Sentences with phrase «n't move the goal posts»

Don't move the goal posts just because someone pushes against them (unless, of course, YOU have chosen to make a conscious shift).

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Here's a point I made in that post, regarding GDP growth: «the current economy is like a slow runner who still hasn't caught up to a goal line that's moving closer as she runs towards it.»

It's got bent goal posts that have already been moved once and likely won't survive a predicted second move.

I was not trying to move a goal post of any kind, stop making stupid assumptions or projecting your bullshit onto me.

So here I am checking twitter when I notice my good Arsechum Spanish has posted a youtube shortcut with 77 great goals, his favourite being rumoured Arsenal target Yohann Gourcuff's teriffic solo goal for Bordeaux and I'm moved to thinking «wouldn't it be so like Arsene to buy another attacking midfielder when we clearly need a Flamini type terrier».

Last season Firmino scored 7 goals and claimed 10 assists, whilst the season before he scored 16 with 11 assists, so it's clear he needs to be around the box, instead of being deployed out wide, as his performances earlier this season out wide did not show his goalscoring threats, but once he moved into the middle he showed his attacking ability, striking the post twice.

«Even when [Mr Miliband] moves the goal posts he can't put it in the back of the net.»

«The governor moving the goal post doesn't make it any easier for meaningful, comprehensive reform to pass,» said Horner.

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As I said in my last post about the challenge, we're kicking off a month long of daily yoga practice, with a goal of not only getting our bodies moving, but also to help us feel more relaxed and... [Read more...]

In fact, it looks like they've moved the goal posts again for the GTE category and we're now not far from where we were with GT1.

Naughty Dog doesn't seem to miss, and Uncharted has once again moved the goal posts in respect to what video games can achieve through its sublime presentation.

And despite all this data tampering and moving the goal posts, you think it is we who have the problem because we don't just shut up and accept that Hide the Decline was exactly what William Connolley and Wikipedia said it was — much ado about nothing.

(5) «tipping points» — that's an example of you moving the goal posts — I'm not familiar with the IPCC tipping points — show how it relates (I'm politely telling you to «put up»).

If it doesn't, you'll move the goal posts again.

This time the desperation shows: watch how these biologists move the goal - posts, make claims so misleading they border on lies, and pretend they don't have big, big trouble with their predictive models.

The Team have gained the high ground and it is almost impossible for a politician or newspaper to challenge their views, not least because they move the goal posts whenever they are found wanting.

People who accuse me of moving goal posts are not reading my comments very clearly.

assuming what you say about skeptics changing topic as you describe is accurate, and at this point I do we are talking about data that is less than 200 years old, out of which extraordinary claims are made as to how that data relates to distant past and future trends tough sell assuming that all adjustments to the data are scientifically sound, It is very difficult for me to believe that measurements that have gone through so many iterations can be trusted to.0 and.00 in most other sciences, I doubt they would tough sell (the photo of the thermometer is downright funny) in terms of goal post moving I observe predicted heat being re-branded as «missing» a prediction of no snow re-branded as more snow a warming world re-branded to a «warm, cold, we don't know what to expect» world topped off with suggestions that one who thinks the above has some sort of psychological disorder extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence especially when you are teaching children that their world is endangered

It seems the temperature record isn't showing the warming the Met expects and wants, so it's planning to move the goal - posts, as it were, by arbitrarily raising the temperatures for the past decade.

Not the problem here, you, generic, have moved the goal posts, you have taken out actual opposition on the substance of «climate change» which should be the actual physics of the Greenhouse Effect, and now promote your view as the «opposition», and for the most part in discussions supposedly open to discussion, the view of the real «deniers» is written out...

A key element of the BBA's case was that the FSA's principles - based regime allowed it to move the regulatory goal - posts and regulate with the benefit of hindsight; including to require firms to identify and volunteer opportunities to complain to people who had not yet done so.