Sentences with phrase «as being wide of the mark»

The adult dating makes you to enjoy the fun of life with out any tension you are having in that.Originally it was thought that the settlement would be worth around three quarters of a billion dollars but this has since been slated as being wide of the mark.

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On a recent earnings call, Mark Okerstrom, who joined Expedia as CEO and president last summer, said, «Over the long term, we have got to be mindful, and we always are mindful, of the incredible market power that Google has,» noting the importance of making sure Expedia's own products are credible and wide - reaching and that its user experiences are localized.

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Your long - term assets should be divvied up among a wide array of domestic stocks — big and small, fast - growing and dividend - paying — as well as international stocks, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and commodities, says Mark.

As with $ YCS above, $ PALL was volatile and marked by wide swings in the first few months it attempted to build a base of consolidation, but the price action of this palladium ETF has been contracting since July:

While correct on demand, that forecast was about as wide of the mark as you can get.

There was a particularly marked increase in the income attributed to foreign owners of direct equity stakes in Australian firms, which was in contrast to trends in economy - wide measures of profitability, such as gross operating surplus.

To identify Arendt as giving the Cold War succor is not only wide of the mark but reveals ignorance of the legal foundations of her thinking.

What marks the more recent literature as distinctive is not its concern with corporeal thinness and good health per se but the apparent willingness of authors to accept, ardently and without flinching, the somatic standards of the wider culture and convert them into divine decree.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

Nothing can be wider of the mark than to interpret Niebuhr as intending a complete pessimism.

This collection of fifteen essays - with such distinguished contributors as Alister McGrath, John R. W. Stott, Mark A. Noll, James M. Houston, Colin Brown, Kenneth Kantzer, Bruce Waltke, and Roger Nicole - is published in honor of Packer's seventieth birthday and pays due honor to an exemplary scholar whose distinguished career has had such wide influence.

In the wide portions of the Christian stream known as Gnosticism this tendency was very marked.

Sergius Bulgakov, widely regarded as the greatest Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century (calling him the von Balthasar of the East would not be wide of the mark), was the kind of religious thinker only that century could produce.

Producing as many as twenty - two different wines each year, including many Italian varietals, the opportunity is giving Mark a much wider spectrum of winemaking experience.

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup For The Soul Today as we mark the 10th anniversary of the most devastating terrorist attack in America's history, like so many people, I am experiencing a wide range of emotions... sadness, anxiety, shock, fear, uncertainty, and hope.

My suggestion is that if Sanchez can learn that, he has the potential to do it much better than giroud does because he is faster off the mark and can dribble.he's too honest in his running so I disagree with those that think it's the set up of the team that failed him.his movement is still a little naive for the premier league Secondly on the left wide argument.Wenger is jamming attacking midfielder out there so as to provide cover for the defensive midfielder using two box to box battlers.it only makes sense because we have lots of them and it can be effective if well mastered.the catch is sacrificing a winger for the the attacking midfielder.if your memory serves you well you'll remember that artetas downward spiral began when teams noticed he was the hub for our possession and started deploying their number 10 to press him.it's been working for ages and can be used on any defensive midfielder regardless of the size so You'll end up with your much cried for cavarlho, kedihra, bender, schneiderline, and every other one passing sideways and backward because of the pressure so I personally appreciate the innovative move but Again appeal to Ramsey and Wilshire to take their job more serious.

The Real Madrid star insists that his club and their rivals in La Liga, Barcelona, are above and beyond any other club in the world and so it would make no sense for him to want to leave, especially as the talk about the new Madrid manager Rafa Benitez not planning to have him as a regular starter have proved to be wide of the mark.

Whilst I understand why you would want to jump all over the points total as «evidence» of decline I think you are wide of the mark and clutching at straws.

Garcia's ignorant attempt at humor during Tuesday night's black - tie affair was as wide of the mark as the two balls he dumped into the water at No. 17 at Sawgrass in Sunday's finale of the Players.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

The post was hit a few times but that counts as wide of the mark.

However a club source told Owngoalnigeria.com on the condition of anonymity that rumours of a mammoth bid from Birmingham City is wide off the mark, as the club are yet to receive a bid officially from the Championship side.

On that basis, the bookmaker odds on offer, where we are quoted as around 5/1 to win the game, and City at around 2/1 on, would appear to be wide of the mark, but of course the two games where we have faced each other this season tell another story.

Palace's shots had been blocked well by defenders before the half - hour mark, but the Eagles then went very close as former Benfica midfielder Erdal Rakip shot wide of the near post from a lay - back by Levi Lumeka.

A report in the Sun that West Ham want to sign Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford and use Adrian as a makeweight in a deal worth around # 25million is completely wide of the mark.

