Sentences with phrase «failing at landing»

Possible Answer: Losing a sale, or failing at landing one, is disappointing.

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Their first attempt to land the rocket at sea failed, but not enough to deter Musk and the SpaceX team.

The three, all working with one branch or another of a company called Cryptometrics, are accused of having joined with Karigar in a failed attempt to bribe officials at Air India in order to land a contract to provide security to the airline.

And should they fail to do so, every forty - nine years, at the jubilee, all sales of land are voided and the original owners return to their former holdings.

Wenger says we should not panic (after the West Ham defeat) and I agree, but what mode should be in if we fail to win at Crystal Palace, he also says if something exceptional comes up he'll do it, the problem is he said that 2 seasons ago and we ended up with Kin Kallstrom who had a broken back, so who will we land this time.

The Arsenal transfer rumours are a little thin on the ground at the moment with Arsene Wenger over at the Euros as usual, so I thought I'd have a little peek at what the bookies are forecasting the chances of the Gunners landing any big name strikers if the Jamie Vardy saga fails to come to fruition.

Put simply, the club captain is no longer the reliable giant at the back that he once was, and with Mourinho failing in his efforts to land John Stones, the alternatives at the back don't look great.

Our club have actively been on the look - out for a player to challenge the former Montpellier striker for a first - team role at the Emirates for the upcoming season, but having failed in bids to land a number of targets, are now claimed to be willing to offload Giroud in order to strengthen.

At the minute it is the Lyon and France star Alexandre Lacazette who seems to be favourite for a move to north London in the Arsenal transfer rumours, but if Wenger does fail to land him do you think that Chicharito could be on the cards for a late transfer to Arsenal?

Failing to get shoreward enough on the slack water can mean disaster, for the ebb tide may sweep him down the coast, and he will not land at all.

It is suggested that the Portuguese could hand over # 35m to finally land Perisic, who has already been the subject of at least one failed bid, although Inter are refusing to offload one of their key players.

It is claimed that Barcelona are looking at the likes of Schalke's Max Meyer and Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt, two players that Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp has previously been heavily linked with, should their attempts to land Coutinho fail.

It is no secret that Wenger is a keen admirer of Benzema — right from his days at Lyon, with the Gunner's boss reportedly failing on several occasions to land the 6 ft 2 in tall striker.

Things aren't looking great for the skipper this season, Wayne Rooney has failed to land a place in Jose Mourinho «s starting eleven in in 4 consecutive league games, a career first for the once kid wonder at Manchester United.

After several failed attempts at landing Real Madrid's Anchorman Sami Khedira, Arsene Wenger looks set to turn his attentions

After several failed attempts at landing Real Madrid's Anchorman Sami Khedira, Arsene Wenger looks set to turn his attentions to Tiote.

They also don't need to sell to cover the outlay for Virgil van Dijk, with the defender's recent purchase only slightly exceeding the funds made available to manager Jürgen Klopp last summer before Barcelona had even moved for Coutinho in the first place — funds Klopp never fully spent on account of failing to land Van Dijk at the time.

Guardiola, who failed to land a trophy in his first season in charge at The Etihad, won the League Cup in February against Arsenal but this was the one that really mattered, City's first title since 2013 - 14.

Liverpool also failed to land Henrik Mkhitaryan from Shakhtar in 2013 although the absence of Champions League football at Anfield, not Donetsk, was a bigger obstacle to that deal.

The 28 - year - old is out of the first - team image at Stamford Bridge at the time after failing to get a summer move back to Atletico Madrid, who stay keen to land him in January.

After a loooong hiatus that included losing the attachmentmama.com URL for eight months because I failed to renew with the host and some company swiped it, put it in no - man's web - land and then held it for ransom — I'm happy to take another crack at the Mommy Blogging thing.

If it fails, the American Meat Institute (AMI) claims that an extra 1.5 million cattle would need to be slaughtered to meet demand for ground beef without the feared «slime» — also putting an end to the far more sustainable practice of using every part of the animal, at a time when we are trying to produce more food from less land.

Gia Biagi, chief of staff at the Park District, said a number of factors have slowed long - term plans for the land, especially tight finances and Chicago's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics, which offered Northerly as a site for beach volleyball, kayaking and sailing.

