Sentences with phrase «sos is dicey»

If, for the sake of discussion, measuring the year - by - year temperatures and coming up with anamolies that add up to 0.7 degrees over 100 years or so is dicey, measuring reliably the even finer temperature gradient one meter, five meters, 100 meters, whatever, has to be damn near physically impossible, is it not?

Not exact matches

In August, it was revealed that Uber was employing some dicey tactics by sending so - called brand ambassadors to order Lyft rides undercover and then persuade the drivers to defect to Uber.

There would surely be plenty of other suitors though so the fact that Madrid's keeper situation is looking dicey, with Casillas having left and them maybe having to wait until next summer to get David De Gea.

Dicey notes that «the word has often a different sense in conversation» so perhaps the tendency to conflate Parliament and the House of Commons is not a new one.

Trying to navigate a dicey issue for a Democrat running for governor, Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that public - employee pensions are «disproportionate,» but he wouldn't go so far as to back a plan to shift more of the cost — and risk — to workers.

I was there for about four weeks and I spent one of those weeks with the a young group of engineers, and I went back to a couple of the sites I had visited on my first trip, including the Quds power plant which is north of Baghdad; it goes through some kind of dicey neighborhood, so the trip from the Green Zone to Quds is always a bit of hot charger; so we went up there in these Reva vehicles, these heavily armored South African Reva vehicles; and much to my amaze [ment], when I found that they had gotten some of their power plants started; they hadn't been able to run when I was there in 2005.

I'm slightly nervous about the drive back since the weather looks pretty dicey this weekend / next week, but I'm so ready to spend a few days hanging out with some of my favorite people and eating mountains of delicious food!

I think it's a subtle way to wear lace at the office (always a dicey proposition), so I'm looking forward to remixing it in some work outfits.

Plus, it's a relief not to have to explain away those dicey innuendos so often slipped into animated fare.

Venom without Spider - Man may sound dicey to some, but many of the antihero's biggest fans would likely be unsatisfied with a repeat of the character's campy role in Spider - Man 3 - so it seems Sony may be erring on the more adult - oriented side for this film rather than trying to square it with Tom Holland's decidedly family friendly take on the wallcrawler.

Buying a car on the internet can be a dicey proposition, but not so at Law Auto Group.

Coming hard after our too - short summers, the dark months of winter can be like purgatory for many Canadian drivers; in truth, dicey winter driving is a big reason why so many...

There is no posi - traction or locking differential so the car is basically one - wheel - drive when things get dicey.

Quick direction changes somewhat upset the 4,100 - pound FX, so tight hairpins and quick switchbacks were a bit dicey if not taken with care.

Weather is looking a bit dicey and so far this year, we've excelled in those types of conditions.

So between the dicey weather and the longer distance, this will be our first true test of endurance in GT2.

Similarly, within stocks, it's pretty clear that smaller companies and emerging markets are dicier propositions than blue chip companies, so it seems reasonable to expect some extra return — even if the extra return from small stocks isn't as great as history suggests.

So while many bond managers use dealer marks, it can be very dicey.

Remaking a classic that has dominated the childhoods of so many gamers is a dicey move that requires very strict adherence to tradition and updating but not changing the original medium.

Third - party emulation has always been a dicey issue for hardware and software manufacturers alike as it offers access to content people may not legally own, but that's about to change in the case of Wii emulator Dolphin, which has become so adept at emulating Nintendo's decade - old console that it can access the official Wii Shop Channel and directly purchase games from Nintendo.

What gets really dicey is when the geometry and structures in his later works get so chaotic and convoluted that we begin to glean a kind of dark matter of mathematics, things that don't fit the script but are there nevertheless.

«So unless the review paper already exists (always a dicey proposition) I have no answer for you that could conceivably be worth the effort»

Where it gets dicey from an ethical perspective is that Cook set up the forum (using his own software, so it wasn't like he pushed the wrong button and it happened on its own), so he clearly knew that independence of raters had been violated, yet he as clearly stated that the ratings had been done independently in his paper: «Abstracts were randomly distributed via a web - based system to raters with only the title and abstract visible.

Measurements of ocean alkalinity are so rudimentary and dicey, that we can not say with any certainty where the «missing» CO2 is going quantitatively.

And we are quibbling about the accuracy if the equations used here when the whole CAGW house of cards is based on assumptions that are so dicey that they are essentially meaningless?

Too bad we don't even know if there is an ongoing energy imbalance of the Earth system, because the data we have are so dicey and mixed and the uncertainties so great

Millennials are a big group, so generalizing about them can get dicey, warns Williams.