Sentences with phrase «calling strikes on»

They're calling strikes on me up around the eyes.

The calculus of Bonds's season is much clearer than the chemistry: Umpires had dared call a strike on 58 of those first 444 pitches to Bonds, or an average of once every two times he came to the plate.

The union called a strike on 22 August.

and nobody calls a strike on you.

Not exact matches

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

It will also have to negotiate increased pressure on labor costs, with unions having called for a strike on Feb 22 to support demands for a 6 percent pay increase.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targetting what they called chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a poison gas attack.

Ahead of the 48 - hour strike, opposition leaders have encouraged Venezuelans to stock up on food and other goods — a call echoed by the US embassy in Venezuela.

A coalition of adverse forces seemed allied against Foster's determination and high hopes: (1) there was potential for a strike, should Foster balk at union demands; (2) 1983 might have proved not even close to the bottom of the recession for heavy machinery; (3) who knew what EPA standards the former owner had let slide, that the new one might be called on to correct?

More than 10,000 Bed Bath & Beyond call options with a January 22 strike price were purchased on Thursday for between $ 0.77 and $ 0.95 per contract.

On the call Citigroup's Wendy Nicholson said, «It strikes me that you guys are so totally screwed up in so many ways, the change has to be radical.»

Yet even after Trump was applauded by many, including McCain, for ordering strikes on a Syrian airfield last year in response to another poison attack, this time around there could be more calls for congressional involvement in any response.

«It's regrettable that union leaders have called a strike, a move that hurts all of our employees,» Marc Reed, Verizon's chief administrative officer, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Called Anime Strike, the new subscription channel is part of the e-commerce giant's lineup of add - on channels available to Amazon Prime members.

Pilots have been calling on the government to conduct tests of what would happen if a drone went through a plane's windscreen or got sucked into one of its engines, and this incident — where the drone struck the front of the plane — will likely prompt a greater sense of urgency.

It's not surprising, then, that a push is on to increasingly automate the art of calling balls and strikes.

HEX writes call options on most of its portfolio, usually with a one month maturity and at a strike price slightly higher than the prevailing market price.

Here's a quick review of how they work: An ETF of, say, three stocks writes (sells) call options on the three firms at a fixed «strike» price and for a premium.

Each of us responding to God's call must allow him to help us to «leave» ourselves and our false security and strike out on the way that God sets before us to true freedom and life.

If you sell me a September 2011 call option with a strike price of $ 19 on your XIU ETF for a premium of 40 cents, it gives me the right, but not the obligation, to buy your XIU ETF from you at $ 19 at any time before the option expires.

Ryanair pilots called off plans to strike before Christmas, following a climbdown by the airline's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary, who on Dec. 15 agreed to recognise trade unions for the first time.

Over the weekend, in a debate on local television, Ms. Lesko called for an investigation into the claims of sexual misconduct by Mr. Trump, a striking statement from a candidate who had otherwise praised the president.

The income available on break even strike calls is trivial.

Yet another petition struck a supportive note on the development of new rules but called for the government to consult with the wider cryptocurrency community before implementing any such rules.

This is what made Google's low - key announcement of its latest plans for messaging on Android phones — an exclusive with The Verge about what it calls Chat — so striking: the company is introducing an open alternative to products like iMessage and WhatsApp, but only as a last resort, and the effort is being pilloried by critics to boot; Walt Mossberg was representative:

At the time of writing last month I proposed rolling the covered calls on CVX by closing the existing position (the $ 105 strike at $.15 or the $ 110 at $.05) and selling a July 105 call for $.93 or a July 100 call for $ 2.98.

There had been reports that Fox CEO James Murdoch — and Rupert's son James — would join Disney as part of the deal, but no formal arrangement has been struck, Iger said on the call.

«The signal is based on new highs and new lows, and is cheerfully called a Hindenburg (the actual name given to it by Kennedy Gammage is the «Hindenburg Omen» but that strikes me as far too, well, ominous, because it's certainly not a sufficient condition for a market decline).

Advice: Let's say you had one contract of call options on Microsoft with a strike price of $ 20 per share.

TD is basing the fresh assessment on the fact that a whopping 70,000 units are set to be completed this year and next — a number the bank calls «striking» — at a time when buyer demand for new units already appears to be «dwindling,» the bank said.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

Unlike Ted, we can't be called out if we resist three pitches that are barely in the strike zone; nevertheless, just standing there, day after day, with my bat on my shoulder is not my idea of fun.»

Buy to open the Jun18 150 - strike calls on URI at $ 6.80 or better.

The Christian Medical Fellowship has called on the Church to pray, as junior doctors strike - including... More

He works, at the beginning of the novel, at a Chicago bookstore, but he can't shake his calling; strangers will unload their anxieties on them, struck by a supernatural confessional urge.

The Christian Medical Fellowship has called on the Church to pray, as junior doctors strike - including stopping emergency care - for a second day in a row.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

Police were called to London Bridge at around 10.08 pm on Saturday to reports of a vehicle striking pedestrians.

But Ronald Lindsay of the Center for Inquiry, a Humanist group, called it «striking and sad» that «five of the six Christian justices on the Supreme Court formed the majority.»

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

I was struck yesterday while I was preparing my cartoon on the death of Brennan Manning that he called Jesus «the human face of God».

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

In at least one case, a student has been on a hunger strike, calling for increased action from the school's administration, including the resignation of Wolfe.

(CNN)- As President Obama rallies support for a military strike on Syria, Pope Francis condemned chemical weapons and called for an international day of fasting and prayer to press for a peaceful resolution to Syria's escalating civil war.

While Mahathir played on some of the most unsavory notes in contemporary Islamic culture, few commentators at the time noted that he struck those notes in service of doctrinal moderation, in the call for a progressive and reformed Islam, one less captive to narrow traditionalism and more open to science and philosophy.

First, you write on your own blog that you are disappointed in city of Bethlehem, «struck by the ugliness of the place... and the rudeness of the monks» and «resonate» with Bethlehem being called a «grand comedy» ``??? And then, you rush over here to discuss David's hyperbole and histrionics (that is, theatrical exaggeration)???

Were they called to go out on strike, to sacrifice pay, to picket and march in front of their workplace while their bosses, or even co-workers, went inside to work?

They leave that role to the poor... Time will tell on their power minds... Wait» till their judgment day comes... Hand of God has struck the hour... Day of judgment, God is calling... On their knees the war pig's crawlingon their power minds... Wait» till their judgment day comes... Hand of God has struck the hour... Day of judgment, God is calling... On their knees the war pig's crawlingOn their knees the war pig's crawling..

Commonwealth Bank famously received a strike against its remuneration resolution last year when shareholders registered their displeasure about the introduction of, and emphasis on, so - called «soft targets».

The 540 ml glass sauce jar, which Aegg calls the «subtle dog bone», is taller than existing ones on the market and not so rounded at the top, giving it better shelf space and a more striking appearance.