Sentences with phrase «about dicey»

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Pruitt is the subject of no fewer than 10 ethical investigations, as reports about his extravagant spending, taxpayer - funded flights, and dicey living situation have come to light.

While companies have different rules about relationships between employees — some prohibit them, while others require disclosure — Uber is in a dicey spot right now and any revelations of an out - of - control company culture, especially by top execs, are problematic at this time.

That's fine when you're tweeting about how much you hate Mondays, but when it comes to correcting your cousin's boyfriend's opinions about «fake news,» it's a little dicier.

And this is where it gets dicier because at the core we Christians have a tough time talking about gender - the differences, similarities, and stereotypes.

It would be dicey to draw conclusions about the probable outcome of the Tyson trial in light of the Smith verdict.

That's not something we needed the benefit of hindsight to complain about; it looked dicey at the time.

I realize that using team stats to talk about an individual award is dicey, but the simple fact that Arizona State ranks 44th in Def.

Steve: Through the end of the book you start to talk about, and it's a very dicey proposition, but an actual diagnosis of either autism or Asperger's syndrome for Dirac, and [why don't you] talk about what you think about that.

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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!

If your kid has trouble with things getting dicey and dark with lots of bared fangs, think twice about taking them to this movie.

From this corner - painted position, the film distracts with equally benign subplots about things like a misinformed assassination attempt, and Elizabeth's dicey decision to dress in full armor to lead her short - numbered army into combat.

Films about U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have a somewhat dicey track record.

The dicey quality of that last instalment might explain the substantial wait for their latest, but everything about The Rewrite looks promising.

I recently had a conversation with someone about Michael Moore and why he has a dicey professional reputation, and the answer — not to put the filmmaker on the couch — was interesting.

What's interesting about American Sniper, which works from a dicey script by Jason Hall that's always in danger of becoming either a rote action thriller meted out in shootouts or a rote antiwar melodrama about how veterans never quite make it back home, is how obstinately it resists this narrative.

Leslye, what was it that appealed to you about casting Jason as your romantic lead, especially as his character is a dicier version of the male love interest?

«I needed to know a lot more about how to pace myself through curriculum and deal with dicey parental issues in my school,» she says.

Another tip for authors curious about possibly - dicey publishers: check out the «Bewares, Recommendations, & Background Checks Forum» at http://www.absolutewrite.com.

And this is where querying about speaking gigs gets dicey.

While there is much to learn about the bestsellers in genre fiction and what proportion is indie vs. legacy, and what their respective slices of the pie amount to be, extrapolating from that day to annual income from sales is a bit dicier.

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.

To base a show on what a piece of art is about rather than its chronological position or aesthetic influence is a dicey prospect, one that can reduce it to a denatured specimen of a tendency or genre.

We are not talking about fine - tuning the climate system, but of altering the weather and that is a dicey proposition at best.

It's a bet about as ill advised (to propose or accept) as the dicey behavior of this Russian worker when I spent time on the sea ice near the North Pole in 2003:

Wikipedia can be a handy quick reference for undisputed information, but since it relies on user - supplied material which can change in a heartbeat, it can be trusted for info on dicey issues about as far as anyone can throw it, global warming being among the most controversial.

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?

Learning as much as I could about the science became paramount because as long as I can remember media has been a cesspool of fake news and knowing the truth has always been dicey when the best you can hope for is information provided by others.

Jonathan Harris: If you look at a book like Dicey & Morris as a guide, it's about two thirds of all our law on cross-border litigation.

If you're a little dicey about your own financial goals and priorities, you better take professional help or consult to someone close who's good with numbers and who has set an example of making money with wise investments.

This way you will not only learn how to avoid getting into dicey situations, you will also be able to convince the insurance company that you are serious about driving safe.

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