Sentences with phrase «much rubber stamping»

«I think she's pretty much a rubber stamp for a lot that he does, so that will certainly be an issue,» she said.

Kevin Keating, Mangano's attorney, whose opening argument ran two minutes shy of an hour, took pains to tease out the difference between town and county operations — at one point saying that in Oyster Bay the town board «was pretty much a rubber stamp.»

Not exact matches

The 12 - day meeting of China's rubber - stamp parliament does not do much legislative business and rarely produces surprises.

Far from ending «Labour's» scheme, the chancellor has rubber - stamped new expenditure of # 750m this Parliament on the HS2 project, much of it being spent on consultants and the PR roadshow accompanying the government's consultation.

This initially didn't much matter to the Cuomo camp, which thought it had a rubber - stamp lock on the party designation because of support from the unions, traditionally the party's core.

Banks are much more careful after the 2008 housing crisis, when it was more of a rubber - stamp operation.

Most outside directors seem too busy, and too friendly with top managements, to be much more than rubber stamps.

And in 2011 they got a rubber - stamped place in art history when Penguin books included them in much talked - about anthology 100 Artists» Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists.

Best known for his pipe cleaner constructions and immersive, heavily patterned installations that borrow as much from DIY design as they do the history of modern art, the New York artist Lucky DeBellevue has a penchant for humble materials that extends to the rubber stamps, wood veneer, and pistachio shells of his more recent work.

Under it, Ottawa will play a much smaller role in protecting people from harmful projects, while retaining the right to basically rubber - stamp big projects that powerful oil interests want.

I know I'm a year late to this thread, but I tried this with rubber stamps instead of printing, and it came out beautifully — I even managed to do some light embossing on my pages (though they were too thin to really hold up to much).