Sentences with phrase «rats on a sinking ship»

The Paris talks are flopping and their leaving like rats on a sinking ship.

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and how the rats on board are seriously confused on whether to jump ship now or wait for some more sinking, before taking action?
January 24, 2005: When rats flee sinking ships of scams and public corruption they dive for the portholes: later they surface on witness stands.
For four senior Labour figures to quit on the eve of a double set of elections — apparently indifferent to the damage this might cause the party's chances — reeks of the sinking ship: now it's every rat for himself.
The Boomtown Rat wanted to stay on the sinking EU ship and made a rude salute to the Ukip leader and his Brexiteers.
As developed countries have fled the Kyoto Protocol like rats from a sinking ship, climate financing continues to be central among the issues on the table at the UNFCCC COP18 negotiations taking place right now in Doha, Qatar (as Friends of the Earth's Karen Orenstein notes here).
It seems to me that many have predicted what we are now seeing: As the position of the warmistas begins to become ever more untenable, there will be a variety of reactions, with some increasing the drumbeat of doom and becoming ever more shrill, attempts were made to completely silence critics of the True Faith by Any Means Necessary, some others backtracking and staking out a position on the fence, while still others fled like rats from a sinking ship.
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