Sentences with phrase «paper over the gap»

A quick fix election will only paper over those gaps if you don't think long and had about what you actually want to stand for.

Sometimes he'd paper over the gap with music, sometimes not.

It's a scattershot approach, and this also extends to the film's casting policy, which seems to involve filling the thing with enough cameos to paper over the gaps in the script.

The world yearns for debt relief, but governments and central banks argue with that, and in the short - run try to paper over gaps with additional short - term debt that they think they can roll over forever.

By exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they've discredited the entire climate - change movement.

Another good tip is to only state the year of employment, rather than the months you commenced and left a position — but don't be tempted to extend dates of employment to paper over a gap (see number 2 for more detail!).

Not exact matches

«We won't paper over those differences,» said Daniel Kritenbrink, a senior China advisor to President Obama, referring to the policy gaps on cyberspace and economic issues between the two countries.

A small proportion of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the bed and the wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who rolled out of bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top of the bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.

They're the stories we tell ourselves can never happen to us — a long - distance relationship built on a gargantuan lie, for instance, or unnerving age gaps that are papered over with deceptive pictures and conversation tactics.

The Close the Gap Campaign has released its position paper on the Federal Budget 2015 - 16, calling on Government to restore cuts of up to $ 534.4 million over five years from the rationalisation of Indigenous Affairs programs, grants and activities administered by the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Health portfolios.

You know, misaligned particle board / paper cabinets, dust and dirt in the floor finishes, caulking filling 2 inch gaps in the vinyl siding and blackjack all over the roof where the flashing should be... I call it Menarded.