Sentences with phrase «batted around at»

A lot of language about reform has been batted around at all levels of government this past year.

The problem with the sorts of ideas being batted around at the moment — primarily devolution for the English regions — is that they are at once too concrete and too unsystematic, while also being too «top down», and too vulnerable to short term swings of public opinion.

Not exact matches

It's batted around, and eventually Stephen Carr recovers it at the Buckeye 15.

Beckham hits a walk - off, playoff - hopes - crushing HR off new closer Sergio Romo, stares at the ball as it leaves Camden Yards, does a Bautista-esque bat - flip, and proceeds to do the MC Hammer dance around the bases with both fingers pointed at Kevin Cash.

Except Clifton himself fumbled at the MTSU 16, and the ball got batted around a bit before another Arkansas State player fell on it for a touchdown, 98 yards or so from where Middle Tennessee's Tucker maybe caught the ball a few moments earlier.

He had a stance at the plate where he near had his back to the pitcher; he was so far turned around that I could see the number 3 on his uniform; I didn't think the monkey could come around quick enough on my fastball to get his bat on it.

Boggan began batting a ball around the basement table at his family home in Merrick, N.Y. when he was four.

In restaurants, patrons stop their conversations and gather around monitors to watch Ohtani's at - bats.

If there is a league out there that just lets Ohtani float around and collect innings and at - bats, this is an awful league and you should leave and form a rival league.

That makes dealing him now that much more difficult, as teams aren't going to want to pay for the Machado who can produce Gold Glove defense while providing one of the best bats at this position when they can argue that he most recently was not that guy — and that on top of not knowing if he's going to be around for only a year before bolting as a free agent.

He'll have to pitch around new Giant Ryan Garko, who has three homers and a 1.509 OPS in just 14 at bats against him, but he's pitching well enough that he should keep the Frisco bats in check.

What I'm saying is, the «80s were a barbaric time, and no one batted an eye at kids running around shooting at each other.

He'll be happily kicking and batting at things starting around three or four months.

The board of trustees recently batted the idea around at a March meeting, where they discussed a hypothetical $ 45 annual fee for each of the village's 10,967 properties.

As I gazed out across the city, I wondered if Vietnam feltlike this: you rode like bats out of hell, through the land of death anddestruction, suffering everywhere you looked, until at some moment, after youbroke free from the ground fire, you'd see as you looked all around you howbeautiful the night sky was.

Laser pulses shined into the vapor exposed the size and speed of vortices swirling around the bats» wings, which in turn revealed the forces they produced [see image at right].

Using drones could give a more detailed picture of how bats move around at higher altitudes, says Jones.

My approach to mentoring in general is asking a lot of questions and being in conversation and batting around ideas and looking at different scenarios.

What some reviewers have written about this fact is true but it makes you try harder next time around... with a little more angst in the bat to compensate:) and put more game in you to beat the developers at their game.

We've already become a society that doesn't bat an eyelash at people staring at small square screens in their hands around the clock, so this next possible step depicted in director Spike Jonze's vision of the future does seem entirely likely.

Some of the combo items shown in the trailer include; Lights Out, a baseball bat with Christmas lights wrapped all around; Candy Pain, a giant candy cane / sledge hammer with grenades attached at one end; and Santa's Little Melter, a stuffed reindeer / motorcycle combo vehicle that fires lasers.

Like every debut feature, it's imperfect, but this is what Vogt - Roberts can do first time at bat, we're dying to see what he comes up with second time around.

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Some cats like to swat at feathers on the end of a stick, while others like to bat paper balls around.

In general, cats love to swat and bat at things that they see swinging around, especially when they are younger.

During a visit on Monday, many of Ella's occupants were taking the proverbial cat nap, while others padded around, batting at toys or rubbing up against visitors.

There are acres upon acres of deep green paddy fields and at night the sound of the thundering surfing is only broken by the rustling of palm leaves and the odd clicking of bats as they feast o the many insects flying around.

This time around it is original creator Infinity Ward's turn at bat, and they've decided to bring warfare to the future with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, dropping players into a war between two factions from Earth and Mars as they fight for complete dominance.

At one point in his stage, there is a ladder with many bats around.

Shooting isn't always the best course of action either, as noise attracts other members of the undead that are stumbling around within close proximity and, if at all possible, it's often in your best interest to take care of them individually, by viciously and repeatedly swinging a cricket bat into their already decomposed craniums.

Rooftop gardens on bus depots and windmills at rail yards are just a couple of the ideas being batted around by a member

Luckily, those bats are only likely to be in - flight around dawn and dusk at wind speeds between 2 and 5 meters per second — so Ecotricity and RSPB implemented a mitigation plan by which the turbine is shut off for half an hour before and after dusk, whenever wind speeds are below 7 meters per second.

Where some of her peers consider Twitter a constructive tool for batting around ideas, Nopper says she believes that the main reason scholars tweet sessions has more to do with personal branding at a time when many academics are scrambling to be noticed.

The woman on Channel 16 had warned that this might be the last mild weekend for a long stretch, if not for the rest of the year, so come Saturday Rangel puttered around the yard, scratching the ground haphazardly in a way she called «raking,» unfurling the BBQ umbrella and then winding it down again and tying it off at the bottom against invasion by sleepy bats.

Even though Kobayashi five sales represent over $ 300 mln in Bitcoin being sold over public exchanges, Kobayashi's largest sale of 10,000 BTC that netted him around $ 86.6 mln only represents about.55 percent of the entire Bitcoin market cap, nothing to bat an eye at.

I loved the article... it doesn't seem that long ago we were batting around a ball at the Thistle Club!