Sentences with phrase «by anything close to»

You list all the stocks you own and none of those stocks went up by anything close to 80 %.

I'd wager that he could literally have doubled his price and not reduced demand by anything close to enough to offset the gains.

Not exact matches

After all, even if the door closes on the current debt - settlement model — if the industry's history is anything to go by — another is bound to open.

Although Periscope has attracted a certain number of passionate users — and has been cited in the past by influential users such as Deray McKesson, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement — it hasn't really achieved anything close to mainstream acceptance.

But if the story told by the film - makers is even close to accurate, the world the workers live in is anything but sane, and they're struggling, after all, to feed their families without the help of the power - brokers who see them as mere pawns in a very high - stakes game.

Some of the good theological quotes did make it into the closing scene but no sooner had the credits started to roll than viewers were assaulted by «There's A Place For Us» by Carrie Underwood about «faith» and «love» and the line «we can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe» to make sure viewers walked out feeling good about themselves.

These public figures are well protected by «yes» people and do respond to anything unless there is a huge groundswell of opinion (and even then there are too many examples of them closing ranks and supporting each other).

The closest we get to an actual date for anything would be for Easter which is calculated by the Jewish Community's Passover.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

Sadly our current understanding in the «Christian» teachings falls miserably short of anything close to a supernatural manifestation by a Living God.

If you read anything that is written by spiritual leaders on Lent, you would have found out that typically, one gives up something as a sacrifice (and something that I would have a hard time doing), to bring one's self closer to God.

Organic certifications are not easy to come by, and it takes even more paperwork to become certified biodynamic (meaning that the pesticide - free produce is grown via a closed - loop system, so anything that would be considered waste is repurposed on the farm).

MotoGP has been unbelievably close for a couple of years now and if the first race in Qatar is anything to go by, then 2018 is going to be one incredible season.

There are NO other teams in the league that have accomplished anything close to what the Sixers did this year who had their best players be a rookie and a 2nd year player, some of the teams that Philly is most often compared to in regards to young talent are Minnesota (they won less games than Philly, Wiggins sucks, and they were buoyed by Jimmy Butler as a veteran star) and the Lakers (most people don't view anybody on the Lakers on the same level as Embiid or Simmons and they only won 35 games this year).

When it became clear last winter that Desmond would not be receiving anything close to an equivalent offer, it was viewed by some as a financial blunder.

Judging by your constant «loooool's i'm highly skeptical as to whether you've «supported» Arsenal for anything close to the decade you claim you've «tolerated»..

Clearly, if Ramos's training - ground clip is anything to go by, Zizou's boys are just hitting top form in front of goal as they close in on — potentially — their eleventh European title.

PSV winger Memphis Depay may be heading ever closer to a move to Manchester United if the Twitter activity of one of his agents is anything to go by!

If Omari would have been anything close to what we saw on Saturday by the end of last year there is no way that we would have lost to Wisconsin, Florida, or South Carolina.

I tend not to believe anything anyone tells me until it can be proved by evidence or I can see it for myself (like the story bout some bearded guy up in the sky waiting for me to die so he can have me sit next to him forever) If it is true the institution where he studied should be closed down and the person who handed him his diploma should be taken out and shot (just kidding).

Some of these players we are said to be targeting seem to be used by the agents to get better deals or to close deals quickly, we as fans seem to just grasp at anything the media puts out and believe.

The Old Trafford club must buy a left full back in the winter transfer window and if reports are anything to go by then Man United are closing in to sign (Express via SportBild) Wolfsburg's $ 43.5 m rated Swiss defender Ricardo Rodriguez.

If this summer is anything to go by, players who previously would have been valued around the # 10m mark are now worth around # 30m, while those who used to be # 25m players are now closer to # 60m.

If the update provided by a renowned journalist is anything to go by then Liverpool are close to finally signing Zielinski and the move could be sealed this week.

If reports in the media are anything to go by then Arsenal are closing in to sign Leicester City playmaker Riyad Mahrez in a huge deal this summer.

The game is likely to be a close and tactical affair with neither side keen to lose their opening match, however I can't see anything by the end of the match but a AS Roma victory.

by Harry W. Pope, March 25, 2014, Parents Canada In the English speaking world, linking letters together first started to appear in a limited way during the 11th century, but handwriting resembling anything close to what we would recognize today did not come into its own until some 600 years later.

The bond that's shared by twins is unlike anything else, hence I'd go as far to say that 99.9 % of twins grow up being incredibly close, the best of friends, the greatest of buddies, from childhood through to adulthood.

The detention of several powerful Saudi figures and members of clergy, can not only be seen in terms of domestic reforms and consolidation of power intended by Mohammed bin Salman, but also as giving him more room to manoeuvre in developing closer ties with Israel, given the hostility Saudi regime would have faced from actors that are anything but pro-Israel.

«Lord Rennard has always denied that he did anything wrong, the statements that were placed before Alistair Webster were four statements with complaint in them and about a hundred which refuted those complaints, some of them by people who were present or close to present at the times alleged.

