Sentences with phrase «cracked the nut on»

«The real issue in my belief here is not so much who's right or who's wrong, but it shows very clearly — to me anyway — that even though there's been some substantial funding reform in the state, we still haven't necessarily cracked the nut on how to treat state - chartered schools or public charter schools in general,» Deigan said.

Abstract painters generally seem somewhat dulled to the possibilities of working through this dilemma (which is the only way out of it; theory won't crack this nut on its own, it needs plenty of graft).

Mind you, many organizations today have sort of cracked the nut on ensuring that their email is discoverable although a good many are still receiving those marvelous production orders that expect one to produce every electron....

Zillow continues to research how to program Zestimates to account for such factors, but we haven t fully cracked the nut on that one yet, Humphries said.

Not exact matches

The philanthropist, whose usual focus is on infectious diseases in poorer countries, said Alzheimer's disease caught his interest partly for personal reasons, and partly because it has so far proved such a tough nut to crack.

I'm a firm believer that men need to be able to take on more responsibility at home if we're ever going to crack this nut.

On one occasion he compared certain texts to «hard nuts» which resisted cracking and confessed that he had to throw these texts against the rock (Christ) so that they would yield their «delicious kernel.»

One would like to think that each of us, at one time, might have been, before being saved, a «hard nut to crack» — so that spreading the gospel is not simply «putting out a statement» but, indeed, providing impassioned exhortation to the unbelievers to believe on Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

Usually you hang your stocking on the eve of Dec 5th and if you have been VERY good, you get chocolates, an orange or tangerine, an apple, some nuts to crack and perhaps a small gift,, this is for my DH (he will get his favorite CD also) and the kids that live in town here,,,,,,, I was wondering, how would this travel, mailing from a cold state (WIsconsin) to an even colder state (Michigan), our temps have been 30's and low 20s at night and heaven knows WHAT upper Michigan has been,,,, at times, below zero (already!

Kajioka tosses chunks of red snapper in coconut milk and lime juice, then sprinkles on cracked macadamia nuts and sweet pickled onions for a most luxurious poke (see the recipe).

Put them in the oven and roast for about 15 - 20 minutes on 150 celsius, until the skin is cracked and the nuts begin to show some color.

Marco Reus may prove a tougher nut to crack with Real Madrid apparently hot on the heels of the Borussia Dortmund attacker, who's # 19.6 m release clause has attracted a host of prospective suitors.

He wasn't at his best last season and barely contributed against Leicester city on Friday and he not signed a new contract either, it be hard nut to crack if we sell Him, as Alexis Sanchez also want to leave, but who can come in to replace him Thomas Lemar a option but Monaco are not playing ball or mahrez We await to see what happens

They may not be on top of their game domestically, but Real Madrid remain an exceptionally tough nut to crack on the continent.

Blackburn are a tough nut to crack on home soil but outside of Lancashire they are extremely vulnerable and a team everyone needs to steer well clear off.

Rarely do the Potters fail to stamp their mark on a home fixture, with their robust, physical nature making them one of the toughest nuts to crack.

Villa are a tough nut to crack on home soil, as they shown just seven days ago when beating Manchester City 1 - 0 courtesy of a Darren Bent poacher goal, while one win in their last nine visits to Villa Park only lowers everyone's expectations of them on Saturday.

Roma on the other hand a tough nut to crack and if they can get a result against Chelsea it will really open up this group.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

It will do Labour no harm to lower expectations about Wandsworth and Westminster because they are both very tough electoral nuts to crack, but this poll still has Labour on course for an astonishing performance in the capital,» he told the Guardian's PoliticsWeekly podcast.

Either the capuchin will look for a natural anvil to crack the nut with a hammer stone, and eat it immediately, or it will leave the nut on the ground and return to crack and eat it days, weeks, or even months later.

The ban on student records will be an especially tough nut to crack, Haskins and Abraham predict.

By working on the still - not - fully - cracked nut of estimating changes in hurricane frequency and intensity in a warming climate, Gabe and his colleagues ended up with a modeling system with seasonal skill in regional hurricane prediction.

I used to live on a property with many black walnut trees but we didn't bother eating the nuts because the shells are much harder than English walnuts and you have to use a sledgehammer to crack them, which of course then smashes your nut.

We provide team work to poor villagers on cracking of nuts and seperating black Seeds (Cores) from the half shells.

Plucking ripe berries off a bounteous shrub is far easier than cracking nuts, so you gorge on berries.

While reading the story of Zamperini you can tell early on it's going to be a tough nut to crack.

Refashioning that ancient dressing gown as a balled - up pillow on the floor, he is jolted awake by the sound of nuts cracking.

2) Along the same lines, I think it's important to point out that for most of science and especially including medicine, the real nut to crack is how folks looked at it BACK THEN (depending on your genre).

Preparing an assignment on an unfamiliar topic of Accounting is a hard nut to crack for students and which is why they prefer to take Accounting assignment help from the subject - oriented writers associated with us.

Audiobooks on the other hand have been a hard nut to crack, until now there has been little support for the concept of Netlflix for audiobooks.

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The title refers to the names of two boys who are at first happily engaged in a partnership: one is perched high in a tree picking walnuts, while the other is on the ground, cracking the nuts open and popping them in his mouth.

As we take best of best minds on board, writing an impressive and quality essay is not a tough nut to crack for us.

Understanding and working on such core concepts can be a hard nut to crack for you being a student, but not for our experts.

Recording of complication related to audits and generating report based on it is a hard nut to crack.

But getting a big, flat business class seat on United's popular Boeing 767 SFO - Paris flight is a tough nut to crack.

One a performance piece about food labor on Thursday, September 22, and the other an interactive exhibit where museum patrons are encouraged crack nuts with nude female mannequin legs.

That's a tough nut to crack because new technologies are almost always more expensive at first, and, as Brad alluded to, the price of an EV effectively includes a prepay against savings on fuel costs that customers think less about than purchase price.

The judiciary can have some effect on cost recovery and payments made by defendants but determining how the industry shares its costs is a much harder nut to crack.

It is not a tough nut to crack to know about the proper trading on the stock market, and exchange securities, you stay still to make an extensive sum of money.

Right now, they've got manufacturers sold on that idea, but fans have proven to be a tougher nut to crack.

Google knows that if it can crack the same nut as Apple, or Amazon on the Kindle, and sell you both the device and the content, then it will be on to a winner.

Twitter is a hard nut to crack on a local level, but there is a cool little trick you can use to make the network more effectively for you.

That's a tough nut to crack for any business, especially when you're dealing with small numbers like those found on your dinner check.

My father used to always buy shelled nuts to crack at Christmas, perhaps my son will carry on the tradition.

I had to let him know that this one wasn't actually for cracking the nuts displayed on our ottoman.

What's cracking me up lately is I decided to go «nuts» with color and have picked out all my color combos in advance based on the light, 75 yo natural woodwork & hardwoods, + furnishings (lotsa warm woods).