tail-chasing

All this financial tail-chasing is the inevitable consequence of a challenge facing China's banking and political leaders.

Beijing Can't Use Its Reserves to Save the Banks Carl E. Walter and 2011

McCains concern about them having more is tail-chasing nonsense.

McCain: CIA secrecy story just beginning 2009

It seems Bear got a hold of my wifes new prescrition of diet pills, and now was a tail-chasing, unstoppable force that needed to be reckonded with.

Appetite for Destruction: When Good Dogs Chew 2009

It seems Bear got a hold of my wifes new prescrition of diet pills, and now was a tail-chasing, unstoppable force that needed to be reckonded with.

Appetite for Destruction: When Good Dogs Chew 2009

I have seen too many worthwhile lives descend into some kind of obsessive-compulsive tail-chasing because the parents have now summarily decided that they want grandchildren and bugger what it means for their daughters.

Trying to explain highly-strung Asian women — Fusion Despatches 2010

My question is: Do you think this proposal would be more methodical and just than the present tail-chasing and name-calling?

Clinton Campaign Manager To Obama Team: Help Get Michigan And Florida Counted 2009

The Blue Dogs 'official caucus website answers with rhetorical tail-chasing in which "centrism" is so exalted that it justifies any position the centrist takes by virtue of the label itself.

Thomas Frank: 'Blue Dogs' or Corporate Shills? 2009

I'm not seeing the "slide down the railings at the local library that's only open until noon" move that skateboarders have, nor the "sweep up a wall of snow, fly into the air, spin around like a tail-chasing kitten, land next to a huffy skier" move that snowboarders have.

Alt Text: Powerbocks Steal Dork Prize From Segways 2008

The tail-chasing experience left PetsMart "frustrated and disappointed."

Cash And 'Cat 5' Chaos 2008

It was a centralized tail-chasing approach which was inherently defeated by the distributed non-centralized nature of Usenet.

"Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed." Ann Althouse 2008