While they may not force the government to change course, at least the Australian electorate cannot indefinitely put its head in the sand and pretend it has absolutely no idea what is going on.
Does the ant put on a little helmet and pretend it has any control over where it lands?
"The court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has". Miller told Fox News that the new travel ban would have the same effect as the old one.
As Hawaii federal district court Judge Derrick K. Watson said when he granted Hawaii's motion to block the Muslim ban, "the Court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters down, and pretend it has not seen what it has".
A doctor who interviewed me in jail found I was not competent to help my defense lawyer, but then the judge wrote a report saying I was competent and pretended it had come from the doctor.
A doctor who interviewed me in jail found I was not competent to help my defence lawyer, but then the judge wrote a report saying I was competent and pretended it had come from the doctor.
I remember at school when I was six, telling some horrid fantasy - and pretending it had actually happened - about me having had a grisly operation in the holidays, describing how my navy-blue trousers had turned so red with blood that everyone assumed they actually were red trousers.
He said: "For him to claim that what is going on Iraq now would have happened anyway, even if the invasion of Iraq had not happened, is a completely pointless attempt to airbrush out what happened 11 years ago and somehow pretend it has got no connection with what is happening today".
Since that sunny day in Downing Street when the flowers were in bloom, no one, and certainly not Clegg himself, would pretend it has been easy.
Neither she nor I had done anything wrong, but the whole thing had to be filed away in the event of future litigation, which of course never transpired because both the student and I pretended it hadn't happened.
