Sentences with phrase «had a crack at new»

Had a crack at new GCSE German SOW.

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Every time he came by, he'd gesture at the box and crack a new joke about how odd it was that I enjoyed fishing.

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

That's what the new art and science of bioethics at the dawn of the 21st century had come down to in the end: No cracked ice for Terri Schiavo.»

One of my favorite things to do is replicate «convenience foods» at home, and for the past couple of weeks I've been seeing ads for these new breakfast cups where you just crack an...

First of all we need to assume that the people in charge behind the scenes at Arsenal FC are actually thinking about putting a new manager in charge, rather than the usual default setting of letting Arsene Wenger having yet another crack at the Premier League despite the Gunners slipping further and further away from mounting any sort of challenge in recent years.

Remember a few weeks ago, Arsenal fans, when the new manager of West Ham issued us with a stark warning that we would find his team an impossible nut to crack when they turned up at the Emirates stadium next Sunday for our opening game of the new Premier League season?

So, even without new additions and the quality kids coming through (Hayden, Bielik, Zelalem, Akpom, Silva etc) this team, this squad and this manager have made positive PROGRESS and are well set up for a serious crack at the title next season.

I also developed new forms of statistical analysis, such as final third efficiency and chance quality, and I also had a crack at assessing which team won a tactical battle by using stats.

Panera has launched a line of new breakfast sandwiches featuring 100 % real, freshly cracked, cooked - to - order eggs with no additives at all.

The new procedure, like the old one, gives first crack at the park district «s 5,000 moorings to boaters who had them the previous year.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

Albany, NY — The state ethics commission is cracking down on receptions held by lobby groups at the state Capitol, and has charged three groups, including the trial lawyers and a police association with violating a new law that bans gifts worth more than an ordinary cup of coffee.

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Three weekend raids just might have led to the first in a series of arrests aimed at cracking down on cockfighting in New York, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said MondNEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Three weekend raids just might have led to the first in a series of arrests aimed at cracking down on cockfighting in New York, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said MondNew York, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday.

At 11 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James will announce new housing legislation that would improve housing conditions and crack down on irresponsible landlords, 1 Centre St., Manhattan.

Every 20 years, as prescribed in the state Constitution, the people of New York have a crack at opting for what amounts to a special session of specially elected representatives to propose revisions to the state's foundational legal document.

The feds have said they should be allowed to take another crack at the former Rensselaer County Republican by filing a superceding or new indictment against him using a different legal arguement this time around.

After reducing pensions for new public workers, the administration hasn't taken a serious crack at other long - simmering issues that business groups say drive up costs.

At first, Hell said, other scientists couldn't believe his new approach had cracked a problem that had vexed researchers since Abbe's work in 1873.

The group, led by Carlos Fernandez, Ph.D., at PNNL, has developed a new fracturing fluid that uses an environmentally friendly polymer to create tiny cracks in bedrock deep below the surface of the earth.

By devising and running a new computer model, Quillen, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester, has now shown that the tidal pull exerted by another, similar object could be strong enough to crack the surface of such icy moons.

Scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, have developed a new technique to crack the underlying DNA code for the «control dials» that determine levels of gene activity in bacteria.

And although I haven't gotten my dream Céline purse (at least not yet), the newest iPhone (I have a crack going across my iPhone 5), my dream apartment / condo / house, haven't dined at a fancy restaurant in awhile, and have been eating leftovers almost everyday.

Before the first month of the year comes to an end, we'll get two brand new wide releases, neither of which really has a shot at cracking the $ 20 million mark.

Anecdotal stories like how First Class and Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn wanted to re-cast Wolverine for DoFP only furthers the notion that there is indeed creative motivation to have a new crack at the X-Men movie universe.

Deadline New York reports that Marvel has hired writers Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to take a crack at the script.

I'm not quite sure what's going on with Spider - Man 4 right now, but apparently the script is still being kicked around, and this week yet another new screenwriter has been brought in to have a crack at it.

