Sentences with phrase «be off the mark by»

My whip would be off the mark by just a hair but still hit my enemy.

When Clement Greenberg asserted the essence of painting flatness, I think he was off the mark by being both too literal and too narrow, and this gave formalism a bad name which it didn't deserve.

Not exact matches

«It's not what Mark had in his head initially, and that's why he's spoken very openly about his being caught off guard by the script and where the character ends up,» Johnson said.

In one recent step, for example, the site announced that Matter is being spun off as a standalone service and will become a kind of media incubator that is owned by Williams and run by Medium's former head of editorial, Mark Lotto.

If past experience is anything to go by, their predictions might not be too far off the mark either.

The meeting of the two young leaders — Trudeau is 45, Varadkar is 38 — was marked, in part, by a light - hearted moment in which the Irish premiere upstaged his Canadian counterpart by showing off a pair of flashy socks.

North American investors arrived at work Monday morning and were greeted by a 1,000 - point sell - off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking the blue chip index's biggest intra-day decline ever.

What it's about: Optimus Prime befriends an «inventor,» played by Mark Wahlberg, who helps him and the other Autobots fight off alien robots.

The optimistic longer - term projections that have been issued by the three main reporting agencies as well as from most Wall Street analysts are looking more and more like they may be off the mark as the current fundamentals are in no way suggesting the global oil market is already in a rebalancing pattern.

They were bumped off the list by new names like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Jack Ma — entrepreneurs who were just getting things rolling in 2006.

First off the mark is Tesla [TSLA - NASDAQ], a fledgling California - based company that has grown from a niche manufacturer of an electric sports car to the largest North American auto manu - facturer, by market capitalization, in less than 10 years.

It is not hard to see oil industry projections off the mark, undone by falling costs and rapid deployment of solar and wind.

And in an interview with San Francisco magazine in April, Benioff bashed a $ 1 billion donation by Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a so - called donor - advised fund that allows the contributor to take an immediate tax write - off but figure out later how the money will be spent.

We even have photos of Bigfoot — but not one scrap of evidence proves a man named Jesus born of Mary, impregnated by God through some mysterious angel (boy, that Joseph must have been one hell of a credulous mark), who worked as a carpenter and rabble - rouser, who traveled the countryside with a bunch of other rabble - rousers and who got in trouble, was crucified, and then arose physically before being carted off to heaven in a celestial Red Ryder wagon EVER EXISTED AT ALL.

I have to say, after reading George Weigel's surprisingly off - the - mark review shortly after the encyclical was released, I was eager to see someone in the realm of Catholic intellectuals do the encyclical (and Benedict) justice by seriously engaging it in its entirety.

So even when you slip the ring off, you're still marked by...

As an old journalist, you should have been tipped off by the quotation marks around the word «wrong.»

Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.

But in general, added charm is provided by groupings of the lines in larger units, which sometimes are marked off by refrains, yet more commonly are to be detected only by logical separation.

Social action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over liberalism.

Yet these new Catholics would also have learned that failure is an old story in the Church, and that the Father of mercies is eager to welcome back those who stray, if only they acknowledge that they have fallen off the path marked out by God's Son and commit themselves to a different future.

This was coming off of a weekend of reading about Mark Driscoll, so it may just be his particular brand that I'm responding to, but I'm amazed that some complementarians seem to believe that we should create an entire social system solely designed to keep men from feeling bad about themselves by making sure there is always someone below them on the food chain that they can rule over.

As Einstein wrote, «Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies... The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.»

The protest blocked Interstate 94 in St. Paul for more than five hours before officers were able to move them off of the highway by beginning arrests after tear gas, inert smoke and marking rounds failed to get the crowd to disperse.

So even when you slip the ring off, you're still marked by your lucky loved one.

If we claim to be saved, but our hearts are still so unchanged and hard that we stand by while people are hungry, naked, sick, in gaol, or homeless, then it probably isn't too far off the mark to ask what Jesus would have to say about us.

BUBBA»S BBQ JOINT — You're seated at a Formica - topped table that must have been stolen off the Sanford & Son set - one metal leg broken but held up by an upended tomato juice can, cobwebs dangling from the underside of one chair, a sticky substance on one corner of the table attracting a marching band of ants, another corner chewed away with obvious teeth marks.

While CO2 laser radiation is unable to generate codes on uncoated beverage cans due to its reflection off metal surfaces, the latest fibre laser systems are perfectly suited for these type of applications: thanks to their high pulse peak power they can code bare aluminium, as well as coated or anodised aluminium, leaving an indelible mark by anodising the surface (a process that does not engrave but actually creates a protective layer on the aluminium).

