Sentences with phrase «dicey as»

Going by the sort of «fun» we've seen Harry have over the years, that could get quite dicey as the newborn reaches his teens!

Though the connection isn't quite as dicey as a game of Yahtzee, there's plenty of room for improvement.

And things really get dicey as temperature increases approach 4 °C.

Handling is excellent on straightaways and in mild curves; but it gets a bit dicey as the curves get sharper.

The egg industry, in particular, can be quite dicey as there are various terms to comprehend.

That's the point at which the NCAA's governing delays of game start to make it dicey as to whether a suspended game like this one will actually get played.

But things will get dicey as soon as the economy turns for the worse.

Not exact matches

In other situations, such as trying to extrapolate numbers on current trends or predicting the tipping point of technologies, things get a bit dicier.

Hiring for cultural fit can be a dicey proposition, as sometimes biases — hidden or otherwise — can lead hiring managers away from great candidates who would have been star employees.

Dudas, a partner at Vertical Research, refers to the emerging asset class as a «dicey investment» — citing the amount of fast money flowing into the space and the lack of regulation.

Pruitt is the subject of no fewer than 10 ethical investigations, as reports about his extravagant spending, taxpayer - funded flights, and dicey living situation have come to light.

As Claire noted, you can't use the previous batch as a starter indefinitely for regular pasteurized milk yogurt, and it's even dicier for raw milk yogurAs Claire noted, you can't use the previous batch as a starter indefinitely for regular pasteurized milk yogurt, and it's even dicier for raw milk yoguras a starter indefinitely for regular pasteurized milk yogurt, and it's even dicier for raw milk yogurt.

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.

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.

Normally I don't diagnose a lot of breastfeeding issues because I feel like that's something that's tricky and also a little dicey to do when you're not in the same room as the persona with the problem.

Putting fish in a lunchbox is a little dicey - there's always the risk that by lunchtime the fish smell will be overpowering not only your child but everyone else as well.

Are these attempts really as pointless as Dicey claims?

It is «binding», inasmuch as it's the law and «no body» (to borrow from Dicey again) can ignore it — the House of Commons included.

Trying to navigate a dicey issue for a Democrat running for governor, Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that public - employee pensions are «disproportionate,» but he wouldn't go so far as to back a plan to shift more of the cost — and risk — to workers.

Notwithstanding the outrageous cost (which ought itself, perhaps, to be the subject of an inquiry), Blair's misapprehension that a report commissioned just as the peace process was bearing fruit would, a dicey twelve years on, bring «closure» was hopelessly naive.

However, rather than backing them as Progress candidates on a joint slate with Labour First as in previous years, they have merely tweeted their endorsement, wishing them «#goodluck» on their «mission impossible», a dicey project requiring maximum distance and deniability:

But even Cannon, who would like to see the law eliminated as soon as possible, concedes that «the politics of those two things would be dicey.»

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

But more innovative approaches may be seen by some reviewers as dicey; you may have a harder time convincing some that your approach is viable.

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.

But a new study suggests they both share one trait: As the clock ticks, their decisions get dicey.

Let whole foods form the bulk of your diet, drawing mostly from the list of Paleo foods, and experiment with the dicey ones such as dairy and legumes.

Dwayne Johnson stars as Ray, a military vet back from a tour in Afghanistan and handling dicey helicopter rescues in California when a series of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault reduce San Francisco and L.A. (among other places) to digital rubble.

Blunt is the diciest of the trio, as it's believed that the film's shoot could clash with her role in the Tom Cruise sci - fi actioner «All You Need Is Kill,» but even if she does fall out, all three are terrific actresses and would certainly fit nicely into a part that Noomi Rapace and Kate Winslet had previously been mentioned for.

Video game movies are still a dicey proposition, as we saw when Warcraft tanked in the U.S. earlier this year.

Comedy sequels, especially those made years later, have a dicey track record, as do films funded via Kickstarter.

But it's still dicey, the way McDonagh risks trivializing police brutality by presenting it as a character flaw, especially given how few scenes, lines, or traits he affords the film's people of color.

Leslye, what was it that appealed to you about casting Jason as your romantic lead, especially as his character is a dicier version of the male love interest?

If [school systems] think of it as a device, things will get dicey.

Things get a bit dicey on the resale front, as the 2018 Infiniti Q60 is expected to retain some of the lowest 5 - year residual values in the category.

To be fair, the V8 S stands head and shoulders above the competition from Porsche and BMW where power and price are concerned — a fairer and more favorable comparison would be with one of Jaguar's V - 6 models — and at $ 102,325 as tested, the F - Type pushes into the lower reaches of Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet territory, where things start looking dicey for the British roadster.

Second, the Department of Justice lawsuit is ongoing, and looking pretty dicey for Apple (as reported on Digital Book World).

Similarly, within stocks, it's pretty clear that smaller companies and emerging markets are dicier propositions than blue chip companies, so it seems reasonable to expect some extra return — even if the extra return from small stocks isn't as great as history suggests.

These days, bailouts, federal intervention and regulation seem to be the way out of any dicey situation we find ourselves in (as a nation).

This is not suitable for new traders as it is very dicey.

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.

But narrowly focused funds such as sector funds can be dicey.

Mel Gibson and Gisele Bündchen own homes in the area, which includes the neighboring town of Mal Pais, as well as Playa Carmen and Playa Hermosa, all connected by a dicey dirt road set back from the ocean.

Third - party emulation has always been a dicey issue for hardware and software manufacturers alike as it offers access to content people may not legally own, but that's about to change in the case of Wii emulator Dolphin, which has become so adept at emulating Nintendo's decade - old console that it can access the official Wii Shop Channel and directly purchase games from Nintendo.

These battles are exciting and handle better than you might expect, seeing as mid-air combat can get dicey in some games, especially RPGs.

(Gallerist NY) Paris Museum Explores the «Art of Hair» - The strange and somewhat questionable Musée du Quai Branly is now tackling the dicey ethnography of hair color, «juxtaposing blondes, brunettes and redheads to show the evolution of stereotypes attaching to each: blondes as angels, saints and mothers; brunettes, as their opposites — adventurers and sex symbols; redheads as drama queens.»

For the show, Kurland worked with adolescent girls, depicting them in secret, sometimes dicey locations, so that they appear as wanderlusts or runaways from the confines of society.

It's a bet about as ill advised (to propose or accept) as the dicey behavior of this Russian worker when I spent time on the sea ice near the North Pole in 2003:

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.

Where it gets dicey from an ethical perspective is that Cook set up the forum (using his own software, so it wasn't like he pushed the wrong button and it happened on its own), so he clearly knew that independence of raters had been violated, yet he as clearly stated that the ratings had been done independently in his paper: «Abstracts were randomly distributed via a web - based system to raters with only the title and abstract visible.