Sentences with phrase «shell games with»

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.

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

There would be no penny - pinching or shady shell games with the payroll.

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.

The only troubling part is that North Carolina might have been doing the same shell game with classes since even before the Butch Davis days.

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

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.

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.

This is basically a shell game with some misdirection.

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

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.»

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.

ESPN along with Time Warner's (TWX) TNT will shell out nearly $ 2.7 billion annually for nine years beginning next year for the rights to National Basketball Association games.

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.

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.

I personally love stuffed shells but has never been a favorite with my crew — but this recipe sounds like a game changer for them!!!

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».

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.

Too often Liverpool have in recent years shelled out big money for players who have ended up with a frankly embarrassing goals to games ratio and while you don't expect central midfielders to bang 20 a season, it's nice to see them contribute the odd strike here and there.

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.

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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 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 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.

• 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.»

And, if I had limited my proposal [in my last response] to just direct land - use regulation, I would agree with Tim that this would not be meaningful with respect to preventing international «shell games» of the sort he describes for palm oil.

Anybody unfamiliar with fighting games should be warned that, MvC3 will seem enticing — and it'll create no end of smiles when the shell's finally cracked open — but it'll also take a lot of patience, a lot of time and a lot of effort.

The games were criticized for being glossy candy shells geared too much towards the casual fan leaving more dedicated fans with a hollow experience.

Also Paper Bowser is already confirmed for this game, considering there is a castle in the top right corner of the map screenshot with pillars with spiked shells on them.

birdo is not a bowser minion, the games she appears as antagonist, like mario e luigi super star saga she does nt have anything to do with bowser.but yeah, i like her, hopefully shell be back

By adding choice, through characters and Crew Skills, and trimming the level length, what's left is a focused experience that leaves you feeling like a heroic participant rather then a fatigued shell struggling to find purpose, wishing your time with the game was over rather then looking for more.

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??

I would love it if they added all of the N64 tracks and had an item editor in game so you could do away with all the weapons not present in the N64 version, no blue shells or crazy 8's would really sort the men from the boys!

Capcom has done a great job iterating on what was clearly an unfinished shell of a game with excellent foundations.

In desperation the people of Florida (at least the minority that still participate in the electoral shell game) have turned to a man with a background in massive theft from the federal government, liberal use of the Fifth Amendment, and a lot of money.

The coalition argues the new law is a «shell game,» with the same constitutional flaws that led the Supreme Court to strike down the first law.

No, Mario Kart is absolutely nothing like real - world driving — in fact, it may be the least realistic driving game out there, with a lax approach to physics which sees karts, bikes and quads drifting at a moment's notice, chugging along underwater and even flying through the air — all the while dodging inexplicably hazardous turtle shells and banana peels.

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

Plus, there is also a game controller to be picked up that will be compatible with any of the tablets GameStop has on sale, but would require shelling out an extra $ 39 on top of the individual tablet price.

The saddest part of it all, for me as a Christian, is that they make a connection with Christian publishing in the middle of this shell game.

If so, he is not only comparing apples and oranges but he is trying to fool us with the old shell game con.

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..

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.

Koh Thmei Resort (on Koh Thmei, unsurprisingly) is geared up for kids with a family - sized bungalow, plenty of games and toys, and a beach with a fine selection of shells for collecting.

At the Ritz - Carlton, Naples in Florida, there's also a virtual - reality games center and a nature center that features an aquarium with multiple programs including critter feeding time and beach - combing for shells.

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.