Sentences with phrase «moved the goalposts when»

Now I know you're the type that likes to move the goalposts when it suits, but when we couldn't find players good enough improve our squad this summer does that not mean our aims should've been League and CL competitiveness?

«For too many years, Nestlé, Mars and Hershey have cherry - picked their [palm oil] targets and then moved the goalposts when they don't achieve them.

-- They will make unreasonable or impossible demands for evidence, move the goalpost when evidence is presented, and refuse entire categories of legitimate scientific evidence.

Not exact matches

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

I've been through the last - minute panic on the night before the deadline, the first leaked news that we had been successful in the evaluation, the lengthy contract negotiations, when I felt the goalposts were being moved by the Commission all the time, to the first AGM when I finally met all the people I had exchanged hundreds of e-mails with.

When moving the goalposts, one should be careful not to score on oneself.

4) moving goalposts — You mean like when Steve Mc examined the «In Press» and «Accepted» citations in IPCC AR4 Second Draft Chapter 6 to verify whether Wahl and Ammann 200x had received unusual and special treatment?

When none of that appeared to be happening, the goalposts were moved over to * stonger *, not more numerous, storms, and maybe * more * snow at times.

[I'd also bet that when it reached 16.5 years a new study will come out challenging Santer et al. and moving the goalpost to 25 + years.]

When you have to ignore so much data to assert we have danger, and when it does nt materialize you move the goalposts you should be back at the drawing board not on a bully pulpit claiming the science is settWhen you have to ignore so much data to assert we have danger, and when it does nt materialize you move the goalposts you should be back at the drawing board not on a bully pulpit claiming the science is settwhen it does nt materialize you move the goalposts you should be back at the drawing board not on a bully pulpit claiming the science is settled.

So, not having done any analyses whatsoever, and having passed on to «others» the «verdict» of «subsequent analyses», she is of the mind to «move the goalposts» such that she can claim no discernible temperature trend, since when?

This moving of goalposts makes it easy to wonder why a borrower would invest time with the program when the rug can be pulled out from underneath them at any moment.

When you're paying $ 300 for truly wireless earbuds, I think the goalposts move significantly relative to AirPods or the many alternatives that sell for under $ 200.