Sentences with phrase «move the goalposts after»
There's a time and place for everything, but my experience working with money managers and asset allocators alike is that these measures are often used to confuse the end investor or move the goalposts after underperformance occurs.
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The Harper government is moving the goalposts to create a playing field that puts the Canadian big three telcos at a distinct disadvantage after spending billions creating that same playing field in wireless infrastructure.
The 25 - year - old is banned for the first three matches of Euro 2012, but after initially intimating that no players involved in Poland and Ukraine would be selected for the Olympics, the FA appear to have moved the goalposts.
He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95, keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.
Never mind: they've just moved the goalposts, insisting their «plan» is working after all.
The proponents of laissez - faire in energy markets keep winning argument after argument, but their critics keep moving the goalposts.
After repeated failures to make a correct projections, the UN-IPCC catastropharians are moving goalposts.
After successfully getting the project slashed by more than 70 percent, and therefore depriving inhabitants of much - needed water, the Sierra Club lawyers moved the goalposts and demanded the project be cut by another 55 percent.
We're particularly disappointed that, after a lengthy consultation process with Transport for London, the goalposts have moved at the last minute and new rules are now being introduced that will be bad for both drivers and tech companies like Uber.»