Sentences with phrase «dicey proposition»

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.

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

Rest of the world is a more dicey proposition.

The problem is that playing games made before 2005 is an increasingly dicey proposition and not just because of the prohibitive cost of vintage hardware and games.

Staying with a stranger or inviting one into your home is an inherently dicey proposition.

Buying the X9000 on its own, however, is a much dicier proposition, due to ungainly software that makes the mouse seem a few years behind the competition.

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.

For USC, it seems like a bit of a dicey proposition.

So, three dicey propositions.

In the political and policy worlds, though, many bloggers seem to resist the notion that their ideas are influenced by outsiders, and pitching them stories can be a dicey proposition.

Even assuming that the old regime can be done with (as discussed in @brythan's answer, it's a dicey proposition in the first place), replacing it with non-authoritarian regime is not a trivial task.

Crop tops are a dicey proposition after a certain age (quaere: which age would that be?)

I think it's a subtle way to wear lace at the office (always a dicey proposition), so I'm looking forward to remixing it in some work outfits.

Diluting the purity of the hero's underclass origins is a dicey proposition, but the rejiggering of the underdog narrative gives Creed something to prove to the audience, too.

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

Prequels are a dicey proposition, and most make it unnecessarily hard on themselves by trying to exhaustively satisfy a fan base that's already an easy lay...

Stepping out of line at Indy or Daytona gets to be a dicey proposition.

Video game movies are always a dicey proposition: there are a few surprisingly unshitty ones (Silent Hill, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within), but even those have significant flaws that keep them from being called great movies.

Buying a car on the internet can be a dicey proposition, but not so at Law Auto Group.

Messing with the Corvette faithful is always a dicey proposition.

«No unagented submissions» was the rule of the day, and even getting an agent was a dicey proposition.

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.

Anything under 5 years is a dicey proposition.

That becomes a dicey proposition for lender and borrower.

The easiest thing for video game content creators to do, though, because it can be a dicey proposition to use someone else's work, is try to get permission from the rights holders, because they have a right to challenge your use of their IP and they have some good arguments to make as well.

We are not talking about fine - tuning the climate system, but of altering the weather and that is a dicey proposition at best.

«So unless the review paper already exists (always a dicey proposition) I have no answer for you that could conceivably be worth the effort»

So unless the review paper already exists (always a dicey proposition) I have no answer for you that could conceivably be worth the effort, particularly since there are ongoing active efforts to lie and misdirect about other matters.

«Even before the recession began, going to law school was a dicey proposition.

Car insurance for risky drivers is a dicey proposition at best but diligence and a little bit of research can help you save money on premiums.

Still, downloading APKs from Google Play is a dicey proposition at the best of times, and downloading them elsewhere is just asking for trouble.

To access the center, you must run the entire Java program, a dicey proposition.