She and her Conservative deputy Richard Bacon have formed an effective "bad-cop, bad-cop" partnership.
Last Tuesday she declared that she opposed censure--which she later called a "cop-out"--and was leaning toward impeachment.
An extension of the Protocol was supposed to be approved at the COP-15 in Copenhagen two years ago.
As a substitute for an account of what happened, it is a cop-out.
Allowing selection within mixed-ability schools is what used to be called a cop-out, and is now known as the third way.
But, when Congress crosses the line into undermining the promise of the president's chief diplomat, the good-cop-bad-cop routine becomes a liability.
You could call it a variation on the old hard-cop, soft-cop routine.
Then determine if your fears are legitimate, or just cop-outs and distortions.
Yet they also feel that passively turning over billions to a foundation of the sort left behind by Rockefeller or Ford is a cop-out.
The Kyoto Protocol emerged from the Doha COP-18 negotiations with an extension up to 2020, but much weakened with only a few developed countries agreeing to commit funds.
"This is a cop-out by a significant number of European governments, including the UK - it means yet more dither and delay while our bee populations plummet, " he added.
The policy brief can be obtained in hard copy at the UNESCO, UNEP and SEI stands at the COP-17 in Durban, through request to UNESCO or online (.pdf).
Unfortunately, his explanation of skinhead hatred as mere insanity feels like a cop-out, and protracted stock-footage sequences strain to connect a wider view of British unrest to the intimate story.
The first is a cop-out, since not making estimates is not going to make uncertainty go away, and the second will leave you on the sidelines with any young, growth company.
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And in every case, every one, you could trace the successful return of that child to someone -- a family member, a cop -- who just decided to never give up hope.
Even if the U.S. lifts sanctions prohibiting giants like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips (nyse: COP - news - people ) from returning to Iran, "no one will invest, " Fesharaki says.
The CIA must now conduct interrogations according to the rules of the Army Field Manual, which prohibits coercive techniques, threats and promises, and the good-cop bad-cop routines used in police stations throughout America.
Without significant investment at the state level, the public risk the worst of all possible worlds: the expectation that there will be a cop-on-the-beat, policing managers and their funds, without there actually being one.
"Black is a cop-out, " Ms. Cosgrave says definitively.
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When the housing market became truly chaotic in 2004--06, and bankers were doing things they had never done before, the Fed--as road cop--had the power to turn on its siren and pull those bankers over.
Leaving the Scottish boundary commissioners to decide the right number is a cop-out: their task is to draw lines on maps according to instructions given them by politicians, not to make highly charged political decisions.
ExxonMobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ), ConocoPhillips (nyse: COP - news - people ), Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ) and other big oil companies are probably safe this go-round.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- A veteran Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy and his younger partner sat tensely in their car Thursday in the same patrol district where a former LAPD cop -- now on the run, accused in three killings -- used to work.
But the structure seems sound, and it isn't giving anything away to disclose what viewers almost immediately learn via flashback: That Nick was an ex-cop serving 25-years at Sing Sing, where he fought with other inmates and revealed to the prison psychiatrist that, yes, he thinks about killing himself all the time.
Consider police officer Troy Smith, who is serving a similar role, albeit in a different field, on the set of the post-Katrina cop drama K-Ville.
Saint tried the good-cop approach, holding a kite-flying event in a park, after surveys showed that residents felt strongly about energy independence, and giving pinwheels to tots at a July 4th parade to promote wind power.
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