Sentences with phrase «only lame duck»

So only lame duck presidents use executive orders?

He is correct to force the legislature to do something, a rare moment of leadership that only a lame duck can get away with.

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It's the fans that keep sacrificing because this team can't get their head out of their own ass... please give me some examples when a top club ever let their best player leave for free at the end of a season... Wenger needs to go to PSG and get some money and talent for Sanchez so that we can end this nonsense once and for all... then he needs to publicly apologize for the way in which they handled the whole situation... if they allow Sanchez to go for free there is no way this club, under the tutelage of Kroenke and Wenger, will ever layout the necessary coin to replace such a talented player, especially considering that Wenger will be a lame - duck manager once again in the final year of his contract and we know how well that went last year... open your eyes people, Wenger has spoken publicly about how he hopes that the next manager can take this club to the next level... WHAT?!?... he then went on to speak about leaving them in the perfect position to be successful, which is one of the reasons why several pundits felt Wenger would leave after last season based on the financials and the fact that so many players had only one year left on their respective contracts... who says this shit??? If you believe you're leaving things in the best possible shape for your potential successor to achieve greatness it raises a couple of serious questions: Why can't you take things to the next level if everything is as great as you say?

One, Obama was in the lame - duck period of his presidency and giving him reason to pause might benefit Putin and Two, that was only 2 weeks after the first primaries.

Pay raises are usually the stuff of lame duck sessions because sitting lawmakers can only give a raise to their successor crop.

In its final session Tuesday, the lame - duck City Council is poised to pass a slew of last - minute bills that have received only scant public review.

Another prominent Republican put it this way: «Ed Cox has been a disaster for the party, and if he fails, as I expect he will, to deliver for Levy, New York will not only have a lame - duck governor, it'll have a lame - duck GOP chairman.»

Jenkins - Cox is not the only lame - duck city lawmaker to stop coming to work; Councilman Lester Freeman of the 2nd Ward, which includes the South End, hasn't been to a meeting since he lost the primary to Vivian Kornegay.

In bringing Lincoln back down to earth by examining the practical details of his fight to gain enough votes to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States through a lame duck session of Congress and to champion it within a divided Republican Party, Lincoln finds a more subdued sense of reverence for him — not only for what he accomplished but also how he went about accomplishing it.

Florida's court has a Democratic majority, whereas Ohio's contained only one Democrat — a lame duck who protested that the charter law produces «a hodgepodge of uncommon schools financed by the state.»