As this was our first Mark Warner holiday and we really wanted to experience a wide range of activities we decided that, on this occasion we couldn't fit everything in and a PADI qualification would have to wait.

There are a wide variety of factors that can cause stretch marks to appear during pregnancy however the most common cause is due to the rapid and significant weight gain during pregnancy as well as the change in the body size of the expecting mother.

The IWD otherwise known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women's Rights and International Peace has since gained international recognition and celebrated world wide in different forms and even gained the status of a holiday in some countries such as Ukraine The day has also been marked under various themes encompassing peace and security, human rights, gender based violence, conflicts and hunger, education, gender equality, empowerment and affirmative actions, inclusion of woman in decision making, the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and many more.

If you're using the recent weather as evidence of the folly of the public's distaste for «big government» you're way wide of the mark.

Today's meeting was meant to be a wider - ranging discussion of the larger traffic problems plaguing parts of the city, and several City Council members — including Mark Levine and Corey Johnson — expressed support for Move NY's plan as one component of a larger scheme to combat congestion.

In the run - up to the elections, many of Labour's initiatives were seen either as gimmicks or wide of the mark.

The assumption that 47 councillors can't work as a homogenous group and are likely to split into factions seems pretty wide of the mark - they look cohesively whipped to me.

Fortunately, the transition to Judge Saltarelli will be seamless, as Mark is a former Acting City Court Judge and has been serving the community for years in a wide range of volunteer activities.

Expanding such programs, including the creation of a city - wide bail fund as Speaker Mark - Viverito recently proposed, would go a long way in ensuring our justice system is more effective and just for all New Yorkers.»

CVH has worked with a range of partners, including Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn), as well as The Participatory Budgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting decisions.

At the other end of a wide spectrum, writers such as Mark Helprin, John Crowley and Karen Joy Fowler in the US and Christopher Priest, Mary Gentle and M. John Harrison in Britain are exploring the philosophy of science in its older sense of knowledge and ideas.

December 21, 2011 «Head - first» diversity shown to drive vertebrate evolution The history of evolution is periodically marked by explosions in biodiversity, as groups of species try out a wide range of shapes and sizes.

Tinkering with gene switches can have a profound effect on how they behave, and labs around the world are now scanning the genome in hopes of identifying epigenetic modifications — sometimes called «marks» or «tags» — that could serve as biomarkers, helping to predict and identify a wide range of conditions.

In the international thriller Erased, ex-CIA agent Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) discovers that he and his teenaged daughter (Liana Liberato) have been marked for termination as part of a wide - reaching conspiracy that he unknowingly ended up right in the middle...

However, it seems some of the more outlandish reports may have been wide of the mark, as Leto has downplayed the situation during an interview with Entertainment Weekly to promote his new film Blade Runner 2049.

In the Bedroom marks the feature directorial debut of actor Todd Field, who is perhaps best known as the piano player Nick Nightingale who tells Tom Cruise about the sex party in Eyes Wide Shut.

The popular American «Hour of Code» initiative is to be launched in the UK as part of a week - long celebration marking 25 years of the World Wide Web.

As organizers of this inaugural event, we saw how eager our audience was for this kind of cross-sector gathering, and we hope this will mark the start of a continuing tradition: a community - wide network of stakeholders working collaboratively in a movement toward better outcomes for English - learner students.

The date will be marked as 1989, when Tim Berners - Lee first deployed the World Wide Web and launched the Golden Era of Digitization.

The Catering Mark has also been cited in the government's Plan for Public Procurement, which addresses wider aspects of quality within food and catering — such as ethical, environmental and social considerations.

Mark recently served three years as president of the city - wide PTA in Albany, which is a small district with a high poverty rate, and more charter schools per capita than any other district in the state.

In a wide - ranging question and answer session he was asked about his attitude towards the influence of old Etonians and to say what mark he would give himself in his performance as education secretary.

The latter might not really fall in line with the things Kato - san is doing, the part of the wider add - on fenders is true, but LB Works uses some of the most exotic Italian made cars as a basis, and these kits don't come cheap either at prices around the US $ 30,000 mark, and that's without the special Airrex suspension (about US $ 10,000), Armytrix Racing titanium Valvetronic exhaust system (also about $ 10,000) and a set of matching wheels in a staggered 20 - 21 inch setup, preferably made by Forgiato if you ask Kato - san (probably another $ 5,000 for the wheels and about $ 3,000 for the Pirelli P Zero tires).

The design of the Q60 is a marked departure from the outgoing model, as this new all - wheel drive sports coupe sits lower and wider than its predecessor.