Sentences with phrase «shell game of»

This shell game of numbers and statistics is meant to blame the victim and deflect attention away from Canada's continued inaction to address this crisis which the United Nations has called a «grave violation» of our basic human rights.

So the very company that is accusing FindLaw of running a scam is running a shell game of its own.

The Trump decision to permit year - round 15 - per - cent blends may be a shell game of another kind, since it's expected to be coupled with a transfer of ethanol subsidies from U.S. domestic consumption to exports, a move that could decimate ethanol use in the U.S..

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.

Smaller factory towns barely penetrate the national consciousness, dizzied by the shell game of today's global manufacturing: will they stay or will they go?

• The Daily News, which lambasted the Assembly speaker with a front - page headline reading «SHELL GAME OF SHAME,» wrote a staff editorial saying he «never gave congestion pricing a fair shot.»

He is merely engaged in a shell game of his own, giving his non-existant supernatural being extraordinary powers so that it can maintain its centuries old disappearing act.

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

Not exact matches

China is engaged in an elaborate shell game to hide a mountain of bad debts piling up on the balance sheets of its banks, developers and state - owned enterprises.

Last summer Electronic Arts shelled out upwards of $ 1.3 billion for PopCap Games, which had its game apps downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide, thanks to mobile hits like Plants vs. Zombies.

Do yourself a favor and keep the Joy - Con detached, or shell out $ 70 for a Pro controller (a genuinely traditional - style game pad, along the lines of the PlayStation 4 controller).

I spent most of the time using them distinctly, disconnected from the game - pad - style shell that Nintendo includes with the Switch.

In his view, it makes sense for the company to shell out for Minecraft, a game that is popular with a diverse range of age groups and enjoys widespread «parental approval.»

Kevin Mohan, a professor at Harvard Business School, summarizes game theorist Thomas Shelling: «The one who wins a game of chicken,» he says, «is the one who takes his steering wheel and throws it out the window, and proves that I'm not going to turn — because I can't.»

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.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

VICTORIA — More than 500,000 B.C. families will see one of the largest ever medical services premium (MSP) tax hikes on January 1, thanks to Christy Clark's MSP shell game, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

This is the classic creationist shell game: Attack evolution for what it does not do (claim to explain the origins of things).

Live, it all translates to somewhat of a shell game, with musicians shuffling instruments between songs and making constant trips from the venue bar to the backstage area, where they await their turn to provide a few notes to frenzy.

Spiritual adultery is the name of the shell game.

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.

I thought it was all a spiritual big shell game in the name of the almighty dollar, and I spent years in quiet regret and shame that I'd given all of my 20s to a music genre whose motives I no longer trusted or believed in.

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.

Think about it... peanut butter + jelly is probably the only sandwich you wanted for lunch as a kid, Reese's are your favorite candy, and you can finish two bags of shelled peanuts at any baseball game.

Here's the game plan: Choose any two of these simple recipes, each of which will fill about half of the tartlets (the shells come 15 per package).

To further prove my point, Ramsey, who has been an absolute shell of the player he was last season and more inline with the player he was seasons prior to that, has scored two goals in two games, and all of the sudden you want to say that «he's back in form».

He looked like a shell of a game manager, gun - shy and turnover - prone.

Also, lack of information on programs there makes betting «a shell game.»

But he's 33 with a few hundred games on his legs now, and he's a shell of his former self.

it's his first playoff game with big minutes, so hopefully he comes out of shell the next game.

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.

The Scottish FA stood by their man due to the sheer traction he had drawn to the national team, but he lasted just one more game before resigning in 1978, his once marauding self belief now shattered leaving a shell of a man.

Team Dorfman seemed shell - shocked from the beginning of the game.

Rather than going into their shell after scoring, Arsenal are looking to take advantage of the other team being vulnerable by pushing to increase the lead and make the game more comfortable.

Swindon, and Rogers in particular, came out of their shell and took the game by the scruff of the neck.

Quite frankly, because I doubt how much say the Italian had in the deal, I would be shocked if Torres didn't start on Sunday, as I'm sure almighty himself, Roman Abramovich, wouldn't be best pleased to see a player who he shelled out # 50million on not even start one of the biggest games of the season, now one of the more high - profile games of the modern era it would seem.

«If Liverpool score first at Old Trafford, they could run out comfortable winners because you can see them picking United apart if they are forced to come out of their shell and chase the game, but I also feel United could be better than they are in the final third.»

They didn't manage to get a shot off on target in the game, and so they have to come out of their shell back at the Reebok.

Before our game kicked off I had watched that team from north London demolish a shell - shocked West Bromwich Albion with a scintillating and clinical brand of stylish football.

Although the tactic's effectiveness in the modern game is making it more of a necessity than an option, there's an obvious risk a team takes when pressing as opposed to dropping into a defensive shell.

However, after that, Spurs went into their shell and never looked threatening again at all until the final 5 minutes of the game (although we did defend very well and United also didn't look particularly dangerous).

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The second film, set in the Middle Ages, stars knights who fight in «clone - like» shells of metal in competitive games and war.

With the debate over the 2012 Farm Bill currently underway in the Senate, most of the media's attention has been focused on how direct payments — subsidies doled out regardless of actual farming — are being replaced with crop insurance, in a classic shell game that Big Ag's powerful lobby is likely to pull off.

Along with being a planet and a state of mind, Albany is the capital of fiscal shell games, back - door borrowing, and cost - shifting rip - offs.

It's a bit of a shell game, if you will, but its been working.

Superintendent Richard Organisciak, New Rochelle Board of Education and Officials within the New Rochelle Educational System are allegedly involved in the Jose Martinez shell game more then they wants parents to know.

But if this isn't the usual shell game, in which city tax revenues spike and Bloomberg saves thousands of jobs just before the July 1 deadline, he really is going to need an assist from Albany.

Instead of regressive fees and fiscal shell games we need a state tax system that's fair to working families.

It's this sort of shell game the providers are warning will kill them if it's repeated.