Sentences with phrase «attempt at double»

Oh, and this outfit was my first attempt at double denim.

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Netanyahu said, «Hamas commits a double war crime when it deliberately attempts to strike at Israeli citizens and uses Gaza's civil population as a human shield.

A colloquy between three Protestant and three Catholic theologians at Regensburg in 1541 attempted to bridge the disagreements by speaking of «double justification.»

He's doubled the amount of attempted threes, and he's making them at an absurd rate while rebounding more and turning it over less.

Having persuaded the International Olympic Committee to change the schedule at the Atlanta Games so he could attempt an unprecedented men's 200 - 400 double, and having then won the 400 meters masterfully in an Olympic - record 43.49 seconds, he had put himself in a place where, in his words, «winning isn't enough.»

Any attempt to run the Indianapolis 500 for Andretti will also likely involve «doing the double» and see him race in the Coca - Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the same day.

Bayley is still hanging up on the wall just in time for Sasha Banks to enter the Elimination Chamber — Mandy Rose goes head first into an empty chamber pod, and Sonya's attempts at saving her teammate earns her double knees to the face.

They write: «It is possible City could attempt a double swoop on Southampton at the end of the season, with centre - half Virgil van Dijk already on their radar and left - back Bertrand highly rated by the club.

: «It is possible City could attempt a double swoop on Southampton at the end of the season, with centre - half Virgil van Dijk already on their radar and left - back Bertrand highly rated by the club.

But despite his two goals, Smalling and Evans looked very shaky at the back which contributed to Burnley racking up double figures in attempts on goal in the first half.

He helped to keep Seamus Coleman in check at Goodison Park and made a valiant attempt to help Nacho Monreal deal with the Lionel Messi - Dani Alves double - team.

Well, my first attempt (and all subsequent attempts) at the «double football hold» was disastrous, my son was unable to latch, and the pathetic amount of milk that I produced would never have been sufficient anyway.

In 2010, then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration elected to double fees at recreation centers in attempt to increase revenue for the Parks Department.

It was long enough for me to double loop around my waist — I was imagining the drumroll of a trapeze artist at the circus as I attempted it followed by the victorious blasts of brass when I achieved it!

There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.

Niccol gets at how the lingo of drone - strikes — using «prosecute» for a launch, «splash» for an explosion, «double - tap» for a follow - up launch, and so on — attempts to insulate the crew from what they're actually doing.

(This is, after all, an author who, in his 1997 novel Mason and Dixon, managed to compose a genuinely profound hymn to the historical «arts of the quidnunc» — i.e., of the busybody — that doubled as an elaborate, ironic parody of a long - defunct literary style's attempts at profundity.)

That alone makes Head Over Heels a bad movie, but what makes it especially awful are the painful double - pronged attempts at comedy.

Double - page spreads were too small to be read, and Marvel's «Smart Panels» are anything but — this attempt at a panel - by - panel view fails miserably, from sheer carelessness.

The Pandigital Novel makes a valiant attempt at being a value - priced, full - color, Android - based e-reader that also doubles as a general - use tablet.

For example, the double - digit inflation of the 1970's was caused by banks keeping interest rates low in an attempt to stimulate a weak economy, at a time when imported inflation from the oil shock was high (leading to stagflation).

Gaming classics such as Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, and Day of the Tentacle have been given modern remasters, 2014 saw Tim Schafer at Double Fine attempt to recapture the adventure game audience with the release of Broken Age, whilst 2015 even saw the return of King's Quest with The Odd Gentlemen's series reboot restyled for a modern format.

The film even references Ryu at the end as if it was planning to follow up with some kind of Legend of Ryu sequel, this being a double edged sword, the way this film was received there is no chance of them butchering Ryu or making a film ever again, on the other hand, we may need to wait for Street Fighters 50th anniversery before we see another live action Street Fighter attempt.

ARMS will have five playable characters at launch, each of whom are equipped by default with one of the six previously mentioned techniques: Spring Man (Fire) can parry attacks, but a failed attempt results in double - damage; Ribbon Girl (Thunder) can double - jump, triple - jump with a well - timed air - dash, and super-jump to avoid attacks; Ninjara (Boomerang) can phantom - dash to avoid attacks and teleport directly to his opponent; Master Mummy (Big) is a slow «Tank» character, however the brute can regenerate health and can not be stunned by normal attacks; courtesy of her jetpack - powered suit, Mechanica (Revolver) possesses the ability to hover and air - dash longer than the other characters.

Using nonlinear narratives and destabilizing in - camera techniques, the film depicts an Iranian woman's difficult attempts at connecting with American culture while simultaneously reconciling her Iranian identity, showing the double binds of an intersectional identity.

Art and Black Los Angeles 1960 - 1980 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (traveled to UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; SITE Santa Fe; The Bronx Museum, New York) 2010 Summer Group Show Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles The Artist's Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980 - 2010 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Seventh House Project Row Houses, Houston Noir Complex Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein (traveled to Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam) Project Row Houses, Houston Man Son, Vom Schrecken der Situation Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen Am Necker 2009 Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, 1980 — Now The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles Oz: New Offerings from Angel City Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Guadalajara Attempt to Raise Hell San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown, San Diego Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2008 Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles Weighing and Wanting Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla Entre Chien et Loup Kent Gallery, New York Wild Signals — Artistic Postions between Symptom and Analysis Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart Idea, Text and Image, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland 2007 Im Wort Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen Read Me: Text in Art Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2005 Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Hommage to Friedrich Schiller Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart Kamm Gallery Anniversary Exhibition Galerie Kamm, Berlin 2004 Fade (1990 - Present): African American Artists in Los Angeles, a Survey Exhibition Luckman Gallery and the University Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Recherche - entdeckt!

The cryptocurrency is trading double tops with the attempts to recover, but it is capped at $ 0.87 which is now acting as a major resistance level.

The Ionic was Fitbit's first attempt at making a tracker that also doubled as a smartwatch, plus we've seen more and more attempts from fashion brands around the world, so it makes sense that Misfit wants a piece of that growing smartwatch pie.