Sentences with phrase «call it a drop because»

I wouldn't call it a drop because he only got one hand on it, but it definitely was catchable for a receiver of Thomas» size and athletic ability.

Not exact matches

From 10 - hour calls, to a rep running to get a pair of shoes from a rival store to hand deliver to a customer because the company ran out, stories of jaw - dropping customer service stories are common there.

So it would be unfair to call Poloz a currency manipulator: he has dropped Canada's benchmark interest rate to within a quarter point of its record low because otherwise inflation would drop below 1 %, the low end of the Bank of Canada's comfort zone.

Frank Cianciulli, CEO of Toronto - based business - services provider Wish Group, once had a client throw a fit because he had dropped his phone in a lake and it no longer could access the firm's conference - call services.

Nearly one third of people who work from home have been late to or missed a meeting entirely because of tech problems and 40 % say they've been dropped from important calls.

Johnson and his team called this a «profound misunderstanding» and ended up dropping their efforts to establish a designation because they thought it would have been «counterproductive» during the election season.

In recent years, other large companies, including Microsoft, General Electric and Accenture Consulting, have dropped the practice — often called stack ranking, or «rank and yank» — in part because it can force managers to get rid of valuable talent just to meet quotas.

«US Fleet Tracking was one of the best decisions I made in a long time... Our call volume has only dropped because our first - call efficiency numbers are increasing and the use of GPS has greatly improved our response time and calls per day.»

Because after a week of Facebook and school pick - ups and drop - off lines, a week of writing and laundry, a week of working and to - do lists, I hear my name called out in the lobby and, maybe for just a moment, someone sees me.

The head of what many churches would call the elders said that was not a concern, because $ giving had not dropped.

A college dropping health care because they object to providing birth control is simply an act of what my father would have called «cutting off their nose to spite their face.»

They're in the group called solitary surface cutworms because they cut off young plants at the soil line or slightly above or below it, sometimes dropping the severed plants into their burrows.

(*) I use the brand called SweetLeaf Liquid Stevia Sweet Drops because they use only cold water to extract the flavoring from the stevia leaves, no chemicals, no alcohols, no petroleum products, no enzymes.

Sonny has some actor in him, and against the Giants he was in true character, clasping his helmet in disbelief at officiating calls, scooping up a handful of dirt in disgust, either with himself or because of a dropped pass, and looking at times as if he would not be able to raise up from one knee after he had called a play in the huddle.

His record in recent games against Chelsea is actually pretty good as well, so why on earth would Wenger drop one of Arsenal's best players for this big game, just because of some mistaken ideas about Ozil coming from the so - called football experts?

I've had moms the first week after delivery call me and say I have a whole freezer filled already because they dealt with their engorgement by pumping every single last drop out assuming they can use it for the six months later when they were going back to work!

The Government announced that it was proposing to drop this so - called «50 % cap» on religious selection, because it claimed it was failing to boost integration in schools.

«We are calling on men and women of good conscience across the globe, Amnesty International and relevant human rights organizations to prevail on the Attorney General of the Federation and the judicial commission to drop the fabricated charges preferred against our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and others detained illegally alongside him in Kuje Prison because they committed no offense against anybody or Nigeria state».

HARLEM — Politicians, students and teachers are calling for the Department of Education to drop plans to redevelop the School of Cooperative Technical Education on 96th Street between First and Second avenues because they say no one affected by the proposal was consulted.

ESA's planned mission to Venus, called Venus Express, was dropped last week because «not everybody could commit to the necessary schedule,» says Southwood, who warns that future missions that don't stick to tight schedules might suffer the same fate.

Some have dropped the «EMC,» however, and called the virus simply HCoV, a name that might cause confusion because there are five other human coronaviruses.

Not only could the new process ease the manufacture of existing protein therapeutics — and thus drop their price — but it could also speed the search for new so - called glycoprotein drugs, because researchers could easily attach different sugars to screen for the most effective combination.

Canada originated the system of admitting immigrants based on skill levels rather than on employment promises, but it will drop this approach in 2014 because of what Maclean's magazine calls the «ugly reality facing so many» of the skilled immigrants in the country: great difficulty finding work and low earnings when they do.

Astronomers call this boundary the Kuiper cliff, because the density of space rocks drops off so steeply.

Because our classes fill up, please call us prior to dropping in to let us know what class you'd like to drop into, so that we can determine if there will be space.

I selected the Custom Tough Case — Full Wrap, — because I drop my phone All the Time (just call me Grace!).

Just because the temperatures have dropped doesn't mean we're willing to call it quits on our summer wardrobes already.

In The Drop, a loose adaptation of the Dennis Lehane short story «Animal Rescue», Gandolfini plays surly cousin Marv, who together with Tom Hardy's reticent lunkhead, Bob, runs a «drop bar» — so called because it's where various local criminals stash their dirty loot — in one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods.

