Sentences with phrase «be off the mark for»

Unfortunately, there is no «one size fits all» approach, so numbers that may make sense for one management team may be off the mark for another one.

Not exact matches

Some of the most respected news sources turned out to be way off the mark about Donald J. Trump's chances of securing the Republican nomination, or even remaining in the race for as long as he has.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off an effort to get U.S. small businesses to spend more on advertising as the image of the social media network's ads have taken a hit for their role in alleged Russian attempts to sway U.S. voters.

These trends are surely not ideal for consumers, but they mark a necessary trade - off for overall lower ticket prices.

James Ballentine, the head lobbyist for the ABA, responded that «anyone who believes that community banks are better off as a result of this avalanche of new regulation is off the mark.»

The announcement that AOL is likely to close or sell off the social networking site Bebo comes as no surprise to industry watchers, marking the latest in a string of acquisitions that seem to have become the kiss of death for web startups.

If you don't account for the fact that higher future stock levels will suddenly reintroduce all of that dilution, your projected earnings could be far off the mark.

If you've been waiting for mortgage rates to «bottom - out» and want to take your risk off the table, today and Tuesday mark good days on which to do it.

In fact, Erhart's former boss (Johnathan Ball, who left the company) came out and said Erhart's reasons for Ball's departure are totally off the mark.

When I was recently in the hospital for heart failure, I marked off that I had no religious affiliation and was left alone.

Religious conviction is not something outside society; it is part of society's inner core: «Religion is not a separate area marked off from society... [but] a natural element within society, constantly recalling the vertical dimension: attentive listening to God as the condition for seeking the common good, for seeking justice and reconciliation in the truth.»

Other news organizations should use your article as a foundation for theirs because all the articles I have read in the last six months have been way off the mark.

You are correct that we do not celebrate holidays, for various valid reasons, however you are completely off the mark in thinking that this would mean we do not participate in gift giving.

, a place where Jews would not be persecuted or killed, certainly, but hived off and always marked as foreigners... his ideal order was ascendant over the whole Iberian Peninsula for half a century.»

Tests and measurements should be used with great circumspection and not to mark off students into separate groups for all purposes.

Mark Sayers would have been better off using Kerouac as an example of the changes that were taking place in culture than to give Kerouac the credit for being the genesis and originator of these changes.

At my old high school the school board marked the wrong day off its calendar — for a MUSLIM holiday — and some 63 % of students didn't show and we were forced to make that day up.It isn't just a matter of counting days, though, I would argue.

A day after Davis was executed in Georgia for the 1989 shooting death of Mark MacPhail, an off - duty police officer, one contributor to The Daily Beast asked this question:

There is no suggestion that the soul is some kind of supernatural element which in some way marks off man from nature and provides a special point of contact for divine activity.

Then he's off to his own washing, the one in Bethany that will mark him for death.

Let me add here that if my interpretation of intuitions as reflective is not off the mark, then there is a way to help account for the idea that intuitions and spatialized, conceptual understanding are relevant to one reality, as Gunter insists.

It might not be too far off the mark to say that what happened that night was a prophetic statement of what God intended for his servant after his removal from the scene where he had labored for a dozen or more years as a result of speaking out his piece of dissent before the South African government.

For Otto, this «wholly other» is transcendent rather than immanent, which marks it off from Whitehead's insistence that immanence is the key, although both seem to be considering the same experiential evidence.

If you had left off the «Do most» and the questions mark you could have been eligible for the understatement of the year award.

Those who detect some affinity between Professor Dolan's revisionist designs for the truly «republican» episcopate of John Carroll and the agenda of certain parties a gauche in American Catholicism today will not be far off the mark.

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.

No excuses, in a little less than half of a quarter - hour (or 560 seconds), you can mark «exercise» off your «to do» list — and still have time to pat yourself on the back for being so efficient and smart!

Mark Lansley, managing director of Broadland Wineries, that runs its own third party bottling facility in the UK as well as shipping bulk wine to help create its own brands for the on and off - trades, it is a complex issue.

Today marks my first day back to work for the 2012 school year and although I know that I shouldn't be complaining about 2.5 months off, I'm still going to.

I've waited for my cookies until it started cracking (this was at 8 minutes mark), then left them for another minute and took them off the oven.

CEO and owner Mark Lansley will be speaking at IBWSS UK conference, while Master of Wine Dr. Arabella Woodrow and other members of the Broadland's team will be available to discuss how companies in the UK On Trade and Off Trade can take advantage of bulk wine to grow sales, profitability, and the value for money offered to consumers through the UK packed exclusive labels.

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).

Reports over the last week that the Harper Draft Report would be unlikely to recommend an effects test for s 46 were about as far off the mark as you could get - recommendation calls for removal of «taking advantage» and adding effect of SLC to the provision.

You know, we've heard for too long that the egg is the perfect food or milk is the perfect food and we are really off the mark there, there are so many issues with those foods.

It's a tricky one... But I'd definitely start him tomorrow and take him off at the hour mark if we're perhaps 2 - 0 up for instance.

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As for Johnstone, it will certainly be a good experience for him to try and prove to Steve Bruce that he deserves to be his starting goalkeeper, although he'll have to fight off stiff competition from Pierluigi Gollini and Mark Bunn.

Naturally, the response on Twitter wasn't kind to him as Spurs fans and others took the opportunity to criticise and mock him respectively, and unfortunately for the former AZ Alkmaar man they won't stop until he finally gets off the mark from open play.

7.5 — He was brilliant today in attack and defended pretty well but I marked him down for the clumsy tackle which gave them a spot kick and he could have been sent off.

And the FRench striker is off the mark while Arsenal got a clean sheet and are into the next round, so a great night for the Gunners.

If you just can't wait for a filled - in NCAA bracket, there's always the blank brackets that can be marked off as teams are announced.

His best moments came off dribble penetration, and the biggest question mark is whether or not he can create shots for others when initiating the offense on his own.

Mark Allen was on target with 18 of 33 passes for 253 yards as Cornell, down 6 - 2, finished off Princeton 37 - 6.

It's time once again for the near - annual grimace - off between Mark Dantonio and Brian Kelly, truly one of football's greatest modern traditions.

In Bouldys day we never had this zonal marking tactic, he wasn't coached zonal marking, it was get close to your man and not let them get a clear run up on the ball, we also used this tactic called the off side trap, where all our defenders were in tune we each other and moved forward in tandem, something that we was famous for.

-- Mario Balotelli is back, on as a substitute for Liverpool and off the mark after 105 days — a goal with a moustache.

I watched him for schalke when he was playing in one of those face marks, he was charging down the flank with opposition players bouncing off him trying to tackle him.

The University of Kentucky is off to a hot start under new head coach Mark Stoops for the 2014 recruiting class.

but it wont be to long before we are over the # 200 million mark in cash reserves net wise (not gross) with the new t.v deal coming in and our gross debt is around the # 220 million mark so not far off at all in fact, so maybe two more years then we will defo have more cash than debt for certain.