Sentences with phrase «of goalpost»

«The probe won't end in anything, there is only going to be shifting of the goalpost...,» he said on Peace FM's Krokrokoo on Wednesday.
Vernon Davis» third quarter touchdown against the Green Bay Packers was nice, but it was overruled by his dunk attempt of the goalpost?
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.
What I'm not into is the unsubtle shifting of the goalposts; the snaky language and gaslighting that comes with The Real Home Run Record.
Deprived of goalposts, the Tigers tried to run for the conversion.
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.
Thanks to his pace and dribbling he can do a job out wide in a wing role, but he has thus far done his damage inbetween the width of the goalposts.
If we ever conclusively prove climate change is human - caused, expect another shift of the goalposts.
There was no general election this year, but plenty of shifting of the goalposts.
Most of the goalposts were of a mobile design, according to the CDC.
It is time for a new approach — not a shifting of the goalposts, but an attempt to tackle the goal from a different angle.
This moving of goalposts makes it easy to wonder why a borrower would invest time with the program when the rug can be pulled out from underneath them at any moment.

Not exact matches

In their attempts to deflect criticism by redefining the problem or moving the goalposts, Facebook and Google risk discouraging young women and people of color from having ambitions of working for tech.
The reason why the numbers are so different when you change the goalposts is because Emerging Markets lost 65 % of their value during the Great Recession and never fully recovered.
The reason why the numbers are so different when you change the goalposts is because Cisco lost 90 % of its value from March 2000 through October 2002.
The reason why the numbers are so different when you change the goalposts is because from 1970 - 1989, Japanese stocks rocketed 6067 %, and then fell 60 % from the end of 1989 through the spring of 2003
The concept is billed as a sharding project that developers can work on without wondering whether the ongoing shifting of the sharding goalposts will later render their contributions useless.
The venture business runs between the goalposts of greed and fear.
And so, after a long afternoon's journey into night, butting our heads against first one goalpost, then the other, we had to admit that the opponent wanted the game more than we did, that in fact they had more guts, and as the sensible team we were, we began to take ourselves out of the chaotic field «with honor.»
He gave her a set of golf clubs when they were married a month or so ago, and she gave him a regulation - size football goalpost for the backyard.
Tied 1 - 1, Valencia caught the the ball which had deflected off the head of Demichelis to gain a clean path between him and the goalpost — an opportunity he promptly took and to great effect.
It's Football speak, like: it's a game of two halves (as recently used by AW), «we gave 110 %» & jumpers for goalposts (maybe not this one).
Our untimely change (which I can't say I agreed with) brought a run of pressure on our very own defence, and we ended up being saved by the goalpost with just over 20 minutes to play, and this game is getting very nervy, although I still had that feeling we would scrape through the match with all three points...
One can argue that Chelsea's best goalkeeper was the «Norwich header» — nearly three of which sailed over the goalpost without Courtois needing to lift a finger.
Allen is the Viking gnat who habitually flutters into the way of opposing placekickers and makes the football ricochet someplace other than between the goalposts.
App State, as it's known in conference, play in picturesque, inhospitable, 16,500 - seat Kid Brewer Stadium, a.k.a. the Rock, where students tore down the goalposts last Saturday night, then deposited one of them on the front lawn of chancellor Kenneth Peacock.
«Unfortunately, despite the new owners fulfilling all the requirements of the Football League and the creditors, and agreeing and signing up to the required terms of the purchase of the club, at the 11th hour the goalposts have been moved by Mr Gaydamak and this has now made the deal impossible to complete.
The 25 - year - old is banned for the first three matches of Euro 2012, but after initially intimating that no players involved in Poland and Ukraine would be selected for the Olympics, the FA appear to have moved the goalposts.
We've been cruising on the credit card of promise and the moving goalpost of various future assets for a few years now.
A player of your undoubted calibre doesn't want to use jumpers for goalposts or play on a second - rate paddock; that is why you need to search out your nearest Goals football facility this January.
The goalposts are certainly flexible when it comes to the terms of unlawful pursuits of players, with a number of big clubs given huge leeway when it comes to talking about rival clubs stars, and Arsene Wenger is one to claim victim of such offences.
There was a famous TV shot of Davis signing Alworth to a contract under the goalposts after the 1962 Sugar Bowl, with NFL scouts gnashing their teeth in the background.
There is a thump reminiscent of a nightstick on arioter's noggin, and, startlingly, the ball is aloft — the first touch of beautyin the whole ugly day — spinning back on itself with the busy geometrical actionof a satellite in orbit as it arches toward the goalpost.
18 - year - old Australian goalkeeper Stefan Petrovski died after lightning struck goalposts at the training ground of Malaysian club Melaka United in April, 2016.
«As with folded arms I leant against the left goalpost, I enjoyed the luxury of closing my eyes, and thus I would listen to my heart knocking and feel the blind drizzle on my face, and hear in the distance the broken sounds of the game, and think of myself as of a fabulous exotic being in an English footballer's disguise composing my verse in a tongue nobody understood about a remote country nobody knew.
Back in the days of jumpers for goalposts, the owner - investor model was how pretty much every single club in England was run.
In my review of the Premier League season, I wrote about how Leicester City's fairytale title triumph has moved the goalposts in English football.
Thus a straight swap between the two clubs sees Gabriel to Sardinia where he'll get increased playing time, while Storari will defend Milan's goalposts as a deputy to Gianluigi Donnarumma despite rumours that had him transfer to Genoa, in the wake of Mattia Perin's season - ending injury this past weekend.
Less than a third of all reported ACL injuries involve contact from an outside force such as an opposing player, goalpost or another object on the field / court.
Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.
With Ike I didn't bother with the goalposts at all, but that's the luxury of experience — I know it would suck at first, then suck less, and then be worth it in the end.
But over the past decade or so more impressive - seeming results have gone along with radical and non-transparent redefinitions of who or what counts as «administration,» so that it has become effectively impossible to distinguish the effect of moving the goalposts from the quality of management.
Mike Atherton seems have developed into a proper columnist and sports writer, and while his column may the type of wise after the event piece you have in mind and are warning about, I think it was well judged and that the centre - left doesn't need to go into «jumpers for goalposts» nostalgia to strongly agree with this.
Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.
Syracuse's Director of Planning and Sustainability Andrew Maxwell accused the Syracuse Common Council Monday of «moving the goalposts» on enacting the city's 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which would be a guide to future zoning and land - use policies in the city.
Shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve appeared to agree with Mr Straw, saying «perhaps the goalposts must be moved in the case of parliamentary privilege, which is little understood outside the House».
The Conference in Manchester heard that the introduction of a new grading system will move the goalposts on what is considered to be a «good» pass, with negative consequences for pupils and teachers.
Nominations have been moved to the end of July, why, we have already nominated for the NPF etc, at the 10th June deadline, who moved the goalposts?
When 62 % of Scots voted Remain in the EU referendum as the UK voted Brexit, it undoubtedly shifted the political goalposts.
Britain accused of trying to «move the goalposts and do away with the referee» in Brexit negotiations
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