Sentences with phrase «called gambits»

These programs, called gambits, can control everything from attacking to healing, including adding conditional decisions.

To ease the micromanagement, the game introduces a system called Gambits, which is basically a proto AI programming tool with «if / then» conditions.

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A representative of the country's second - biggest party called Potash Corp.'s gambit «a slap in the face of every citizen of Israel.»

Called simply Surface, the sleek Windows 8 tablet with an innovative touch - keyboard cover was a surprisingly alluring gambit by the lumbering giant of Redmond, Wash..

The political turn for The Swift Life is particularly interesting due to the fact that the pop singer herself famously avoids taking any political stance (with some critics arguing that her neutrality is a gambit aimed at maintaining the broadest possible appeal), with Swift even declining to denounce racist supporters who call her an «Aryan goddess.»

Critics, and even supporters, have called his theatrical gambit «quixotic» and «divine insanity.»

«A risky gambit,» Time called it.

At the same time, Cuomo had called on lawmakers to «make the case» for a pay increase by personally testifying to the commission — a gambit only a handful took up in an election year.

It wouldn't be wrong to call this a political gambit, given that Cuomo offered it far too late in the session for the Legislature to act, and given, too, his steady habit of claiming control when it suits him and shirking stewardship when it doesn't.

are well represented), it's titled for the opening gambit of a real British TV game show called University Challenge, which features brainiacs like Brian.

Of course, this gambit is not cool with the ruling mob and glacially laconic hitman Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) is called in to dole out retribution.

Then there's the gambit of who's left Cannes and who is / was called to stay.

With a fellow Democrat in Miller raising even more questions about the waiver gambit — especially after giving the Obama administration cover over questions about the legality of the entire process — Duncan will likely have to call up chief school officers of waiver states to work out these issues.

What these reformers should do now is call upon the Obama Administration to call off the waiver gambit, fully embrace the approach to accountability put in place under No Child, and begin negotiating with congressional leaders on a reauthorization of the law as it should have done a long time ago.

As Dropout Nation has reported over the past year, the Obama waiver gambit is already allowing 37 states and the District of Columbia to ignore poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of districts and schools in helping each and all kids.

And the so - called innovations in accountability touted by both Petrilli and the Obama administration in its No Child waiver gambit actually define quality down.

Achievement First's latest gambit is called the Elm City Imagine School.

It has been clear long ago that the Obama waiver gambit allows states to ignore poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of districts and schools in helping each and all kids.

However, if you want to keep your currency costs as low as possible, you can consider a technique called Norbert's gambit.

(You can convert currency much more cheaply using a technique called Norbert's gambit, but many investors will find this intimidating.)

It's called «Norbert's gambit,» after Norbert Schlenker of Libra Investment Management in Salt Spring Island, B.C..

Norbert gambit's at Questrade using DLR and DLR.U are relatively painless although you do have to call into journal the shares if you want to do it the same day.

I think the RICO gambit is indeed an attempt to silence those who are making legitmate arguments in opposition to the so - called settled science.

But the official, who spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the matter, called the carbon intensity figure «disappointing,» and said that the administration hoped it represented a gambit that would be negotiated upward at Copenhagen or in subsequent talks.

But Aereo is also the tip of the spear for a bigger gambit by media mogul Barry Diller (s iaci) to blow up what journalist Peter Kafka calls the «TV Industrial Complex.»

In a research report released Wednesday, Kerrisdale Capital alleges Kodak's blockchain effort isn't genuine, going so far as to call it «a last - ditch stock promotion gambit for a company hurtling towards bankruptcy.»