Sentences with phrase «stalking horses for»

Like greenwashing, they, too, are just frail stalking horses for their real objective: supporting this year's most profitable type of real estate investment: apartment houses.»

If school concerns, for example, were addressed by churches, perhaps these concerns would not be the stalking horses for gambling interests.

Stan is confused because he thinks Wallis is a stalking horse for James Dobson, the National Right to Life Committee and all the other pro-life signatories of «Come Let us Reason Together,» while I am confused because I have this crazy idea that Wallis, while «personally opposed» to abortion does not want to legally impose.

Communism was the ideal for human unity that served as the stalking horse for de Lubac's Catholicism.

Lorigo's challenge came in response to Long's letter last week in which the state chairman branded Lorigo a stalking horse for Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, who is trying to petition his way into the GOP primary.

Crowley has been relegated to the sidelines in the NY - 6 battle lately as the focus has been on the mysterious — and belated — candidacy of longtime Queens Democratic operative Jeff Gottlieb, who may or may not be (depending on who you believe) a stalking horse for the party's endorsed candidate, Assemblywoman Grace Meng, although she has been plugging away at her campaign, announcing earlier today that she has netted yet another small labor endorsement.

Long, who has been a key ally of GOP / Conservative gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio, asserts Lorigo is little more than a stalking horse for Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, who is trying to petition his way on to the GOP primary ballot.

The New Statesman reports that «local members believe that Mahmood may be acting as the stalking horse for his sister, the current mayor of Waltham Forest, Saima Mahmud, who may be a candidate in the event of a trigger ballot against Creasy».

[121][225] There was also resistance to her candidacy and an initial suspicion that it was just a stalking horse for keeping his options open.

Before the recent local elections there were rumblings of a coup, with reports that former minister and Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge was being lined up as a stalking horse for a coup attempt.

As a stalking horse for the Tory right he will not do too much harm to anyone, except possibly to himself.

Other mischief - makers seemed intent on trying to set off a political conflagration by suggesting that Smith is really a stalking horse for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, to take away black votes from former city Comptroller Bill Thompson.

«It only feeds the theory (Giambra) was a stalking horse for the governor,» Long said of Giambra's decision to continue a run.

Fulfilling his troth, Robin is convinced by the elder Loxley, Sir Walter (Max von Sydow, hammy), to take the dead prodigal's place as lord of the manor and husband of the distinctly displeased Marion in order to prevent the baronial lands from being seized by the grasping tax collectors of the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac, mincingly monotonous), whose chief henchman, Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong, bald), is playing a double game as both John's right arm and a stalking horse for a French invasion of England.

Our nation's most respected civil rights advocacy groups, like the NAACP, now have further evidence to distrust the motives of charter advocates and to characterize our movement as a stalking horse for privatization.

The «choice» program is only a stalking horse for the neocon wet dream of dismantling the whole concept of common schools, along with government services in general.

How can we continue to make the case to charter skeptics that we are not a stalking horse for privatization if we give tacit support for education vouchers?

But we are now learning that the Bridgeport Education Reform Fund was only the stalking horse for a much bigger and more impressive effort.

Some teachers denounced it as a stalking horse for over-testing, arguing against «collaborating with those who want to destroy public education.»

«Governor Jindal now has a much clearer understanding» of the Common Core tests, said Faircloth, who called the tests «a stalking horse for the federalization of education policy.»

The Ford Edge concept crossover is the stalking horse for the adds - more - tech Edge due by mid-2014.

In January 2017, Nissan showed the stylized Vmotion 2.0 concept, a stalking horse for the swoopier five - passenger Altima sedan that actually goes to production.

Samuelson's editorial seems to me to be either a counsel of despair or a stalking horse for the nuclear industry.

At least for anybody more interested in solving the problem rather than using it as a stalking horse for some other, ideological, agenda.

It's needed because they insist the solution needs to be a stalking horse for implementing an EU - style bureaucratic world - state on top of it.

