I'm sure there are games that advocate a certain political issue, but they're generally going to be lame games, and if they're no fun to play, they're not really going to be effective.
Speaking after their meeting, John Kelly said they told the cardinal that they considered him to be "a lame duck leader".
The sheep were put down last month when a lorry was stopped at the port and the animals were found to be sick and lame.
Forty four sheep were put down at Ramsgate in September when a lorry was stopped at the port and the animals were found to be sick and lame.
It is hard to imagine, moreover, that the three Senators who are expected to be seated in time for the lame-duck session will be in a position to make informed decisions about this treaty.
Thus our collective financial fate is likely to be left to the actions of a lame duck Congress.
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Because as it now stands, the decision will probably have to be made in a lame-duck session, under an old Congress.
And the immediate focus is going to be what we need to get done during the lame-duck session.
But all that will just be a warm-up for what promises to be an awful year-end when lame-duck lawmakers will face their own version of an ugly triple witching hour.
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And, alas, a stable giant that could be playing a supportive role, Japan, appears to be suffocating itself with more of the lame governance that lost it the decade of the 1990s.
If they do decide to leave Mr Martin with his cart, their ruling is likely to be on grounds narrow enough to avoid a herd of asthmatic marathon runners or lame basketballers hobbling in his wake.
The 43 sheep that were destroyed were examined by vets who found that one had a broken leg, another was so sick it had to be put down, and 41 were severely lame.
The title, a lame Nietzschean knock-off, seems to be seeking a transvaluation of the word mess.
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It would be wrong for a lame duck in Washington to tie the hands of the next administration on such matters.
The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.
But that is a lame excuse: it should be much easier to count bodies than to put a value on diverse sorts of economic output.
In Spain national elections do not have to be held until next March, but Prime Minister Zapatero is a lame duck.
Should Romney win the election, any attempts by a lame-duck president to ram through a trade deal will be met with fierce opposition from Congressional Republicans and a near-certain veto threat by a new administration.
We're not exactly sure what makes these virus transistors so special, but apparently the transistors they've built out of the nano-coated strands, and sandwiched between two electrodes, are easy to switch between ON and OFF states, since they don't need to build up a charge at a lame-o capacitor before they can be switched.
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There is just no rational reason to think that lift will be any easier in the next Congress than in the current lame duck Congress, where our elected officials are supposedly more free to do the right thing, freed from electoral consequences.
The recent election strengthened the hand of those who want to extend all the tax rates at current levels, but the lame duck Congress may be a little cranky and not in an accommodating mood.
Would he be concerned at all about a major immigration bill passed, finalized, sent to his desk from lame duck?
The White House is pushing to enact several pieces of legislation during the lame-duck session, and Barkley's vote could be important because of the narrow partisan divide in the Senate.
Republicans might be willing to resolve the looming problem of raising the federal debt ceiling by having it increased during the current lame duck session rather than waiting for the spring.
The election call, of course, makes Barak a lame duck in respect to any new peace initiatives with the Palestinians, although the Israeli leader will be inclined to pursue dialogue over a political solution if his plan is to make the election a referendum on peace.
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