In 2014 the outgoing Environment Agency chair badger cull he had been responsible for, Paterson famously replied that " the badgers have moved the goalposts ."
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A comparable foul in American football is the palpably unfair act, though it would not cover moving the goalposts, which are anchored into the ground.
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"We assumed he was moving the goalposts, and he was, " said Sen . Thomas H . Kean Jr ., a Republican who sponsored stronger legislation.
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The originator has moved the goalposts several times first of all claiming that the text was controversial, then it was biased, then it " may be " misleading.
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As such, FLC temporarily bowed to the whims of MOS editors who simply moved the goalposts ( it seemed ) for alt text, only to remove it not long after.
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According to " Moving The Goalposts " by Rob Jovanovic the 1929-30 team of Sheffield Wednesday F . C . is statistically the greatest side English side in history.
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Moving the goalposts in this way also leads me to doubt that you're presenting an argument you sincerely believe .-- talk ) 19 : 08, 20 June 2012 ( UTC)
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Nyhan also said that labeling institutions " death panels " for denying " coverage at a system level for specific treatments or drugs " was an attempt to " move the goalposts of the debate ."
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And Qworty : I stated that you moved the goalposts-- you did, but I welcome your attempt to do so this time, and that you were unqualified to comment on this subject, which was blatantly obvious.
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Moving the goalposts may also refer to feature creep, in which the completion of a product like software is not acknowledged because an evolving list of required features changes over time, which in extreme cases may even require rewriting the entire program.
