Sentences with phrase «policy on duck»

Not exact matches

I want Gibson and the Republican leadership to be held accountable for the destructive policies they promote and for Gibson to face a real challenge on the issues and his record and not to give him the opportunity to duck a real fight by diverting voters» attention to a race of personalities.

Mr Blair will prove he is not a «lame duck» by continuing to push domestic policy, especially on health and education, and attending the key G8 and EU summits, he continued.

Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, called Mr. Obama's planned trip a «lame duck bus tour,» and predicted that the president would focus on the same old policies that he says haven't worked.

To make things worse Heath's economic policy zig - zagged and he also reversed the party policy on nationalising the «lame ducks» of British industry when Rolls Royce and shipbuilding were taken into the public fold.

The victors — and, in some cases, the lame ducks — will have a long to - do list on federal education policy and budget matters awaiting them after the Nov. 6 vote.

One «bloke» made a comment that «trying to get sound environmental policy commitment out of a politician is like playing chess with a duck, they just poop on the board then waddle around quacking like they won the game».

But when it came to saying anything that might be taken as endorsing the need for a stronger U.S. emissions reduction policy, Marburger ducked coming to grips with the IPCC assessment reports on climate change Impacts and Mitigation.