Sentences with phrase «bad at picking»

Even subsidies that seem quite good at first usually later turn out to be bad (corn ethanol) because of the law of unintended consequences, and governments are very bad at picking the right technologies because of political interference, pressure by special interests and multi-year lag in decision - making.

Ok, so I literally have no style and am really bad at picking outfits.

A few things I can't get enough of right now: cantaloupe (even though I'm the worst at picking out a good one), spinach (scrambled in eggs, blended in smoothies), and farro (surely more recipes coming soon).

Detroit can do a whole lot worse at pick nine, but I can't see them doing any better than Jared Sullinger.

Not exact matches

«It would be up to them to pick, because every bad start - up would approach them first, too, but at least they'd see everything.»

Or pick up Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood by Alida Nugent.

During bad weather or other foreseen events, airlines often give travelers plenty of time to rebook their flights for other dates, a way to avoid chaos at the airport, long before a snowflake falls or tropical - storm winds pick up.

This deal represents budgeting at its worst — each party is giving the other its wish list with all the bells and whistles included and asking future generations to pick up the tab.

It's too bad nobody voted for them, but at least they are more deserving than past crops of patronage picks.

We could make a few bad decisions with our independence because their reasoning was that it was better to fail while they were there to help pick up the pieces than to send us out into the world for the first shot at failure.

Sounds bad, or at least disappointing, and some newspapers are going to pick up the story — and ignore that hedging «clear» — but it is a non-story.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

Evangelicals are the worst at cherry - picking what they want to read and quote.

I often hear Christians who have picked up a really bad habit of saying «Father God» at least once every 5 words.

I am picking on the practice and Mormons are one of the worst I have seen personally at it in my part fo the world.

It's a little disruptive having my husband pop in to make lunch, or worse, pick at the holiday treats, when there are 10 things on the go and I'm super focused on making sure that everything's coming together.

The tomatoes that we pick now need to be eaten within 24 hours before turning into wrinkled specimens, good only for throwing at bad Shakespearean actors.

Just dropping in to share the kind of recipe you, too, might make if you found yourself on a Thursday with a reasonably well stocked pantry, a lot of kale (or other greens you picked up at the farmers» market back on Saturday), and two sweet Italian sausages that you bought from the very same farmers» market for way too many dollars and which are threatening to go bad if you don't find a way to integrate them into this week's meal plan, a meal plan that has already incorporated more meat than you really like to eat.

This bad - boy came about from a VERY dangerous recipe that my wife picked up whilst at a...

So often I end up picking the worst looking bananas at the supermarket, purely because they'll be great for making smoothies and smoothie bowls with!

The main thing you're supposed to look for it firmness and integrity of the peel — if both those were the same, it just may have been a bad fruit: (For me, it's a lot like picking an avocado, I kinda suck at it so it's always a bit of a gamble...

I don't disagree with the difficulty they faced, but when the only Plan B was to throw money at Pau and pick up Joffrey and fill out the roster with guys who would bring nothing to a playoff series, then something went badly wrong.

Back when I picked the only correct All - Star ballot for the American League, I forgot about the DH because I'm bad at my job, but I would have picked Nelson Cruz.

There really is not a bad pick at this point.

But after Silver and the league changed the draft lottery format to inhibit tanking, the three - worst teams in the NBA will share 14 percent odds at the top pick.

The team with the worst record in the NBA currently has a 25 percent shot at the top pick.

It's hard to pick which Sunderland player was the worst at St. Mary's, but former Manchester United man Wes Brown has to be a contender — he was run ragged all afternoon.

Desmond, now 30, picked a bad time to have his worst season in at least four years in 2015, hitting.233 /.290 /.384 with 19 home runs and 27 doubles in 156 games for the Washington Nationals.

Arsenal have the bad luck to have to face the Champions - elect Man City just four days after being embarrassed in the League Cup final by Pep Guardiola's side, but Arsene Wenger is very hopeful that his team can pick themselves up to try and get revenge at the Emirates, where the Gunners have only lost one League game all season.

