Sentences with phrase «tail wagging the dog»

It says nothing about how the black holes originally formed or how, in an apparent case of tail wags dog, they managed to control the formation of entire galaxies.

That said, I'm letting the tax tail wag the dog here as I don't want to sell and pay the capital gains tax either.

Letting the tax tail wag the dog as I have heard from time to time.

That said, I'm letting the tax tail wag the dog here as I don't want to sell and pay the capital gains tax either.

I have two dogs and both on separate occasions had some concerns occur they got us in without an appointment, took the time to explain everything thoroughly and my pets were back to happy tail wagging dogs quickly.

Such dogs fairly exude warmth and friendliness — head held high with a big doggy laugh, gamboling gait and curved tail wagging the dog's rump.

Isn't it interesting how a very small tail wags the dog?

The recent rise in the Independence Party is well beyond the traditional tail wagging the dog which occasionally happens in minor - major - party relationships.

Yet never let the cashback tail wag the dog.

Like Allied Irish Banks (ALBK: ID), the Irish government owns over 99 % of the outstanding shares — so we have a tiny tail wagging this dog... And after everything the Irish tax - payer's endured to date, this continuing state fantasy of a third force in Irish banking is a mockery.

On the same day they met him at Allison's home, the Kinsora family, who was still grieving the loss of their beloved Golden Retriever, Bailey, of 13 years, left with a happy, tail wagging dog eager to enjoy the next phase of his life.

Point taken, but sometimes tails wag dogs.

Countless times I've seen shy, scared, mistreated, ungroomed creatures wracked with all kinds of medical issues blossom into beautiful, proud, happy tail wagging dogs, just as they were meant to be.

Letting the tax tail wag the dog as I have heard from time to time.

You should never let the tax - tail wag the dog.

«Don't let the tax tail wag the dog,» said Gatien of D.A. Davidson & Co., noting that tax savings can easily be wiped out by a bad investment decision.

That would be silly if someone let the tail wag the dog.

Given how well the market has performed, and how non-volatile it has become, the active - to - passive shift has come under some scrutiny as being a case of the tail wagging the dog.

Otherwise it's tail wagging dog.

You're like a robot judging his inventor... the tail wagging the dog kind of thing.

Civil rights overriding universal values is akin to the tail wagging the dog; therefore, the pastors are on the correct side of the debate.

Referring to those people as «atheists» is like saying that a tail wags the dog.

Crumbs from the masters table comes to mind, and as Mark said the trouble with patrons is they think the Church belongs to them which smacks of the tail wagging the dog.

It is unrealistic to demand that the tail wags the dog — we can not demand that only certain packaging materials or components are being used.

Talk about the tail wagging the dog!

It's the tail wagging the dog.

«Tail wagging the dog»?

In the statement he personally signed, Agoro said, «Nigeria now is dangerously and damagingly miffed in chamber of horror and terror of clear signal of leadership total failure of President Muhamadu Buhari's tail wagging the dog.

Talk about the tail wagging the dog?

«We're not going to have the tail wagging the dog,» he adds.

«The fault lies with the apparatchiks, the tail wagging the dog, the few people who are fighting the next Tory leadership instead of the referendum and are campaigning for jobs in No 10.»

No matter how they spin it, there's no way Harlem will be the tail wagging the dog.

«This is because our system makes the tail wag the dog rather than the dog wag the tail.

«It's almost like the tail wagging the dog.»

He is not convinced of a «pure PR» system, in which «the tail wags the dog», and which weakens the constituency link he sees as crucial, but he would support the «Alternative Vote» system as recommended by Jenkins.

Heidcamp wanted to nominate his candidates first, thereby hoping to force Republican caucus attendees to follow suit; a case of the tail wagging the dog.

Keilis - Borok calls his backward - looking technique «tail wags the dog,» illustrating how minor «tail» quakes that barely disturb a seismograph can predict a massive «dog» quake.

Obesity and Energy Balance: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?

Metin Gurcan's «Drone Warfare and Contemporary Strategy Making: Does the Tail Wag the Dog?»

They are not in control, so instead of the dog wagging its tail, for these individuals, the tail wags the dog.

Coming home to a tail wagging dog after a stressful day can actually lower your cortisol levels.

I don't really care if the tail wags the dog as long as the dog does what its supposed to.