Sentences with phrase «of palaver»

It was supposed to be an «OK guys, have fun, don't bother me for an hour or so» exercise, but it turned into a bit of a palaver as I didn't have the right attachment for the hose to hook up to the Slip N Slide.

I have a looooooong history with this sort of palaver.

As for the rest of the palaver that's been organised and spent to make it happen...

Now, don't get me wrong about this; I'd be happy to write until the cows came home about matters of substance relating to the guilt or innocence of the defendant and the liberty interests of a citizen vis a vis the constabulary, but the idea of having to disentangle all of the palaver, nonsense and gobbledygook in the document Mr. Duncan presented to me was not particularly appealing.

They will do all these to pass the time and by the time we are done with this chaotic cycle of palaver, more than 90 per cent of the election time would have been frittered and the election date, close.

Perhaps some right - wing commentators might dispute the presence of this palaver in this particular list.

After all of that palaver, drama and talk, it turns out Red Bull's threats were never serious.

Not exact matches

Although there's not much more than a bunch of pontificating palaver around hyperloop technologies now, the startup companies and their corporate backers do present an compelling vision of the future of transportation.

His well - known cynicism about preaching would have been a worthy antidote to these palavering attempts to justify the ways of God to humanity.

Instead of the ideas about life being better in his own little corner in the Friary, now it was a looking forward to release from all the public palaver and problems.

And I propose that these accomplices do not just reside in atheism or «I'm spiritual but not religious» palaver, but in a weak, sentimental theology held by many of those who regularly attend Sunday Mass and with whom you may be friends.

Luther's primary concern was that the palaver accompanying the offer of indulgences, their mechanical side, and the emphasis laid on them had radically covered over that first essential — sorrow for sin, turning to God, use of the sacrament of confession.

So, the executive and legislature must make a success — and fast — of their ongoing palaver to sort out the mess.

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His body language also shows that boards of agencies due to finances would be selectively constituted.And this means more of ethnic crisis — indigene, settler and none indigene palaver.

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Information reaching the desk of the Ghana Palaver from unimpeachable sources, indicate that controversial Finance Minister and cousin of President Akufo Addo, Ken Ofori Atta, has packaged a juicy contract and given it to a law firm founded by his equally controversial nephew, Asare Otchere Darko, popularly called Gabby.

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The palaver in Kogi, more than anything else, had exposed the illusions of a united and honest political party called APC.

It sounds like a palaver, but Al Moubayed says being able to animate the 3D printed face of a real person lends extra authenticity to the telepresence experience.

One of the more measured responses to the whole palaver was from Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, who defends the idea that dating apps represent the end of intimacy.

As much as the PC can lay claim to some of the biggest AAA blockbusters and sprawling single - player experiences available, it can often be nice to just take a step back from all that epic palaver and get stuck into a quick session of multiplayer goodness with your mates.

But it's also a matter of timing: The show offers strange eruptions of relationship palaver, set in the midst of world - altering sociopolitical changes and the daily churn of building a TV newshour around them.

I agree with drastically cutting down Song of Susannah, but I actually believe that her palaver with Mia is a wonderful idea.

Miguel has had a quieter one, with Star Wars Battlefront, Tekken 7 and Persona 5 filling in the gaps, and between all the E3 palaver, Tef also had a fairly subdued week of gaming.

Meanwhere, where is the usual — and expected — palaver about bilingual education, impact aid, native Alaskans, and all the rest of ESEA?

After much thought, research, and palaver, we've ended up firmly attached to a trinitarian approach to private - school accountability in cases of publicly - supported choice programs.

Teacher union leaders palavering about evil corporations and the rich is a modern - day version of The Emperor's New Clothes.

Has there been a «tonal shift» in what Porter calls the «palaver» from the indie writer sector of the publishing world?

A nice collection of other frequently screwed - up palaver is at Rachelle Gardner's encore post on the topic, Confusing Words.

Her previous publications include personal essays (Gravel, So to Speak, Palaver, Heartland Review West, and Role Reboot); interviews with Geraldine Brooks and Alice Sebold (Weber: The Contemporary West); a cultural analysis of anthropologist Gladys Reichard's fieldwork with -LSB-...]

[6] Baen's electronic strategy is explained exhaustively in a series of «letters» or «essays» called The Prime Palaver by Baen Free Library «First Librarian» Eric Flint, but in a nutshell, emphasizes distribution of unencrypted digital versions of its works free of Digital Rights Management copy protection schemes through Baen Ebooks (formerly Webscriptions, which was not formally part of Baen Books, but in effect an independent e-publisher).

Here is a sneak peek of our email palavers.

If I were a different sort of cat, I might spout some palaver about purity of body, mind and spirit.

The first update for Sea of Thieves has caused a right palaver, it seems.

As long as I'm in palaver mode... Link with some basic info on the Priceline issue, though I honestly have no idea whether they still work this way: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Articles/TheStandard/priceline.html One company that's trying to do searchable travel aggregates, though as far as I can tell the airlines (only thing I tried) are throwing in a lot of FUD: http://www.kayak.com/ I know a lot of people in the restaurant biz and a few in the hotel / B + B biz, and unfortunately very few of them intuitively «get» the advantage of the kind of search Doc wants.

His installations all tend to feature a lot of decorative palaver and remain somehow inaccessible.

Ultimately, this whole palaver — is all about politics and nothing whatsoever to do with pure science, the futility of arguing the toss with post normal modernists is an circumambagious wander into a pointless and endless disputation.

If this particular Council of Elrond speaks only to yet another round of «blame the lawyers and tell them to solve a problem that's only partially of their making» (which is how they usually go, because nobody has the backbone to take on the court administration or judges) then I'd just as soon that nobody's time be wasted with such a palaver.

Or is like the multitude of seminars and lectures on ethics, just grinding out the same old and worn - out palaver to deaf ears?

And the thought of going through that whole palaver every day, just to get high, wasn't a pleasant one.

This is the table before all the palaver of painting and waxing etc..