Sentences with phrase «obstructionists when»

We Americans have garnered ourselves quite a little reputation as foot - dragging obstructionists when it comes to global warming; the arctic is melting, our crops are drying out, the problem is staring us in the face, the rational world is moving to act, and our politicians and pundits blather on about sunspots and debunked conspiracy theories.

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Yet at the same time, it is his Health Department that was conspicuously unhelpful, even obstructionist, when residents all but begged for help during the early going of the crisis.

Parent groups get annoyed when the principal seems to be an obstructionist of good ideas, and principals get frustrated when their parent groups want every change to happen yesterday or when their parent groups don't remember the 178 other priorities — like faculty and test scores and swine flu and the curriculum and leaky faucets — that a principal also must face.

Blaming the previous administration's conduct and policies for the present mess is a staple when one party takes the mantel of power, at least for the short term, until the party in power, for a term or two becomes the perceived obstructionists to progress.

When they pulled the U.S. out of Kyoto, they went out of their way to assert — in sanctimonious tones that were believed by none — that the U.S. would refrain from obstructionist behavior.

[Sorry, McIntyre published a trivial paper that, by force of necessity, has been trumpeted by dishonest obstructionists like Watts as overturning all of climate science (i.e. «The Hockey Stick») when it did no such thing.

Evidently when Canada's environment minister was being a complete obstructionist jerk in Bali, Al Gore called the country out with a pointed hockey analogy that is not quite Bob Dylan's «You don't have to be a weatherman to know

Official Ottawa has become more obstructionist in responding to requests and this attitude has spread throughout government officialdom with a few notable exceptions; however the federal government retains the top specialization in constructing information roadblocks, «Federal institutions received lower grades than their provincial and municipal counterparts...» When requests are deemed acceptable, excessive amounts of money are being charged, who knew photocopying was such an expensive proposition?