Sentences with phrase «call the shots as»

The democrat said the auditors in his department are simply calling shots as they see them.
How many jobs offer intellectually stimulating tasks at PhD level, where you can call the shots as a new hire?
Capitalism does a better job because the people affected by the goods and services being created call the shots as to which producers are rewarded for providing valuable goods and services and which are penalized for failing at the job.
Many events will have a live host, calling the shots as they happen.
I call the shots as I see them.

Not exact matches

As the six - person Paladin crews, which were partaking in an exercise called Bulldog Focus, waited for the go - ahead to test fire, they showed me a dry run of how it loads and shoots.
Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).
As a result, you'll find Gharegozlou near the bottom of the page, but he is calling the shots.
What began as a conference devoted to honoring excellence in advertising has morphed into a gaudy business meeting for the technology and sales people who call the shots in the industry.
Within a matter of minutes, Twitter users had identified him in one of the eyewitness videos — clearly not involved in the shooting — even as the police message was being retweeted tens of thousands of times, and TV news channels were still calling him a suspect.
But that was such an obvious call that it was like shooting fish in a barrel, as opposed to fishing.
After all, as an entrepreneur, you want to be calling the shots.
As a business owner, you're used to calling all the shots, so it can be infuriating when the Internet seems like a vast, uncontrollable forum for customers to heap criticism on your company.
FedEx Corp. is maintaining discounts for members of the National Rifle Association, even as calls for a boycott mount on social media after a deadly school shooting in Florida.
One official characterized the incident to The Post as involving «the fog of war» and said that one accidental shot could have caused what police call «contagious fire» amid the chaos of the day.
The surprise acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the shooting death of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle set off a firestorm of outrage Thursday night, as top conservatives and critics of so - called «sanctuary cities» pinned blame for Steinle's death on illegal immigration and insufficiently aggressive deportation policies.
Kitsch also did so much research on Koresh that some of his ideas made it into the scripts, such as the fact that Koresh calls his mom after he is shot.
Essentially our offer is that we handle the production & distribution and then share revenue with the people who help create the works for a period of time (12 months) in exchange for their work at half pay — As shoots only last a day or two max, there is very little risk for people to participate as it's a good deal and we already know everyone in the business so there is little downtime building any of the infrastructure or much less cold calling anyoAs shoots only last a day or two max, there is very little risk for people to participate as it's a good deal and we already know everyone in the business so there is little downtime building any of the infrastructure or much less cold calling anyoas it's a good deal and we already know everyone in the business so there is little downtime building any of the infrastructure or much less cold calling anyone
As a result, Republican lawmakers are more resistant to calls for gun control — arguing against «politicizing» mass shootings and focusing on issues like mental health instead.
In the hours after the shooting, people who knew Mr. Cruz described him as a «troubled kid» who enjoyed showing off his firearms, bragging about killing animals and whose mother would resort to calling the police to have them come to their home to try to talk some sense into him.
President Trump backed a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.
As many Americans call for tighter gun laws after a mass shooting, Republicans are usually silent.
Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.
One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.
Certainly, not a single jab at Falstaff's girth is excised, and the audience laughed hardest when Sir John playfully or ruefully calls attention to his own rotundity — as when he's asked to put an ear to ground and shoots back «Have you any levers to lift me up again?»
He calls the shots exactly as he sees them and I have the highest regard for his sincerity and integrity.
And what I find in them is the gradual disappearance of anything that might adequately be described as masculine, no matter who in the hierarchy is calling the shots
The women call the shots and use men as their puppets.
This sounds like his religion would be extremely relevant as the elders of his religion seem to call the shots on his political opinions.
