Sentences with phrase «by running into a wall»

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Instead of penalizing your most frequent customers by having them run into a credit - card wall, you reward them with extra benefits.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Kobayashi got his big chance to drive a Ferrari during a show run in Moscow, and he thanked the team by smashing it into the wall.

Larson was running at speed down the backstretch when a left - rear tire exploded, sending his No. 42 Chevrolet into the outside wall, then veering across the track head - on into the inside wall that was protected by an energy - absorbent barrier.

Connelly then spoiled a 40 - yard - run by weak and inaccurate shooting and Pointer crashed into the boundary wall and hurt his shoulder.

Recall that one of the earliest walls Gov. Eliot Spitzer ran head - long into was a proposal to allow undocumented workers receive drivers» licenses issued by the state, a move that was vehemently opposed by county clerks and became a campaign issue for Hillary Clinton, then running for the Democratic nomination for president.

But, for many observers, the sight of Mr Brown, always awkward at public events, being followed about by an Elvis impersonator in a white Rhinestone jump suit crooning The Wonder of You was the moment his campaign ran into a brick wall.

Al - Khalili remembers his lecturer trying to illuminate the topic by explaining, «It's as if I were able to take a run up at this wall, and instead of crashing into it, I would suddenly appear, intact, on the other side.»

With RBD, you can injure others by throwing a punch or putting someone in a head lock or strangle hold, or you can injure yourself by running into the furniture or walls.

While snapping these pictures by this cool wall, we ran into the artist that painted it.

Today, I'm so thrilled to kick off a new series here on Memorandum, one that has been requested daily by many of you for YEARS — a dive into career advice from my early days working on Wall Street to my experiences today running both a fashion tech startup and a fashion blog in New York City.

After the prior evening's argument instigated by Joanna's suspicions that Michael has had an affair with a fetching colleague, Laura (Eva Mendes), whom Joanna spies flirting with him at a work party, Joanna finds herself mulling an extramarital dalliance once she runs into a former fling, Alex (Guillaume Canet), whose advances are about as subtle as a brick wall.

In an extended sequence a 30 - foot long wolf and a huge gorilla begin destroying a major city as people evacuate by bus and on foot; the animals toss several vehicles off the road, into walls, and demolish a bus and several skyscrapers as we hear crashing metal (no one is in any of the smashed cars or the bus); the wolf jumps into the air and bites a helicopter in half as men and women run through the streets, screaming and the wolf extends flying - squirrel type wings and slides from a building to the ground.

Having run into trouble at Princeton for his ties to online gambling and now in debt for thousands, math whiz Richie Furst (Timberlake)-- whose once - promising Wall Street career was killed by the»08 economic crisis — discovers he's been cheated out of his money by an offshore gambling site.

Even taking this out of the realm of the purely - digital, you can imagine how many walls you'd run into if, say, you were prohibited from using products made by Proctor & Gamble, or consuming anything made by Kraft or the Coca - Cola company.

i just written my first eBook the Intrepid Explorer and i went through lulu.com to get my eBook distributed on the barns and noble nook and iTunes, everything has been up and running for couple of months now and i» v sold about 12 copy's, and that was it, nothing else has been happening its as if i ran into a brick wall or something, i have also tried my hand in self promoting by starting a website.

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You'd do this by way of auto - running and then you'd use the different walls of the comic panels to bounce off of and change direction or use a downward smash to break through into a lower panel.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

When you find a race with a well - designed course and get into the flow of the gameplay it's massively enjoyable, but too often you get let down by awkward tracks, glitches, your avatar deciding to wall - run instead of grab or a security camera in the middle of a race.

Opposition players can warp from one side of the area to the others (Pac - Man style, kind of — run into the wall at the bottom and you emerge at the top), and get immediately wiped out by a just - that - split - second triggered wall of laser death.

Endlessly running around searching for something you missed - a hidden switch here, a crack in a destructible wall there, or a great big Shawshank Redemption-esque tunnel hidden by a pin - up poster - will either drive you to quit, or stoke the fires of your perseverance into a white - hot inferno that'll have your eyes burning and the wax dribbling out of your ears.

Slamming a guy with a door, picking up his pipe to toss it at his buddy with the gun, running over to kick his face repeatedly into the wall, and then returning to the first guy to slit his throat before he got back up before getting shot in the face by the three guys who were on the other side of the glass never felt so good.

Transform the open world into your tactical playground by grinding, vaulting and wall - running across the city while using a devastating, unconventional arsenal.

Many racers that strive for realism will end up punishing a player for mistakes like crashing into a wall by making it impossible for them to recapture the lead without running the race perfectly.

After a few thousand people scuff the white carpet during the exhibition's run, expect it to be pulled up, cut into pieces and turned into salable, museum - sanctioned wall works «painted» by unsuspecting visitors» feet.

At Lesley Heller Workspace, clay amphorae are transmuted into glass by Alexander Rosenberg; hand pulled glass murrina by Helen Lee recall the pixelated imagery of digital computing; a single - channel video by Caroline Woolard records an hourglass which never runs out; kevlar forms by Lika Volkova drape from the walls.

There is also the rather obvious fact that a nation that has 3 % of the global oil supply but which consumes 25 % of global oil production is eventually going to run into an economic wall — and coal - to - gasoline is not the answer to that, by any stretch.

His personal journey almost founders as he runs into a wall of despair conveyed by analysts warning of mass extinction, forced migration and more.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Edun ran into logistical problems when trying to manufacture in Africa: «The clothes were criticized by retailers for not being sufficiently fashionable, and deliveries were late, a retail no - no.

By 2035 third world countries will run into a brick wall unless they use more coal, and coal supplies also have limits.

Alternatively, turn the area into a closet by running a rod from wall to wall and hanging a curtain.

Pale, almost white narrow strip oak floors in the foyer run throughout the house including the step down living room that features a built - in sectional sofa, a fireplace surmounted by a gigantic flat - screen TV set into a full wall of custom - lit display niches along and another full wall of telescopic, floor - to - ceiling sliding glass doors to the yard.