Instead, we got the flimsiest recovery in half a century.
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I tried to wear the flimsiest things in the closet.
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Visas are rejected on the flimsiest grounds, and appeals are difficult.
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Parenthood based on the flimsiest of rationales; and he has repeatedly dissented
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He has laid only the flimsiest groundwork for such a drastic swivel.
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Pretending that he "won't" call her a bimbo is the flimsiest possible evasion.
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The romantic ideal was so powerful that it held together the flimsiest of plots.
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Your blogger is all in favour of immigration but this seems the flimsiest of arguments.
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But Bill Clinton's impeachment already normalized its use against Democrats on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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A pro-democracy intellectual suspended from China's version of Twitter on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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Roughly a third of all Puerto Rican women were sterilized after providing only the flimsiest consent.
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Anyone can be sent, under the flimsiest of reasons, to "re-education camps," according to Hoja.
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Perhaps the flimsiest: that Shakespeare's famous star-crossed teenagers have come to define our understanding of love.
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Unfortunately, it turned out to be one of the flimsiest pieces of shit I've ever laid eyes on.
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The argument that the Democratic House wouldn't be able to focus on substantive legislation is the flimsiest rationale.
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If communities are defined in some sense by their boundaries, online communities have only the flimsiest of boundaries.
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Domestic servants and farm workers face some of the highest levels of harassment and some of the flimsiest protections.
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He has directed his administration to deport people on the flimsiest of excuses, often separating families in the process.
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The court system has given itself carte blanche to overturn any Trump initiative, even on the flimsiest legal grounds.
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Jargon acts not only to euphemize but to license, setting insiders against outsiders and giving the flimsiest notions a scientific aura.
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When Democratic policies prevail despite all of that, they use apparatchik-stuffed courts to strike down legislation on the flimsiest of grounds.
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The government's antitrust challenge to this $85 billion deal was one of the flimsiest assaults against a corporate merger in recent memory.
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Meanwhile, Brady spent the run-up to the Super Bowl using the world's flimsiest excuse to avoid talking about why he supports Trump.
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This is 1933, after all, and a male head of household could have members of his family committed under the flimsiest of pretexts.
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The fourth explanation is the flimsiest: the idea, contained in a dossier compiled by private investigators, that Russia has compromising material on Trump.
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But aside from the realization that catalyzes the events of the series, the story is maybe the flimsiest part of the whole series anyway.
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Within that same span, they have also engaged in the flimsiest and most modern of the controversies this NBA season has supplied to date.
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Pelosi could have sent the articles to the Senate the day that her caucus voted for the flimsiest and most partisan impeachment in history.
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She described it as the three little pigs: The veins are the wood, and the lymph is the straw, the weakest and the flimsiest.
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" Lunded added: "Even if Trump can be cajoled into approving it, it would have only the flimsiest American commitment imaginable, and that's going into an election.
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It is often invoked against religious minorities on the flimsiest of grounds; evidence can rarely be challenged in court for fear of repeating the alleged blasphemy.
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On Twitter, Soros haters trace virtually every national trauma, as well as every setback for conservatives, to him, or anything with the flimsiest connection to him.
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Weed is an aphrodisiac, wine can improve libido, and beer can make dicks harder—we've heard it all, from the best researched to the flimsiest of claims.
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Edward is already the flimsiest Pygmalion in the pantheon: He throws money at everything, so even his lady-construction project is outsourced to shopkeeps and hotel staff.
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Set in a fictional performing-arts school (mostly played by a conservatory in Bucharest) in a fantastical Manhattan, the story strings pearls of performance on the flimsiest of plots.
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But soon she stumbles into other, more demanding work, ferrying infants born into bondage from one side of the Ohio River to the other in the flimsiest of rowboats.
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Do you want to live in a country where the Justice Department can use the flimsiest of arguments to justify declining to defend the law — or even to enforce it?
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The US has the opportunity to be an instrumental voice in what is prescribed in South East Asia, yet, for the flimsiest of reasons, may be forced to stand back.
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Parents "can use the flimsiest of excuses to keep their children home, so it's important to have cheap, reliable energy, like solar, that will not expense the parents," he said.
