Sentences with phrase «at wringing»

I hope the finale will liven things up and perhaps show that Minecraft: Story Mode wasn't just Telltale's attempt at wringing the fans for cash.

Ford has become the best in the business at wringing major improvements out of relatively limited and inexpensive changes.

Thankfully, the cast is more than adept at wringing every moment for laughter.

«Cloverfield» is adept at wringing maximum suspense and might have reached the heights of the Korean monster film «The Host» but for the limitations of the camcorder ploy.

An appeals court on Tuesday gave Oracle another shot at wringing billions of dollars from Google in a keenly watched legal battle over the use of freely available Java software code.

In other words, it shows how good the company is at wringing more money out of its existing, highly caffeinated customer base.

Not exact matches

The upsell is important for airlines because they are trying to at once compete with low - cost carriers such as Spirit and wring more money from passengers.

Or is there something we all can do to wring at least some accomplishment out of these last few weeks of the year?

Roll out the barbeques, calm the kids, and... begin the inevitable hand wringing about the slump in productivity at work.

Faber said a deal «seems likely» at this point, and the two companies would be able to wring significant costs out of a combined operation.

He also argues that millennial - driven innovation is wringing inflation out of the economy, causing it to move higher, but at a much slower pace than we've historically seen.

For example, a drone crash - landed at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September, causing significant hand wringing by law enforcement but no injuries.

Talk to anyone my age or older and they wring their hands at the seemingly infinite number of infrastructure challenges in the Middle East.

You know, some of that — this extreme volatility you've seen at the beginning of this year, some of that's getting wrung out.

Workers drink two or three gallons of water a day, and at the end of their shift they can wring the sweat from their clothes.

As consummate victims, we lay ourselves at the feet of our fellows, exhibiting our lack of achievement as evidence of their failure, hoping to wring from their sense of conscience what we must assume, by the very logic of our claim, lies beyond our individual capacities to attain, all the while bemoaning how limited that sense of conscience seems to be.

Nat privileged me by asking me to introduce him at that event, where I lauded him as «a superb writer and first - class public intellectual,... a man of consistent, steadfast principle; a moral purist in an age of hand - wringing accommodationists.»

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

He can not even make the response of faith that Abraham did: at Bethel the admission is wrung from his lips, «Surely Yahweh is in this place; and I did not know it»; and at Peniel he is uncertain even of the identity of his visitor and fights all night against Yahweh.

I believed that God was looking down on planet earth, wringing His hands in frustration (and even anger) at how bad we had messed things up.

I decided to take a different approach than the usual hand wringing and calls for increasingly intense efforts at population control.

[43] «Wring offs» occur when the animal's leg breaks at the joint.

That's my Friday night party;) And I literally wring my clothes out, that's how sweaty they are at the end.

For future reference, I'd really recommend buying frozen riced cauliflower, as it's already blanched and all you have to do is defrost (which can even be done at room temperature), wring dry and use.

Squeeze the bag (gently at first when full), wringing until all the water has filtered through.

Squeeze the bag (gently at first when full), wringing until all the water has filtered through and only the dry, chalky pulp is left.

Working with a handful of zucchini at a time, use your hands to press and wring all excess moisture out of the zucchini.

Aside from a few fringe elements, there appears, despite all the angst and hand - wringing, a sense that we are closer than we have been for at least 8 or 9 years to achieving something.

But the rough — over which there had been much hand - wringing right up to tournament week — thickened at the last minute and wreaked the appropriate havoc on wayward drives.

In short, he's a striker who is still pretty good at kicking the ball into the back of the net, keeps working and working even when his team is falling apart, and is determined to wring everything he can from his talent and the time available to him.

That was especially evident with this balls to the wall qualifying lap at Spa, where he wrung the neck of his car on his final run, resulting in a spectacular (if not especially fast) lap.

I was wringing my hands at 75» while up 3 - 1, and 10 minutes later we were up 5 - 1.

The prospective fathers at an adoption information picnic exchange derisive asides as their wives anxiously wring their hands and angle for the best caseworker.

The beta marriage idea caused a kerfuffle at Jezebel, Salon, Fox News and a gazillion other media outlets, some of which began wringing their hands over the idea that young people may not be committed to go the distance.

Well, at least it is for alarmist, hand - wringing, nervous - stomach, neurotic mothers like me.

It's tempting to wring our hands and look at this research as something that says, «Oh my gosh, formula feeding is SO awful!»

With Labour politicians saying very little about the economy and tax beyond some somewhat exaggerated hand wringing about the Tories» promised # 6 billion cuts in non-frontline services, there is currently very little to distinguish them as a progressive party at all.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

Faced with populist jubilation at the start of the oddly - named War of Jenkin's Ear, Robert Walpole presciently declared: «They may ring their bells now, but they will soon be wringing their hands.»

Everyone wrung out their tear - soaked hankies and cried some more for the cameras, shivering at the thought that racists among us had ventured from their caves to hurl invective at Jumaane Williams» nobility.

«Theresa May can wring her hands at the inequality that scars our country,» he told an audience on site of the former Orgreave coal mine in Rotherham, south Yorkshire, today.

There is no question at all that Nick Clegg and his negotiating team wrung a string of key concessions out of the Conservatives in this agreement.

The state's top lawyer also touted his multi-billion-dollar relief packages he had wrung from Bank of America and JP Morgan, his prosecution of under - paying employers and his effort to mandate background checks for purchases at gun shows.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

However, most science policy analysts are wringing their hands over the tiny increase sought for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a small rebound for the National Science Foundation (NSF) after a cut in 2005, and reductions in the science budgets at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the departments of energy and defense.

You can only imagine the hand - wringing that goes on at dessert.

One of the key things to remember is that you are not obligated to take such an important call if you are sitting at the dinner table with your family or standing there wringing wet and just out of the shower.

The crisis has garnered massive media attention, much hand - wringing and a load of campaigns aimed at saving the honeybee.

«All of the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth with reference to the deficit seems to go by the boards when the Republicans talk of tax cuts,» said Representative Steny Hoyer (D - MD), the second - ranking Democrat in the House, at press conference earlier this week.