Sentences with phrase «n't move the goalposts»

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.

so don't move the goalposts.

At seven seconds or so, its 0 - 60 time doesn't move the goalposts in this class, nor does handling or braking; this is a solid car that does everything reasonably well and offers an outstanding sound system, Bluetooth, large display screen and easy - to - use controls.

Don't move the goalposts.

Not exact matches

We spend time optimising what is held in SIPPs, ISAs and outside tax shelters, make sure we use our CGT allowances (and try not to go over), then along comes inheritance tax, or a chancellor moves the goalposts.

My goalposts are firmly planted and have not moved.

it's not «moving the goalposts» to appeal to the ORIGINAL definition.

The goalposts were moved once the team started winning the FA cup and the fact that last season we not only beat the champions Chelsea in the final, but Man.

No moving of goalposts by me, ready for the change and just enjoying what our club has achieved, wanting more, but not dismissing what we have achieved.

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.

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.

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?

«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.

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.

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And Other Tips from a Beleaguered Father (Not That Any of Them Work) is an owner's manual for anyone who If you're in the dating game you need to know that the goalposts have moved.

Scenes like these ask you so suspend disbelief and not question plausibility in a world that has already laid down the rules, but then ultimately moving the goalposts to suit.

Owen Hathway, policy officer with the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Cymru, said it was «simply unacceptable to move the goalposts for boundary grades half way through the process, especially having not given any prior warning to teachers and pupils».

Mr Hobby added: «For a significant number of young people and their schools, moving the goalposts in this way will jeopardise not only places at sixth - form college and other arenas of post-16 education but university applications and beyond as well as the schools» status with regard to the government's own benchmark.»

I'm not well - versed enough in the details of this technical fix to vouch for its merits and efficacy, but the authors don't even mention the issue, favoring the dismissive rhetoric «moving the goalposts.»

I love the idea of continually tweaking the chart in response to student growth, not only moving the goalposts but incorporating the progress that has already been made.

The main fly in the ointment seems to be Facebook; looking at ads, FB appear to have drastically moved the goalposts, so one can not get any kind of reach doing a low budget $ 5 - 10 campaign any more..

I don't give a rip about NYT anymore, now that I know it's all rigged and they move the goalposts all the time to keep the unwanteds off of it.

In fact, let's not allow the goalposts to move here — there's still no CPR release from US Oil, so shareholders have been operating all along in a pretty ridiculous information vacuum.

you keep moving that particular goalpost, yet you've not provided a single ounce of proof to support that claim.

Jacques has worked across many different titles, consoles and console generations, allowing him a broad perspective: «Every console generation [sees] the goalposts move a bit... although where we are now, they don't move too much for music — more so for sound designers, especially with VR and AR etc..

«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.

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

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.»

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.

rishrac, please note that the wizards behind the curtain have moved the goalposts once again; It is now AGW, not CAGW.

Instead of acknowledging their hypothesis was wrong because their predictions were wrong and the evidence didn't match their claims the IPCC moved the goalposts from global warming to climate change.

If you disagree with me, you're moving the goalposts expecting me to have to refine my idea so that I don't do a quick half roll into the ground upon takeoff.

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.

We fully anticipate that some climate contrarians will move the goalposts by saying «we don't dispute that humans cause some global warming.»

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?

It was not I but the climate - extremist who analyzed the wrong dataset who had moved the goalposts.

They do not just read blogs and keep moving the goalposts.

It doesn't matter; non-AGW scientists are «proving a negative» since they indulged AGW without requiring proponents prove it as an alternative hypothesis by standard methods, and so now they attribute EVERYTHING to global warming — that's why now they call it «Climate Change,» i.e. since now they claim that hot and cold are caused by human pollution; i.e. they keep moving the goalposts so that everything's a touchdown.

The phrase «carbon pollution» is another goalpost move and means he won't stop because it is fundamental to his goals of undermining the US economy, expanding government control and redistributing wealth.