But, in the end times, (as we are seeing now), the erroneous, vile, corrupt ways of old men that live at the Vatican and call the shots are being exposed for what they are (Thank God).
As Russell Moore, a Baptist, put it, the so - called sexual revolution is just another form of patriarchy with men still calling the shots.
As Jesus slowly sags down with the weight of His body on the nails through His wrists, excruciating, fiery pain shoots along the most sensitive nerve endings in the body — called the median nerves — and travels along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain.
(CNN)- Given initial suspicions that Friday's bombing and mass shooting in Norway were carried out by Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda, the way police ended up describing the suspect behind the attacks came as a big surprise even to many security experts: The alleged attacker was called a «Christian fundamentalist.»
As he lay in a hospital bed on the night of the shooting, David called out to God, «You're not making sense how could we possibly lose two of our kids in one day?»
So Satan is just there as God's hit - man, to «keep God's hands clean» even though God is calling all the shots?
But as the shooting's psychological wounds began to heal, Monville said she heard God calling her to a new mission: to share her message of hope and to tell others that, even after Charlie's crushing actions, her family not only survived, they thrived.
The shootings happened earlier this morning as the officers sat in separate patrol cars around 1 a.m. in the closely situated Iowa cities of Des Moines and Urbandale when Urbandale police were called to reports of gunfire that turned out to be one of their fellow officers.
A march in D.C. called March For Our Lives is planned for March 24, as well as one on April 20, the anniversary of the Columbine shooting.
Normally I would call it «the money shot» but I'm going to refer to it as «the Penny shot» — after Penny de los Santos.
There were few shots to publish, other than complete white canvass as we attempted to walk in a whiteout before calling it a day within an hour and heading back to the warm bunkhouse for beer cups of tea.
Taller Iced Tea glasses and shorter old - fashioned glasses (also called a Rocks glass) are both tumblers, as are shot glasses and Collins glasses (which are tall and slender).
Hopefully you can find or order coconut butter and give them another shot with the ingredients as called for
I call these miracle brownies, because just as I thought they were a complete flop and I was panicking about running out of time to make a substitute, a long shot paid off and they came together quite miraculously.
The Devil, as they called her, would just keep going, running laps, taking shots, pushing a little harder than everyone else.
As long as the Yank, Ivan the Terrible and Le Whatever are calling the shots @ the Emirates Arsenal will never provide this opportunity to WC playerAs long as the Yank, Ivan the Terrible and Le Whatever are calling the shots @ the Emirates Arsenal will never provide this opportunity to WC playeras the Yank, Ivan the Terrible and Le Whatever are calling the shots @ the Emirates Arsenal will never provide this opportunity to WC players.
Whoever's in charge calling the shots is just as relevant as the movements that need to be made with this squad.
Bellerin — obviously great pace, but regressed this past season as a crosser, dribbler and on the defensive end... likened him to a faster Alves type who didn't always run to the end - line and would cut back into the middle, beat defenders and take some shots from outside the box (we desperately need better shooters from outside the box on this squad)... wouldn't give up on him because he has a lot of potential but if Barcelona came calling and offered anything over $ 45 million and we are using a 3 - back going forward he would be gone so fast it would make his head spin
I mean, hell man, the surprising level of athleticism we have seen just from his countless posters as a rookie, as well as setting 3 pt shooting records, while being a 7 footer, are qualifiers enough to call him a «unicorn», unless you want to argue about that opinionated distinction and what it actually means.
Paul Robinson is a man that probably didn't expect to be mentioned in this again, but the veteran shot - stopper is back after being called into action for Burnley against Manchester City as he pulled off one stunning save in particular to deny Sergio Aguero.
These ranged from Trump's sons, The Donald Jr. and Eric - photographed in 2012 sawing off the tails of elephants, hanging 13 - foot crocodiles by a noose off from branches, and clinging gleefully to the carcass of a slumped leopard, to Wells Tower's searing 2014 GQ account of an elephant hunt, to more recent viral outrages, such as the woman who posed with the giraffe she shot and called it a «very dangerous animal» and Walter Palmer, the dentist recently vilified for killing Cecil, a beloved Zimbabwe lion.
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