Sentences with phrase «are long shots of»

There are long shots of Beijing and the mass of humanity, and long interior shots in which little is said or done, but in which violent emotions are on display.

Furthermore, while the company does have another potentially significant growth opportunity on the horizon in its CA$ 20 billion ($ 15 billion) Frontier oil sands mining project, it appears to be a long shot of moving forward considering where crude is these days.

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»

Not exact matches

You're better going short, since the majority of your shots in a golf game are made with your wedge and putter: «Everyone likes a long drive, and it's exciting, but to really lower your handicap, chipping and putting will do it a lot faster.»

Indeed, the once thriving labour - sponsored funds sector seems to be teetering on the verge of oblivion — a good thing, in the eyes of critics who claim it puts unsophisticated investors at risk and skews Canada's venture capital market toward technology sector long shots with little chance of payoff.

That's why it was the biggest car story of 2017, by a long shot.

Trump was referring to the long - debunked myth that Army Gen. John Joseph «Black Jack» Pershing, who was the governor of the Philippines after the Spanish - American war, quelled Muslim insurgents there by shooting them with bullets that had been dipped in pig's blood.

While cost of living may make this a longer shot, Washington, D.C. is not to be ignored as a legitimate contender.

But recovering the rest of the plane is still a long shot — former National Transportation Safety Board official Tom Haueter told ABC News that the wreckage was unlikely to lead investigators to the rest of the aircraft because it had been floating around the ocean for more than a year.

«I think this [crypto] is going to be the biggest bubble of our lifetimes by a long shot,» the former Fortress hedge fund manager said at a CoinDesk bitcoin conference.

He's already played a thunderous trailer for Halo 4, the forthcoming instalment of Microsoft's bestselling alien shoot -»em - up, and now dims the lights again for another preview, this time for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the next title in the long - running super-spy series.

From their mission statement: «March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.»

The two - time Defensive Player of the Year and MVP candidate is no longer just a stopper on the wing, but an offensive force capable of creating his own shot and dishing to others.

On the other side, the manufacturers risked being publicly vilified, as well as the long - shot possibility that a sympathetic jury would ignore the lack of scientific evidence.

The center of the cord is gray matter — essentially an extension of the brain, like a tail — that is sheathed in fibrous white matter, with long, thin nerve fibers called axons shooting out at intervals to wire every part of the body.

But despite widespread unhappiness in the party over Trump's tariffs, passage of such legislation would be a long shot - especially since a two - thirds super-majority would be needed for passage over a likely presidential veto.

As Twitter rants go, Stewart Butterfield's was epic: a 19 - tweet barrage of comments about racial injustice, the Charleston shooting and a «preposterous» Wall Street Journal editorial that declared institutionalized racism «no longer exists» in the United States.

But he'd be a long shot given that a county jury recently recommended criminal charges against seven Milwaukee County jail staffers in the dehydration death of an inmate who went without water for seven days.

It will be Darwinian, but those that can survive the heightened scrutiny will have a better shot of making it for the long haul.»

It was filmed using a custom - built drone equipped with seven GoPro cameras and operated by a licensed drone pilot due to the complicated nature of the shoot, which included dropping 30 feet into a field of sharp agave; long, continuous shots; and stabilization against the wind.

Ken Pilip, CEO of the Consulting Engineers of Alberta, says meeting that target is not such a long shot.

«In the beginning, when you're trying to build the business, you really do want to save on your expenses to make whatever money you have last longer and to give your business more of a shot,» says Jamila White, co-founder of The Bootstrap Babes, a blog full of ideas and money - saving advice for entrepreneurs.

Start Small is a charity focused on underserved communities, and its first focus will be Ferguson, Missouri — now infamous for the racial unrest that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown and a long pattern of prejudicial police treatment of minorities — and is located outside Dorsey's hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

«He is a long - shot,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, in Washington, D.C..

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

If Chen Guangbiao is to be believed, his arrival in New York this week to pursue a long shot acquisition of The New York Times won't be the last time a wealthy Chinese entrepreneur makes a move on a U.S. media property.

I have little doubt that this estimate was obtained by some version of the dividend discount model: Price = D / (k - g), where Ed Kershner decided to pick a long - term return on stocks k really, really close to the long term growth rate of dividends g. Gee, why didn't he just go ahead and set them equal and shoot for thrills?

«If there is a grassroots uprising about the issue of who owns user data, we can get it passed,» Wyden said, citing other pieces of bipartisan legislation that once seemed like a long - shot.

OTTAWA — Ten years after a suicide bomber took the life of diplomat Glyn Berry, newly released documents depict a frustrating — and fruitless — search for justice in what proved to be the first shot in Canada's long, bloody combat mission in Kandahar.

While it's true this isn't the only tool you should use by a long shot, most people probably don't squeeze everything out of it they could either.

This is the exact opposite outcome of a single - shot Prisoners» Dilemma, where the rational strategy is to be mean; when you're playing for the long run it is better to be nice — you'll make up any short - term losses with long - term gains.

No matter which one you believe has a better shot at replacing government backed money in the long run as a payment method and / or as a store of value, it may be prudent to have some amount of both in your overall portfolio.

Summarizing the above, our market timing model is working perfectly this week because it enabled our subscribers to take a shot with long positions when the market was bouncing, but then prompted us to immediately lighten long exposure when receiving the proper sell signals, before finally exiting 100 % out of our long positions on today's open (just before the big intraday sell - off that is presently taking place).

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We're not out of the woods by a long shot.

Despite the day's developments, there was deep skepticism in Washington that anything would change because of the long history of inaction by state and federal politicians after similar mass shootings.

Since a weekly chart is a longer - term interval than a daily chart, the formation of this shooting star pattern on the weekly chart is more important than if the the same pattern occurred on a daily chart:

While most of Khosrowshahi's presentation — which was run from his computer — had to do with much of what you might expect from a longtime techie (artificial intelligence, better software, etc.), one screen was clearly a pretty big risk for the long - shot candidate to take and was much noticed by the directors.

They've gotten a lot of play in the media because mass shootings have long been a major television news topic and because high school students getting involved in political activism is a noteworthy story.

They also said they have not added up the cost of staff time and resources that will be required to submit a long - shot proposal to Amazon.

Dennis Peron, long considered the father of medical marijuana, was shot -LSB-...]

His case for the presidency was always a long shot — a long shot which depended upon his own personal weaknesses which I need not go into, but which also depend upon factors outside of the control of all of the putative Republican nominees.

If James were to emerge as the longest of long shots, he would add style and wit to the show.

Francis told the Catholic leaders on Sunday to focus on the poor, that the Vatican must be reformed, and joked that whoever wagered on his long - shot election as pope «won a lot, of course.»

If you think there is cite on single shred (the bible is not evidence not by a long shot if you think it is look up the definition) of evidence where is it?

The tinies — who are no longer all that tiny to be honest — were shooting hoops at the side of the house.

I no longer wonder why god would allow the random deaths of innocent children in floods and shootings, because I now understand that the universe is largely indifferent to us.

Romney is the lesser of the two evils by a LONG shot.

It's a long shot, but it explains the production involvement of Martin Scorsese in the movie.