Sentences with phrase «batted around in»

Digital watermarking has been batted around in debates about DRM for years, but Pottermore brought it back into the forefront.

Not exact matches

While traditional exchanges around the globe have been combining their strength in recent years, this is just in response to the competitive pressure they've been feeling from new alternative trading systems like Knight Capital or BATS Global Markets.

The 1980's and 1990's will bring plenty of tumult in terms of ownership, as Arabian princes, Primerica, Shearson and others will bat the company around like kittens in a box with a ball of string.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

In the third deck, a group bats around a beach ball, eventually knocking it to the cheering...

In the third deck, a group bats around a beach ball, eventually knocking it to the cheering crowd below.

My husband and I are batting around the idea of visiting Jamaica in January (mostly to escape our horrendous winter) and thought the bays looked amazing!

o.t does anybody on here honestly think we might try and make a move for klopp this summer are the board that aggressive enough to make the decision also wenger has not come out straight away to denied that klopp is coming to arsenal he just batted the question away in the press conference yesterday this makes me wonder if wenger is going to sit down with the board and have a chat to see what is the best way forward for the club (maybe moving upstairs to the boardroom so he doesn't have to break his contract) i am sure if certain members of the board saw this as a prime opportunity to move the club forward post wenger we will see what will happen this might be the only chance to get him as we might not be any decent manager around when wenger does retire we would probably end up with martinez instead realistically who do you think we would end up with in 2 yrs time options will be more limited me thinks and we wil have missed the boat better make it count this time coyg

Now in her early 30s, she is left to bat around a ball in the park.

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

In 1971, when former Chicago Cubs outfielder George Altman was locked in a tight race for the Pacific League batting title with Lotte Orions teammate Shinichi Eto, opponents blatantly pitched around Altman while throwing strikes to EtIn 1971, when former Chicago Cubs outfielder George Altman was locked in a tight race for the Pacific League batting title with Lotte Orions teammate Shinichi Eto, opponents blatantly pitched around Altman while throwing strikes to Etin a tight race for the Pacific League batting title with Lotte Orions teammate Shinichi Eto, opponents blatantly pitched around Altman while throwing strikes to Eto.

He trained with some kung fu dude who used foam bats to hit Farr around his body to quicken Farr's reaction time in blocking them and hand placement.

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

As they had against Maddux, the Orioles broke out against Smoltz on Saturday in their third time around the batting order.

Friday night, movie stars and giants of industry sat in the Garden batting beach balls around during timeouts and screaming «DEE - fense.»

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.

It's webbed design makes it easy for new babies to hold (thanks to the grasp reflex in the first couple months), and you can even hang it from the baby gym with a few plastic links so baby can bat it around and make it rattle.

While sports are a favorite way for my boys to play outdoors, they also enjoy creating obstacle courses, having water gun fights and batting balloons around trying to keep them in the air.

«My feeling all along was the District 181 people were wrongly telling everyone we needed the school right away and the school board had to go in there with a sledgehammer and bat everyone around until they laid down and did what we demanded.»

He'll go to bat for her when their birth plan isn't being respected; he'll kick someone out of the room that his pregnant partner no longer feels comfortable around; he'll advocate for her in any way that ends up being necessary.

In areas where the white - nose syndrome fungus has been around for awhile, little brown bats seem to have found a way to limit the disease damage.

This March it found signs of white - nose infected animals in two small caves — one hosting fewer than 10 bats and the other with around 60.

Ecologists can reveal the frequency of bird and bat deaths in wind turbines, the traffic of birds around airports and the potential for distribution of disease and disease vectors.

The bat's numbers in the wild have declined from about 1000 individuals in 1968 to around 350 in 1991.

