Sentences with phrase «to move the goalposts»

«You can't keep moving the goalposts on hard - working people you need to get to work, who need answers, deserve deadlines that the MTA can actually accomplish,» said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.

And indeed it was a successful year — comprehensive income of $ 18.7 million puts us on solid ground in an environment where the regulators keep moving the goalposts on how they define solvency for insurance companies.

Or has the bleeding edge of physics moved the goalposts again?

At seven seconds or so, its 0 - 60 time doesn't move the goalposts in this class, nor does handling or braking; this is a solid car that does everything reasonably well and offers an outstanding sound system, Bluetooth, large display screen and easy - to - use controls.

«For too many years, Nestlé, Mars and Hershey have cherry - picked their [palm oil] targets and then moved the goalposts when they don't achieve them.

The feat moves the goalposts in the fight for quantum supremacy, the effort to outstrip classical computers using quantum ones.

But over the past decade or so more impressive - seeming results have gone along with radical and non-transparent redefinitions of who or what counts as «administration,» so that it has become effectively impossible to distinguish the effect of moving the goalposts from the quality of management.

More than likely you will just move the goalposts back like religious individuals have been doing for centuries.

It was letting us build ourselves up while quietly getting ready to strike us down, and then move the goalposts several miles beyond our current position the instant we got to our feet.

Instead of acknowledging their hypothesis was wrong because their predictions were wrong and the evidence didn't match their claims the IPCC moved the goalposts from global warming to climate change.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

I marked the point at which they simply moved the goalposts as one reaction to the failed predictions; global warming became climate change.

External investment By moving the goalposts even further, it is quite possible, with some vision, that large firms could look to the stock market in its various forms, with a view to flotation.

It doesn't matter; non-AGW scientists are «proving a negative» since they indulged AGW without requiring proponents prove it as an alternative hypothesis by standard methods, and so now they attribute EVERYTHING to global warming — that's why now they call it «Climate Change,» i.e. since now they claim that hot and cold are caused by human pollution; i.e. they keep moving the goalposts so that everything's a touchdown.

Again, this car could well move the goalposts yet again to become the benchmark in the field, just like its predecessor.

If so, i'd remind you to once again remember what you said about moving those goalposts.

They are conspiracy, selectivity (cherry - picking), fake experts, impossible expectations (also known as moving goalposts), and general fallacies of logic.

Vendors are somewhat experts at moving the goalposts on understanding how they monetize their delivery of electronic discovery.

Professor Crowley's finding therefore moves the goalposts back at least 60 million years, which, given humans have only been on the planet for around a tenth of that time, is not an insignificant drop in the evolutionary ocean.

It is your blog, you can keep moving the goalposts if you want, but it doesn't alter the fact that your original post was typical enviro - alarmism.

The source added: «To spend the entire time buggering around moving the goalposts is hard to see as anything other than playing politics.»

Ministers have imposed frequent changes to curriculum, assessment and accountability, leaving school leaders and teachers to manage constantly moving goalposts.

I love the idea of continually tweaking the chart in response to student growth, not only moving the goalposts but incorporating the progress that has already been made.

Don't try to move the goalposts now that people have called you out.

We spend time optimising what is held in SIPPs, ISAs and outside tax shelters, make sure we use our CGT allowances (and try not to go over), then along comes inheritance tax, or a chancellor moves the goalposts.

There's a time and place for everything, but my experience working with money managers and asset allocators alike is that these measures are often used to confuse the end investor or move the goalposts after underperformance occurs.

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A striker that can't run, can't dribble, can't head, on the up side he does have a great shot if they start moving the goalposts to row Z.

Franklin moved the goalposts when he went to bowls in each of his three seasons; before that, the program had four postseason trips, total.

Nominations have been moved to the end of July, why, we have already nominated for the NPF etc, at the 10th June deadline, who moved the goalposts?

Advocates have begun moving the goalposts, now claiming, for instance, that the childhood vaccination schedule hits kids with too many vaccines at once, overwhelming their immune systems.

Each time nonhuman animals were found doing what was the supposed province of humans, defenders of the «humans are unique» doctrine moved the goalposts.

Scenes like these ask you so suspend disbelief and not question plausibility in a world that has already laid down the rules, but then ultimately moving the goalposts to suit.

But Aston Martin moved the goalposts with the latest DB11, the perfect GT.

The main fly in the ointment seems to be Facebook; looking at ads, FB appear to have drastically moved the goalposts, so one can not get any kind of reach doing a low budget $ 5 - 10 campaign any more..

But in a highly volatile market, it may not be possible to move the goalposts quickly enough.

And if anybody thinks I'm moving the goalposts here (vs. previously measuring performance via a simple average gain, exc.

Youre moving the goalposts.

Deniers will also move the goalposts on the definition of a «specific policy».

In my review of the Premier League season, I wrote about how Leicester City's fairytale title triumph has moved the goalposts in English football.

Worse, despite moving the goalposts from the threat of global warming to the threat of climate change they examine only warming and its negative impacts, while the world cools.