If your grill is big enough you can grill off the pineapple by brushing on the reserved marinade and grilling both sides until softened and grill marks happen.

The «extra man» would force errors when we are attacking by the opposing team's confusion over who to mark, he would close down the enemy in the midfield and he would help steal the initiative off the opponent attackers by his mobility to position himself at the less served areas.

To add insult to injury, it was Stoke's first effort on target in the game and Mark Hughes» side took full advantage as they look to pull off a surprise by denying Chelsea a win.

Hopefully we can be 2 - 0 up by the 60 minute mark and take Sanchez off!

Overseas, indoor world records were broken in separate meets as WENDELL MOTTLEY of Trinidad lowered the 440 - yard mark by [3/10] of a second with a 47.3 in a Cosford, England meet, and MICHEL JAZY of France clipped 1.2 seconds off the 1,500 - meter record of 3:41.9 (set in Berlin by East Germany's Jurgen May a week earlier) at a meet in Lyon, France.

However, it looks like Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are both in danger of falling off this year by failing to secure five percent of the vote, and neither Roger Clemens nor Barry Bonds looks as if they've made any progress towards election.

The full audio from his meeting in December has been published by Sports Illustrated and at the 14:30 mark, Gee sounds off on Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez's thoughts on Bret Bielema.

The «extra man» would force errors when we are attacking by the opposing team confusion over who to mark, he would close down the enemy in the midfield and he would help out steal the initiative off the opponent attackers by his mobility to position himself at the less served areas.

To offer him up as a striker far superior to OG is way off the mark — reality is that by every measure and metric available they are actually pretty comparable.

Mertesacker was forced off with a head injury just before the half hour mark and was replaced by Kolasinac who continued to look a threat.

Tim Hightower finished off the Saints» drive by running it in for the touchdown from the goal line, and it appeared that Mark Ingram may have been upset about it on the Saints» sideline.

if we get beat by that disgusting little rugby team and that little mark Hughes who got sacked by Man City we will fall apart and fans will be arguing again haha we are 1 game away from world war again, only way I see club going up announce Sanchez ox and oxlips new contracts and bring in van diik and beat Liverpool den only den will u see da club fans rocking again oh just before I go sead kolosinic let's see wat stoke player try's rough him up haha not this young man hell bounce u off ground hopefully Darren fletcher will try to upset da Bosnia rock and he breaks Darren in half I hate mark Hughes I hate fletcher I hate shawcross we no wat sparky plan is rough is up pls wenger have us ready to fire thank u goodnight

Just yesterday defender Dejan Lovren was subbed off by Klopp shortly after the half - hour mark as his sloppy play handed Tottenham an early 2 - 0 lead at Wembley.

I just hope that the one being reported by Sky Sports today about the former Man City forward Stevan Jovetic is way off the mark.

By March, it was clear those projections were off the mark.

Are u sure you read his comments from start to finish, cos this your comment is totally off d mark from the various points raised by mailgooner.

Have we all forgotten Torries and Shevenko they couldn't score Abramavich pissed off Mourinio over it a waist of money, so all you guys think if you spend over 10 million your get the player, but if he don't wan na come to Arsenal get anyone you have no idea on how to run a soccer club Wenger is a first class manager he doesn't get swayed by the bitchey bits and he gets it right in the end Mark my words we will finish second if we beat City as we are gonna hurt a lot of you Wingers CB

Herrera was replaced by Jesse Lingard at half time against West Brom, while Pogba was taken off for Anthony Martial on the hour mark after a performance that was night and day compared to his strong second - half display against Man City the week before.

This past weekend Atlético Madrid became just the second team in Liga history to make it through 22 games without being awarded a penalty or seeing an opponent sent off, a mark previously set by Real Betis in the 1975 - 76 season.

Arsenal fans aren't happy with claims made by Mark Clattenburg, after he admitted avoiding send off Tottenham players in a game to avoid getting blamed for ending their title challenge.

But the hosts took the lead in controversial fashion just after the half - hour mark as Kieran Gibbs saw his shot blocked on the line by Andrew Robertson before a Sanchez effort was saved by Eldin Jakupovic and the ball bounced off the hand of the Chilean and in.

After being picked apart by one long pass, Rüdiger played the fool as Alejandro Gomez danced around him twice before finding Borriello at the far post, who once again managed to outmaneuver a Roma defender, this time in the form of Zukanovic, who was begging to be pulled off after the first half — Poor marking, poor managing.