Sentences with word «dicey»

Things got dicey in the Midwest but the Pacers managed to survive a near - collapse on the offensive end.

Those coins are sold at a high premium over melt value, and are a very dicey proposition from an investment return standpoint.

His hired killer is a pot - bellied, nest - haired wreck, raising the question: Is cultivating the «gutter - sleeping hobo» look really the best way for a hit man to slip in and out of dicey situations?

The cheerfully confident and calm parent can smooth over a host of dicey situations.

Things get a bit dicey for the crew when the people behind the robbery also happen to be government insiders.

Both factions, the cops and the crooks, begin to suspect they have a mole in their midst, and as they try to sniff him out, things get dicey in the cat - and - mouse game to stop the shipment of missile defense technology from exchanging hands to the Chinese government.

Things got dicey for NYC FC in the middle of the first half as Andrea Pirlo went down with a knee injury, but Frank Lampard barely got warmed up before the Italian legend went back onto the Yankee Stadium pitch.

The crappy, WTF part is that you actually have to enter a credit card number or already have one on file with B&N in order to read the borrowed book (because their LendMe DRM is tied to your credit card, which sounds a little dicey on the surface of it).

«Things were getting dicey at work, and I was scared,» Durham says.

foreclosures as one offs are pretty dicey as your finding out..

Owning Netflix shares has been a bit dicey as of late, but once again it seems poised to rise.

Wikipedia can be a handy quick reference for undisputed information, but since it relies on user - supplied material which can change in a heartbeat, it can be trusted for info on dicey issues about as far as anyone can throw it, global warming being among the most controversial.

A recent Op - Ed article by Lydia Millet *, «Selling Off Apache Holy Land,» conveys their argument, which centers on dicey politics:

Things get a little more dicey when Karen turns out to be Becky's cousin, and trying to keep a lid on things proves difficult with her being around for the wedding rehearsals, especially when her jealous ex-boyfriend cop wants a piece of him.

Rest of the world is a more dicey proposition.

And I've worried how all of this gets even dicier when foundations are linking arms with the federal government.

This goes back to the patience bit and why it's always dicey when coaches have full roster control.

More of a fun experiment than a certified success, this zillionth installment in the zombie niche has its share of dicey moments but it's also riddled with guffawable zingers and crafty physical comedy.

A more solid, inoffensive foundation at the outset is going to save you a lot of time and energy in the future when you're trying to steer a conversation away from dicier topics.

That's not something we needed the benefit of hindsight to complain about; it looked dicey at the time.

Weight, sex, and marriage — Join sex therapist Laurie Watson and couple's therapist Dr. Adam Mathews as they wade into the sensitive and dicey topic of weight gain in marriage and how it can impact a couple's sexual relationship.

Weather got really dicey near Youngstown, Ohio, near the border of Pennsylvania.

Whether McGregor got involved or not, it was still dicey matchmaking.

In the post 9 - 11 era, airplane thrillers are increasingly dicey ones to sell.

In it, she delves into the economics and neuroscience of risk and interviews people who make dicey decisions everyday to learn what holds people back or encourages them to take chances.

That's a much dicier proposition and it's a lot riskier than simply selling to T - Mobile at a small premium on the current stock price.

For a time, they were really the only ones in the game, in terms of attracting big name talent and investing in potentially dicey subject matter.

All of these squads are still capable of grabbing a top seed come Playoff time, but they must be careful as a couple losses down the stretch could land them in dicey territory.

One topic this book covers in depth that can be particularly dicey for solo and small firm lawyers is deciding when to seek help, and whether to hire staff or outsource the work.

For a while there, things seemed dicey for the travel and luxury segments of the pet market.

For the RX 350, the SRX competition is a little dicier because the latter offers more options than the Lexus, thanks to a choice between a 3.0 - liter unit that produces 260 horsepower and a 3.6 - liter direct - injected V6 engine that produces an output of 300 horsepower and 260 lb / ft of torque.

In the moment, there's a few dicey times, but overall — reset button, YES.

Probably not dicey enough.

Quick direction changes somewhat upset the 4,100 - pound FX, so tight hairpins and quick switchbacks were a bit dicey if not taken with care.

The great ideologue of Parliamentary sovereignty, Professor A. V. Dicey (1835 - 1922), insists that «Parliament means, in the mouth of a lawyer... the King; the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.»

Like a harmless vaccine, a little bit of low - stakes stress can better prepare a person to handle dicey situations.

Does it own high - profile, well - kept buildings, or junky rundown projects in dicey neighborhoods?

The positive expectations that the CME Bitcoin was going to appreciate far above $ 20,000 suddenly became dicey and the momentum could no longer continue.

In the absence of a codified constitution, it is necessary for us to turn to constitutional convention or, as Dicey termed them, the «understandings, habits or practices which, though they may regulate the conduct of... officials, are not in reality laws at all since they are not enforced by the courts» (An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1959) 10th edn, Macmillan, p 24).

The point about Dicey is a very good one.

Selling add - on issues of common stock is a very dicey game for most managements whose companies are not benefiting from the presence of speculative bubbles such as existed in 1998 and 1999.

If the negotiations had not foundered on the issue of how to safeguard farmers from surges in agricultural imports, Canada's delegation could have been caught in a politically dicey position over agricultural marketing boards.

Bamforth decried beer's sometimes dicey image: «Beer is perceived as a bad - boy drink, and beer has been too often marketed in all sorts of strange ways — flatulent horses [an infamous ad during the 2005 Super Bowl, overshadowed by the even more infamous Janet Jackson «wardrobe malfunction»] and men behaving badly.

There are a lot of dicey moves for M to make after the disaster of a mission in Turkey, which opens the film in fierce fashion (following another Bond touch, a particularly elegant graphic opening credit sequence accompanied by a sure - to - be-a-smash title song by Adele).

Having a few choice phrases at the ready can defuse potentially dicey situations or help us capitalize on the progress we helped inspire.