Sentences with phrase «many lame duck»

Given Cameron's role as a relentless champion for «remain,» even a close vote could force him from power or turn him into a lame duck.

''... the chances of TPP passing this year are not high, and if it is not passed by the end of the lame duck session of Congress, then it probably will not be passed at all — at least, as presently constituted,» wrote analysts at BMI Research.

Not too long ago, the floundering company looked like a lame duck that nobody wanted — or, thanks to government intervention, that nobody could have.

The provisions on TPP are almost certainly moot, as congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle say the deal will not come up for ratification in the lame duck congressional session.

First, the debt ceiling will expire around election time, so the government will face another shutdown and it will be politically brutal to assemble a majority in a lame duck session to raise it by the trillions that will be needed.

But even if Visco stays he risks being a lame duck.

Tis not the Peter Principle but the Lame Duck Principle i.e. the last of the leaders of an establishment founded on myths and embellishments.

And now with such an important lame duck session you realize why we were to endure all that stuff.

The Beer Institute is hoping a so - called «lame duck session» of Congress won't hurt the chances of finally passing the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA), which would lower excise taxes, compliance burdens, and regulations on alcohol makers.

Except it makes a certain amount of sense when you look at the different scenarios of Bud Black's lame duck year.

Head coach Ben McAdoo and GM Jerry Reese appear to be lame ducks for good reason — but OK, benching Eli can't hurt at this point.

Please don't think that by joining a group on Facebook or moaning on twitter we will get change.Its now or never that a lame duck CEO (who can't sack his own employee) and a majority shareholder (who can vote to pay himself # 3mill) and Arsene should give way for passionate people ie....

Holgorsen, 45, was considered a lame duck entering 2016, with a 36 - 28 record over his five seasons in the Big 12, but after a 6 - 1 start, he's back in favor.

Finks would be a lame duck the day he took office.

no one can be that delusional without having Wenger blood run through their veins... this team has already conceded 2 of 3 in August and you believe we can get 45 of a potentially 52 available points before Xmas... no wonder this club can't seem to take it's fan - base seriously, albeit I'm sure your assessment would give the Grinch who stole soccer a quarter chub... anyways, enough talk about the criminally insane with internet access... we have much bigger fish to fry... like what were the real objectives behind the choices made by our lame duck manager on the weekend

Another big problem with Wenger is his blind faith in the same lame ducks, refusing to buy a proper striker because he has Giroud, and that languid French boy by the name of Yaya Sanogo and Theo Walcott.

Smart coached out that Playoff run as a lame duck, just as his successor Jeremy Pruitt did this winter.

He fumbled like three times and three some lame ducks.

Never trust a lame duck for big decisions.

Baseball is back and everything is exactly the way it always has been — except for a glass dome and a lame duck and some rather plump bats

I we didn't have a lame duck dead man walking in SVG then we actually could have had a lot of high draft picks.

The Nats could very well renegotiate a deal before June 15 so that it doesn't include 2018, but it's also possible that Rizzo's team could play him out of a job before that deadline — it's «unlikely» that they let him be a lame duck after June 15.

It's also how lame duck coaching staffs are created.

The Classless Play of the Year Trophy goes — hands down — to lame duck Tampa Bay coach John McKay.

If you think this season has been bad, wait to see how the players respond to the lame duck Wenger next season.

Especially because Wenger's job as stabiliser / placeholder / lame duck is not necessarily a bad thing in the middle of a rebuild.

«I don't know how it is inside other clubs, I can't tell you this, but in Germany we use the same phrase as you do here — a lame duck,» Klopp continued, referring to a term used to describe a manager on the way out of his club.

While many will point to Hiddink's position as a lame duck in the dugout, that can't be to blame.

Often a coach with a limited shelf life becomes a lame duck — but not Heynckes at Bayern.

Once the summer finally arrives and saves us from this lame duck of a season, the club need to take a hard look at the squad and really trim the fat.

That leaves Hiddink as a bit of a lame duck in the dugout, with nothing to push for this season, and no future at the club towards which to build anything.

But can we really expect the Catalan conductor of operations to waddle like a lame duck until May?

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That window of opportunity will close in about 24 months as the terms of these top officials move toward lame duck status.

The House legislation could be taken up in the lame duck session after the mid-term elections, but even that isn't certain.

Thinking about it, maybe it was me who compared him to Adrian Mole and branded him a lame duck... Just candid friendship there, Ed.

Gov. David Paterson this morning insisted this morning that his «lame duck» status has actually «freed» him to make the hard choices necessary to restore New York to fiscal solvency and leave the state on more stable footing for whoever succeeds him in the office.

This lame duck period was necessarily long in order to both ensure time for a transition, and to allow for travel from far flung states to Washington, DC.

David Cameron is set to fend off claims that he is becoming a lame duck prime minister by announcing a raft of new laws to deal with Islamist extremists.

They are adamant that she is broken, and a lame duck and must go now for the good of the Party.

Everything seems up for grabs at present and Brussels is seen as a lame duck.

As the Democrats appear to be slowly losing their grip on the majority (despite their claims to the contrary), Conference Leader John Sampson is reaching across the aisle to his GOP counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, and proposing a post-election spirit of cooperation for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

«People on the Hill kept saying, «The White House doesn't have a strategy» right up through the lame duck session,» Sudbay says.

In the WBEN interview he described himself as «not a lame duck... but a free duck.»

Another consideration for Democrats is that a defeat for Obama would cement his lame duck status.

Did you have a plan for DADT repeal in the «lame duck» session after you lost your Speakership, before the TeaParty took over the House with Boehner at the helm?

«It would be a serious mistake for House Republicans to pass a Continuing Resolution that would ensure that Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats would come back to Washington, after many of them will have likely lost their seats, for a no - holds barred lame duck session where they will be free to pass legislation that the American people will never be able to hold them responsible for,» the Texas Republican said in a statement provided to CQ Roll Call.

We don't know if Paterson can get the legislature back, or if the lame duck senate can pass anything, or if the Payroll Mobility Tax would be exempt from this round of back - door dedicated fund diversions.

But even so, it is the polluted political culture which permeates Birmingham city council — like Blackpool stamped through rock — that has rendered it a lame duck, infamous for the left hand not knowing what the right is doing; but none of this is new or limited to this current Labour leadership.

The $ 315 million midyear budget gap could lead to another transit raid in the $ 20 million range before the year is out, if Governor Paterson convenes a lame duck special session and Albany repeats the same sort of heist it pulled off this fall.