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Instead, Palestinian Jerusalemites only have tenuous residency rights in the city, which are often revoked by Israel on the flimsiest of pretexts to minimize the Palestinian presence in the city.
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In a vicious housing market, where the median monthly rent is $3,20133 and landlords reject rental applications for the flimsiest of reasons, trans people are at especially high risk of homelessness.
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His election marked the collapse of a moral stand that always had the flimsiest of evidential underpinnings; voters were now free to vote for the best players of the Selig era.
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Should Trump proceed on such dubious grounds, however, it could open a Pandora's box of tariffs by allowing WTO members to follow suit with tariffs based on the flimsiest of justifications.
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The charge is usually a vaguely defined accusation of "terrorism" that can be based on the flimsiest of evidence or anonymous denunciation by a neighbor, co-worker or even family member.
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But that does not mean China is any less assertive in the 1.4m square-mile (3.5m square-km) sea which, on the flimsiest grounds, it claims pretty much in its entirety.
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The flimsiest sections of the novel were the swipes of social satire, aimed at easy targets (how difficult is it, really, to bring helicopter parents crashing down?), and the movie follows suit.
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They were simply an opportunity to spend time with a good storyteller, a droll soul with the skills to turn even the flimsiest bits of real-life anecdotage into pleasurable reading material.
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A critic for the Orlando Sentinel called the film about a group of delinquents who go undercover and try to bring down a drug ring, "one of the flimsiest excuses for a movie."
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This legislation is not about preserving legitimate rights of way or anything else: It is an open license for those wanting new roads through wild areas to concoct claims on the flimsiest pretext.
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It focused on training cops to avoid the kinds of confrontations that lead to officers shooting unarmed civilians—many of whom, as critics point out, are often stopped on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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The result is that her abuser — a 34-year-old modern literature professor called "Master, or Master Aikens, or M," is the flimsiest part of "His Favorites," a shadow rather than a substantive presence.
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While he voted to uphold most of the act, he wrote an opinion striking down, on the flimsiest of constitutional grounds, the Medicaid expansion provision that required states to offer Medicaid to more poor Americans.
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Its creation story, which involved the founder wanting to help his fiancée trade Pez dispensers with like-minded collectors, has only the flimsiest link to human connection — and is in any case a myth invented by publicists.
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With only nine days remaining until Britain is set to leave the European Union with no negotiated exit deal, Brussels had extended the flimsiest of lifelines, allowing a brief extension if Parliament would get behind her deal.
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"We are tired of Muslim-looking passengers being removed from flights for the flimsiest reasons, under a cryptic claim of 'security'," said Ahmed Rehab of the the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is representing the family.
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But between the lines of the 8-0 decision lies an implicit message for the new administration: the courts will not bow down to executive determinations that long-time residents can be deported for the flimsiest of causes.
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The 608-page document argues that the key conclusions of the official probe are backed by the flimsiest of evidence — often little more than the confessions of detainees, many of whom have since filed credible complaints of torture.
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The jump from that to Limón's "The Unsung: 'Tecumseh,'" a 1970 solo danced in silence by Ross Katen, is puzzling; this isn't Limón the dance-architectural heir of Humphrey, it's Limón yoking his flimsiest and most earnest sides.
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But given that the sentimental Victorian-era festival from which the holiday derives was based on the flimsiest of premises, there's little reason not to think of the day as an excuse to buy something nice for yourself.
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When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Tituss Burgess stopped by The Late Late Show Monday night, Corden coaxed him into singing on the flimsiest of pretexts: Burgess has a high voice, but fellow guest John Stamos has a low voice.
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Since then, some 22019,000 government opponents, Islamist and non-Islamist, have been jailed — some on the flimsiest of charges (a 19-year-old held for wearing an anti-government T-shirt has spent the last two years behind bars).
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Although neutrinos are the lightest and flimsiest and perhaps most fickle particles of the universe, they are also among the most numerous, outnumbering the protons and electrons that make up us and ordinary matter by a billion to one.
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After General Hyon's execution, Secretary of State John Kerry denounced North Korea's "grotesque, grisly, horrendous, public displays of executions on a whim and fancy by the leader against people who were close to him, sometimes on the flimsiest of excuses."