Finding Nemo may not have managed to crack the top slot at the box office — it was up against The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — but its success both at the multiplex and on home video (it's the biggest seller of all time, apparently) heralded a new age of animated blockbusters.

The Vegas bachelor party gone wrong premise is nothing new, but the story itself progresses so fast and with so many witty one - liners that the crowd of boozy lads this film is clearly aiming at should have a cracking time.

But at the center of the film is Chiwetel Ejiofor, an FBI investigator from New York, who returns to Los Angeles after 13 years away, convinced that he has cracked an unsolved murder.

Even though the idea of sequels to classic films is a hot button topic for the vast majority of us, there's something inherently exciting when one of the best «new» directors decides to take a crack at a sequel no one thought we'd want.

Whereas one of the downsides of the previous Iron Man films was too much emphasis on visual effects and not enough on people, Iron Man 3 has cracked this problem with new remote - control armor that allows Downey to appear on camera while Iron Men fly all around him (he can jump into any suit at any time).

Critical to that continuum has been a mantra of constant improvement, and from our first crack at the refreshed 2018 F - 150 and its new powertrains, Ford is staying true to the lifeblood of the brand.

To that end, in 1990, Kowaleski pushed the Italian management to let American journalists have the first crack at the new Diablo — on a racetrack, where the car could really stretch its legs.

And to take a crack at upping the ante, Mini has officially announced to be offering a new range of systems in future models part of their Mini Connected in - car technology campaign.

Arizona car, 99 % rust free, factory undercoated, new paint, have small crack at passenger door & roof a few dents, new motor & original trans, both rebuilt by the last owner, new radiator, new alternator, new brake parts, run, shifts, drives, great, no leaks, new windshield, new panel & rubber doors, no headliner, new seat cover, unknown miles, good tires.Dual throught muffler.

XTomi Design clearly had the same thought, because the rendering artist has just taken a crack at designing a GTI and R version of the new Jetta.

When I saw her speak at ALA in New Orleans last summer, she had the entire audience cracking up.

My current Kindle edition has some formatting editions (Kindles don't take too kindly to drop caps, sidebars, and the like), so rather than reformat the first edition, which was somewhat out of date, given that it was published in 2007, I just decided to crack out the new edition and then correct the Kindle edition all at the same time.

although I'm a new member of the Association, I've spoken at two of their conferences before and know lots of its members already, including its President Katie Fforde, who kindly provided a cover endorsement of the first novel in my Sophie Sayers cosy mystery series, describing it as «A cracking example of cosy crime».

Yes, they have repeatedly cracked The New York Times best seller list and are being picked up by traditional publishers for lots of money at a blindingly fast pace.

A flood of new money cracked open by retirement savings would pressure private equity firms to invest bigger volumes of capital, potentially damping returns, Blackstone President Tony James said at an event last month discussing the U.S. retirement system.

When you met at the shelter, his soulful eyes and sweet personality melted your heart, but now that you've brought your new rescue dog home, his behavioral issues are putting a crack in the picture - perfect future you had planned.

We've got a suggestion for a new face to chisel into the rock face... our own Ledy VanKavage, who, along with the crack legislative team at Best Friends, deserves the credit for the passage of this bill.

Bureaucratic bungling has stalled a critical animal welfare rulemaking action aimed at cracking down on the barbaric practice of horse soring — with the U.S. Department of Agriculture withdrawing new regulations today that had been broadly supported by hundreds of lawmakers in Congress, the veterinary community, a wide range of horse industry organizations, The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund.

If you'll recall, I've had a few cracks at romance on the road; spending my first few years of full - time travel with a partner, and later starting a relationship in New Zealand (before it ended in a less - than - graceful manner).

We turned up at Bali's premier surfing location of Uluwatu to have another crack at the low tide tube churning Racetrack around 6.30 AM and these photos in our new gallery are the proof.

Anyway, there are quite a few indie games coming out for this new update, so I've had a crack at choosing just ten of them.

charlieintel.com, a website dedicated to cracking teasers around Call of Duty, has revealed that a new trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will be revealed tomorrow, May 2, at 9AM PT.