Sentences with phrase «as a placeholder for»

Only about a quarter of those sites contained any content at all, which leads the agency to believe they are serving as placeholders for future crowdfunding portals, perhaps readying to launch once the SEC implements its investor guidelines.

We exchange quick hugs as placeholders for the conversation that might unfold this week or next, maybe next month.

Matters like hospital visitation problems are a result of using the marriage status as a placeholder for too many tangentially related issues.

Stabler's sole role for several years was as placeholder for the team's kicker, George Blanda, then in his mid-40s.

1) Worth not only pointing out, but also emphasizing: Part of the reason why we have Tucker has been to serve as a placeholder for Acuna, with the hopes that he might prove to be worth keeping on the 25 - man even after Acuna comes up.

Rondo has strengths and some big flaws, but I could probably live with him as a placeholder for a year.

But baby teeth serve as placeholders for permanent teeth, so you want to keep them around until they've served their purpose.

Commisso also turned aside the speculation from some quarters that his father, County Legislature Majority Leader Frank Commisso, was only in the race as placeholder for him, a scarecrow of sorts to dissuade others from entering the race.

Pizzo filed for a rematch a few weeks after the 2016 general election, but as a placeholder for the paperwork, as he assessed the prospect.

Schneiderman held the State Senate seat prior to Espaillat, and the two have preserved a friendly relationship, so when Lasher announced his candidacy — and vowed to drop out if Espaillat lost his House bid and sought to return to Albany — many observers saw him as a placeholder for the incumbent.

His name was intended only as a placeholder for the real candidate.

Sources said Rick Bellando would have served as a placeholder for a Mangano re-election run on the Independence Party's line.

It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

Gray's sky - high ambitions, however admirable, preclude any sense of nuance or ambiguity, a problem shared by Cahill's film, which treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

Your team will create templates as placeholders for each major component of your course.

You might try to pick the least bad of the bad investment options in the new plan and use it as a placeholder for the account and then manage the rest of your RRSP investments in the old plan and your personal RRSP accordingly.

Blue markers show on certain tracks as placeholders for where extra parts of the track will be added.

It is not always a cartoon; it can be anything that functions as a placeholder for the position of subjectivity.

The drawings work as a placeholder for the slippery space between the camera and body as Hubbard diagrams the ways in which our orientations towards each other matter.

Miller's gewgaws can be seen as modern equivalents to Warhol's dollar - sign paintings and Daniel Buren's stripes — fetishes that have no inherent value in themselves but that externalize unconsciousness, destabilize our relationship to art, and are vivid symbols for their own status as placeholders for the rich.

Subtle, yet intricate, the works inhabit a distinct space and powerful authority, acting as placeholders for Black bodies; they establish, quite literally, a way of being «seen» in a society that often prefers overlooking the Other.

Many people roll their eyes at the concept, seeing private green spaces as placeholders for development.

I'm preparing a post on this extraordinary document and am posting this thread as a placeholder for now.

One of the most straightforward application of this is a technique that uses the numbers one through ten and some rhyming words as placeholders for information:

The «X» serves as a placeholder for the degree of dust - resistance regarding IP ratings.

This indicates that the retailer uses that date as a placeholder for any upcoming games that have a fall 2017 release date.

The picture, while exemplifying my personality, is probably not «professional» enough for a resume, and is thus acting as a placeholder for the moment.

Not exact matches

General tokens are used along the traditional definition of the word, as a placeholder that can be exchanged for goods or services.

«Or maybe «childbearing» is a placeholder for a wide range of faithful behaviors» — Luther's omne officium, or all acts of Christian calling — «and the verse isn't asking to be read too woodenly as if it were singling out one particular action.»

Until such time as I do upload another recipe, here's a placeholder for my awesome veggie soup:

There are strong indications quinn is looking for a long term answer @ saftey as quin isnt getting any younger snd tavon wilson is a placeholder.

He is a veteran quarterback who will likely serve as a placeholder / stopgap option for the Broncos until whoever they draft in the first - round of the 2018 NFL Draft is ready.

As with all their placeholder candidates — contenders tapped to keep Row D warm while the Democrats settled their differences for Row A — the WFP was sure to pick an attorney who would be eligible for a judgeship should the need to remove him arise.

But who the candidate will ultimately wind up being remains up in the air as the party could select a placeholder for the post after New York City Public Advocate Tish James confirmed she would not seek the party's line in her bid for AG.

The party could endorse Zephyr Teachout for attorney general or a placeholder as Democratic AG candidate Tish James has indicated she would not take the WFP's endorsement, spurning a party that helped elect her to office.

«The Legislature should appoint a placeholder to serve as the acting Attorney General — someone who will not stand for election — allowing the voters to select from a competitive field of candidates as part of the normal electoral process in the Fall.

Assembly Democrats have the votes to appoint a replacement for Schneiderman, who could either serve as a placeholder or run outright in November.

Marty Connor, an ex-Brooklyn state senator who was defeated nine years ago, is now considering running for the seat he once held, pitching himself as a «placeholder» until the 2018 election.

The melodrama over the WFP line this year is in stark contrast to 2010, when the WFP nominated a placeholder candidate as it faced a federal investigation over its for - profit arm Data and Field Services.

Dadey has made it clear that he only put his name on petitions as a placeholder, hoping the party can come up with another candidate for the Republican line.

He told the Daily News he would abandon his bid for State Senate if Mr. Espaillat should fail in his third attempt to replace retiring Congressman Charles Rangel, indicating he may be running as a placeholder.

Both Slosberg and Berman have opened placeholder accounts for the 2020 cycle, as Gov. Rick Scott had not officially declared a special election to fill the seat as of Friday.

As reported this morning by Tom Precious, the Governor has included a $ 1 billion placeholder for economic development in the Queen city.

He ran for the US Senate in 2006, served as a placeholder candidate on some ballots in 2008 for presidential candidate Ralph Nader, and received 41 percent of the vote in a Syracuse Common Council race (2009).

When Stein, the nominee of the Green Party, submitted the petition with 5,000 signatures she needed to qualify for a spot on the ballot, it listed party stalwart Howie Hawkins as her «placeholder» running mate.

Common Cause / NY Executive Director Susan Lerner says the Legislature should appoint a placeholder to serve as the acting attorney general — someone who will not stand for election — allowing the voters to select from a competitive field of candidates in the fall.

As New York's state legislators huddle behind closed doors to select a temporary replacement for the disgraced former attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, they will be choosing more than just a six - month placeholder for the state's top legal job.

We don't know what it actually is, but for now people use the term dark energy as a placeholder to describe the attributes of this mystery.

9 «Zero» was first seen in cuneiform tablets written around 300 B.C. by Babylonians who used it as a placeholder (to distinguish 36 from 306 or 360, for example).

It's known as dark matter, which is itself a placeholder — like the x or y used in algebra class — for something unknown and heretofore unseen.