Sentences with phrase «under the rug as»

It was a postseason struggle, though, that was swept under the rug as the Warriors swept through their first three playoff matchups en route to the NBA Finals.

These are all normal, but so often as part of the American culture we sweep those things under the rug as we are propelled to bounce back from childbirth at warp speed!

The only instance I can imagine is malpractice, and at least that gets investigated properly in a hospital setting rather than swept under the rug as we see in so many US midwife cases.

Enter the amoeba: a collection of blobby, typically asexual microorganisms that taxonomists have historically swept under the rug as evolutionary oddities.

«If we sugarcoat it we are doing quite a disservice to anyone who has suffered that, to brush it under the rug as if it didn't happen or to make it seem like it's not that bad, or easier to endure.

The leak of the SOD was a good thing; the IPCC still has the opportunity to do a much better job, and the wider discussion in the blogosphere and even the mainstream media places pressure on the IPCC authors to consider these issues; they can't sweep them under the rug as in previous reports.

Not exact matches

As fears of a global trade war capture the attention of investors, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is turning a watchful eye to something that has been largely swept under the rug: the Federal Reserve's unprecedented monetary tightening and the impact it could have on markets.

And on Valentine's Day 2015, as his wife was playing the piano at home, he watched their cat, Yoda, discover a new toy: a rug under the couple's drum set.

Where the power of those instruments needs to be limited, as it surely sometimes does, it can not be done by pulling the rug out from under individual, human liberties.

It's likely, however, that Buffett would have disagreed with Fox's efforts to reportedly sweep the allegations under the rug, silencing women who leveled accusations against O'Reilly as well as former Fox chairman Roger Ailes with settlement payments that ran in the millions of dollars.

Universally, mistakes aren't brushed under the rug but they are studied and used as teaching tools or reminders.

Anywhere, in fact, where religion is the central topic, it seems that the polemical dimensions of the intellectual life are swept under the rug, or treated as the kind of embarrassment that reasonable people ought to pretend isn't there.

Playing it off as «oh it was standard» is not only ignoring the actual chapter, but it also shows how so many people are somehow able to sweep under the rug something that under any other circu.mstances would be something that they condemn.

The rights movement leaders should recognize this instead of sweeping it under the rug or even worse, promoting it as a good expression.

Hence, by its challenge to our favored images of God, especially those that present God as one whose favor we must win by our religious or ethical performances, the subversive, revelatory image of a God who participates in our own shame pulls the rug out from under a society that seeks by way of religion to legitimate its exclusivism.

As an audience, we hoped everything would brush under the rug for him.

I am not trying to sweep the violence of Scripture under the rug and ignore it, but when God's angels start pulling out their swords to hack people to pieces (as in the scene with Sodom and Gomorrah), it's a little too much.

Rather than sweeping women's peculiar moral perspective — which is intimately tied to their reproductive capacity — under the rug, these feminists celebrate it as an equally valid or even superior kind of rationality.

Even if you think you can be objective, if the public views your actions as trying to sweep things under the rug, this does real damage, not only to your church but to the entire Christian community.

Now, as time passes without any change and support simmers down to being a less active part of people's lives, the debate gets swept under the rug until the next shooting occurs.

Now, while recent trends surrounding that shell of a program would suggest that such a promising up and coming coach, such as Hurley, would seriously entertain the thought of the head coaching job as merely preposterous, nevertheless, Hurley once again has pulled a fast towing rug under everyone's feet if indeed he ends up the head of that putrid program.

As our former midfielder also added, the French boss should at least give us fans hope of signing such a big player, instead of sweeping it under the rug, as we have all been frustrated with his recent transfer windows, and need some hope that we will be challenging for the title (as we should be nowAs our former midfielder also added, the French boss should at least give us fans hope of signing such a big player, instead of sweeping it under the rug, as we have all been frustrated with his recent transfer windows, and need some hope that we will be challenging for the title (as we should be nowas we have all been frustrated with his recent transfer windows, and need some hope that we will be challenging for the title (as we should be nowas we should be now).

Fans happy to blame Wenger as it fits their bubble without recognising Wenger has wanted to keep players but the board has pulled the rug from under his feet.

Ah yes that's because you turn your head as it's swept under the rug and claimed to be something else that caused these deaths instead.

Perhaps most difficult to sweep under the rug are the individual stories of homebirth deaths such as those recounted in The Daily Beast or on personal blogs.

Maybe that's why they're scared: this 1 % of women might grow to 2 %, 5 %, 10 %, a number that can't be so easily swept under the rug and dismissed as just a bunch of looneys on the fringes.