In Butler's experiment, students engaged either in rereading or in retrieval practice after reading a text that pertained to one «knowledge domain» — in this case, bats» use of sound waves to find their way arounIn Butler's experiment, students engaged either in rereading or in retrieval practice after reading a text that pertained to one «knowledge domain» — in this case, bats» use of sound waves to find their way arounin rereading or in retrieval practice after reading a text that pertained to one «knowledge domain» — in this case, bats» use of sound waves to find their way arounin retrieval practice after reading a text that pertained to one «knowledge domain» — in this case, bats» use of sound waves to find their way arounin this case, bats» use of sound waves to find their way around.

In the 400 milliseconds it takes a professionally thrown fastball to reach the plate, the batter has to budget time for locating the baseball, identifying its spin, deciding whether and where to swing, and actually whipping the bat around to the right spot.

Pseudoscorpion species around the world have been found stowing away aboard a variety of animals, and now A. vastus has been spotted travelling by bat in New Zealand (New Zealand Journal of Zoology, doi.org/833).

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].

With this in mind, researchers from Concordia and the University of Tennessee studied the importance of different types of habitats for insectivorous bats living in and around agricultural regions.

«We're asking the citizens across Quebec and Ontario to help us locate bat colonies they might encounter in nature or around their homes,» says Lessard.

In a series of trials in Costa Rica, scientists studied Sowell's short - tailed fruit bats as they flew around a large octagonal cagIn a series of trials in Costa Rica, scientists studied Sowell's short - tailed fruit bats as they flew around a large octagonal cagin Costa Rica, scientists studied Sowell's short - tailed fruit bats as they flew around a large octagonal cage.

It's easy to lose sight of proper scientific technique in chaotic environments: Shortcuts are very tempting when potentially pandemic - starting bats are fluttering around your head, or when supplies are held up in customs.

For example, the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), which is smaller than a thumb, hibernates in caves around 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit with 90 percent humidity, an ideal setting for the fungus, according to laboratory tests.

Kyle was always an athlete, setting the Pole Vault record in high school and earning a scholarship to college for his track and field prowess, and he brought that same athleticism to the gym — it was an awesome workout right off the bat, and he said he hadn't used free - weights in a workout for years because he owned a Bowflex, but it was hard to tell by watching him throw the weight around.

After we shot these photos in Little Venice, we went to Notting Hill to run some errands and have a coffee; on Westbourne Grove, no one bats an eye if you swan around in a dress like this in the morning!

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.

This angry dating - profile - haver seems to be so confident in their chances of finding an excelsior mate that they begin batting hopefuls away before they've even got around to listing their interests.

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.

Cumberbatch's name has been batted around by the media as a possible choice for Strange ever since talks with Joaquin Phoenix reportedly went south back in July.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode, and written by Wentworth Miller (yes, of «Prison Break» fame), the film is one that is being batted around as a contender for Cannes and is one of the most anticipated films of the year, in any event.

But off the bat, there seems to be no explanation how much improvement there's been in this second go - around.

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.

In the horror drama, she begins to unravel when she's batted around by newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis).

The film indulges in the intellectual rap session with both fascinated attention and wry humor: it is, after all, the pretentious proclamations and justifications of two privileged men batting around the meaning of life in a restaurant where most folks couldn't afford to buy dessert.

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.

While you could walk around with two guns or two baseball bats, you are encouraged to really mix things up, like a machete in one hand and a shotgun in the other.

You can't really stealth because of the stupid cats following you around in the demo, but assuming you were alone and not making noise, you could sneak up on a boss and get the advantage right off the bat.

Together with her sister, Vinnie (Jennifer Ehle, in a rare role worth her warm talent), and an irreverently modern friend, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), Emily bats guests, suitors, and uptight relatives around like a cat playing with its food — an intellectual game hunt that seems to fill her father (Keith Carradine) with a mixture of disapproval and begrudging pride.

But she's taking creative control of her projects, too — in addition to batting around ideas with Paul Thomas Anderson, Haddish will also executive produce and star in a new animated series from BoJack Horseman creators Raphael Bob - Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt.

The owners of the inn allowed the students to place the houses around the inn, and the bats took up residence in their new homes.