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Similarly, on the proposals for the aggregates tax, the goalposts were moved during the consultation with the industry.
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At that time, the goalposts were moved again.
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No farmer can begin to budget effectively if the goalposts are moved in the middle of the game.
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Are we now to move the goalposts still wider, providing a windfall for unpresuming tenants and an even greater blow to unsuspecting freeholders?
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Is it not commercially unfair to change the goalposts when the money has been pocketed?
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I can understand that, but it is like constantly moving the goalposts.
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Unfortunately, every time there seems to be the prospect of discussion, he moves the goalposts.
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We felt that it was better to leave goalposts where they were.
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We felt that it was better to leave the goalposts where they were.
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Is he not moving the goalposts as he speaks?
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Now it has been decided to move the goalposts and, effectively, make them pay twice.
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There has been a considerable moving of the goalposts in that respect.
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Is not this merely another target that is being achieved only by moving the goalposts?
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The simple answer is that we have not moved the goalposts in any respect whatsoever.
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We on this side are rather more worried that he is allowing local authorities to change the goalposts, hence this amendment.
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I hope that the debate will definitely give us some goalposts or at least the markings on the playing field.
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He has now had to move the goalposts to make it relevant to urban areas.
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The objectionable thing is that the goalposts were moved after we had scored.
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Another is that industry should not be faced with frequent moving of regulatory goalposts.
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They objected to a certain aspect of the recommendations, but when we responded, the goalposts were moved again.
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The goalposts were originally full-sized posts and had concreted into the ground, but they had been taken down and adapted.
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Countries that are implementing their part of the deals should be rewarded with action and not with a move of the goalposts.
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In the judge's interpretation of the terms of reference and the way in which his scrutiny was carried out, were the goalposts moved?
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The real difficulty is that the goalposts are continually moving.
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I suspect that the party goalposts have been changed.
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They simply change the goalposts and remove that word.
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If they keep moving the goalposts, they should not be surprised when others try to do the same.
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Does he realise that he seems to move the goalposts every time he is asked a question about victimised miners?
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The extent to which the goalposts have been moved is absurd.
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There should be no changing of the goalposts and, most importantly, there must be consistency of regulation.
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They wrecked the goalposts, tore up the turf and removed it.
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What chance does the motor manufacturing industry have when we keep moving the goalposts.
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He asked whether the independent body would be able to move the goalposts without any political scrutiny.
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Dangerous goalposts could still be in use as we sit here now.
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The standard may give us a safe product, but how do we ensure that goalposts are used properly and safely?
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Local authorities are responsible for the design and maintenance of their own facilities, including goalposts and other sports equipment.
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The goalposts topple forward when someone swings on or applies pressure to the crossbar.
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The goalposts were moved after the research was under way.
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In other words, this changing of the goalposts will not end tonight.
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The goalposts have been moved in order to prove that we have achieved targets.
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The bank manager cannot be regarded as loyal if he has to change the goalposts with each and every economic fluctuation.
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First, there is the way in which the district health authorities have to play into constantly moving goalposts.
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Where once there were jumpers in the park, now there are goalposts, good-quality training and decent kits, thanks to the foundation's work.
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They are somewhat bitter because it seems that the productivity goalposts are being moved.
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The removal of the goalposts is disappointing to the teams that regularly used the ground for weekend sports.
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Governments can always make up new definitions of good causes, thereby moving the additionality goalposts.
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They need to know not only where but what the goalposts are.
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The goalposts have been moved, but not exactly in the way suggested.
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On that basis we shall consider whether we are actually standing on the same playing field let alone deciding where the goalposts are.
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We now have to tackle the new phenomenon of final salary pension schemes and the moving of goalposts.
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Now, however, the goalposts seem to have been moved.
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However, that figure includes full-size, permanent equipment as well as mobile goalposts, and by no means all those incidents were caused by faulty equipment.
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Even if we get the standard and make things better for the future, dangerous goalposts could still be in use all around the country.
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Why have the goalposts been moved on auditor liability?
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We want some certainty, and you can't move the goalposts.
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The report contains no snide attacks on teachers or suggestions that the goalposts have been moved and that tests are less rigorous.
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They do not work if one keeps moving the goalposts.
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In that same stadium, men have been strung up from the goalposts to die.
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One of the most iniquitous things that a regulator can do is to move the goalposts during the period of an agreement.
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They have not so much moved the goalposts in the course of their consideration of the matter as changed their jerseys.
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The phrase that he used was that we are moving the goalposts long after the expenditure has been made.
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He has moved the goalposts of a five-minute late arrival to a 10-minute late arrival.
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At each stage, the goalposts move further.
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We have not changed the goalposts.
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The truth is that that family are a symptom of how far we have gone in generous social benefits and show clearly how the goalposts of poverty have moved.
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Why move the goalposts now?
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They have moved the goalposts.
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The goalposts are being moved.
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The goalposts would still be moving.
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He has moved the goalposts.
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We have not moved the goalposts.
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The goalposts have moved so significantly that we take comforts for granted today, which we would never have taken for granted 10 or more years ago.
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There is a real danger of moving the goalposts, thereby undermining the confidence that is so essential for delivering what we want across the range, especially on renewables.
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The standard will not cover existing goalposts.
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They keep moving the goalposts.
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The potential purchasers did not say that, the goalposts were moved again and everything was done to discourage them, no doubt in the hope that they would go away.
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The goalposts have been moved.
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Has he any comment on that moving of the goalposts and the barriers that are being put in the way of the court at every stage?
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The football turnstile analogy has been used, but the football pitch analogy is more common; you cannot have both sets of goalposts at the same end.
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Clause 20 moves the goalposts.
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I am tempted to say to him that perhaps the only things that do not seem to be fixed are the goalposts in this particular debate.
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To move the goalposts to affect intake arrangements for schools which are full is simply to produce a set of losers to counter-balance any winners there might be.
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We want the system to be bottom up, so that a local fund is available to which people can go for their shirts, goalposts or netballs.
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Often, as they fail to deliver, they move the goalposts—they change the means of assessment—or introduce new targets and plans for 10 years or much longer.
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The goalposts were immediately moved.
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Countless examples can be studied in living creatures, seaboard harbours, great castles and manor houses, pots, bottles, soccer goalposts and pinball machines.
The goalposts seem to be moving further away.
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As far as we are concerned, the goalposts of these measures do not go far enough.
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I would be open to having a discussion, maybe within the health check, on how we set goalposts for the future of our promotion campaigns for our agricultural products.
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The latter might well be feeling cheated, because the goalposts are being moved in the course of the game, as was the case for the budget.
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I believe that the message has got through and that public opinion has understood that this 50th anniversary is a positive goalpost and that we must continue our efforts.
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Both applications were encouraged, but then the goalposts changed.
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I recognise that we are moving the goalposts back in the hope that the game can be completed.
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We are putting the goalposts exactly where they belong and where everybody thought they were since kick-off.
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Please do not make matters worse by changing the bureaucratic goalposts, too.
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The new standard will not overcome the main problem, which is the use of homemade or adapted goalposts.
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I regard it as a priority to make progress on minimum standards for mobile goalposts.
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Now, however, they are moving the goalposts and that is what is causing the problem.
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We are trying to keep the goalposts where they were, but in this case the interpretation of the offside rule has been a complication.
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