Sentences with phrase «plays shell game»

Intellectual Ventures (within a few miles from Microsoft) is the World's largest patent troll, for example, and they collected tens of thousands of such patents from auctions, etc., and IV plays the shell game such that it is very likely that these «ambiguous» Vermont type trolls are ancestors of IV.

So while Nelnet plays its shell game on one end, GLHEC just ignores all the laws of Consumer Protection and Fair Credit Act and the DOE blames outdated computer systems.

He's attempting to play a shell game with the facts, as usual.

The most important change to take place should be that this denomination quite hiding pedophiles by playing a shell game with where they serve.

Are they playing a shell game, though?

ALBANY — Good - government groups charged Monday today that Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature are playing a shell game on ethics — promising reform but producing nothing.

Allowing Governor Cuomo to make all agency funds fungible permits him to play a shell game with the Legislature and the public.

States have been playing a shell game for years where they reduce their responsibilities by shoving them onto local goverments.

Lazio should stop playing shell games with his tax returns,» Jacobs said.

Our studies suggest that instead, many states have played a shell game with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, backfilling cuts to education with those one - time dollars.

Instead, they played a shell game.

So, Sen. John Legg, who runs a charter himself, thinks, «it is time to stop playing shell games.»

«It is time to stop playing shell games.»

Because more than 90 percent of school revenues come from state and local sources, lawmakers worried that districts would play a shell game with new Title I funds — transferring a dollar of local resources to rich schools from poor ones for every new federal dollar earmarked for poor schools that arrived.

They did not play the shell game with the pricing.

People who play this shell game of moving large balances to new cards with a promotional gimmick make sure that the card is not used for anything else.

Foolish, because embracing cheap gas distracts us from the serious business of building wind and solar and using energy more efficiently; and dangerous, because the planet will not stop warming while we play shell games with carbon.

Facebook has been playing a shell game with your privacy for years, but now it says it will put all of the settings that control your data under one shell.

Not exact matches

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey donated $ 100,000 to President Trump's inaugural celebrations through a shell company seemingly named after a time - traveling vehicle from role - playing game Chrono Trigger.

Microsoft plans to spend $ 5 billion on the internet of things, and it's more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements.

We ought to recognize that a «shell game» is being played on us by the defenders of the «neutral» state, but the stakes are much higher than in any ordinary game of three - card Monte.

The fair - minded reader who is concerned about the poor may well conclude that foreign aid, with all its pomps, pretensions, and ensconced apparatchiks, is a cruel shell game played at the expense of the poor and should be terminated.

Being careful, having a clean working area, grilling the shellfish until they are properly cooked, and serving the food immediately after it's cooked are smart ways that you can play the barbecue shell game and always come out a winner.

He and his representatives played an impressive shell game to maximize his exposure and earnings, and while I don't blame him for it, it's stupid to insist he came out the other side completely pure.

Participation, vending machines and congressional committees aside, the $ 64 question, or more accurately the $ 1.5 billion question, is: Why do corporations shell out hard money so that employees can play games?

The Texas A&M Aggies shelled out $ 75 million to bring Jimbo Fisher to campus, but they still have one more game to play before their shiny new head coach can take over.

Now maybe he didn't actively participate in the public campaign, like Gazidis, to deceive fans into believing that the move to the Emirates would ultimately allow us to compete financially with the best of the best, but he clearly played a prominent role in the «shell game» being perpetrated by this club.

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

Would much rather be playing this game then shelling out $ 60 bucks for another worthless BF or CoD installment.

I personally didn't like Sticker Star, so I'm not shelling out $ 60 (US) to buy a game that plays almost identically to it.

Howard and screenwriter David Koepp play such shell games of identity and motive throughout Inferno, increasingly obvious slights of hand.

It plays the whole absurd shell game for laughs, even as it acknowledges that the last and bitterest laugh is on the rest of us.

For everyone trying to compare switch ports to ps4 ports that's also not a good comparison because at least those systems come out with cutting edge new games every year that are in high demand - battlefield, Monster hunter world, while nintendo comes out with old nintendo games and ports from last generation playstation and xbox hardware so how can you diss the better systems and then rejoice when you get a game like dark souls which is from those consoles but is a shell compared to how they look and play on the better consoles??

Not only that it faced a consuming public that has become wary of shelling out massive amounts of dollars just to completely play a game they already spent a significant amount on.