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These theories, often echoed on Fox News and by the president's tweets, have only the flimsiest basis in reality: The phrase "secret society" was used as an obvious joke in a text exchange between two FBI agents after the 2016 election.
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I feel sad and betrayed, first by my nephew, who didn't accept my explanation, but mostly by my sibling who, for the first time, has failed to support me, and who has convicted and condemned me without a hearing on the very flimsiest of circumstantial evidence.
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Nunes's largely anonymous Twitter critics cast him as a shameless partisan hack—someone who abuses power and the legal process to injure his political opponents, who plays fast and loose with the truth to advance partisan goals, and who's prone to conspiratorial thinking on the flimsiest of grounds.
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And in a sense, it's useful that he brought up perhaps the flimsiest and most ridiculous anti-Clinton allegation of all, because fully understanding exactly how flimsy and ridiculous it is helps you understand the kind of basic siege mentality with which Hillary Clinton treats the press and its suggestions of scandal.
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If you are trying to find the mining colony of Lustrum based on the flimsiest of directions, and get lost a maze of false leads and detours, you can easily hit a point where you don't have enough fuel to get back to a home port, or enough food to feed your crew.
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We refuse refugee status on the flimsiest of grounds and send people back to secure places like Darfur, Iraq, and Somalia. It’s perfectly safe, go ahead. Our policy is a stain among the Nordic nations. Shameful.
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S. Schama, p. 626Collection Complète des Lois, Décrets, Ordonnances, Réglements, p. 440 By 2 September, between 520–1,000 people were taken into custody on the flimsiest of warrants. The exact number of those arrested will never be known.
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He wrote that in interpreting the language in the DTA, the majority ignored Supreme Court precedents which established that a statute excluding jurisdiction applies to pending cases unless it has clear language saying it does not. Scalia claimed that the majority had made this interpretation "for the flimsiest of reasons".Mahler, Jonathan (2008). The Challenge: Hamdan v.
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XIII, n° 244, du 31 aôut, p. 572<] On 28 August, the Assembly ordered a curfew for the next two days. On the behest of justice minister Danton, thirty commissioners from the sections were ordered to search in every suspect house for weapons, munition, swords, carriages and horses.S. Schama, p. 626 Before 2 September, between 520–1,000 people were taken into custody on the flimsiest warrants.
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" Russ noted that Bradbury "presents almost everything either in lyrical catalogue or dramatically, and while the lyrical catalogues sometimes fall flat, the dramatic dialogue hardly ever does. This gives his work tremendous immediate presence.""Books", F&SF;, July 1970, p. 46. The New York Times also received Body Electric favorably, saying "Whatever the premise, the author retains an enthusiasm for both the natural world and the supernatural that sends a tingle of excitement through even the flimsiest conceit.
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In 1750, he completed Veiled Truth (also called Modesty or Chastity), a tomb monument dedicated to Cecilia Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona, mother of Raimondo di Sangro. Not only is it a technically inspired work, but the conceit of modesty shielded by the flimsiest of veils creates an alluring but ironic tension, perhaps one somewhat unmerited for a chapel funerary monument, but one that does compel remembrance. Corradini died suddenly on 12 August 1752 in Naples. He was buried there in the parish church of Santa Maria della Rotonda on the same day.
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G. V. Bennett claimed that Walcott's book-length argument was "disastrous": > [Walcott's] methodology was patently at fault. Having created a card-index > of biographical material for individual M.P.s, he attempted on this basis to > allot them to the different political groups of his own theory. One > connection, the 'Newcastle-Pelham-Walpole' faction, clearly had no existence > at all, as any acquaintance with known political correspondence would > reveal. Other groups were inflated by the inclusion of men whose > relationship with the leading political figure was of the flimsiest nature.
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However, when Coutoules is found dead in an escape tunnel, suspicions that there is a traitor living among the POWs die down. In an effort to explain away his death to the Italian captors, Coutoules' body is placed in an abandoned escape tunnel within the camp and the Italians are informed he was suffocated by a roof fall. Based on the flimsiest of evidence, Benucci charges Captain Roger Byfold (Donald Houston) with the murder of Coutoules. It is obvious to the POWs that although Byfold is completely innocent, Benucci will ensure that he is found guilty and executed.