Why this take is bad: OK, so Bruce Irvin wasn't the greatest first - round pick ever, but the Seahawks could've done much worse — at least Irvin's still in the league, unlike several other players drafted ahead of him (Trent Richardson, Justin Blackmon, for starters).

I will never not support the use of unorthodox methodologies to fill out BlogPoll ballots (the only guideline is picking the best 25 teams each week), but this one seems kind of silly to me: ranking Ohio State No. 1 based on wins over FBS teams without considering that the Buckeyes have beaten a lot of bad ones (best win: Nebraska at home?)

SAF, didn't give players special treatment, if he felt u playing bad, u sat on the bench... Wenger has his favourites... Needs to learn to pick squad and substitute according to «at that tym» requirements...

If they have the chance to pick up additional picks and have at worst can still get 1 of their top 2 non QBs then you have to make that move.

It's entirely possible that absolutely everything goes wrong and the Sixers decide to keep all their mid lotto picks and wind up with something like Stanley Johnson, Marquese Chriss, and Malik Monk, but you're really looking at the worst possible outcome there.

Pep isn't the guy making terrible decisions with the football and throwing awful picks, he's not the guy whose bad draft picks and missed trades have hurt depth on the roster, and he's not the guy meddling in places he shouldn't be meddling (I'm looking at you, Ryan Grigson and Jim Irsay).

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

A S should have a rest simple or he will pick up a bad hamstring problem just like he did at Barcelona.

then at that last pick, it was down to him or JC Jackson, and I think they are totally similar players, except that Jackson didn't pull a bad version of the Jerry Rice where he tore his ACL and then broke that kneecap on top of it.

Browns need a linebacker (either one will do), and I was just in a bad position, where there were better guys at other needs every time I picked.

At any time other than the time of the Olympics (January 29 - February 9), when it will be a nuisance, a hired car, picked up in Munich (3 hours away) or Zurich (a 7 - hour drive), is not a bad idea.

But they need Edge rush just as badly, the drop - off after Landry is huge, & they reportedly like him a lot, so I don't see him getting past them, & I think he's a perfectly justifiable pick at # 9.

The latest injury crisis for Arsenal came about with Aaron Ramsey picking up a calf problem at the worst possible time.

I understand your point but also mustafi is one of the most experienced players at the tournament and it is a knockout competition so can't afford to pick a player after such a bad game.

Yeah, it's not that any of those spots would necessarily be a bad pick, but there certainly aren't gaping holes at those positions that preclude the Eagles from taking Guice or any other running back at 32 if he's at the top of their board at that point.

-- The loss to Chelsea where were supposed to be title challengers — The 3 — 3 draw to Anderlecht where we were up 3 — 3 at half time — The loss to Swansea following the Anderlecht result where we were under pressure to get a good result — The 3 — 2 loss at Stoke where we were under pressure to pick up points to remain in the title challenge and were 3 — 0 down at half time — The 1 — 0 loss to United where we were expected to beat United with a worse injury crisis than ourselves — The 3 — 1 loss to Monaco after we were fully expected to beat the weakest opponent we could draw and finally kick on to the R16 The 2 — 1 loss to Spurs where our resurgence was on and we had an outside chance at the title with both City and Chelsea slowing up The 0 — 1 loss to Swansea when 2nd was still in our hands as well as the 0 — 0 draw to Sunderland both at home

The bad blood between the two strikers was picked up on by various Arsenal fans and with questions already being aimed at Sanchez over his attitude, could this be a further sign of his unhappiness at not getting the transfer away from Arsenal he wanted?

At worst, the pick - and - roll opens a passing lane for Anthony to catch the ball cleanly.

When he 1st came to the club he had Dein to support him a lot and since his departure the responsibilities appears to have been picked up by Wenger, this has come at a cost to his coaching capability which has finally lead us to where we are now, having a worse start since prior his joining...

All that is bad enough, with the manager having to wonder if any or how many of his key players are going to pick up an injury and put our chances of success at risk.

In fact, he thought he might be the first pick in the draft or, at worst, a first rounder.