Dragon's Crown may look like a typical beat -»em - up on the surface, but once you sink your teeth into its character customization, equipment system, and wealth of side quests, it reveals itself as an action role - playing game trapped in the shell of a side - scrolling brawler.

It's an interesting shell game, one that we've seen play out recently in the «teacher bailout» pushed for by President Obama; the Wall Street Journal reported that the $ 10 billion subsidy to states to keep them from laying off teachers led to at least $ 100 million in additional dues for the National Education Association.

I'm talking about Steam, the small shell app that lets you play or buy games from the Valve store.

In the end, it all looked like a grand shell game being played with other people's money.

And of course, the $ 30 million dollars a year is part of a shell - game that is played so that trustees of fund organizations see perhaps a $ 5 million dollar compensation number for the manager, with other amounts categorized as «ownership interest in the firm» or «long - term compensation pool» etc., etc..

The securities industry has been playing this superior investment performance shell game for decades.

There are two breeds of racing gamers; the ones that can't play the games involving the ridiculously fast cars and thus resort to turtle shells and the ones who can play games with ridiculously fast cars.

- dev spent 21 months on the project - built and coded by hand from inside the game world - played on a realistic Gameboy - you can even customize the color of the shell - includes more than 357,000 command blocks - has «all of the original game's features, along with a few iconic bugs» - no outside tools were used in the project - walked the equivalent of 2,832.89 kilometers in - game

Since you have to shell out a total of nothing to play the game, how many of you are willing to check it out?

Conveniently store and transport the Nintendo Switch console with one of the only hard shell cases on the market Charge the Nintendo Switch during gameplay with the built - in 5000 mAh battery pack and stowaway USB Type - C cable The fold out kickstand lets you play in tabletop mode while charging your Nintendo Switch at the same time Store up to 12 games and 4 microSD cards Charge the Power Shell Case with the included Micro-USB charging cable

Throughout the game, fans will pass — and potentially purchase — iconic Mario Kart - themed properties such as Rainbow Road and Bower's Castle while facing familiar challenges like dodging banana peels, tossing shells, etc. along the way Fans can choose from Mario, Princess Peach, Luigi, or Toad Mario Kart character tokens To introduce a Mario Kart themed layer of competition, landing on or passing «Go» triggers a race where players compete for the coveted «Grand Prix» card As seen in the Monopoly Gamer Edition game, each Mario Kart game token has special powers and abilities to use during the gameplay (e.g. when the player with the Toad token rolls a «Power - Up Boost,» all players must pay him or her 1 coin) and Players can purchase additional «Power Pack» tokens later this fall to take their game play to the next level and collect additional characters, including Bowser, Rosalina, Shy Guy, Metal Mario, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi.

- two new circuits: Pac - Man Stadium and Namco Circuit - photo frames were added to the right side of the screen - when you hit an opponent with an item, a big picture of them appear on the screen - get a visible warning anytime someone has thrown an item at you - selection of recommended courses (6 of the 12 available in the game), ranked by difficulty: Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard - all 12 courses (+ their mirrored version) are still available by pressing the Mario button - three Trial Karts - players with BaNa Passport get new special items such as Bowser's shell, Triple Green Shells, and more - players with BaNa Passport get 50 Mario coins if you chose to keep playing - get a special kart (Lightning Champ) and 12 items (Red Shell, Green Shell, Banana, Hammer, Paper Mushroom, Mega Mushroom, POW Block, and more) when you register with a Bana Passport - jump by pressing the Mario button - Mario coins to collect during races - new default item configuration - removal of the Team Play mode

You visit your local GameStop and walk up to the desk with a copy of the game, only to be informed by the kind and knowledgeable clerk that, in order to play the game online, you'll be forced to shell out twenty more dollars.

If you were one of the people that shelled out the big bucks to get Silvergun stateside more than a decade ago, then an XBLA release might sting a bit... but I guess you've been playing the game all this time while the rest of us have had to watch from afar.

Guild Wars 2 is a great example of a well put together buy - to - play game that allows players, who shell out for the initial purchase, to enjoy every aspect of the game while still offering additional, usually cosmetic, bonuses to those who want to pay a little extra.

Destiny has some similarities to the average sci - fi first - person - shooter, but under its shell is a wealth of systems that make it as complicated as your average massively multiplayer online role - playing game (MMORPG).