Mr Walsh said to "move the goalposts" in this way halfway through the GCSE English course seemed totally unfair.
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"The rules have changed and the goalposts of risk have changed, " says Paul Galant, chief executive of Citigroup Inc.
Indeed, the liberal goalposts for Medicare reform keep moving, every time Republicans come out in favor of a Democratic proposal.
When we get back to Europe, Michelin will come back into it but for now Bridgestone have moved the goalposts a bit.
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"We did everything that was asked of us and then the goalposts were moved at the last minute, " said Birmingham manager Alex McLeish.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said the government had "dithered and delayed" on hospital infections and only hit the target by "moving the goalposts".
And yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by countless federal regulations.
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At the time, Mr Taylor said he was "devastated" at the inspection result and claimed Ofsted had "moved the goalposts" in how judgements were made.
They are going back because they have no other option, but the two goalposts are very far apart and have been for a long time.
And she questions the destabilising impact of "moving the goalposts again".
It kicks it squarely through the goalposts with a mind-blowing story set in an alternate reality that may be only a short trip from our real-world track.
Unless you've bought an already up-and-running team, you'll also need an 85-foot by 198-foot swath of appropriately marked-out AstroTurf, two goalposts, rebound nets and rubber sideline barriers.
Football fans would be outraged if every time one team was preparing to kick a field goal the officials moved the goalposts further back, making it harder to score.
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It began licensing compounds like pagoclone and trospium, which is licensed from Europe's Madaus AG , in the hopes that one of them would make it through the FDA's goalposts.
For much of the past few generations, the debate over balancing the federal budget has been a central feature of every presidential campaign, but over time, the goalposts have moved.
According to David Latham at the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, a better measure of the project's success would be to acknowledge that it has shifted the goalposts of scientific debate.
The UN talks here are due to conclude on Friday, and to set out some goalposts as governments look to the next UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year.
They also claim that countries that acquire a reputation for moving the goalposts may find that when times are tougher investors will think twice before agreeing to new deals although if that were really true, they would have left many of the countries concerned long ago.
You have been able time and again to put down important international goalposts, injecting issues such as disarmament, the question of how to shape our relations with the countries of the Middle East, and last but not least, the Middle East -- the solution to the Middle East conflict with new dynamism.
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