Sentences with phrase «moving the goalposts on»

We said whatever equipment you are currently racing with, we'll make sure you have an appropriate runway where your «stuff» will be viable and competitive... and we won't move the goalposts on you.

«You can't keep moving the goalposts on hard - working people you need to get to work, who need answers, deserve deadlines that the MTA can actually accomplish,» said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.

The Conference in Manchester heard that the introduction of a new grading system will move the goalposts on what is considered to be a «good» pass, with negative consequences for pupils and teachers.

Osborn also implies that I should have raised the inadequacy of their data in previous criticisms and that this is moving the goalposts on them.

Deniers will also move the goalposts on the definition of a «specific policy».

, Ross McKitrick continues to try to move the goalposts on climate action with a misleading argument about global climate models, while harping on the tired old «warming pause» meme.

I've just witnessed two decades of so - called experts moving the goalposts on the point - of - no - return for saving life on earth, telling us snow and ice in temperate climes would only be seen in history books, and fudging the data to make the past cooler and the present warmer.

And indeed it was a successful year — comprehensive income of $ 18.7 million puts us on solid ground in an environment where the regulators keep moving the goalposts on how they define solvency for insurance companies.

Vendors are somewhat experts at moving the goalposts on understanding how they monetize their delivery of electronic discovery.

Not exact matches

A striker that can't run, can't dribble, can't head, on the up side he does have a great shot if they start moving the goalposts to row Z.

We've been cruising on the credit card of promise and the moving goalpost of various future assets for a few years now.

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.

In his post-referendum speech in Dalgety Bay in Fife on Saturday, he moved the goalposts again.

Syracuse's Director of Planning and Sustainability Andrew Maxwell accused the Syracuse Common Council Monday of «moving the goalposts» on enacting the city's 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which would be a guide to future zoning and land - use policies in the city.

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.

Professor Crowley's finding therefore moves the goalposts back at least 60 million years, which, given humans have only been on the planet for around a tenth of that time, is not an insignificant drop in the evolutionary ocean.

Simply because everytime you reach a goalpost you move the success threshold a little further on and so your happiness gets pushed further away and over your horizon.

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

You then moved the goalposts to distinguish between some advocacy and others, on the basis of a subjective determination of what equals responsible advocacy.

With the administration now claiming that Dakota Access» already - completed environmental review must start again from square one, a move - the - goalposts campaign is plain for all to see — and with it an assault on basic fairness that could have dire consequences for our country for years to come.

One of the problems is that the goalposts are constantly being moved back and forth from «Skeptics don't deny climate changes, only the attribution,» to «Skeptics don't deny AGW, only the degree to which it is occurring,» even as there is an underlying attack on the very notion that there are any phenomena that can legitimately be attributed to «climate change.»

On the other hand you are moving the goalposts from «look!

In this fashion, EPA «moved the goalposts» on Texas.

The goalpost moving that is so painfully evident in AR5 («ok, maybe it won't warm so much in the text decade or two as we said in AR4») would be funny if it were not so sad a commentary on the IPCC process.

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 settled.

Rather than acknowlege that M&W were not wrong on this point, you have moved the goalposts to criticize M&W on new grounds.

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?

As the argument degenerates on my side due to my increasing frustration at the ludicrous resistance I'm receiving from the RC person, they will refine their argument, move goalposts, argue over the precision and accuracy of my forecast, yabba on about how all orbital models of the inner solar system are wrong due to GIGO (which is rather ironic), and so forth.