Sentences with phrase «of a shell game»

It's this sort of shell game the providers are warning will kill them if it's repeated.

It's a bit of a shell game, if you will, but its been working.

Live, it all translates to somewhat of a shell game, with musicians shuffling instruments between songs and making constant trips from the venue bar to the backstage area, where they await their turn to provide a few notes to frenzy.

Whether it's offsets from no - till farming that would have happened anyway from the Chicago Climate Exchange or offsets from hydropower dams in China that would have been built anyway under the terms of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, it's all a bit of a shell game at present.

The saddest part of it all, for me as a Christian, is that they make a connection with Christian publishing in the middle of this shell game.

One popular choice is a version of the shell game in which your son will hide a treat under one of three overturned plastic cups.

«It's the equivalent of a shell game — they said look, we're now existing in the U.S., which forced the Canadian plaintiffs whose rights were being infringed, to seek an order that also applied to the U.S. and elsewhere,» says Brechtel.

This kind of shell game of «natural persons,» «juridical persons,» «incorporated legal persons,» and so on, is used frequently by people who want to convince you that they have found a magic loophole in the legal system that means that you are not subject to government control unless you affirmatively take certain steps, or that you can escape the jurisdiction of the country you live in by taking certain steps.