Sentences with phrase «scorched earth»

«The other side followed a scorched earth policy,» Lowry says.

But in so many cases, couples can avoid the «scorched earth, win at all costs» mindset involved in litigation.

As a therapist, you know that all too often separating Couples focus on the scorched earth of the conflict rather than on the solutions that might help them move on with their lives.

But he scorched the earth and made sure I walked away with nothing.

But instead, they took a scorched earth approach.

One way to turn a divorce into trench warfare is to hire a go - for - the - throat attack dog lawyer whose scorched earth strategy makes a wasteland of negotiations.

These are divorces where each spouse hires a «pit bull» attorney, they both engage in a scorched earth strategy, and they try to win at all costs, even as both of them tend to lose.

[21:55] And I've never been a big fan of a scorched earth approach in negotiations with the government or in litigation, or even in a friendly transaction, trying to negotiate for gain on every point.

Owing to the defendant's scorched earth policy of putting the plaintiffs to the test of establishing virtually all of their claims on all issues of damages and liability, the trial extended over some 20 days.

This is scorched earth litigation at its worst.

We fight hard, but we fight smart: we do not employ «scorched earth» litigation tactics, and we do not use the litigation process to impose unnecessary burdens on the courts or our adversaries.

A unilateral «scorched earth» withdrawal by the UK from the EU as suggested above (3 March 2015) would also leave the UK open to adverse judgments from the CJEU and possibly the ECtHR.

Soon the «Scorched Earth Seven» added 12 bright young associates to do the «dog» work and stopped taking «mundane» defense cases because none of the insurance companies would pay their stiff new hourly rates.

All the judges lamented the scorched earth litigation they so often see.

«We close this discussion with a reminder to counsel - all counsel, regardless of practice, regardless of age - that zealous advocacy does not equate with «attack dog» or «scorched earth»; nor does it mean lack of civility... (Citations omitted)... Zeal and vigor in the representation of clients are commendable.

Justice officials in Ottawa were forced to hold their noses and churn out law and order legislation that was inherently flawed, doomed to eventual failure, contributing to the scorched earth of criminal justice.

His approach is more surgical, less scorched earth.

Of course, innovation is about change but it doesn't have to entail a scorched earth approach... [more]

The polar opposite of the scorched earth divorce attorney is the attorney who either doesn't care or is so adverse to conflict they are afraid of their own shadow.

Although better than the scorched earth attorney, these divorce lawyers may leave you exposed to a lot of risks if they are not diligently protecting your interests.

Of course, innovation is about change but it doesn't have to entail a scorched earth approach or have an exclusive focus on technology.

«Literally and figuratively, this is a scorched earth budget that represents an all out assault on clean air, water, and land,» Gina McCarthy, who served as EPA administrator during the final years of the Obama administration, said in a statement.

Read more about wildfires: A Scorched Earth Shows its «Fire Scars» «Earth Under Fire» Photograph Exhibit Comes to DC, Just in Time for Senate Debates What Turns Fires into Disasters?

When the chart became the poster child for a scorched earth future and still the dishonesty wasn't cleared up, the time for forgiving the error had passed.

Pruitt is exercising a «scorched earth policy» on any agency that collects data.

By the end of the presentation, I realized we can choose between ongoing toxic particle spraying with imminent drought / famine and underwater cities caused by too rapid a warming when the skies are clear, or a scorched earth.

Better handling of uncertainty should be key to the debate — but when you fabricate polemics out of climate scientists» discussion of uncertainty, you expose a different, tribal, zero sum game, scorched earth, agenda.»

Instead, I see people taking a scorched earth, zero sum game on both sides — because argument about climate change has become a proxy battle in a larger, ideological struggle.

In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century.

Notwithstanding any personal feelings Sherman did practice a scorched earth policy saying that war is a cruelty and which could not be refined and those that bring war should be spared no quarter.

Korten says the former «leads further down the scorched Earth path we are currently on,» while the latter «leads to the path to a viable and prosperous human future.»

We had the challenge of producing a meaningful catalogue knowing that the twelve new paintings, multimedia installation, and site - specific work for Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth would not be ready until installation time, a full two months after our print date.

Scorched Earth is Bradford's first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.

Scorched Earth, now at the Hammer Museum, begins with a huge map of the United States laboriously etched out of the very plaster of the grand white wall along the white marble entrance stairs to the galleries.

LOS ANGELES — Visitors to Scorched Earth, Mark Bradford's exhibition at the Hammer Museum, are greeted in the lobby by a map that shows the US population infected with AIDS by state.

The numbers are sobering and so large as to be numbing, but when «Finding Barry» is seen as part of the entire show, the map functions as a bird's - eye view of Scorched Earth «s thematic terrain.

The title of the show harks back to a previous piece — «Scorched Earth» is a 2006 map - like painting inspired by the war in Iraq and the 1921 Tulsa riots, when white mobs torched the city's prosperous African - American neighborhood.

Alec Baldwin is pursuing a scorched earth lawsuit against a high - profile Manhattan gallerist because he's a hot - headed celebrity, attorneys alleged Thursday as a judge ruled the case could proceed.

While Scorched Earth takes on enormous topics such as the AIDS crisis, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and the charged political atmosphere of the early 1990s, Bradford maintains focus by examining the spectrum between the macro (the nation at large) and the micro (the individual body).

About Connie Butler Connie Butler is the Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles where she has organized numerous exhibitions including the biennial of Los Angeles artists «Made in LA» (2014), «Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth» (2015) and «Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space» (2017).

Scorched Earth, 2006, collage on paper mounted on canvas, 94.5 x 118 in; photo courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co..

Pure and unembellished, the rich, burnt umber surface recalls the serenity and warmth that rises from the sun - scorched earth of his Basque homeland, while the artist's skillful manipulation of the material recalls the metalworking traditions practiced in the blacksmiths» workshops of his native San Sebastián.

Jamillah James is assistant curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she has organized the exhibitions Hammer Projects: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 — 1989, and assisted Connie Butler on the exhibition and publication Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth.

Hughie O'Donoghue: Scorched Earth, 14 March — 14 April, Marlborough Fine Art, London marlboroughlondon.com

BOOKSHELF «Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth» (June 2015), a new forthcoming volume, captures the artist's latest work exploring «the body and the performance of identity.

«Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth» accompanied the artist's exhibition at the Hammer Museum.

Mark Bradford, «Scorched Earth», 2006.

Earlier this year Mr. Bradford had his first solo show in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum, called «Scorched Earth.»

First exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as part of the larger Mark Bradford exhibition, Scorched Earth, Spiderman is one of only a few video installations by Bradford.

«Mark Bradford: Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank» was published last year and «Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth» (June 2015), a new forthcoming volume, captures his latest work exploring «the body and the performance of identity.»