Sentences with phrase «phoney war»

There will be a flare - up in the Brexit phoney war on Monday when Theresa May takes questions from MPs about the policies in her big Brexit speech but after that things quieten down, with sporadic guerrilla activity in various select committees.

Parliament's Brexit phoney war continues this week, with key pieces of legislation being held back by the government.

Even the war, which had begun in September of 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland, was in an interregnum, the «Sitzkrieg,» (also called the «Phoney War» or the «Bore War») when the winter weather ground operations almost to a halt.

According to the shadowy authors «Our leadership election looks set to be cautious and predictable — a phoney war which fails to address the intellectual challenges before us.

Conferences will take place in the «phoney war» atmosphere before the full pain of the cuts is announced in the comprehensive spending review.

Cos back home the phoney phoney war's over and the real phoney war's started.

The main contenders - Ed Balls, David and Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman, Jon Cruddas - may be fighting a phoney war, but it is a war of sorts all the same, with politicians on manoeuvres and the corridors and back rooms of power febrile with speculation.

The appointment of Lynton Crosby as campaign strategist officially marks the end of the phoney war.

The phoney war is over.

Corbyn said May had been in a «phoney war», in which she has made a series of demands from the rest of the EU, but does not know what deal she will get when negotiations begin in earnest.

It takes place just as the first shots in the phoney war of a long general election campaign have been fired.

It begins in May 1940 as the so - called «phoney war» comes to an abrupt end with Germany's invasion of France and the Low Countries.

From subliminal messaging to phoney wars, here's how to screw over your political rival, Hollywood style.

Last night confirmed they were the phoney war, the real invasion hasn't started yet — even most of the regulars who do it «properly» are still en route.

Orna Ross, founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, said: «I welcome the news of any partnership that further breaks down the phoney war between trade and self - publishing.

It may turn out to be a phoney war with the Supreme Court maintaining the status quo and upholding the right of the UK Parliament to govern the costs regime in the UK courts.

A phoney war or a # 15bn headache for the government?

A&O's managing partner discusses transatlantic mega-mergers, the Brexit «phoney war» and the factors behind the firm's record - setting year

In this Q&A, Allen & Overy (A&O) managing partner Andrew Ballheimer discusses the factors behind the firm's record year, the Brexit «phoney war» and the prospects for UK - US mergers

In September 2014, it faces the mother of all phoney wars (pun intended) in one of the most competitive segments of the mobile phone market.