigorous, thoughtful scholarship on education issues that once were his stock and trade.