There's probably a theme, a lesson, maybe some subtext in there, probably about not screwing with Mother Nature (because she screws back), and maybe, just maybe how brute force military solutions, up to and including dropping a MOAB (the «mother of all bombs,» second only to an atomic bomb in terms of overall yield and destructiveness) in the middle of a city center, might not be the best call.

That professor, Stephen Malley (Redford, The Clearing), is featured in the second story, where he calls in to encourage a student (Garfield, «Sugar Rush») who appears to be dropping out of his interest in in a potential future political career because of a feeling of apathy that nothing he does will ever make a difference.

Online booking means you can service as many customers at one time as you need to, and never had to worry about dropping a sale because your phone line was busy or unmanned when someone tried to call.

They say that, because Common Core standards don't call for cursive instruction, public schools are more likely to drop or, at least, de-emphasize it.

I drop the car in the morning to the shop and got a call around noon from the shop and they told me they could not align the car because the lower left ball joint was bad.

Its called a «drop - in» because it is precisely that, installation requires zero modification.

An ebook includes what you might call a system table of contents, so the ebook reader devices can do a drop - down table of contents.The notion is that in an ebook — because you don't have the tactile setup of pages that you would have in a physical book where you know where you are — in ebooks you want to make it easy for people to get to the parts of a book, and having a table of contents file is the easiest way to do that.

If you are an existing customer or you are thinking to leave AT&T because you drop to many calls, or Sprint because its coverage is like no other, seriously..

Or just because I'm still using a Blackberry Storm, which is horrible, freezes every other second, freezes when I try to SMS, types nonsense into my text messages, deletes the content of my text messages, adds a broken image to a MMS that only has one image, Internet browsing works about 50 % of the time, browsing is slow, Antenna sucks, Drops every other call, freezes when taking a call, causes one or two strands of my hair to turn gray and I'm only 20, has so many memory leaks, a motorola e815 could out - perform my blackberry and possibly many more problems that aren't mentioned.

I need the BlackBerry Torch because my iPhone 4 drops almost every call I make and am past my 30 days return period.

«A lot of people get a false sense of security because they've been making minimum payments on their debts,» says Scott Hannah, president of the Credit Counselling Society in New Westminster, B.C. «I call that «credit creep» and the clients» mouths drop when they look at their total debt, which is actually rising.»

I called and informed them that my credit has dropped almost 100 points since because of the reinsertion of the account on my credit and they told me that they wont remove because it was sold to a third Party creditor.

If the stock drops 10 % in 40 days you've still made a profit... because you sold an in the money call option.

You would do this because if prices did fall, the value of the call to the owner (the person you sold the call to, and who paid you the premium) would drop, because the option is less likely to become in - the - money.

If the equity in a customer's account drops to, or under, the level because of adverse price movement, the broker must issue a margin call to restore the customer's equity.

P.S. I only made this trade because: 1) I want to own the underlying stock anyways 2) I believe it was trading at a reasonable price when I made the trade 3) I am comfortable owning it for the long - haul in case the price drops significantly below my cost basis by expiration and 4) I am comfortable letting it go if shares get called away.

David Stevens, a former FHA commissioner who is president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, said the MBA did not call for reductions in mortgage insurance premiums last year because he did not want to see the capital ratio drop below 2 %.

The draft beer list is rotated regularly because the brewery is always concocting new brews in small batches, so call to check if your favourite drink is available before dropping by.

After the officer dropped the dog off, a shelter worker called police and said the animal had to be picked up because coyotes weren't allowed there, according to an Associated Press report.

In my experience, these types of leashes a.) tend to cause dogs to act more aggressively and to pull hard on the leash; b.) are more likely to trigger a fight with another dog since the dog that is straining at the end of the leash looks like it is in attack mode; c.) tend to be purchased by lazy and irresponsible dog owners who do not train their dogs to obey, and who tend to spoil their dogs, causing more aggression and bratty behavior; d.) undo most of the important aspects of your obedience training and leadership over your dog, especially obeying around distractions and coming when called, and over time they teach your dog to charge after other dogs, animals and even people; e.) are hard to control once the dog is at the end of the line, and can get caught in the leashes of other dogs, increasing the potential for a biting or attack incident; f.) do NOT cause the dog to get more exercise on the walk; g.) can cause a dog to run away from you, because if you accidentally drop the leash handle, many dogs will run from the plastic handle «chasing» them from behind and that could cause your dog to run into traffic and die; h.) have resulted in injuries to dogs and owners.

OK, tell that to a new Elite member and ask a current one to drop their status on their own — just call AA and say, I don't want Elite anymore because it's too competitive.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, but if Sony suddenly dropped the price of the PS4 so soon, ide be pissed, just because I bought it right away.