Sentences with phrase «mere window dressing»

It has no purpose whatsoever, other than serving as mere window dressing.

«However, the use of new technology to facilitate communication between a background screening firm and employer is, in fact, mere window dressing that is now old hat and secondary to what is the most critical to employers — that the background screening technology should be optimized to ensure accuracy and compliance,» says Rosen, a frequent speaker on background check and due diligence issues who founded ESR in the San Francisco, California area back in 1997.

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The PPE output is mere window dressing designed to make this fit somehow more plausible, or to emphasize that it COULD warm as much as 6 C — if there were no negative feedbacks in the system and all of the dice used in the model came up boxcars a hundred times in a row.

Just Cause 2 (Avalanche Studios, Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC) One of the first games to elevate explosions into an in - game currency from mere window dressing, Just Cause 2's National Geographic photo - spread of a world is one of the year's most enjoyable to visit both as a tourist and as a terrorist.

Sex Crimes: Then and Now shreds the myths about sex crime prosecution in America, revealing that the passage of time and a different locale are mere window dressing for horrors America has yet to face.

These things are mere window dressing on a conventional true - life drama, a film that only comes to life when it touches on the personality behind the struggle or when it allows Redmayne to take over the screen.

And she isn't mere window dressing — Valkyrie has her own emotional labor to do.

Presumably, the filmmakers made an effort to portray a passel of kick - ass femmes fatales, but it felt like mere window dressing.

And she claimed that «international development for David Cameron is mere window dressing».

From this perspective, Protestantism and Catholicism amount to mere window dressing on the American abyss» a criticism that would be sharply offensive were it not sometimes true.

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You're more likely to be seen as a brainless bimbo or mere «window dressing», an accusation Caroline Flint MP once made against the Gord when he was prime minister.

One of the words Brown uses most often in private to describe the Tory leader is «libertarian»: a word that conveys his belief that Cameron's «compassionate conservatism» is mere window - dressing, but also hints at a decadent strain of Tory libertinage, drug - taking and yacht - fondling.

Everything, even Alec Baldwin's tight and itchy turn as a CIA buzzkill, is mere window - dressing to Cruise's attempts to kill himself on - screen.

He also got the strong impression that his presence at the PARCC review session was mere «window dressing» so Common Core officials could truthfully claim that classroom teachers had input in the test's design.