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Moving the goalposts (or shifting the goalposts) is a metaphor, derived from goal-based sports such as football and hockey, that means to change the rule or criterion ("goal") of a process or competition while it is still in progress, in such a way that the new goal offers one side an advantage or disadvantage.
The expression "moving the goalposts", which means to make a set of goals more difficult just as they are being met, is often used in business but is derived from association football. [30] It is commonly used to imply bad faith on the part of those setting goals for others to meet, by arbitrarily making additional demands just as the initial ...
In games where a ball may be legally caught (e.g. baseball) or carried (e.g. American football), a player (or the player's team) may be penalized for dropping the ball; for example, an American football player who drops a ball ("fumbles") risks having the ball recovered and carried by the other team; in baseball, a player who drops a thrown or ...
The South Goalposts, Part 1: The crossbar. Somehow, fans managed to get the south goalpost — the one McGrath’s kick had sailed through — up and out of the ground, gooseneck and all.
For example, the Harvard Business School reports that increasing customer retention rates by just 5% increases profits by at least 25% and up to 95%. ... They kept moving the goalposts every time ...
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There is a goal centered on each end line, with a crossbar 10 feet (3.0 m) above the ground and goalposts 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m) apart (in college and the NFL) extending at least 35 feet (11 m) above the crossbar. Between the goal lines, additional lines span the width of the field at 5-yard intervals.
This was release and relief, pure and simple. Tennessee had vanquished Alabama for the first time in 15 years, had come through huge on the national stage for the first time in a generation.