Sentences with phrase «but chalk up»

I therefore can't comment on the merits of the choice, but chalk it up as yet another milestone for female filmmakers in 2009.

But I chalk it all up to building the kiddo's immune system.

My crust did not turn out quite as crusty as yours in the photo, and it was a little more squat but I chalk it up to the beauty of cooking... no two are exactly alike Thank you so very much for sharing this recipe, I have a new found faith in gluten free bread!

But she chalked it up to being out of shape.

De Blasio on Tuesday said he had heard little of the tax cap before, but chalked up the issue's prominence to differences between himself and state lawmakers

The staff working the holiday shift found my blood pressure was elevated, but chalked it up to «holiday stress» and sent me home, instructing me to touch base with my doctor in a few days.

That day, I had felt antsy but chalked it up to normal pregnancy nesting.

The first time I saw The Void at Fantastic Fest, I was a bit let down, but I chalked it up to the fact that it was an 8AM press screening after a long night of movies and beer.

The game felt a bit sluggish, but I chalked this up to me being away from it for so long.

But chalking up the two degrees target as a political failure is a «naive» way to look at climate ambition and could even obstruct future negotiations, the authors argue.

Not exact matches

Other tech journalists have said iPhone 6 Plus users should wear looser jeans, but you can chalk this up as a victory for the smaller, more practical 4.7 - inch iPhone 6.

I wouldn't chalk him up as a «good example across the board,» but in this particular case, he got the marketing part right.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver chalked it up to a «summer lull,» but the numbers suggest a trend that can't be dismissed as simply seasonal.

But, one day, Mr. Butterman let a little nugget slip: This mellow, nonmultitasking guy had chalked up five times the sales of anyone else in his company.

You can chalk that up to a very bad screw up on Google's part, but it's a tear in the fabric of trust that should encase these kinds of gadgets.

Some of that is due to the U.S. election — the company reported record daily audiences when it streamed the presidential debates, for example — but Twitter is chalking up the bulk of the growth to product and marketing efforts, not politics.

He speaks with urgency, but in an understated way that's sometimes chalked up, when he's in New York or London, to his Canadian roots.

But even though Trump attaches meaning to irrelevant metrics like bilateral trade deficits in a global economy, where two - thirds of trade flows are intermediate goods and only 3.6 % of the value of an Apple iPhone is Chinese (yet the entire $ 179 cost is chalked up as an import from China, exacerbating the bilateral deficit), the fact is that frictions in the relationship have been increasing since well before this president assumed office.

The drop in the last couple days can safely be chalked up to profit taking, but the huge run - up in 2014 is a little harder to explain.

Chalk another one up to wishful thinking, but what good would it do us to have an all - powerful god hanging around that either couldn't or wouldn't eliminate evil, be it a separate force or a dreadful quality of mankind?

You can dance and spin and «hermeneutic» it all you want but the dude you choose to worship is an immoral prîck, and you're a reprobate for not being able to see that or to chalk it up to «he's god he can do what he wants.»

I said:» «Spiritual revelations» are nothing but choices that work out well enough that someone chalks them up to having been «divine intervention».

«Spiritual revelations» are nothing but choices that work out well enough that someone chalks them up to having been «divine intervention».

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

But I chalk that up to just being a part of life.

Chalk it up to lack of intellectual prowess if you like, but I just don't get it.

I'd read his strong words about women, Catholics, and those «fools» who proposed that the earth moved around the sun, but I chalked all that up to context and figured he was ahead of his time in every other way.

The fact that they are mini (and we all know that everything is better in miniature, a fact I've proven before), only adds to their appeal: he gets his very own cookie all to himself, and doesn't have to touch spoons with me (his aversion to sharing is baffling, but I chalk it up to simply «a guy thing»).

I could very well chalk this recipe for Chocolate Peppermint Pizzelles up to severe Christmas withdrawals, but I think I'll just say it's my love of cookies and chocolate that brings you this creation today.

As I threw the next load into the laundry, I heard a sort of thud sound, that didn't sound quite like t - shirts and pjs, but I just chalked it up to the heavier oven mitts I'd thrown in earlier, and didn't think anything of it...

I could chalk it up to being a lazy blogger, but truth be told, quantities aren't that important here.

So I'll chalk up a win in the creativity column, but unfortunately, my cabinets still merit hoarder status.

United finished just behind us, we like to chalk that up to injuries but United had an injury crisis worse than our own.

I know that they didn't agree with most of them and a few might have gone against them when they shouldn't have but I think most of it could be chalked up to their eagerness to out do what they had done the Week 4.

They haven't faired as well since their Week 1 Hoops Victory but I'm still going to chalk that up to a lack of experience with the other sports for now.

I would also stop well short of calling it a great pitched game... but it was certainly effective, and I think to chalk it up as mostly luck and bad performance by the Nats is selling Bettis short a little bit.

You chalk up our solidity to Coquelin, but completely ignore the change in team shape and the new discipline our FB's had to have when we were in possession.

N'Doye claimed it, but the dubious goals panel might end up chalking it down as a Dann own goal; the Senegal international's long - range drive took a cruel deflection off the unlucky defender.

Napoli's Lorenzo Insigne also chalked up a brace for himself to keep Fluminense at bay, but that didn't stop the club side from scoring an absolute screamer in the dying moments.

It's tempting to go chalk and wind up with a Final Four of nothing but No. 1 seeds, but history shows that's not the way to go.

But we're chalking some of that up to the absence of Mamadou N'diaye: A 7» 6 center from Senegal, N'diaye missed most of the year with foot injuries.

But given continued inconsistency of effort and questions about how quickly Stephen Curry will return, let's chalk up one loss in there.

Some writers chalked this one up to Valencia's ineptitude, but I really don't think that is how to spin this.

He has had a very successful loan year at Birmingham, scoring 8 goals and chalking up 3 assists from midfield, but he admitted he has no real idea what will happen next season.

Would have liked wins, but I sort of chalked this up as a 5 win season already.

But I think we can chalk this up to unfortunate circumstances rather than any sort of incompetence on anyone's part.

Champions League, League titles, you name it the odds are chalked up in Arsenal's favour, but it has become almost routine that we put in a dismal subpar start to the season next to the other contenders for such accolades.

The German international couldn't get a look in domestically towards the end, but was virtually faultless in Europe, chalking up an impressive eight goals in 16 appearances.

But don't chalk that up to stellar play by the front 6 stopping the run, as they still give up over 150 yards per game on the ground, ranking them 53rd in the country.

Atletico also had one chalked off late on as Gameiro smashed home from close range but Diego Costa was offside in the build - up, and again it was a good call from the match officials.