Sentences with phrase «only moving the goalposts»

I love the idea of continually tweaking the chart in response to student growth, not only moving the goalposts but incorporating the progress that has already been made.

And «arguments» about my spelling and my writing is only moving the goalpost.

Not exact matches

The goalposts were moved once the team started winning the FA cup and the fact that last season we not only beat the champions Chelsea in the final, but Man.

Professor Crowley's finding therefore moves the goalposts back at least 60 million years, which, given humans have only been on the planet for around a tenth of that time, is not an insignificant drop in the evolutionary ocean.

Mr Hobby added: «For a significant number of young people and their schools, moving the goalposts in this way will jeopardise not only places at sixth - form college and other arenas of post-16 education but university applications and beyond as well as the schools» status with regard to the government's own benchmark.»

One of the problems is that the goalposts are constantly being moved back and forth from «Skeptics don't deny climate changes, only the attribution,» to «Skeptics don't deny AGW, only the degree to which it is occurring,» even as there is an underlying attack on the very notion that there are any phenomena that can legitimately be attributed to «climate change.»

Unfortunately John, they only play hockey, and fairly poorly with a broken stick and constantly moving goalposts.

I've just witnessed two decades of so - called experts moving the goalposts on the point - of - no - return for saving life on earth, telling us snow and ice in temperate climes would only be seen in history books, and fudging the data to make the past cooler and the present warmer.