Sentences with phrase «blown on»

BlackBerry may have blown it on the PlayBook, but trash - talking tablets in general is worse than sticking your head in the sand: it makes the company look hopelessly out of touch.

That's where Natalie Goldberg came in, she of the Taos, New Mexico residency who instilled a nascent interest in me to want to visit New Mexico, but which I didn't realize until a certain novel set me full - blown on that desire (more on that later), and who showed me that yes, in order to be a writer you have to write, but you also should write what gets you excited.

Later on, when I was too big to hide, they came to ask her other things, for by this time her reputation as a cunning woman with magical powers had spread as thistledown does, blown on the hot winds of gossip.

First off, I went to Medved after the engine had blown on a Jeep I had owned for 10 + years.

Unfortunately the lid is about to be blown on the secretive training operation and Retired Col. Eric Byer (Edward Norton) isn't about to take the fall.

This is a chip - scale glass microspherical shell sensor array blown on a silicon substrate.

We deserve to know why our money is being blown on something that only distracts from the real problems keeping businesses away, like high taxes..»

Stitch was initially not amused with raspberries being blown on her cheeks and belly.

Cavani maybe, but given his up - down form at PSG, # 50m + # 200k p / w in wages presents a massive proportion of our budget blown on a risk.

The majority of Man United's # 200m transfer kitty is likely to be blown on Antoine Griezmann as The Sun claim the Frenchman is top of Mourinho's wish - list, with an # 80m bid lined up.

My entire farmer's market budget blown on one bag of lettuce.

New businesses like my son's Red Bird Café are like embers that need caring puffs of air blown on them, in order for them to grow.

to make my cartoons more honest and courageous, blowing the whistle on what I think the whistle needs to be blown on....»

Transcendental dice just want to be blown on just like regular dice.

This reminds me of the Foolish virgins in Matt 25... we don't know the day or hour but the season we should know bec trumpets (read 1Thess 4 & 1Corn 15 Paul gave us a hint of the rapture) are only blown on Rosh Hashanah which is the next feast cycle for Jesus to fulfill (this is the 5th feast of the 7 and the previous 4 were fulfilled).

Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, in the works since 2005, was likely dealt a fatal blow on June 30th when the Federal Court of Appeal threw out its 2014 conditional approval because the Crown (read: Harper government) failed in its «duty to consult» aboriginals as required by the Constitution.

In advance of the new season of Blue Collar Millionaires, we sat down with Connie Lorenz to ask what it was like to whistle - blow on the president, and how her life has changed since.

eBay blew it on both counts.

They will say things like «blow on your hand» or «blow on a friend»... very few people know to lick a spoon, let it dry, and then smell it.»

What Corcoran did next was the «smartest thing I could have done,» she says: «I collected that check from Mr. Giffuni, I cashed it at Citibank and I ran right over to Bergdorf Goodman and I blew it on a new coat.»

She cashed the $ 360 check, «ran right over to Bergdorf Goodman and blew it on a new coat,» she tells Guy Raz on the NPR podcast «How I Built This.

«The administration is fully aware of which way the wind is blowing on the issue,» McGrath says.

«I think the government blew it on us... They're only now starting to get to the range of where they should have been.

«They helped cushion the blow on the economy from the commodity - price shock, which is of course better than reacting after the fact,» Poloz said Wednesday.

Experts now agree that blowing on Nintendo cartridges was not actually helpful.

Of course the first solution was to blow on the cartridge, but particularly desperate players, perhaps experiencing some of the first cases of buffer rage, would resort to anger and violence.

Another bonus of moving your emergency savings to a separate account: You draw a mental and logistical barrier between this money and your other savings, so you don't accidentally blow it on a trip to the Bahamas.

A federal judge in Florida dealt a blow on Thursday to legal claims by American technology workers who were laid off by the Walt Disney Company and forced to train foreign replacements, dismissing lawsuits by two workers who said Disney had conspired with outsourcing companies to violate visa laws.

The tariffs he just signed are a more lenient version of the ones he proposed last week — a sign that forceful criticism by scores of Republican lawmakers and threats of a trade war from the US's trading partners persuaded the president to try to soften the blow on imports.

I proceeded to do what every foolish 23 year old would do and blow it on things!

They blow it all on bombs, drones, wars, and unsustainable social welfare programs.

But what if once, just once, you blow it all on one or more items on your personal wish list?

Some investors need fun money to blow on investments otherwise it might drive them nuts.

In that respect, Matt struck a modest blow on behalf of religious liberty and of reasonable public discourse.

Over at the Jewish magazine the Tablet, David Goldman examines how America's conservative Jews blew it on Iraq and Iran: Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command and former commander of the multinational force in Iraq, next month will receive an award from the American Enterprise....

Haven't you seen artists use the wind to enhance their performance, and they dance with the wind blowing on them or their clothes, and we enjoy looking at them.

The next day we had the class almost blow by blow on the concepts I had just learned.

Blow on the coal of the heart.

A blow on the right cheek would ordinarily be a slap with the back of the hand.

Just as he got there, a second man lashed out with his fist, and gave the pastor another blow on his left cheek.

Revelation 7:1 - 4 states: «After these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Over at the Jewish magazine the Tablet, David Goldman examines how America's conservative Jews blew it on Iraq and Iran:

It is possible, of course, that Master P'ang had suffered a severe blow on the head the week before, and ever since had been confusing categories like marvelous and ordinary, wondrous and...

Scarcely shall they be planted, scarcely shall they be sown, scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth, when He will also blow on them, and they will wither, and the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.»

«I was admittedly misinformed on Reform rabbis, and made a horrible analogy that I immediately attempted to clarify - quite honestly, I blew it on this one,» Beck wrote, according to a copy of the letter released by the Anti-Defamation League.

You just blew it on accident.

He blew it on this, and he will blow a lot more.

The ideas of Darwin and Marx, the so «called German higher criticisms, and other strange winds of thought might already be blowing on foreign shores, but their tainted breath was scarcely to touch America for another generation.

While the Spirit blows on the hearts and minds of Christians, the Spirit also blows on the heart and minds of others in our culture.

It is a minefield of course and if we dodge to avoid one mine we end blowing ourselves on another.