| Instead we seem inescapably on course to end up with a lame duck park, with a mangled boundary and pitifully truncated planning powers. |
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| Yet, without strong and committed patrons, there is a real danger that he could become an ineffectual lame duck quite soon. |
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| No, I think the analysis of this is kind of a little bit of a payback for the exaggerated notion of a lame duck. |
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| It was ever a lame duck, and throwing money at it to save votes and curry favour with trade unions was never going to work. |
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| The Department of Homeland Security, most observers agree, has been a lame duck, a victim of the rush of resources to Iraq. |
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| But even from the vague hints he throws out, I think we may rest assured it will not be the last quack of a lame duck. |
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| Once known as the Bulldozer, he increasingly looks like a lame duck instead. |
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| One of the most persistent myths in American politics is the media-fueled concept of the lame duck. |
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| He's a lame duck who looks very vulnerable and won't even be able to exact much retribution if he manages to win. |
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| The president has a narrow window to turn his presidency around before people conclude he is a lame duck and no longer relevant. |
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| But with this pope still up and about, and a lame duck at that, the old sense of decorum may not apply. |
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| Up to now, the biotechnology sector has been the lame duck as regards legislation facilitating economic support. |
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| With members of Congress itching to gavel their lame duck session to a close, the biggest hurdle remains a catch-all spending bill that's now weeks overdue. |
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| He would be a lame duck and he does not need that sort of hassle. |
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| The phrase lame duck was being bandied about to describe the manager, though since he had banned all contact with the press, never in his earshot. |
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| My Group will not be party to efforts to paint the Prodi Commission as a lame duck. |
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| For many years the federal government has been artificially supporting this lame duck. |
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| One source close to RBOS told this newspaper the bank was not interested in buying a lame duck bank to further its ambitious strategy in the Irish market. |
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| Honest Abe offered patronage appointments that guaranteed that lame duck politicians could live out their days in secure federal jobs. |
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| I know that things are difficult at the moment in Spain because a minister is being questioned and the government is a lame duck, but there will soon be another government and, with this, a new hope. |
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| We cannot stand nine more months of this lame duck damage. |
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| Every working Canadian has an equal opportunity to watch his or her hard earned dollars squandered by a lame duck Prime Minister and a wannabe Prime Minister. |
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| As you said yesterday in Le Monde, in the worst case scenario, we still have a few months to wait and I think that nobody in this House can tolerate the fact that the Union will be a lame duck in the months to come. |
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| These activities have undermined the impartiality of the office of the President of the Commission and have ensured that the Commission has come to be seen as something of a lame duck. |
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| It is the hope of the PC Party that it will not be lame duck legislation and that it will be a first step in leading to improved ethical standards and parliamentary reform in Canada. |
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| George Bush may be a lame duck, but he still wields veto powers. |
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| I stayed because Nexans was no lame duck. The Group is an ambitious market leader that makes acquisitions and offers possibilities you won't find elsewhere. |
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| Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions. |
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| The lame duck at the top of the state government is having a pretty good run. |
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| The competition has always carried a lame duck but ingloriousness did not permanently attach because it was shared. |
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| One thing I hope people have seen in this lame duck is, I am persistent. |
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| That would normally bode well for Senate passage, except the lame duck session will have some much more contentious, much bigger issues taking up its very limited time. |
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| They have branded Mr Hunt a lame duck and Mr Cameron is widely expected to ditch his Culture Secretary in a reshuffle after Mr Hunt has overseen the Olympic Games. |
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| Among the findings, small businesses overwhelmingly support enactment of tax extenders during the Lame Duck. |
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