Sentences with phrase «motion train wreck of»

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The slow - motion train wreck began with an obscure Tax Court of Canada ruling in 2003, in which the judge sided with insurer State Farm against the Canada Revenue Agency.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

The film lingers on the consequences of celebrity and fame, and the cruelty of the public eye — but does so in its own voyeuristic way that feels like watching a train wreck for a second time, in slow motion, and with commentary.

In pushing his waiver initiative — which, Department of Education spokesperson Sara Gast said, is not yet finalized — he described the current state of NCLB as a «slow - motion train wreck.»

Three weeks ago, Duncan told reporters that his office is seeking to develop a «plan B» for saving schools from what he called the impending «slow - motion train wreck» of NCLB.

On Monday, the Obama administration said it would use waivers to provide regulatory relief to states, confirming an earlier plan that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan first mentioned in June in light of what he called a «slow - motion train wreck» created by the law.

Because of that delay, Duncan has said he wants to find a «Plan B» to stop the «slow - motion train wreck» of NCLB by waiving some of the requirements for individual states in exchange for a commitment to a «basket» of accountability - focused reforms.

It has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion after having had a sip of Scalosian water.

This is an industry grappling with potentially gigantic changes that may be forced on it by technological advances, and as someone who works in both the journalism and technology fields, I get the feeling that I've seen some version of this same slow - motion train wreck before.

Lots of images: Russian roulette, elephant in the living room that everyone is ignoring, 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody is paying attention to, canary in the coal mine (Arctic ice melting rapidly year by year now), a train wreck in slow motion, the list goes on and on.

As a mostly disinterested observer — a little hope is better than a certainty of a slow - motion train wreck.