Sentences with phrase «than its rubber stamp»

The administration has since then conducted all manner of public works projects — bridges, buildings, renovations and the like — with nary a word from the legislature other than its rubber stamp on the results.

Under long - time Chairman Rich Gerentine of Marlboro, a Republican chairing the legislature's major committee for a Democratic majority, the watchdog has been little more than a rubber stamp for the executive.

Day claims the incumbent is disconnected from the issues that impact her constituents and often nothing more than a rubber stamp for the party line.

Most outside directors seem too busy, and too friendly with top managements, to be much more than rubber stamps.

Any governmental «science court» would be nothing more than a rubber stamp for the politicians in power, more like a kangaroo court most likely.

But this contention, like the contention that the FISC is nothing more than a rubber stamp, is beside the point.

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Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011 election promises?

But that is part of a fast - disappearing cooperative process when parliamentary committees were more than a government rubber stamp.

If enough of congress voted on it (greater than 2 / 3rds majority), we elect a racist president, and the Supreme Court just rubber stamped it without reading, the 13th amendment COULD be repealed, and slavery could be «allowed» again by federal law.

But my job — assigned by the government — consisted of little more than rubber - stamping newly - created communist rules and regulations.

I would become more than just a rubber stamp for couples.

It's a lot better than having a pastor who makes all the decisions and expects everyone to rubber stamp whatever he says.

I know that in USSR, even during the most totalitarian times, there used to be elections and a representative legislative body (Supreme Soviet)- leaving aside the actual competitiveness of the elections or the practical functionality of the Soviet to do anything other than rubber - stamp CPSU decisions.

The Lieutenant Governor position needs to be more than ribbon cutting and rubber stamping.

«At a time when city agencies and elected officials should be dedicated to keeping the people safe and informed, Mayor de Blasio is more concerned with lining up the rubber stamps for his progressive agenda — and he knows he won't find a more willing puppet than my opponent.»

The DCCC is up on the air with its first ad of the NY - 24 race, which casts GOP candidate John Katko as little more than a «rubber stamp» for House Speaker John Boehner.

Adeyeye, a former minister of state for works, said that «if President Buhari retains these ministers in the face of the serious allegations against them, he will show that the entire judicial corruption saga is nothing more than a deliberate attempt to blackmail the judiciary in order to subjugate it and make it a rubber stamp institution of the administration.»

Rather than a proper check on executive authority, the Commons was widely viewed — most of all by Labour ministers — as a bureaucratic rubber - stamp.

She accepts, without realizing that she is being brought in to some very shady ethical territory, and that her presence might be less for her tactical experience than a kind of inter-agency rubber stamping, allowing the CIA to act with impunity on both sides of the border.

While the existing system of licensure for public school teachers is more rigorous than simply rubber - stamping someone's self - report on competence, most thoughtful people agree that the system is in need of a major overhaul.

The only thing more incredible than Governor Dannel Malloy's decision to appoint Erik Clemons to the State Board of Education is the fact that Connecticut's Democratic controlled legislature appears ready to rubber - stamp Malloy's nominee despite the «Substantial Conflict of Interest» that should prevent him from serving on the Board.

An honest, case - by - case assessment of all books seems more appropriate than rubber - stamps and blanket policies.

But what they simply did is rubber stamp the foreclosure certification, and used people other than an officer of the company to sign the document.

His most notable works take shape as larger - than - life everyday objects, such as spoons, trowels, safety pins and even rubber stamps.

«Details of the sham agreement are spreading far and wide and I am now being contacted by boat builders who fear Tasmania's wooden boat building industry will be ruined... Despite the fact that 90 per cent of two key iconic species, Celery Top Pine and King Bill Pine, are already in reserves the Greens are still not satisfied... More than 70 per cent of remaining sources of these timbers are in the 430,000 hectares rubber stamped by former Wilderness Society director Jonathan West in his flimsy advice accepted by the Prime Minister and the Premier last week... The wooden boat industry has an estimated annual value of $ 50 million but without a timber supply it has no future.»

[130] Having regard to institutional fairness will elevate the standard for approval and send the message that courts will not rubber stamp settlements and turn a blind eye to what are in truth strike suits or suits where the defendant or the defendant's insurer pays a modest price for buying peace rather than paying a fair price to compensate the class members for their injuries.

It was submitted that there was no material that could enable the Employment Judge to make a proper finding that the appeal was a properly considered appeal rather than a sham or rubber stamping exercise.

Cognisant that it ought not to robotically rubber stamp the juridical mind of larger more developed judicial systems on our fragile system, the court's task is made even more difficult under a Constitution where the separation of powers is more ideological than realistic.

I can assure you the routine rubber - stamping of virtually all committee recommendations since reform is not because benchers are smarter now than then.

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So rather than just rubber - stamping decisions, I prefer to let my wife in on why I feel the way I do and also offer her my ear for any concerns and, ultimately, conditions.

When your VA EEM costs are less than $ 3,000, mortgage lenders will typically «rubber - stamp» the improvements, but not always.