Sentences with phrase «crack at doing»

I have said it herein before, and I say it again now: If ORE does not clean up its act (read: its bad actors... all of them) then the government, for better or worse, will take a crack at doing it for them.

«I'm optimistic that that will succeed, and that will give us one more crack at doing this the right way,» he said.

Not exact matches

Still, Dimon also took aim at several of Trump's policies and promises, warning of the dangers of scrapping longstanding trade agreements and of cracking down on immigration, although he did so without explicitly criticizing the President.

It's hard enough to get out of bed at the crack of dawn and when you wake up to do activities you don't enjoy... your new regimen can feel like torture.

«She looks at me and doesn't crack a smile — expressionless — and says, «I am really not that friendly.

However, it didn't reflect across - the - board dominance, with Penn failing to even crack the top 10 for interviews at Credit Suisse, UBS AG, and Evercore.

So I think you've got it right, have a crack at it, enjoy the ride but don't be surprised when it goes tits up

As the Bill Morneau imbroglio starts to fade behind the outrage du jour, being the Paradise Papers, Andrew Coyne decided to take another crack at the issue, this time taking a swing at Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson and her handling — or mishandling — of the whole affair from the beginning.

At a news conference, Ford said, «I do not use crack cocaine» and called the allegations related to the video «ridiculous.»

I'd take a crack at History 201 as taught by the religious nut job frm my state (Bachmann) but I don't think I can compete with yours.

I do not yet know what all of Levin's proposed Liberty Amendments are — apparently, there is a new crack at Congressional term limits, which I am iffy about, an amendment for Supreme Court decisions to be expunged by 60 % of Congress or the States, which I am very iffy about, one providing Supreme Court term limits, which I am cool with, one requiring bureaucracy - ordered rule - changes to be subject to Congressional approval when they affect the economy by a certain amount, which I am also.

I don't know about Snuffy, but I'd like a crack at this.

And I don't know what grief that's got her cornered at every turn, or if it's a prodigal child she's begging to make a u-turn, don't know if it's a mountain she's got to take, or if it's something that's trying to take her — but I know that I know that overwhelmed look in her eyes and I feel the cracking ache in her brave voice and the details of our hard may be different, but all our need for courage is the same.

I have it on good authority he said «My wife... is such a comedian, always cracking up the apostles with her naughty jokes... Like did you hear the one she told about the Priest the Rabbi and the Pastor who were discussing how they apporting their collections and the Priest says «We go into the parking lot and draw a circle on the ground and throw all the money up and any that lands in the circle we give to God» and the Pastor says «Yeah, we do almost the same thing but give God anything that falls outside the circle» and the Rabbi looks at them both and says «We do almost the same thing to, draw a circle and throw up the money high into the air and God keeps what God wants...»

After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.

While the apostle Paul doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd crack a joke or offer a sarcastic quip in a tight situation, he does share this ability to look positively at a crisis situation.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

you simply have encountered people who don't entertain childish bullshit and call it straight And at this point you are totally cracking me up.

Seriously u guys should listen less to d media and use ur common sense.Al - quada is an essential tool for d u.s. To extract as much oil as it can in d middle east and osama bin laden should get a memorial for himself right at d heart of DC just for being a good and patriotic american.what does d U.S want more than chaos in d mid east to stay in control of dat region, and who's serving better than bin laden in fulfilling it????!!! You guys r really sleeping or perhaps just too lazy to crack ur brains and think!

I do completely agree that this isn't journalism and whoever decided to put this up at CNN must be smoking crack.

... Or at least our drama would be about more important things, like kids who are falling through the cracks in school, families that can't afford to healthy food, a teenager who doesn't have anywhere to sleep at night.

Personally I would have no issues at all with either the JWs or the LDS if they did not have the annoying habit of banging on my door at the butt crack of dawn on a Saturday morning (I suffer from Fibromyalgia and getting up early is not something I do very easily) to try to shove their religious beliefs down my throat.

If Jesus is like what is described above, and I do believe he was, the bible says so even, I bet he's up there laughing along at the jokes and cracking some of his own.

It's my first crack at it, but I'm going to try to start doing Minute Messages every Sunday... simple messages that are about a minute long.

crackheads do as crackheads do... never liked her music... i willl not say she was not talented, but she should have seeked some help... at least someone like her could afford it, not like the other crack heads out there in the world... her life went downhill after MC got her on the stuff!

I'm going to church for the Lord and to praise Him because He sees my heart and not the way that I'm dressed and if some people don't like the way that I dress and accept me for who I am, then they may need to examine themselves and their own hearts before they have a crack at anyone else.

It does crack me up that people who are themselves covered in feces, wlak around looking at the ground so that they won't step in it.

I don't know the name of it, but my daughters blast One Direction at me, night and day, like I am a p.o.w. and they are trying to get me to crack and denounce my citizenship.

Don't roll too tightly at first, or that edge will crack worse than it's going to crack anyhow.

I try to take my vitamins with breakfast, but some mornings I'm racing off to teach at the crack of dawn and it just doesn't happen.

Bake at 350F for about 20 minutes (for an 8 - inch pie, about 35 minutes) or until the brownie edge looks done and the outermost inch of the pumpkin filling is slightly cracked and set.

It doesn't look at all like your bread but rather has a deep brown multigrain look and cracked top.

I don't go black friday shopping at the crack of dawn after Thanksgiving.

I used the water bath method to help prevent cracks — if you do as well, wrap the outside of the cheesecake pan tightly with at least two layers of tin foil.

I woke at the crack o» dawn this morning to work on all the recipes I promised to share and wouldn't you know it... the dropbox «thingy» (don't roll your eyes at me) didn't work right and my one hundred and something holiday baking photos didn't upload to my computer.

(It is important for the cheesecake to bake slowly at different temperatures and cool down gradually so that it does not crack in the middle).

One of my favorite things to do is replicate «convenience foods» at home, and for the past couple of weeks I've been seeing ads for these new breakfast cups where you just crack an...

I was going to take a crack at it with almond flour this morning and thought I would Google around and see if anyone else had done it.

I'm sure I complained about getting up at the crack of dawn back then, but looking back, it seems like a perfect way to start Easter Sunday, don't you think?

«They said, «We have four dog stores in west Texas, do you want to take a crack at them?»

We actually cracked open the thoracic cavity in our cadavers today in lab, we didn't look much at the heart yet, but I can tell you it is certainly not filled with cookie dough and chocolate chips.

If the edges crack, add water to the dough, a tablespoon at a time, until a test piece does not crack.

I must admit though that I'm not a fan of any of those prepackaged coconut waters at the supermarket - they don't taste anywhere as nice as a fresh young coconut cracked open.

They tasted great, especially since I didn't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to make them.

You don't need rice or cracked wheat or millet or whatever they're putting at the bottom of a bowl these days.

Our didn't seen to poof at all, just a bit cracked.

I think it's unnecessary to cook it to 300 — I went to about 260 - 270 (about 5 minutes, right about at a soft crack on my thermometer, although I didn't test it in water) and it has a nice caramel taste, and snaps apart easily.

Do both a tablespoon at a time until you have a dough that is pliant, only slightly tacky, and does not crack.

This recipe calls for a candy thermometer but don't be scared off by it, really it's not hard at all to make, just let the candy get to the hard crack temperature then pour and cool.

For one thing, you often have to reassure people that what they're biting down on is a coffee bean and not their own cracked teeth, and for another, chocolate - covered coffee beans aren't exactly a staple in most people's pantries — and it's always nice when you can pull out a recipe at the last minute and already have everything on hand (which is precisely what I did with these cookies, for an impromptu get - together earlier this year).