Sentences with phrase «sticking plaster»

So you feel like you're just sticking a plaster on it.

Firstbuy is, of course, a relatively short - term sticking plaster for wider systemic problems in housing and planning.

Commenting on the report, Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT union, said: «This report should act as a wake - up call to ministers that falling back on sticking plaster solutions such as the failed National Teaching Service will do nothing to address the systemic causes of the teacher supply crisis.

One effective sticking plaster over Android Wear 2.0's sluggish app performance and the limitations inherent with the smartwatch form factor is Android Assistant.

Pressure is growing for radical action - last night Liberal Democrat trade and industry spokeswoman Lorely Burt said anything agreed today was likely to be «nothing more than a short - term sticking plaster».

Schools can not be expected to provide sticking plaster solutions to a problem of the Governments making.

«Today's medical treatments are largely limited to hearing aids and cochlear implants, which are essentially just sticking plasters,» says Ralph Holme, head of biomedical research at UK charity Action on Hearing Loss.

But they are sticking plasters not the fundamental look at the tax base as well as tax rates that is required.»

«This is a small sticking plaster over a gaping wound,» he said.

Pointless talking about sticking plasters, (buying this or that player, since Wenger regresses them all, or drops them or plays them out of postition, as we all know) when the club has cancer from the top downwards and cancer MUST be cut out.

«This will not tackle the youth unemployment dilemma; it is simply cosmetic arrangement sticking plaster on an open wound.»

It is a powerful statement of intent that Iain Duncan Smith intends to overhaul a system that is failing the poorest instead of applying more counter-productive sticking plasters.

More transparency, clearer direction and a future laid out to the public so we can see where we are heading as opposed to the current sticking plaster policies of Labour which resemble the boy with his thumb in the dyke wall.

20 or so summits have been nothing more than sticking plasters which the markets are increasingly questioning.

This approach is an expensive and temporary sticking plaster over the problem.»

Head teachers» leader Russell Hobby confirmed that many buildings were in very poor condition, with schools «forced to dip into reserves to carry our emergency repairs that act as mere sticking plasters».

Incremental initiatives will continue to put sticking plasters on wooden legs.

Weaker schools splashing the cash on sticking plaster services, while stronger schools lease out their best teachers to other schools — their own staff losing PPA time (and sanity) covering lessons for kids who won't sit exams this year (kick that can down the road).

I rub some of the dirt off the wound with a bit of kitchen towel, blot the trickling blood, then stick the plaster on.

Good - quality sticking plasters aren't so easy to find at certain destinations.

Materials are used either for their function — screws, felt stuffing, clamps — or for the figurative associations they create: sticking plasters suggest limbs, old motorbiking leathers, a knee or elbow crease.

A senior EU source described the plan to BI as «ambitious» and a «sticking plaster for the Tory party.»

«Schools can not be expected to provide sticking plaster solutions to a problem of the Governments making,» said Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the NEU.

A recent decision from Mr Justice Barling in the Mastercard litigation places a (small) sticking plaster over some of the difficulties.

«Those who have been engaged in those ministries for a few years soon start to get to know the folks they are working with very well, and start to realise that just attaching a sticking plaster isn't the answer,» says Flannagan.

I loved his attitude and his hair but he typifies everything that is wrong with Wengers modern Arsenal, he was a sticking plaster on a gaping wound, granted he was cheap but he was too slow and too immobile, even if we had him in his prime he was never good enough to play for us and sadly thats where we now do our business, in the bargain basement, nearly men end of the football sphere.

Although Neymar's deal was extended as recently as October (after Barcelona prematurely announced its completion in July), clubs sources describe the deal as «a sticking plaster» intended to patch over a conflict between the Brazilain and his employers.

Neither was the underinvestment in the squad that saw us fail to sign a single player on a permanent deal from January 2013 until June 2014 — a catastrophic error of judgement for which subsequent splurges of cash could only ever be a sticking plaster.

Rodgers had run out of sticking plasters, and lost his job due to the fact he was always looking for a cure, rather than preventing ills at their root cause.

Just think about what else may be present in the water of any swimming pool — urine, fecal matter, dead skin, sticking plasters that have fallen off, saliva, hair.

It's absurd that this cost has not come down more drastically, and goes to show that the tax system gets far more complicated the more we treat it with sticking plasters.

Extending current practice on deferred payments is entirely sensible, but it is also a sticking plaster.

All - women shortlists, or AWS in common lingo, are the sticking plaster that has been applied to the gaping wound that is the lack of women in Parliament.

This is a sticking plaster solution for what is now a national crisis,» said shadow work secretary Liam Byrne.

First Minister Carwyn Jones says further devolution in the UK can not be fixed with a «sticking plaster» and says he is prepared to sit down with party leaders in Wales to discuss its position.

Today the deputy prime minister has announced the Regional Growth Fund's fourth round - but is it simply a sticking plaster?

Mr Balls said he feared the latest bailout of the Greek economy would become «just another sticking plaster» which would put «thousands of British jobs» at risk.

A party of government can not have a «sticking plaster» coalition that makes different arguments to each group — it must address the issues that can bind this coalition together, notably housing, support for parents and childcare, and extending educational opportunity

It's all sticking plasters and quick fixes... cobbled together for the TV cameras.

The mansion tax is not even a sticking plaster.

Instead they seem to have agreed on a series of measures that are the equivalent of using a sticking plaster to treat a broken bone.

It's a sticking plaster with no sticking power — it's a con.

But Angela Rayner, Labour's shadow education secretary, called the announcement «nothing more than a sticking plaster», pointing out that per pupil funding would in fact decline.

Education Secretary Justine Greening made the announcement as she confirmed plans to introduce a national funding formula for schools, but Labour dismissed it as «nothing more than a sticking plaster» and warned the extra money would mean cuts elsewhere.

Labour's polices for the economy were dismissed as «sticking plasters and quick fixes cobbled together for the TV cameras» by the prime minister in his speech to the Conservative conference.

The solutions to the deepest problems of generational poverty, dependency and unemployment will take a generation to address and we must move beyond the sticking plaster politics of pretending that there are any easy or quick fixes.

«The hand - outs offered today are a sticking plaster for the enormous challenges that families across Wales and the UK will face once this Government, hell bent on a hard - Brexit, pushes the eject button.

Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner claimed the government had simply «taken from one hand and put it in with the other», while colleague and Blackburn MP Kate Hollern said the investment was «nothing more than a sticking plaster.»