pillar to post

see from pillar to post.

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Again, she says she was passed from pillar to post, and that getting help was a fight.

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The Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the plan will bring down "devastating hospital waiting lists and stop patients going from pillar to post to get treated".

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He added the number of parties involved could be "depressing for a shared owner; that feeling of being passed from pillar to post and being fobbed off at different parts of the process".

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"Their voices are not being heard - they are being thrown from pillar to post around all the different organisations but nobody is actually listening to what is happening to them," she said.

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“The reality of how this works,” Kavanaugh said, “is Chevron itself ushers in shocks to the system every four or eight years when a new administration comes in—whether it’s communications law or securities law, competition law or environmental law, it goes from pillar to post.”