Sentences with phrase «as racket»

Motion controls were also detailed for Mario Tennis Aces, with the Joy - Cons able to be used as a racket, with forehand and backhand motions.

After seven days, you'll be required to upgrade via an in - app purchase for $ 3.99 if you want to continue to use a second device as a racket.

You won't be installing the same app on the smaller Android device that you'll be using as a racket.

Wikipedia defines a racket as A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, that will not be put into effect, or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist.

This way, the camera is fixed to your field of view and you can use a controller accessory, which in this case can serve as the racket.

The exercises progressed from easy to more challenging, and the modifications can fit exercises to specific purposes, such as racket sports.

In early fourteenth - century Montaillou in south - west France, Indulgences had been thought of as a racket.

I don't understand why feasibility studies take so long and cost so much, it strikes me as a racket.

But that focus changed; projects such as Racket were shut down; and there were numerous reports of management and editorial upheaval inside the company.

Not exact matches

The late author wielded a pen as skillfully as Roger Federer wields a tennis racket,» Gates assures skeptical would - be readers.

(I picture her wearing a diamond tennis bracelet and can see it flashing as she swings her racket.)

It's hard to believe that an author who has made a career of the «leadership» racket — with book titles such as Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters; and Reinventing Leadership: Making the Connection Between Politics and Business — would now be calling for its end.

If you read the response in context, it is not quite as ridiculous as it sounds: Bowden's point seems to be that the regulatory burdens that his questioner complained about aren't that important, because the private equity business is so good that the additional regulatory costs are easy to bear, and well worth it to avoid messing up a good racket.

Now the trick for all Albertans will be to maintain a watchful eye as the influencers in the «three piece suit racket» continue to go back to the well of «creating fear around uncertainty».

Frenchman Gael Monfils slumped to a surprise first - round defeat by Mirza Basic in Munich as he made his return from injury on Tuesday, after seeing his rackets broken in transit.

The chapter on the civil rights establishment, and its fulfillment of Eric Hoffer's maxim that every cause eventually becomes a business and then a racket, is also effective, as is his critique of the «world citizenship» fantasies surrounding the UN and cognate institutions.

Instinctively I reached for a tennis racket to zap this black - winged thing commonly regarded as rabid, a blood sucker and a hair nester.

The same political and populist activists form a kind of «protection racket,» seeking to brand as «liberal» those Christian voices that wish to speak about matters such as racial justice.

AA is a racket, the courts have been sucked in and now require mandatory attendance, it's gone as far now that you can't even get on the organ transplant list unless you cowtow to this religious whackyness.

C.S. Lewis wrote to an American correspondent in 1953: «I feel exactly as you do about the horrid commercial racket they have made out of Christmas.

Also, my husband was making a huge racket in the background so maybe mine fell due to noise as well!

From John Newcombe to Pat Rafter, Australian players historically have been laid - back, «fair dinkum mates,» known as much for their sportsmanship and geniality as for their handiwork with a racket.

The Canadian public as well as a large percentage of Americans have not been informed about this racket.

At the conclusion of the doubles match, Topspin, as usual, picked up the racket and trotted off behind Durr.

Her forehand shots, which are so powerful they seem to come off a man's racket rather than that of a frail - looking Devonshire lass, went into the net about as often as into her opponent's court.

Why, it almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.

Should she eventually decide to expend 100 % of herenergy on television, her handling of the microphone could become as sure asher grip on her tennis racket.

Kind of weird you list Chambers in the same racket as Debuchy (deadwood) who had a solid season with M'borough but yet single out the likes of Welbeck who literally has never scored more than 10 goals.

As a club we have had a very successful year winning the varsity match and the inter university rackets championship.

After the player blew the final point, he walked over to a low mesh fence, smashed his racket on it and then stalked off, carrying the racket as if it were a dead chicken with a broken neck.

On the satellite trail, an inordinate number of players use oversized Prince rackets because, as with vitamins and religion, there is no evidence that they hurt you, and there remains the possibility they will help.

Think about the power needed to jump high for a dunk in basketball, to swing a baseball bat, to increase agility & sprint speed, to accelerate mid-sprint to catch up to someone in soccer, to hit someone as hard as possible in football, to shoot from the hips in wrestling, to swing a racket or golf club, and the list could go on and on.

Sandy still swings a mean racket and, as evidenced here, cuts a smooth back spin.

Maidstone fans in the South stand or the Town end as they call it make a racket and with the aid of a drummer and in some parts of the game they were very loud.

They offer several styles, designs and patterns such as dreamy hearts, bows, and stars; cute butterflies and flowers; whimsical handbags, unicorns, and even sunglasses, anchors, and tennis rackets, not to mention a princess's carriage.

My current go - to language is Ruby, but I'm interested in all sorts of other languages as well: Newspeak, Seph, Ioke, Self, Io, Slate, Reia, Cobra, Fortress, Sapphire, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Racket, Go, Fancy, Poison, and many more.

What drives all this racket of intellect, and thunder of integrity, positioning the former president as the model of honest and enlightened citizenry?

This with a racket weighing less than a quarter pound which, perhaps, mischaracterizes the sport in general as non-contact, non-competitive, non-American.

But the objectors are also fighting to protect two semi-official rackets that are as much a part of the Capitol's culture as the pledge of allegiance: outside compensation from firms who soak up their government stature and the ability to accept unlimited campaign money and spend it however they please.

Scotto, of Port Washington, had worked for 20 years in Manhattan as an assistant district attorney, rising to chief of the rackets bureau, before opening a private practice in Garden City.

He worked as a trial prosecutor and later as chief of the labor racketeering unit and the rackets bureau, where he handled organized crime cases.

Prior to joining the Attorney General's Office, Ms. Biben served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office for more than 10 years, the last five years as Deputy Bureau Chief of the Rackets Bureau where she investigated and prosecuted organized crime, money laundering, tax evasion, public corruption and other forms of racketeering.

This cliff - hanger decision to be made by Kantrowitz will be awaited with much interest given the Independence Party's loss of Zebrowski, Lowey and now Hofstein from the top of their November batting order and the description of the Independence Party in New York as «corrupt» by several leading Democrats and as a «legal racket» by Phil Reisman of the Journal News.

It raises questions as to whether the Conservative Party under Lettre has any political principles at all or is simply an endorsement racket designed to keep certain politicians in power and to keep their friends and families employed in town patronage jobs.

Frank Sparaco was known to play a major part in the decision - making of what the Journal News has referred to as the «legal racket party» formerly «chaired» by Sparaco's mother - in - law, who previously served time in jail for her political activities collecting petitions.

In the coming elections in November 2014 Governor Cuomo's name will be on the «legal racket» line as will Barry Kantrowitz who is running for County Executive Ed Day's old seat in the County Legislature.

Cuomo, however, did not heed the call and will run on that line thus ensuring that it will probably continue as a «corrupt» and «legal racket» for another four years.

«While participant numbers in many traditional team and individual sports such as golf, basketball and racket sports seem to have declined over the past decade, participant numbers in extreme sports have surged, making it a multi-million dollar industry.»

«Just as it takes time to train a person to swing a squash racket like an expert, it takes time to train one's neurons to produce the ideal activity patterns,» says Byron Yu, associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

Dunlop and Head, two major racket manufacturers, are also touting the use of aerogel — the incredibly low - density solid that NASA used to collect comet particles as part of its Stardust mission — in their latest models.