(especially in the context of health-care funding) the practice of focusing on the potentially negative effects of a particular policy in order to influence public opinion.
he accused Labour councils of shroud-waving over spending cuts
as modifierthe government's shroud-waving critics
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But at least, they assume, the reward will be a grateful NHS with no trouble from shroud-waving nurses and doctors.
Maybe we grew too ready to ignore the shroud-waving politicians and doom-mongering police chiefs.
"This is not shroud-waving," he pointed out.
The years that followed were sour with complaints of underfunded public services, shroud-waving health providers and food banks.
Yet he was not above his own shroud-waving, warning that any cut in his budget would be "exploited".
If they could be destroyed in days or weeks and the hungry fed, I would plead guilty to every charge of alarmism and shroud-waving.
Many decent doctors blench at the crude and dishonest shroud-waving carried out in their name.
Until then, the danger is not Tory shroud-waving or Lib Dem posturing but Labour doubt.
So the member should stop ambulance-chasing and shroud-waving, because that is all it is.
He looks a bit like one of those people off the old shroud-waving kinds of American crime shows, chasing one little ambulance after another.
He was clearly thinking that he would rather deal with factory closures than the ambulance chasing and shroud-waving which characterises most political debate and media coverage of Health in this country.
But the NHS already has its bid in, with shroud-waving warnings of future black holes catching BBC headlines last week.
One hesitates to do the shroud-waving argument, but we survive because we haven't had any big outbreaks.
Privatisation contracts are already being refinanced and sold in the market, leaving hospital owners with no long-term responsibility for care and managers "shroud-waving" at ministers for extra money.