Sentences with phrase «end of the stick as»

Nigeria perhaps got the short end of the stick as they finished on 11 points and still failed to qualify, but they took one out of a possible six points against first placed Guinea.

As we all know, the GameCube has gotten the short end of the stick as far as the amount of games produced for this generation of consoles.

The cons to the Switch version, it's a lesser port visually and drew the short end of the stick as far as an online component that has yet to materialize, two weeks after launch, when PS4 / Xbox One / PC featured online day one.

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They say, «I'm stuck here,» looking at their cubicle job as the end, there is nowhere else to go, and they feel like they will never reach the desired destination of «success.»

Lewis and Klein — no friends of global capitalism — portray the workers as revolutionaries, sticking it to the Man by doing an end - run around the evils of modern business.

Of course, Mozilla could very well stick with its Yahoo deal and not walk away, assuming that Yahoo's buyer — whoever it ends up being — is just as interested in search as Yahoo has been during CEO Marissa Mayer's tenure.

Yet as ubiquitous as this advice is, how many of us have joyfully scribbled down a long list of travel destinations, lofty goals, and crazy activities only to end up sticking it in a drawer somewhere and never consulting it again?

However, after the company's profitable IPO, in which shareholders made millions, Sanders began to feel as though he got the short end of the stick.

Investors should stick to larger companies at least until the end of June, as the enforcement of stronger supervision against the financial markets could raise their wariness for high - flying smaller firms, according to Wu Kan, a fund manager at Shanshan Finance.

The spot ends with the dad branding Peanut Butter Cheerios as «The Official Cereal of Dadhood,» a label General Mills is sticking on boxes as the product returns to shelves as a permanent item after a limited release back in March 2013.

Russia could pull out of the OPEC oil production cut deal before the end of 2018 — or right after — as it has no obligation to stick with it, Iran's Energy Minister, Bijan Continue Reading

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

I always say that if I had just stuck with that and never became involved in the kinds of churches I ended up attending, I would have been better off in the security - as - a-person department.

This is true of cases such as ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo becomes stuck in the fallopian tube and part of the tube has to be removed (usually along with the embryo) to prevent the woman from dying or in the case of pre-eclampsia at the other end of pregnancy.

So, these people end up using the emergency room as their means of seeking health care, sticking everyone else with the tab.

Amid the furor over Akin's comments - for which he apologized this week, even as many Republican leaders have called for him to end his campaign - many anti-abortion activists have stuck by their stance against abortion rights in the case of rape.

I make toffee every year so I'm familiar with this process, but just don't feel confident in this outcome as caramel; I also think it tastes more like evaporated milk than caramel... I used salted butter and even added a tad of sea salt at the end to get a more sea salt taste (which didn't come)... do you think using 2 sticks of butter would work?

Have a bit of clean cloth or sponge tied on the end of a stick, and keep the meat well basted with the dressing as long as it is on the fire.

Butter an 8» or 9» square pan and (optionally) place a line of parchment paper in the bottom with ends coming up to later use as handles to lift the whole baked oatmeal and to prevent sticking.

It takes time and care, and if you get interrupted then it's best to take the pan off the heat as if the sauce sticks to the bottom of the pan you can end up with a lumpy sauce (though if you do end up with a lumpy sauce you can pass it through a sieve).

If you feel like you want to add some decoration to the crackers, add some holes to the middle with the pointy end of a chop stick before baking — this give them that «cracker» look and also some variety in terms of eye appeal as well.

As soon as you can handle the corn without burning yourself, form it into 1 - cup balls, inserting a lollipop stick or skewer at one end of eacAs soon as you can handle the corn without burning yourself, form it into 1 - cup balls, inserting a lollipop stick or skewer at one end of eacas you can handle the corn without burning yourself, form it into 1 - cup balls, inserting a lollipop stick or skewer at one end of each.

To «gotchabarbara»... the addition of your spices seems like a great idea (the black peppercorns, allspice berries, and cinnamon sticks), but it seems to me if you want the TRUE flavor of a preserved Meyer lemon, you would preserve it as directed, as the added spieces / aromatics might end up interfering with whatever you choose to do with them later.

That said, if someone is severely allergic to dairy (to the casein / protein), they may not be able to eat butter (making butter is kind of like the same concept as separating an egg and a tiny trace of the white can be stuck to the yolk — they take out the protein and lactose parts of the dairy and end up with just the fat... but there could be traces).

As stated in the recipe below, I do recommend sticking the crisp under a low broiler flame to help brown the topping at the end of the baking cycle.

As you propel dough downward, let it fall off the ends of your hands and fold over onto itself; the dough will be sticky, but it will want to stick to itself more than your hands.

Ramsey also had a little advice for Arsene Wenger, suggesting that the boss would do well to let him show what he can do in his preferred position as the box to box midfielder rather than sticking him out on the wing as he did towards the end of last season.

