Sentences with phrase «year gimmick»

The top - dollar item to be rejected was $ 419 million in restored education funding that Paterson castigated as an election year gimmick.

His so - called «plan» is not policy, it's an election year gimmick.

E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally - conservative Empire Center, called the move a «dubious election - year gimmick to support a false narrative.»

Not exact matches

Novelty or gimmick ice cube trays have become increasingly popular in recent years, likely because they are a relatively inexpensive way to add a blast of fun to a special occasion.

For several years Nike had the market all to itself, because other companies regarded it as a gimmick.

Failure to do this reduces what could be a meaningful piece of marketing to something more closely resembling the «pink it and shrink it» gimmicks of years past.

Lengthening the budget window simply to allow for more years of deficit - financed spending increases or tax cuts would be an unfortunate gimmick that would undermine many of the important benefits of long - term scoring.

It is worth noting that the B.C. government's gimmick of limiting the upper - income tax increase to two years, while perhaps making the move more politically palatable for its base, is bad public policy.

The Senate bill includes $ 500 billion to $ 600 billion of expirations and other gimmicks that help make the bill compliant with the Byrd rule (i.e., it does not increase long - term deficits) and also reduce the ten - year cost.

The directive of the churches represented in Faith and Order — that a study of worship be pursued over a number of years — indicates a recognition that there is a giveness to Christian worship, and that the common degradation of worship into gimmicks for religious mood - engendering is a kind of impoverishment, a failure, a positive disobedience hiding behind the face of individualism, spontaneity, freedom.

Gimmick or not, this final aside reminds us that Smith, ten years on from her ordeal at Nichols» hands, is of course more than just a character in a film, and is now a married, drug - free Christian.

In 26 years, I've tried pretty much every diet and weight loss gimmick that exists!

Smoked beers have been brewed for years, but these amped up versions now serve as gimmicks, catered toward the bacon - loving, beard - growing, flannel - wearing stereotypes of the craft beer world.

Thanks to Dave Edgar — American record holder in the 50 and 100 freestyle — and a coach who goes in for gimmicks, Tennessee, which didn't have a swimming team four years ago, is now a national power

For instance, the Trenton Thunder are doing some sort of gimmick with Pork Roll caps this year.

If AW doesn't see this, his marquee signings of the last two years are piecemeal at best, and marketing gimmicks at worst.

The greatest gimmick match of the year takes place on Sunday night.

There's also a clumsy proofing error, specifically the phrase «12th consecutive years,» but overall, the disposable messaging gimmick is clear enough.

BY SUSIE DAY Only a couple of years ago, the New York State Parole Board was a draconian gimmick to keep people in prison — regardless of...

He says many regions of the state remain mired in economic depression, and he mocks Cuomo's plan to offer some new businesses ten tax free years in New York - as a «gimmick».

The Presidential Candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo - Addo has taken a swipe at President John Mahama for describing NPP's pledge to extend the service period for army recruits from 25 years to 30 years as a political gimmick.

Cuomo's six - year budget record has mixed tax cuts and tax hikes, shrewd economizing and outright waste, sound financial practices and objectionable gimmicks.

«We did not take the decision to join HIPC as a political trick or gimmick, but as an opportunity to take a breather to pursue medium to long term targets,» the President said, when heads of United Nation (UN) agencies in Ghana called on him at the State House to express support to the new administration and also outline their programmes for the year.

The government may well resort to a string of cheap and nasty gimmicks to give the impression of activity over the next two years, but Labour will put forward serious proposals to tackle illegal entry, to end exploitation, to encourage integration, to strengthen the economy and to protect the taxpayer.

In fact, the plan is very much in line with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's lament earlier this year that the state's budget process uses a series of gimmicks to balance spending each year — a tradition that the governor has vowed to change.

We need long - term solutions that take away the temptation to use short - term fiscal gimmicks that continually push the state's budget woes to future years.»

He imposed accounting gimmicks on the state's school boards that are forcing them to bear the burden of borrowing money until next year, when Pawlenty apparently thinks new sources of funding will magically appear, enabling the state to pay the schools what they've promised.

About a year ago, she openly Cuomo's plan to postpone pension costs for cities a «gimmick» on the op - ed page of The New York Times.

More than $ 1.9 billion of the $ 3.4 billion the de Blasio administration claims to be saving in healthcare spending on municipal workers over four years is coming from budgetary gimmicks, new documents show.

We can't rely on gimmicks that only make our problems worse in the coming years.»

The agreement is a variation of an election - year tax reduction the Republican incumbent governor first put forward last month that Democrats assailed as a gimmick to help Walker's re-election bid.

The Thruway would then have $ 75 million to $ 100 million each year to help pay for the bridge — which would also allow us to avoid new gimmicks like stealing money from the environmental fund.

But late Wednesday afternoon, the Thruway Authority issued a statement saying the comptroller's past audits have actually contributed to past problems at the Authority by failing to report years of what it calls «fiscal gimmicks and deferred expenses.»

The Comptroller, and his audits over the years, have actually contributed to past problems at the Thruway Authority by failing to report years of fiscal gimmicks and deferred expenses.

According to him, his opponents ridiculed him saying it was a political gimmick and could only be possible in 20 years.

The correct decision is, as I have been continually advocating for years, to fire the current administrator, develop a full efficiency and profitability turnaround plan with a strict timeline, and, if only if those concerted efforts fail, then sell the hospital to a carefully selected and responsible buyer directly rather than through the budgetary gimmick of an LDC.

Two years ago, Miner publicly criticized Cuomo's leadership, calling one of his budget initiatives to help cities a «gimmick» in a New York Times opinion piece.

He also noted that the 2005 Red and Green Budget crisis started several years earlier when county officials started using gimmicks to balance the budget.

Borgononi says the gimmick has had a dramatic effect on school budgets, noting that over the four years that the Gap Elimination Adjustment has been in effect, Onondaga County schools have not received $ 270 million in state aid they were entitled to.

Every year people spend thousands of dollars on medicine, diet pills, or health gimmicks found online, but some of the most potent solutions can be found in their kitchen cabinet.

You will never again fall for their gimmicks and tired tactics only to find that the high priced health coaching school that tried to lure you with shiny objects and big discounts drips ONE course module on you every two to three weeks dragging out the time it takes to finish the program by 9 months to 2 years!

I started developing the Truth about Abs program about 5 years ago based on how much I saw most people struggle with this topic and the amount of confusion and scams / gimmicks that were out there regarding abs and belly fat.

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A teenage girl's sexual awakening coincides with her mother's gender transition in «52 Tuesdays,» an Australian indie with an unusual narrative gimmick: It was shot over 52 consecutive Tuesdays, and only on Tuesdays, to capture a year of life onscreen.

The «gimmick» in Criminals Within is a dangerous new explosive formula - and this was four years before Hiroshima!

The gimmick this time around is pretty threadbare: McConaughey plays a womanizing 35 - year - old who still lives at home with his doting parents (Kathy Bates and... Terry Bradshaw?)

so why 6 years later did Nintendo do everything wrong with the Gimmick U launch?

But the premise that carried the first film (and the original Japanese trilogy and mini-series)-- the idea of a media - borne STD (or drug addiction), transformed here into something carried aloft by the virulence of peer pressure — is instantly discarded along with its deadline gimmick in favour of about two hours of garbage involving killer deer, a somnambulantly - possessed kid (if demonic possession renders your nine - year - old docile as a fawn, that's a trade - off some might be willing to make), and poor Naomi Watts huffing and puffing and delivering awful, repetitive monologues at her catatonic kid.