But the Times, collectively, has never demonstrated the will or interest to examine Atlantic Yards in anything close to the proportion demanded by one of the biggest real - estate schemes in the history of the city.

This figure only includes closed primaries run by the state — caucuses, while also exclusionary to unaffiliated voters, do not cost taxpayers anything in the states in which they are held.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing really earth - shattering in here, and it's not being unveiled with anything close to the bells and whistles of last week's Medicaid Redesign Team report, which merited a post-vote Red Room press conference by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The study shows that by century's end, absent serious reductions in global emissions, the most extreme, once - in -25-years heat waves would increase from wet - bulb temperatures of about 31 C to 34.2 C. «It brings us close to the threshold» of survivability, he says, and «anything in the 30s is very severe.»

The researchers reason that since each detector's setting is determined by sources that have had no communication or shared history since the beginning of the universe, it would be virtually impossible for these detectors to «conspire» with anything in their shared past to give a biased measurement; the experimental setup could therefore close the «free will» loophole.

Even striving to live close to the places I frequent, they are never found near each other, and none are accessible by anything but a parking lot.

You might suspect that the Surface Pro 2017 is the closest we'll ever get to the Surface Pro 5, but if Microsoft itself is anything to go by, you would be dead wrong.

* Disclaimer: We are by NO MEANS «perfect» or anything close to that.

Because your dress can't be anywhere close to white or you'd be confused with the bride, but it shouldn't be too short either or you'll look innapropriate during the rite, but you don't want anything too constricting either because your food baby will appear by any minute...

i am very open - minded; i don't accept anything just because everyone else believes it and i don't close my mind to an idea just because it is strange or unaccepted by the general public, I'm a strong, sexy, smart, independent male with many goals and lots of drive.I love to have fun and need a...

i am Laura by name, 28 years, single and looking for a soul mate I should tell you that I am very open - minded; i don't accept anything just because everyone else believes it and I don't close my mind to an idea just because it is strange or unaccepted by the general public.

Risking audience wrath (of which there is a lot, if message boards are anything to go by), the movie even has the temerity to deny its audience a climactic final showdown, petering to a close with a deus ex machina lifted from H.G. Wells's novel.

All in all; This is by no means a deep game, nor something close to F.E.A.R or anything with a scenario and intelligent ennemies.

But was there anything else that would sustain a movie audience for a full ninety minutes» I guess there was, because for me the sequel came close to meeting the standard set by the first movie.

In one scene, there is a character named Izzy (Page, To Rome with Love) who tries to bring down someone close to her whose company is involved in a major pollution scandal, but these moments don't ring as profound without anything to ground her character, and the way that this story thread evolves feels manufactured, which is evidenced by the lack of genuine emotion when the episode concludes in a traumatic waTo Rome with Love) who tries to bring down someone close to her whose company is involved in a major pollution scandal, but these moments don't ring as profound without anything to ground her character, and the way that this story thread evolves feels manufactured, which is evidenced by the lack of genuine emotion when the episode concludes in a traumatic wato bring down someone close to her whose company is involved in a major pollution scandal, but these moments don't ring as profound without anything to ground her character, and the way that this story thread evolves feels manufactured, which is evidenced by the lack of genuine emotion when the episode concludes in a traumatic wato her whose company is involved in a major pollution scandal, but these moments don't ring as profound without anything to ground her character, and the way that this story thread evolves feels manufactured, which is evidenced by the lack of genuine emotion when the episode concludes in a traumatic wato ground her character, and the way that this story thread evolves feels manufactured, which is evidenced by the lack of genuine emotion when the episode concludes in a traumatic way.

His economics teacher (George Takei in a fun role) helps him with his financial difficulties, and the closest anything comes to stalling his predefined progress is the fact that Mercedes suspects he might be involved with Talia, which, of course, is cleared up by a single line of dialogue far into the movie.

That the best McKittrick can come up with is a genital - flashing plot device and the usual restaurant clichés — annoying customers, non-English speaking customers, the old «spit in the mashed potato» routine and other such uninspired twists — is disappointing given he has evidently spent years working in the industry, if his tribute to his former colleagues in the closing credits is anything to go by.

Best line: Pretty much anything uttered by M. Emmet Walsh, but if forced to pick, I'd have to go with his closing death - cackle, «Well, ma'am, if I see him, I'll sure give him the message.»

With highly anticipated 2007 films by Hou Hsiao - hsein, Wong Kar - wai, Jia Zhang - ke, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bela Tarr and other End Of Cinema favorites yet to be released in this country, as well as such well - regarded films as 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, Silent Light and Persepolis by filmmakers I'm unfamiliar with, there's no reason to expect this list to be anything close to final.

I sampled three of them, and the best by far was «Dreams of «O»», which showcases various performers from Cirque du Soleil portraying characters from their popular aquatic show, «O.» Watching this surrealistic, wordless imagery devoid of context while having it surround me on all sides was as close to a waking dream as anything I've ever experienced.