Sentences with word «chancy»

But if you try to analyze it as a business deal, it's as chancy as a 6Ã «6 tiebreaker.

(In the expanding - economy sense, that it's easier to experiment with chancy new functionality if you don't, at the same time, have to compact or eliminate some existing function.

Tyler's brave and poignant description of the low pay, insecurity, chancy benefits, difficulty securing maternity leave, and general discouragement that many postdocs endure was effective.

However, this is also a can't - miss opportunity to put that entire enviro - activist notion to the ultimate test, with an outright challenge to billionaire Tom Steyer to consider a far more chancy gamble than the $ 100 million he's pledged toward Senate and gubernatorial races that «attack climate - change deniers» — a gamble that either makes or totally busts the two decade - old accusation that skeptics are paid to lie and spread misinformation.

I'm not totally on board with this plan, but I know if we split our shares, I would keep my share in the bank and will it sit there, and make no money, as investing is too chancy for me.Any ideas?

It is a wildly chancy gambit with little in the way of a solid throughline, but Sedgwick handles each story with such stylistic control that interest is not just renewed each time but intensified.

As for its international aspirations, the huge size advantage of A-B InBev or SABMiller — the world's No. 2 brewer — make expensive StarBev deals seem chancy.

But these are so chancy as to imply a critical point: that the rising flood of images in circulation dissolves whatever substance we define by linking one picture with another.

The impact on reported balance is too chancy.

Renters insurance is probably a better investment than chancy sushi.

When your name is synonymous with your business ventures, you can find yourself linking your least changeable qualities to your most chancy undertakings, and that can hurt you, despite your hard work and best intentions.

«And what about chancy or random events?

This playoff thing... it's dirty and uncomfortably chancy.

There is a suggestion here of a certain carelessness, a slightly chancy attitude towards players already «in the red zone».

I have a very strange and chancy program in the AIDS area that is funded by the Gates Foundation.

Assuming the constant availability of a school nurse may be particularly chancy for students with health conditions that may require an immediate response at school, such as administering a medication or knowing when to call an ambulance.

These training methods were usually contingent on consuming copious amounts of chancy cocktails known as «supplements».

Retiring without a financial plan is an enormous risk; retiring with a financial plan that hasn't been reviewed in several years is also chancy.

So, in a sense, Cézanne's painting, with its recessions of planes, has to be fairly spontaneous and chancy all along.

Too much rain at the wrong time can flatten wheat fields, one of the reasons why the Irish shifted from a reliance on grains to less chancy potatoes.

Climate scientists sometimes (GISS — yes, NOAA — no) attempt to correct measurements in urban areas for this effect, but this can be chancy since the correction factors need to change over time, and no one really knows exactly how large the factors need to be.

Relying on a term policy to cover your burial expenses is extremely chancy.

When it comes to Android tablets, things are a little more chancy.

In this age, when divorce seems, sometimes, as chancy as a coin toss, marriage education makes great sense.

It seems a bit chancy to show them a page where they can get it for free.

Clever bios, witty bios, or even sincere bios can help me connect with the author, which then makes taking a chance on their book seem not quite so chancy.

Renters insurance is probably a better investment than chancy sushi.

It's chancy, and might be one of those cases where investors want to sit back and wait for a bit.

In Play it as it Lays and elsewhere, Las Vegas is an apt symbol of human life — a chancy venture with no external meaning or significance.

Offspring variations are chancy, there animal celluar, molecular, atomic - particle freedoms, strict determinism is not demonstrably true and is a problem not a solution for problems.

Where the unity of a thing is superficial and more or less external and chancy, where the impression of passivity dominates so that «things» seem only ready - at - hand, just there does Whitehead's attempted recourse to more ultimate units amount to a real intensification of the actuality of nature.

It was formerly used to question organ transplants; now it is turned avidly against the implantation of artificial hearts — not on the plausible grounds that it's a dangerous procedure inviting strokes, but because so few persons can, at this point, receive this chancy benefit.

The official bonfires continued to be chancy.

Reading a man's personality from his work is always a chancy business, and while we were all right about Jeff Winter, there's every chance that Mr. Dean is an entirely different person if you're allowed to call him Mike.

Former Bayern striker Lukas Podolski managed to break Neuer's record, with a chancy header, to make it 2 - 1, but Mario Mandzukic scored in the 77th minute to seal a 3 - 1 win for the German side.

«It's a chancy thing.

Or to take the known recovery profile of a C - section over the much more chancy could - go - awesome - could - be-a-shitshow of VB?

Even if she survives the primary, Bernardo's future prospects as chair are chancy.

It was a chancy project, but Nurse's interest reassured her.

Becks hopes to test other organisms that have a capacity for both sexual and asexual reproduction to see if environmental cues could also spur more sex — in hopes of getting to the bottom of how these chancy encounters evolved in the first place.

We alive in an age area the act can be chancy to your health.