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He then began his counter- attack, commencing legal action against the former minister. In the end, though the law was on his side, the action came to nothing, because the escalation of the war in North America turned Sayre from a defender of liberty, in the mould of John Wilkes, into an enemy alien. Rochford has been blamed, both then and since, for acting in such a manner on the flimsiest of evidence. However, he had in his possession information of a sensitive nature which could not be made public, but which nevertheless gave him reason to hold Sayre in the highest suspicion.
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He gives descriptions of around 120 diseases, writing from his experiences and detailing his adventures as though the book were a travelogue. Though he shows some degree of wisdom regarding pharmacology, his knowledge of medicine is described as being small while his descriptions of some diseases are presented in the "flimsiest fashion" and "outrageous inaccuracies are set down with no little dogmatism". Dover also makes many accusations of prejudice within the College of Physicians and writes several denigrating comments about his colleagues in general. From his assertions in this book Dover acquired the nickname "Doctor Quicksilver".
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Under Robespierre, the committee initiated the Reign of Terror, during which up to 40,000 people were executed in Paris, mainly nobles and those convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal, often on the flimsiest of evidence. Internal tensions at Paris drove the Committee towards increasing assertions of radicalism and increasing suspicions, fueling new terror: A few months into this phase, more and more prominent revolutionaries were being sent to the guillotine by Robespierre and his faction, for example Madame Roland and Georges Danton. Elsewhere in the country, counter- revolutionary insurrections were brutally suppressed. The regime was overthrown in the coup of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) and Robespierre was executed.
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He renamed it Satire as News, and offered it as a graduate seminar at UBC. In explaining the course to Fox News in 2007 he said, "We examine what's gone wrong in the country, not in the relationship we have with politics, but in the relationship we have with mass media." When Radar Online in 2006 skewered Fake News as one of the top 10 "flimsiest classes" offered at an American university, Cutbirth told a reporter from the NYU student paper: "That's great news. It's not every day a slow white guy gets on a list with Tupac," referring to another course on Radar's list, The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur.
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The 2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup was held in New Zealand in January 2010. The tournament was hosted in New Zealand after the ICC took it away from Kenya on the flimsiest of reasons which ridiculed its own mission to spread the game. Kenya were further kicked by the ICC as their side was not allowed to participate as it had not won the African qualifying event - a weakened side had been fielded as at the time, as hosts, they did not need to qualify. As it was, New Zealand did a decent job but crowds were dismal and the group stages were as tediously predictable as in the senior tournament, with the better-funded big nations dominating.
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The novel's setting is closely based on Cwm Croesor in North Wales, where O'Brian and his wife had rented a small cottage in 1946 as an escape from post-war London. The character of Pugh is semi-autobiographical, and his intended monograph The Bestiary Before Isidore of Seville was a subject that O'Brian later said he had himself been working on before the war. According to his step-son and biographer Nikolai Tolstoy, the fiction provided "the flimsiest of veils for [the author's] deepest personal concerns". He notes that Pugh - like O'Brian himself - "sets himself up as a gentleman and adopts a name more appropriate to his improved status, concerning which he resents being questioned".
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Pope Leo XIII had sought to revive the inheritance of Thomas Aquinas, 'the marriage of reason and revelation', as a response to secular 'enlightenment'. Under the pontificate of Pius X neo- Thomism became the blueprint for an approach to theology. Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Pius X's papacy was his vigorous condemnation of what he termed 'Modernists', whom he regarded as dangers to the Catholic faith (see for example his oath against modernism). He also encouraged the formation and efforts of Sodalitium Pianum (or League of Pius V), an anti-Modernist network of informants, which was seen negatively by many people, due to its accusations of heresy against people on the flimsiest evidence.
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It was a world premiere by a non-Irish playwright, at the time something of a novelty in Ireland, and the play was perceived to portray the unprecedented abdication in 1936 of England's King Edward VIII, this still quite fresh in people's minds. Lowe-Porter, known widely then as the authorized English translator for famed German writer Thomas Mann, was quoted at the time saying that "the parallel between this chronicle play and the facts of Edward VIII's abdication are incidental".Irish Times, September 28, 1948 Others saw it quite differently. A reporter for the Manchester Daily Mail said "only the flimsiest of veils separates the stage show from the historic events in England in 1936".