The final print edition of Campaigns & Elections landed in the e.politics bunker a few days ago, reminding me that I failed miserably at promoting the current Technology Bytes column when it went online back in April.

As an example, he said he was a half - hour late heading to Manhattan one day when a 3:50 p.m. boat failed to show up at his landing without any service announcement.

In arriving at the decision, Justice Saidu relied on the recent Court of Appeal decision in the case of LASWA & Ors vs. NIWA & Ors, adding that the Plaintiffs failed to establish the identity of the land claimed.

As the Times Union's Amanda Fries reports, the land at 22 Hammond Road had been foreclosed on by the county earlier this year after the previous owner failed to pay taxes.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.

The comptroller claimed at a Thursday morning meeting of the Association for a Better New York, a group of the city's financial leaders, that the administration had missed out on funding and opportunities by failing to start a public land bank to manage and develop the 1,175 vacant city - owned properties across the five boroughs.

My colleague Patrick Wintour writes that senior Liberal Democrat economic ministers desperate to inject a stimulus into Britain's stalling economy are looking at boosting housebuilding by penalising property firms that fail to build on land with long term planning permission.

Sir Menzies became party leader at the beginning of March, and despite years as the party's foreign affairs spokesman, has failed to land a punch on Mr Blair at prime minister's questions since then.

She blames the government for failing to keep loggers, missionaries, and tourists out of the Mashco Piros» land, which she says is at the root of their frequent appearances on the river.

«The bottom line is: these rules fail to protect the nation's public lands — home to our last wild places, and sources of drinking water for millions of people — from the risks of fracking,» said Amy Mall, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement.

If you fail to rotate crops, reinvest in your land - base, or let field lie fallow, you're looking at 2 - 3 years of wheat, barley, rye or corn, at best, before the soil dies and forces you to «go off in search of greener pastures».

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Stiller's appeal at the box office has been on the wane of late, with his 2013 remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty failing to land, but a lead in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young helped to restore some of his indie cred.

Was mugged on his way to a Baywatch audition shortly after moving to Los Angeles at the start of his career; he failed to land the part.

Director Joe Wright's big - budget fantasy - adventure failed to take flight, landing at third place, behind «The Martian» and «Hotel Transylvania 2.»

Aliens star Michael Biehn was so furious about failing to land a part in the 1992 sequel that he booed the film's trailer at cinemas.The Terminator...

After Earth is on the verge of losing the studio tens of millions after failing to land the top spot at the box - office.

Kemp, a failed novelist, lands at the failing San Juan Star, «a lousy little Caribbean rag» that specializes in stories on tourist haunts, i.e. bowling alleys and casinos.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.

At least some of The Secret Service's outrageousness has carried over: Poppy Land, with its murderous android hairdresser and letter - jacket - clad goons; a grotesque Bond - style opening that pits Eggsy against Charlie (Edward Holcroft), a failed Kingsman recruit who sports a killer cybernetic arm, inside of a veering, bulletproof London minicab; the camera gliding through a pair of red panties mid-third-base to a gush of John Barry-esque brass.

His reduced status as little more than a figurehead is a bitter pill to swallow for Churchill, whose tirades and self - pitying fail to impress his devoted, but increasingly frustrated wife Clemmie (Miranda Richardson), while even his trusted friend King George VI (James Purefoy) must talk him out of a misguided plan to be at the frontline of the Normandy landings.

Arguably, the best looking model in Land Rover's lineup, the Range Rover Evoque never fails to impress every time you look at it.

Having failed at reinventing the company, Sears» top executives seem to be accelerating the chain's switch from a retail operation to one that focuses on the value of the land its stores are operated on.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

His recent body of ongoing work, Tomorrow Land, addresses vacated land mass and mankind's failed attempt at maintaining control of invention gone aLand, addresses vacated land mass and mankind's failed attempt at maintaining control of invention gone aland mass and mankind's failed attempt at maintaining control of invention gone awry.

For more than a decade, researchers have struggled and failed to balance global carbon budgets, which must balance carbon emissions to the atmosphere from fossil fuels (6.3 Pg per year; numbers here from Skee Houghton at Woods Hole Research Center) and land use change (2.2 Pg; deforestation, agriculture etc.) with carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere (3.2 Pg) and the carbon sinks taking carbon out of the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide dissolving in Ocean surface waters (2.4 Pg).