Sentences with phrase «opening gambit in»

Those truths of the historic situations regarding CFCs and the ozone hole, tobacco and cancers, and sulfur and nitrogen emissions and acid rain bear repeating over and over in contact with the media as an opening gambit in countering the usual septic memes.

The opening gambit in the wall text for the museum - quality Rothko show is a seven - part, tongue - in - cheek «recipe» for a work of art that Rothko wrote himself.

That strikes me as an opening gambit in an in - for - a-dime-in-for-a-dollar proposition.

Refusal to act in the face of evidence is their opening gambit in the inquiry into wrongdoing at News International.

The Union's opening gambit in what Tusk said would at times be a «confrontational» negotiation with May's government also rammed home Brussels» insistence that while it was open to letting Britain retain some rights in the EU during a transition after 2019, it would do so only on its own terms.

Granted, presidential budget proposals are opening gambits in the budget negotiation process, and as such reach toward the extremes.

Not exact matches

But in order to use the threat of steel tariffs as an opening gambit to broader negotiations with the global community, the Trump administration would need a great deal more of a resource it's lacking: credibility.

These are just opening gambits by an outfit aspiring to own trillions of dollars in assets.

The Scot has adopted a more youthful transfer policy of late and Ferguson is now lining up an opening gambit of a move with a # 5m bid for Fischer could be a wise one but that sort of fee is not likely to persuade Ajax to sell, not in today's inflated transfer market.

It may just be an opening gambit to ensure he doesn't fall behind early, but there's a point to be made that it's not a viable strategy in the Premier League anymore.

«I hope it's not just a budget - cutting exercise» On the prospect of defence cuts, former army chief General Sir Mike Jackson told Channel 4 News: «I seem to recall Dr Fox in his first speech saying there will be cuts — an interesting opening gambit and not one I care for.

This is not the opening gambit from some Hollywood kids - out - smart - the - grown - ups movie, but video footage of a real maths lesson for teenagers devised by educationalists in California.

The opening gambit, first text — «Dinner on Saturday night in Reading?

Director David Yates clearly has his sights set on franchise country again — since rounding off the POTTER cinematic saga he ruffled the BBC's feathers by putting a new Doctor Who film in development, with TARZAN perhaps forming another opening gambit until that can be finalized.

The script, by Lem Dobbs, knows that it is not reinventing chess but, rather, letting a grand master play a different set of openings and gambits in pursuit of victory.

For a while, the movie was in the pre-production phase under the working title «Chess», which was ostensibly a reference to the game's sacrificial opening moves known as «gambits».

In a franchise famous for its opening gambits, this may be the topper.

There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's efforts on other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of systemic reform.

We view the U.S. trade actions so far more as an opening gambit for negotiations than the start of a trade war, as we write in our outlook.

«Knight's Move» in fact feels less like a chess endgame than a grab - bag of tricks, trends, and opening gambits — some of them very clever gambits indeed.

As one of the essayists astutely points out, he even smuggles in reference to Dutch geometric abstraction in the primary colors of the workstation.4 That one prominent art critic's review frames Marshall's retrospective as «not an appeal for progress in race relations but a ratification of advances already made» is somewhat bewildering in the face of this opening gambit.5 After all, both of these paintings date from the year after the 1992 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing waves of unrest.

Obviously, the primary reason for making an offer is to settle, although in some cases, an offer can be an opening gambit, not expecting it to be accepted but opening a door to negotiate further.

But as we said in our opening gambit, Samsung offers you a choice of two sizes, plus there's the killer blow from the curved edges.