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Margaretta and Katie made very strong statements against Spiritualism: : "That I have been chiefly instrumental in perpetrating the fraud of Spiritualism upon a too-confiding public, most of you doubtless know. The greatest sorrow in my life has been that this is true, and though it has come late in my day, I am now prepared to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God! . . I am here tonight as one of the founders of Spiritualism to denounce it as an absolute falsehood from beginning to end, as the flimsiest of superstitions, the most wicked blasphemy known to the world." – Margaretta Fox Kane, quoted in A.B. Davenport, The Deathblow to Spiritualism, p. 76.
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Beck and Kollberg have their first, short run-in with detective Backlund of the Malmö police force, who lacks the imagination required for his line of work, for which he thinks bureaucracy is a replacement. Also while in Malmö they meet Per Månsson for the first time, he will have a larger roll in later books Einar Rönn is mentioned for the first time but will not appear until the next novel. It might be argued that Beck and his wife are already getting estranged. It only takes the flimsiest amounts of passive-aggressiveness from his superiors to make him give up his holiday, even though both make clear to him that he does not have to go if he does not want to.
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Dudley Dursley is the child of Vernon and Petunia Dursley, and Harry's only cousin. Described as a very large, blond boy (though dark-haired in the films), Dudley is given his way in almost everything, and shows the symptoms of a spoiled brat. Dudley is a cold-hearted bully and the leader of a gang of thugs with whom he regularly beats up Harry and younger children on the flimsiest of excuses. For this purpose, he is described early in the first novel as the reason for Harry being friendless before enrolling at Hogwarts, as even though Harry was good at sports and got good grades, he was the favorite victim of Dudley's bullying, rendering classmates too scared to admit to liking him.
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Cultural critic Geoffrey O'Brien further details Williams's "chief characteristics": > a powerfully evoked natural setting, revelation of character through sexual > attitudes and behavior, and a conversational narrative voice that makes the > flimsiest tale seem worth telling.... His narrator is generally an ordinary, > curiously amoral fellow fueled by greed and lust but curiously detached from > his own crimes. [A number of his books] are variations on the same > serviceable plot: boy meets money, boy gets money, boy loses money. Each of > them hinges on a woman, and it is in the intricacies of the man-woman > relationship that Williams finds his real subject.... [O]ften the woman is > both more intelligent and—- even when she is a criminal—- more aware of > moral complexities than the affectless hero.O'Brien (1997), pp. 143–144.
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He was attainted by Henry VII's first Parliament (November–December 1485), and suffered the forfeiture of all his lands. He was pardoned in July 1486 and given a small annuity, but the attainder was not reversed even in part until 1489, and even then he was permitted only to inherit the property his grandfather had received through his second marriage. It has been suggested that Henry's treatment of him was exceptionally severe, perhaps reflecting his position of power under Richard III. On the other hand Henry VII strove throughout his reign to discipline the nobility by imposing on them severe financial penalties, often on the flimsiest of pretexts, to such an extent that in the last years of his reign the nobility have been described as living in a perpetual atmosphere of "watchfulness, fear and suspicion".
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On the eve of the historic health reform vote in Congress, on March 17, 2010, Reuters published a story by Waas, detailing how one of the nation's largest insurance companies, Assurant, had a "company policy of targeting policyholders with HIV" for cancelation of their policies once they were diagnosed. The story asserted: "A computer program and algorithm targeted every policyholder recently diagnosed with HIV for an automatic fraud investigation, as the company searched for any pretext to revoke their policy ... [T]heir insurance policies often were canceled on erroneous information, the flimsiest of evidence, or for no good reason at all." The Obama administration and members of Congress cited the report as a reason health care reform was needed. In a column appearing only a few nights before the vote, following up on his own blog post on the same subject from two days earlier, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote that the actions of Assurant were representative of the "vileness of our current system" and illustrated why reform was necessary.
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