Sentences with phrase «batting it around for»

The concept of developing the site, where dirt and construction debris are dumped, has been batted around for years, and residents said they are getting frustrated that nothing has been done.

It's been a proposal batted around for decades.

A more controversial question that scientists and politicians have batted around for decades, says Shah, is «What is the source of that difference?»

Although, if left unsupervised, you can bet that your cat will most likely find a piece and make a mess by batting it around for awhile.

The fact of Netflix's release strategy for The Cloverfield Paradox is something we'll be batting around for a while.

The thread got batted around for a week or so, and dropped off the Forums map, until this past weekend, when the old thread got new life with some opinions about which CFLs are the best bet for light quality, light quantity, non-flickering and non-buzzing.

Not exact matches

I liked the fact that people came together and batted around ideas, and then, as an editor, you would look for the perfect writer for it, somebody who could make it better than you imagined, then ultimately putting an issue together was about getting the right mix and the right tone.

So keep that excitement high even when things aren't going well, and remember that motivated employees are going to turn around and go to bat for your and the company when you need them the most.

Just name me one «truth» for me and we can bat that around.

As of mid-August the Sooners were batting around several ideas for honoring Box.

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

For most of the season, NL managers are accustomed to making double switches during games to work around having their relievers bat whereas AL managers never have to give a second thought.

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.

But under the rules all he can do is declare the runner out for being hit by a batted ball and put the hitter on first with a single... I hope I'm around when some real belligerent big league manager lets his boys try this dodge.

It's also for the best for A-Rod, who had a decent enough start to the year outside of his batting average — his OPS was.705 on June 5 — but then saw everything else slip by the time mid-August rolled around.

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 Eto.

Fortunately for L.A. fans, Pujols has since turned his season around batting.278 with 11 home runs over the past two months.

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.

The average cost for baseball gear is $ 385 with a bat costing around $ 230.

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.

A cushy monkey, jingly toucan, cute elephant, and parrot with spinning paddle invite baby to bat them around, an action that helps develop gross motor skills.Or, you can put your baby on his belly for some tummy time on the soft quilt bottom.

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.

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.

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.

Well, for months they would bat the issue around.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steve: I am turning to page 74 actually, because there were a couple of things, I was just leafing through all of these shorter origins pieces, and I learned a couple of really interesting things such as, we have this half a page on the origins of insurance and the insurance industry's getting, they are getting batted around a bit during this whole healthcare reform discussion, but what's really interesting is that the advent for or the necessity for insurance wound up being a crucial driver to the advent of mathematics and probability.

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 tesFor 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 tesfor 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.

I also bought all the stuff to make a Chocolate Zucchini Cake before this huge Chocoholic craving passes, because it will pass, and then I'll have to wait an entire month before I'm motivated to make the cake that my dear mother used to make for us sometime around now, when we are inundated by baseball bat sized zucchinis.

We have found that most people that purchase the one month membership with Positive Singles end up sticking around for several months unless they have some great luck right off the bat.

It's a stacked lineup, and considering the profound un-funniness of so many Hollywood comedies, the fact that the film bats somewhere around.300 for its two - hour duration makes it feel like a genuine all - star event.

And the film works extra hard to find reasons for Bats and Supes to throw down, including a naff kidnapping plot and a deeply weird flash - forward - dream - time - travel - thing that we still can't get our heads around.

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.

Danny Boyle and Yann Demange's names were batted around last month, but with insiders informing Variety that MGM is looking for a «big name» to helm the new chapter, the Steve...

There's an obvious affection for the Friday the 13th and Halloween films being batted around here, and other trashy 1980s exploitation movies, but it's welded with the self - referential fourth - wall deflating nabe of David Wain's Wet Hot American Summer, with gags outnumbering the gore by an ample ratio.

Hopefully your quest for bats and potted versions of the event's flowers is a bit easier this time around.

Hopson: BATs will provide a sense of community for them and a structure around which they can organize and regain their power.

Steve Smith, spokesman for the California Labor Federation, said his group has batted the idea around.

You can bat around contenders for the «most beautiful electric car» all day, but if you ask us, there's only one car deserving of that title, and it's the new Jaguar E-Type Zero.

For anybody who follows Joe Konrath's blog, you'll know that the figure that keeps being batted around as a yardstick for indie authors selling well is those who are selling 1,000 books or more a monFor anybody who follows Joe Konrath's blog, you'll know that the figure that keeps being batted around as a yardstick for indie authors selling well is those who are selling 1,000 books or more a monfor indie authors selling well is those who are selling 1,000 books or more a month.

Nellie's throat closed around a scream, and she lunged for the baseball bat leaning against her nightstand.

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

There's still little agreement on what caused the May 6 market meltdown, but the experience has a few lessons for small investors, whose fortunes were batted around along with the investments of major Wall Street players.

Rattle sounds and feathers make them ideal for batting around.