We need just to stick together and fight as we can until the end of the season.

On the third to last play of the game for New York's offense, Bosa lined up at left defensive end and beat Hart clean with a swiper move and stuck his helmet right in Manning's side as he was releasing a pass that would ultimately be caught by Shane Vereen for a short gain.

If you see the past 3 or 4 yrs things have gone the same way — Beginning of June, club says we have a war chest of millions and we are linked with host of big names.In the end we end up with some good players and some panic buys.Towards the end of Transfer season, AKBs start saying we should give Wenger a chance as he is the most successful manager and all sorts of praises and fans should stick with team.

However, Alexandre Lacazette came in for more stick than most players for the Gunners, as he came off the bench and missed two chances at the end of the game which could very well have allowed Arsenal to snatch something from the game.

Both Teams got the short - end of the stick when it comes to the Schedule as well..

Aside from that, Alexandre Lacazette returns to the starting XI, and Arsenal stick with a back four as it seems Wenger may be ending the experiment of three at the back.

I think the referee could've jumped in five or six seconds earlier too, as Merhy took a lot of shots on the ropes at the end, especially after a previous round of basically having his back stuck there, taking shots.

The end of this season will see him labeled as either a genius with great foresight or a muppet who is stubborn and stuck in the past.

Jenson Button slipped out of F1 at the end of 2016 as he got the short end of the stick in McLaren's «innovative three - driver strategy» and although he could theoretically return with McLaren in 2018, everyone has pretty much accepted that he's retired.

Once, coming out of the Boston end, he skated directly at two forecheckers and parted them as sweetly and magically as Moses parted the Red Sea, the puck clinging to his stick all the while.

As Sam said in the other post, we are stuck with this squad and Wenger until the end of the season.

It seems that more and more transfer dealings take place right at the end of the allotted timeframe, with clubs sticking to their guns for as long as possible before committing themselves to a sale or purchase.

The awesome, tireless end Bruce Smith made some big plays early, but he got little help, and as the game progressed, he began to stick out like Demi Moore in a crowd of nuns.

A rumoured # 5 million bargain from Swiss club Basel, Elneny came very cheap and fans did not know too much about him, but as Wenger often does, he seemed to pull a trick from under his sleeve and presented us with a central midfielder who is not afraid to get stuck in at either end of the pitch.

As I said above in Team Radist's section — it was an intense OT Hoops game and Team Riskin came up with the short end of the stick.

I never believed that saying anyway, as Man United under Fergie got away with murder for years and there is a big case for the smaller clubs» claims that they get the short end of the stick more often than not.

In our desperation for a new striker we might end up signing the wrong guy for a transfer fee he's not worth, this Lacazette is not all that and there's a reason why no big teams are after him even despite his 48 goals in Ligue 1, even though I'm not a fan of Giroud I would rather stick with him with Sanchez as second striker like Griezmann for France than sign Lacazette

In any case, Roma drew the short end of the stick, as they'll run smack against two of the world's most dangerous sides in Chelsea and Atletico Madrid, while Qarabag, the competitions first Azerbaijani side, remains very much a mystery.

AS much as everyone says we hope to sign yaya I for one don't because arsne had him on trial 2 seasons ago and didn't sign him for bugger all so we won't be spending 12 mill on him and we shouldn't have any more african players as the afc is in jan and that's our bussiest time of year just think how bad we would of ended if ade went last year or toure got injured and when he did come back he was so tired and got thrown in at the deep end when senderos did really well considering the stick everyone gives hiAS much as everyone says we hope to sign yaya I for one don't because arsne had him on trial 2 seasons ago and didn't sign him for bugger all so we won't be spending 12 mill on him and we shouldn't have any more african players as the afc is in jan and that's our bussiest time of year just think how bad we would of ended if ade went last year or toure got injured and when he did come back he was so tired and got thrown in at the deep end when senderos did really well considering the stick everyone gives hias everyone says we hope to sign yaya I for one don't because arsne had him on trial 2 seasons ago and didn't sign him for bugger all so we won't be spending 12 mill on him and we shouldn't have any more african players as the afc is in jan and that's our bussiest time of year just think how bad we would of ended if ade went last year or toure got injured and when he did come back he was so tired and got thrown in at the deep end when senderos did really well considering the stick everyone gives hias the afc is in jan and that's our bussiest time of year just think how bad we would of ended if ade went last year or toure got injured and when he did come back he was so tired and got thrown in at the deep end when senderos did really well considering the stick everyone gives him.

The rest of the team then defend with man - orientations, looking to cover each other but mainly sticking close to their opposite number, with Everton's wingers often ending up deeper than the rest of their midfield as the opposition full - backs push up.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger took a huge risk to allow Ozil to enter the final year of his existing deal, and he is now likely to stick with the attacker until the end of the season as a winter deal would disrupt the makeup of his squad.

Make sure the string doesn't end up in more than one section, as some of ours stuck together.