Short Circuiting

By short-circuiting overly predictable outcomes, we make more room for surprise, creativity, and mystery. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

These wisdom traditions knew that something needed to be done to keep trickster from short-circuiting or wiretapping your communication line with the holy. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

History suggests that short-circuiting the environmental review process not only leads to grave consequneces – but public cynicism and years of litigation. ❋ Rocky Kistner (2011)

With Ford short-circuiting the well earned justice for Nixon, the Republican Party lived to breed far more evil figures than Nixon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cheever had a talent for perverting, short-circuiting, and canceling out every kind and decent impulse he had. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The legislation is the latest in a series of recent bills generally aimed at short-circuiting lawsuits from environmental groups opposed to seeing an end to federal wolf protections. ❋ AP (2010)

The Department of Justice said in a statement that it asked the court to reconsider its order "to avoid short-circuiting the repeal process established by Congress during the final stages of the implementation of the repeal." ❋ Unknown (2011)

It appears the fire was started by a faulty lamp short-circuiting, something like that. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)

"Smogpunk" can help us divest steampunk of its peculiarly romantic overtones, that idealizing and redemption of the Industrial Revolution, that short-circuiting of what ought to be dystopian, by drawing attention to the true byproduct and consequence of all that steam ... namely smog. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

Do you propose short-circuiting the democratic process? ❋ Unknown (2009)

One has to wonder about the possibility of replicating similar emotional expressions in real time, you know, like the lack of attentiveness given to matters of the heart, the short-circuiting of our feelings, the dis-ease we might experience as a result of having to spend too much time ruminating on stale "statuses" that have already provoked thought and emotion. ❋ Darnell L. Moore (2011)

One certified progressive, Joe Klein, has had the courage to make the case against the unions' attempted short-circuiting of democracy, and for Walker's legislation. ❋ Unknown (2011)