And of course there's more - if another Republican wins the presidency, Cruz will be a stalking horse for the next four years, threatening to run against that Republican if he turns out to be too moderate.

Rather than selling this as a policy agenda — they attempt to appropriate the socially valued imprimatur of science as a stalking horse for societal and economic transformation.

Underlying the politics of global warming is the big lie — the fabrication of the narrative as a stalking horse for ambitions to transform economies and society.

He stated that the proposal should be rejected out of hand, in part because the Commission had taken an «intellectually dishonest approach, hoping we would not notice the real purpose of the Regulatory Objectives is to be a stalking horse for non-lawyers practicing law, non-lawyers owning law firms and multi-disciplinary practices.»

Not exact matches

The latter had an existing $ 90 million «stalking horse» deal to buy most of Gawker's websites, which the two companies announced when Gawker initially filed for bankruptcy protection in June.

The auction was triggered by a recent $ 300 - million stalking horse offer Fairfax made that allowed others to make competing bids for the Canadian operations until Monday at 10 a.m. EST, but court filings showed no bidders other than Fairfax registered an offer.

Fairfax had made a $ 300 - million stalking horse offer last week, triggering an auction for Toys «R» Us» 82 Canadian stores.

According to court papers filed late Thursday, the bidder is taking on a role of a «stalking horse» in a court - approved auction set for Monday in New York.

The Toronto - based company, whose $ 300 - million stalking horse offer for the Canadian subsidiary of the toy retailer was approved in a U.S. court this week, is looking for stores outside of Canada it can potentially snap up.

Toronto - based Fairfax made a $ 300 - million stalking horse offer for the subsidiary earlier this month.

Univision Holdings (univision) has offered to acquire Gawker Media, challenging a $ 90 million stalking horse bid from media company Ziff Davis in the auction for the U.S. internet publisher, people familiar with the matter said.

Tribune Publishing has already said it wants to be the bidder that sets the opening price for the actual auction next month — the «stalking horse» position in the process.

The company could not pursue potential other offers until judge Stuart Bernstein approved the mechanism for the auction, as well recognized Ziff Davis» stalking horse bid, according to court papers.

In the high - profile tussle for 6,000 wireless patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks, Google kicked off the tug - of - war with a stalking horse bid of $ 900 - million — far greater than anyone expected.

U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wallace in Santa Ana on Monday approved the request by moving back the deadline for so - called stalking - horse bids, which set a minimum price for a bankrupt company's assets.

The Weinstein Company has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy and entered into a stalking horse bid for the majority of its film and TV assets with the Dallas - based private equity firm Lantern Capital..

So - called conservatism and so - called radicalism in these contemporary guises are in general mere stalking - horses for liberalism: the contemporary debates within modern political systems are almost exclusively between conservative liberals, liberal liberals, and radical liberals.

With no offers as yet to Valencia for the much - lauded Otamendi, and with Sergio Ramos now settling into his new contract and captain's armband after using us as a stalking horse, it seems we have learned little from chasing the unobtainable until it's too late.

Skelos called Bill Samuels a «stalking horse» for the Democrats (recall that he called on Paladino to join him to trying to oust five incumbent GOP senators).

``...» Ralph, to allow Carl Paladino to use you as a stalking horse or an obstructionist is not good for the future of the Party.

Dicker denied the charge and Paladino's accusation that the journalist was a «bird dog» or «stalking horse» for Cuomo.

• Paladino refers to Dicker as a «stalking horse» and a «bird dog» for Cuomo.

McAlister shows off the Diptera collection like an adoring parent: the lovely bee flies; the curious hairy legs of the robber fly; the amazing eyes of the stalk - eyed flies; the mosquito with feathered mid-legs that look like legwarmers; U.K. crane flies with wide wingspans and long, delicate legs; the horse fly with a 2 - inch - long proboscis; the bot flies that lay their eggs on mosquitoes for transportation.

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