Sentences with phrase «close call for»

That may be a close call for some but all that matters is that I finished it and that she loved it.

He's won 14 terms in office with just one close call for his seat: the 2010 primary when he almost lost to a Tea Party candidate.

Over the weekend, you may have seen the startling video showing an incredibly close call for a professional surfer, Mick Fanning, during a competition in South Africa.

Best Multiplayer (s): Borderlands 2 (XBOX, PS3, and PC) and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (PC) It's always a close call for Multiplayer - based games.

Sometimes being able to have a pet in your life and needing to surrender that beloved companion to a shelter can be a very close call for a family who is suddenly living on the brink.

This was a really close call for a sweet little dog and we decided to call this precious baby, Sunshine, and the Sunshine Fund was born.

It was a close call for several weeks.

A close call for the dummy could mean an actual injury for a person.

This was a very close call for my number one spot, but regardless, this movie will stand the test of time as a sci fi genre masterpiece.

It will be a close call for the next Labour leader whether to bring Clegg's dream to a close or help him to realise it.

It was a close call for the judges, who ultimately decided that Tel Aviv's creation — which took home the $ 100,000 main prize — had the potential for a broader impact.

The space debris causes some hair - raising close calls for satellites and spacecrafts, though just how to clean it up is still a conundrum.

Not exact matches

The incident — in which Turkey said a Russian warplane violated Turkish airspace for roughly 17 seconds — comes four days after Turkey accused Russia of bombing villages in northern Syria inhabited by Syrian Turkmen and called for an immediate end to Russia's military operation close to the border.

Uber also faces a challenge we talked about earlier: Since they're aiming to disrupt an established industry, a very regulated industry, one with close ties to municipalities, other companies can not only come back at them, they can call in regulations to make it even harder for Uber.

He had tried calling the provider, but its office was closed for the day.

Despite its tiny size, Manuel Antonio is unique for its dazzling wildlife diversity, with close to 300 mammal and bird species calling the park home.

Levy is comfortable connecting his closest friends through an email addressed to both of them, but he'll use what Grant calls the «double opt - in» system for the busiest people in his network.

In the closing moments of the talks, Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been in Paris for much of the talks, called the deal «a remarkable global commitment.»

Major Asian nations reacted sharply to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports on Friday, warning of damage to close relations amid industry calls for retaliation.

Responsibility for the mess — and past close calls — rests with him.

Tristan Harris, a former Design Ethicist at Google, who The Atlantic Magazine called the «closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,» currently heads the Center for Humane Technology.

Another strategist close to GOP leaders shared similar concerns — and called for Republicans to distance themselves from the situation before it hurts them in November.

The buyout price represents a 39 percent premium to PetSmart's closing price of $ 59.81 on July 2, the day before Jana disclosed its stake and called for PetSmart to explore a sale.

She has her finger on the pulse of what's going on behind closed doors at the country's biggest corporations and calls herself «the female James Bond for innovation.»

Maybe your dream job and your dream house just aren't all that close, maybe your spouse's work complicates your decision making, or maybe house prices make the call for you.

While the plans to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder to close the laptop and spend some time with your kids this Father's Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few years from now.

Closer to home, a pickup in the U.S. economy, combined with renewed calls for greater infrastructure investment, bodes well for companies like Pentair (pnr), a water - equipment maker, says Todd Ahlsten, manager of the $ 14.4 billion Parnassus Core Equity Fund.

The outcome of a shareholder vote scheduled for Thursday on the offer is too close to call.

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?

2.Right - to - work is generally defined as a state where it is against the law for a union to be a so - called «closed shop,» requiring all employees to join a union and pay dues.The Michigan laws would make membership in a union and payment of dues voluntary and would cover both the private and public sector, except for fire and police unions.

As of Thursday's close, Bed Bath & Beyond shares have fallen more than 47 percent in 2017, but would only need to rise roughly 2 percent in the next month for these calls to produce a profit.

(Reuters)- Blackstone Group LP has secured $ 17 billion from investors for its latest global private equity fund in just seven months, the biggest so - called first close of a buyout fund ever, according to people familiar with the matter.

«Something we've called for a long time is they could pursue basically like a pipe deal, a strategic investment from another partner into Yahoo,» Eric Jackson, managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management, said Tuesday on CNBC's «Closing Bell.»

Guber, who has been coached by Robbins for two decades, and become one of his closest friends, calls his counsel revelatory.

The official called the administration's latest move a «consequence for Russia's actions» and said the designations were carried out in close coordination with U.S. allies.

The purchase is expected to add to earnings per share within the first full year after the transaction closes, scheduled for the second half of the year, executives said on a conference call Monday.

The agreement calls for the agent to be compensated even in sales closed by the seller, but that fee is not stipulated, meaning it theoretically could amount to as little as a penny.

He values it so much that when he launched his new messaging app for college students, called Islands, he rented a space in student housing at the University of Western Ontario so he could be closer to his potential customers.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

Trump's closest energy advisers, like Carl Icahn and Harold Hamm (who each own oil companies), have been calling for an end to subsidies.

The batteries are being built by an arm of power giant AES, called AES Energy Storage, and the company has been building such projects for close to a decade.

Other events in the so - called «festival of entrepreneurship» include closed sessions for established New Orleans entrepreneurs with Aspen Institute members, plus help for one local business from a team of 20 Tulane University students.

Some of the money is coming back from digital spending, and some of it is being moved from TV's so - called «scatter» market, when advertisers pay for commercials much closer to their air date.

The president of the European Commission, Jean - Claude Juncker, called the measure «blatant intervention to protect U.S. domestic industry» and said the European Union had been a close security ally of the United States for decades.

What's ironic about the earnings conference call, which took place on Wednesday after the market closed, is that it was Musk's idea to extend the time for analyst Q&A.

I had a loss of $ 827.39 (~ 0.82 %) on paper for March (compared to the Dow's 3.47 % decline and the S&P 500's 2.64 % decline) and had $ 1,214.09 in realized gains from my seven closing trades on my ADI, GS, IWM, WMT, and XLB naked puts in addition to my short TLT call spread.

Closing a cold call looks good in a Hollywood production, but it's mostly crash - and - burn: A generally accepted win rate for cold calling is around 0.3 %.

The initial call for the Pakistani actor ban came after attacks by a Pakistani faction of the Taliban on the military outpost of Uri, close to the Line of Control in Indian - administered Kashmir, on September 18th.

Recent warnings from Malaysian oil and gas giant, Petronas, and the BC LNG alliance about the closing window of opportunity to competitively serve Asian markets should serve as a wake - up call for Canada.

It's still a close call though because I often use Ultimate Rewards points to transfer to British Airways Avios for short haul domestic flights.