Sentences with phrase «crimp in»

But this has come screeching to a halt as the dollar has strengthened in recent months and the recession has gone global, putting a crimp in international travel.

Large swaths of empty space at the old Carson Pirie Scott building, now called Sullivan Center, and at the unfinished and legally entangled Block 37 mall, have put a crimp in State Street's comeback.

Frankel: You've got a number of factors: the overall slowdown in the economy exacerbated by the subprime crisis, which put a crimp in consumer spending.

Can you think of a reason to put a crimp in your schedule and waste money on gas and parking to meet someone with only 9 to 5 hours?

Constant interruptions can kill your concentration and put a crimp in your productivity.

Car insurance can sometimes put a crimp in your plans for owning the car of your dreams, especially if that car is considered «high risk» by the insurance company.

Investors» returns depend on the accuracy of life - expectancy estimates, and «it doesn't take very many [people] who dramatically outlive life expectancy to really put a crimp in your returns,» Witt says.

Analyst Simon Moores thinks this is because «any crimp in the cobalt supply chain would devastate companies.»

Plus, it really puts a crimp in our UFO search parties, err... excuse me, star gazing parties.)

ALEC puts a crimp in U.S. democracy.

Analyst Simon Moores said in 2016 that «any crimp in the cobalt supply chain would devastate companies,» which is likely why cobalt was oddly left out of a 2010 U.S. law requiring that four Congolese minerals (tin, copper, tungsten, gold) be purchased from mines free from militia control.

First identified by curator Douglas Crimp in his 1977 exhibition Pictures, at Artists Space in New York, these artists were concerned with how contemporary life is mediated and governed by pictures, specifically as we experience them in newspapers and magazines, on television, and in film.

First identified by curator Douglas Crimp in his 1977 exhibition

Estimate $ 2,000 - 3,000 Minor crimp in l.r. corner visible in raking light.

Condition: Handling crimp in sheet l.r. Provenance: A private collection, New York.

«Pictures» was the title given to an exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp in 1977 at Artists Space in New York, which presented the work of five emerging artists — Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo and Philip Smith — each of whom were turning away from the analytical, dematerialized forms of Minimalism and Conceptualism to reprioritize the power of image - making.

Lima 58: minor handling crimp in u.l. corner of sheet; Jalapa 6: faint chemical stains at l.l. of sheet; Jalapa 43: faint chemical stains at l.c. of sheet.

He is, in other words, an academic, and when academicism reaches this pitch of handsomely overbearing blandness, you've got art that's guaranteed not to put a crimp in your day.

Similarly, in «Painting, Politics, and Post-Historical Art,» Danto makes the case for an armistice between formalism and the various theories that arose in opposition, noting that postmodern critics like Douglas Crimp in the 1980s, who positioned themselves against formalism, nonetheless adopted the same constrictive air, minus the revolutionary beginnings.

This Tuesday, Missouri voters will go to the polls to decide whether or not to put a major crimp in the puppy mill business.

And lastly, if the credit card company raising the minimum payment on your card causes a crimp in your budget, it is a wake up call that you are charging way too much and holding too big a balance.

Also, any vacancy in her rental property will put a serious crimp in her cash flow (at an interest rate of 4 percent and interest - only payments, Sue needs to net $ 933 every month just to break even).

«You don't need to do everything at once, and the high expenses of a young family during your 40s will undoubtedly put a crimp in your savings to some extent,» says Al Feth, a fee - for - service adviser in Waterloo, Ont.

The popping of the real estate bubble put a crimp in that plan.

Still, the funds you're funneling every month toward debts — like college loans, car payments, and credit cards — can put a crimp in how much you have for home financing.

But to get one, you have to put down a security deposit — and that can put a crimp in your savings.

While this may have put a crimp in the number of credit cards available to college students, there is still a good selection from which to choose.

That said, it's clear that a significant drop in stock prices on the eve of or in the early stages of retirement has the potential to put a serious crimp in your retirement plans.

Nothing puts a crimp in your retirement lifestyle like not being alive to have one.

Apple will sell you a second - gen iPad for # 329, and you might be able to find a Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition for around # 280, but there's no pesky Kindle Fire to put a crimp in Google's plans.

The dissolving of the first marriage had put quite a crimp in saving a grubstake, and the second marriage and the arrival of Sarah further delayed his somewhat heroic plans.

From budding performance artist («The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever») to «clearly unqualified» writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris's career leads him to New York (the sky's - the - limit field of furniture moving) and eventually, of all places, France.

The affected vehicles have an improper Y - connection crimp in the alternator - starter motor wiring harness.

FCA says that the problem stems from an insufficient crimp in a wiring harness that can result in a solenoid fault code, prompting the engine to stop.

Move rearward and there is enough room for a pair of adults — the central tunnel puts a crimp in the foot - space for the middle rider.

The width accommodates a third rider, although the central tunnel does put a crimp in the foot space.

While this new data may put a crimp in the teachers unions» argument, they are sure to keep complaining about that 17 percent, and cite as reasons: poor pay, a good economy, the Koch Brothers, a bad economy, ALEC, too much testing, too little respect, corporate ed reform, etc..

I had a teacher send out a request for a toner cartridge, something that if missing can put a large crimp in lesson plans and learning activities.

There's a crimp in her plans in that Michael (Randall Park), her boyfriend - musician dumps her the night before they were to leave together and none of her friends and acquaintances are ready at such short notice to join her, even for free.

As for poor Weaving, getting permanently stuck behind a porcelain mask does put a crimp in your acting style and a premium on your vocal chords.

But the first major crimp in his blueprint is not married to him: the place has upstairs squatters in the form of an irredeemable Irish drunkard (Kevin Conway) and his much younger, pregnant bride (Kelly Macdonald).

The early arrival of Richard's skeevy friends, Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchede), puts a crimp in the romantic mood, but Jen shrugs off their thirsty leering and gets into the party spirit with some provocative dancing out by the pool that night.

It's against the film's religion to have us believe too deeply in its characters, and that agnosticism, combined with the plot's sense of predestination, put a noticeable crimp in its grand ambitions.

Data from NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope puts a crimp in particle theorists» favored explanation of the mysterious stuff whose gravity holds the galaxies together, ruling out a hefty range of masses for the hypothesized particles, a team announced this week.

In the end, those in immunology will answer fundamental questions about disease, save hundreds of thousands of lives, and, they hope, put a major crimp in the arsenal of bioterrorism.

While political gatherings go on hiatus during the holiday season, putting a crimp in candidates» opportunities to raise money, maneuvers continue.

Limiting the abilities of suspected kleptocrats, their families, and friends to enter the US and enjoy their loot abroad will provide a significant crimp in their lifestyles.»

The principle behind spinning is that the natural crimp in the fibre and the roughness of the fibre lock the individual fibres together into a strong thread when twisted together.

Or at least it may have been the biggest before a series of FBI raids 14 months ago put a serious crimp in the operation.

The arrests ordered by Connecticut authorities are likely to be merely the first of a number that will send shock waves through Florida, Rhode Island and Nevada, where betting on jai alai is also legal, and perhaps put a fatal crimp in the sport's plans to invade Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland and about a dozen other states and two Canadian provinces.