I read that, now, to mean «as long as it complies with Cameron's dictates» If, as is suggested, Mandleson pulls the rug from under Brown, prior to a general election, and the Labour Party get a new invigorated leadership then, sadly, Cameron will not have a chance.

As will become clear, there is actually «plenty» to sweep under the rug but running a red light is the least of his concerns.

But Molinaro views the email as Green's attempt to «sweep the matter under the rug.»

«It is clear that we — as a regulatory community — must work aggressively to reform the cozy relationship between banks and consultants, which far too often has resulted in shoddy work that sweeps wrongdoing under the rug.»

I hope he wins just for the entertainment of seeing the current Repub leadership wiggles and squirms as they try to control their new cadre of home - grown political terrorists ------------------------------------------------- — Abso - freaking - lutely!!!!! At the very least I would be pleased to see him usurp Palin's bogus headlines with something that the GOP couldn't just quietly brush under the rug, hush - up, or justify even to most inbred of their base.

Weeks before Mayor Bloomberg pulled the rug from under the epic disaster known as Cathie Black, a ghoul pool was launched in the halls of city government.

Patricia Gunning, who recently resigned as the special prosecutor / inspector general of the NYS Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, said her onetime boss, Jay Kiyonaga, engaged in harassment and other misconduct, which she reported, but her complaint about him was «swept... right under the rug.»

But he obviously doesn't, as Gov. Cuomo made clear for all to see late Tuesday when he pulled the rug out from under a Bloomberg press conference called to crow about Senate passage of the mayor's bill ending «last in, first out» protections for underperforming city teachers.

As the world prepares for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in less than six weeks, the Republican congressman from New York said «we can not sweep these threats under the rug, like we did with Benghazi or the warnings from Russia on the Tsarnaev brother behind the Boston Marathon bombing.»

But this view sweeps a little - known fact under the rug: the particle interpretation of quantum physics, as well as the field interpretation, stretches our conventional notions of «particle» and «field» to such an extent that ever more people think the world might be made of something else entirely.

The quickness with which his study subjects (young and old) adapted and learned not to fall as the rug was pulled out from under them was unlike any other motor - learning Pai had seen.

As a citizen and taxpayer I am not going to accept just sweeping this crap under the rug any more

And as such, it shouldn't be swept under the rug anymore — it has to be thoroughly discussed and adequately addressed before it causes any further damage to the sport we love so much.

As a Health Coach, Mariana is going to make you deal with the things that you're hiding under the rug; the very reason you are falling behind.

In the pro and university setting, the Female Athlete Triad is policed very heavily and the proper channels exist to get these women the help they need, but in the private world, I see this pushed under the rug and more often than not, it is just shrugged off as part of intense training.

Would love to freshen up my dining room as well... i too love neutrals... this rug would be perfect under my round white pedestal table!

A gold bench finished with a blue and white cushion sits on a cream rug at the foot of a bed, as a fiddle leaf plant is positioned on under windows flanking a blue art piece hung from a gray wall.

You really can pair leopard with so much, from florals to stripes to plaids, and even other animal print (as evidenced by the tan and white cowhide rug under the pants and shoes).

Coastal bedroom features white slipcovered chair accented with yellow throw blanket and love pillow paired with white Moroccan leather ottoman on white and yellow rug situated under window covered in sea animal print roman shade as well as white daybed dressed in white and navy hotel bedding.

Z Channel not only played an incredibly wide selection of great movies that were swept under the rug by studios for what was considered disappointing box office performances, but it also helped institute what we know today as the director's cut.

Flaws — and there are a great many that would have never made the cut were this a perfectible studio recording — are conveniently swept under the rug of candid expression, a necessary consequence of the film's more virtuous approach to be regarded less as mistakes than as proof of its sincerity.

It's a slick bit of bait - and - switch, as Carpenter pulls the rug out from under an audience expecting George Romero inspired zombie carnage.

It was as if someone pulled the rug out from under her feet.

As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch) Chappaquiddick is undeniably going to be controversial, and perhaps a red - hot punching bag for elements on both the left, who won't like rehashing this scandal and damaging Kennedy's reputation as a man who turned into a great senator for decades after, and on the right, which may find the likes of Fox News and others exploiting it as evidence of a Democratic scandal swept under the ruAs I say in my video review (click the link above to watch) Chappaquiddick is undeniably going to be controversial, and perhaps a red - hot punching bag for elements on both the left, who won't like rehashing this scandal and damaging Kennedy's reputation as a man who turned into a great senator for decades after, and on the right, which may find the likes of Fox News and others exploiting it as evidence of a Democratic scandal swept under the ruas a man who turned into a great senator for decades after, and on the right, which may find the likes of Fox News and others exploiting it as evidence of a Democratic scandal swept under the ruas evidence of a Democratic scandal swept under the rug.