Sentences with phrase «fire a shot across»

It seems to me looking at a year when the stock market has gone down a bit, credit spreads have widened substantially and the dollar has been very strong it is hard to say that now is the time to fire a shot across the bow of financial euphoria.

When Amazon fires a shot across the bow of other companies pursuing niches in other markets, stocks tremble.

And if the playoffs weren't enough incentive — not to mention revenge for a blowout loss earlier this season — Bell fired a shot across Steelers management's bow on Thursday, suggesting he would retire after this season rather than accept another franchise tag.

That day he drove to his left, firing a shot across John Ruddy in to the right - hand corner of the net, this one had a similar feel.

QUEENS — City Councilman Dan Halloran fired a shot across the bow of Assemblywoman Grace Meng's campaign Monday, saying that the Bayside Democrat had something to hide if she didn't agree to a series of five televised debates in the race for New York's 6th congressional district seat.

«This ruling fires a shot across the bows of a Tory - led Government which is taking the NHS backwards by prioritising finances over patient care and riding roughshod over people.

This is a moment to be celebrated, as a legendary director fired a shot across the bow, signaling that Hollywood should not be a haven for those looking to hurt or exploit other human beings.

Last week, Senator Lamar Alexander fired a shot across the bow of the U.S. Department of Education, suggesting that acting assistant secretary for elementary & secondary education Jason Botel «hasn't read [The Every Student Succeeds Act] carefully.»

But just weeks into the new year, things changed again when Apple fired a shot across the bow with iBooks 2.

Not long after the iPhone OS 4.0 release yesterday, Apple made a change to its developer agreement that fired a shot across the bow of Adobe and its Flash platform: Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs.

More importantly, second, it fires a shot across the bows of any liberal organ which dares to entertain a climate sceptic on its pages in much the same way as Martin Durkin's Great Global Warming Swindle (just 90 minutes of TV in a shedule jam - packed with environmentalism) drew furious comments about Channel 4 from the Great and the Good.

The Government of Alberta Superintendent of Insurance fired a shot across the bough of some Auto Insurers recently, issuing a warning that there are potential fines for insurers who wrongly deny accident disability benefits to their insureds: Read more:

Could the lack of a cryptocurrency tie - in fire a shot across the bow of other blockchains?

Last fall, the SFC fired a shot across the bow of ICO issuers stating certain ICOs may be deemed securities and thus fall under existing securities laws.

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But as the SEC fired shots across the bow of the ICO industry many offerings were in the middle of a raise or preparing to launch.

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Not exact matches

Google Fiber is a warning shot fired across the bow of those traditional ISPs.

One thing is for certain however, an early shot has been fired across the bow of UK boards: Pay remains a highly contentious issue, and one which shareholders are willing to provide management with bloody noses and public embarrassment over.

When the Arab Spring caught fire just across the Mediterranean in 2011, the numbers of arrivals shot up.

Pipita fired across the keeper with a pinpoint shot that nestled into the net right behind the post to make it 1 - 0.

It was Spurs who would strike next when Son Heung - Min was released with an incisive pass, before firing a left - footed shot across Forster and into the bottom corner.

The ball came right across the box from the left; Victor Moses wasn't closed down and was able to fire in a shot far too easily.

Sunderland went close to taking the lead in the 17th minute as Gooch spun on the edge of the box and fired a low shot across goal which flew narrowly wide of the post.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

Chris Huhne will fire another warning shot across the bow of British energy companies today with demands for a radical compensation system.

Generally, Cuomo has been more aggressive toward the state teachers union — which in the current climate is not nearly as strong, politically, as 1199 — and has fired several shots across NYSUT's bow.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo is playing nice with Senate Democrats, Republicans on Tuesday fired a warning shot across his bow.

Consider the first shot fired by Senate Democrats across Cuomo's bow this year, delivered by their low - key leader, Yonkers Democratic Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

The universe fired two warning shots across the Earth's bow within the same 24 - hour period this past week.

Shadowy, underdeveloped mafioso shout sinister proclamations across steak dinners, shots are fired and heads are smashed into cow shit, all in the name of making larger product to compete with «the Hormonic States of America.»

Selecting, aiming, and firing are all down with the same buttons across all the guns (and shooting is mapped to the triggers instead of the square button).

The ceremony was part of a number events across Europe aimed at commemorating the anniversary, including a two minute silence held in Britain at 7.28 am to coincide with the moment the first shots in the battle were fired.

By the end of Gerardo Naranjo's taut, terrifying Miss Bala, the innocent Laura has been crowned pageant queen - and has been abducted, raped, forced to smuggle stacks of money across the border and shot at more times than a firing - range dummy.

For every neglected classic I come across like The Auctioneer there are a dozen empty - calorie mind - melters like William W. Johnstone's Toy Cemetery that manage to make my hair stand on end through the sheer quantity of pulp nonsense it shoots into my eyeballs like a high pressure fire hose.

Regardless, such a device is a clear and present shot across the bow of the Kindle Fire, the de facto owner of the low - end tablet market thus far — the «sub-iPad» space for individuals unable or unwilling to shell out up to $ 829 for Apple's 9.7 - inch take on the «post-PC era.»

The new Kindle Fire models have leaked on the web, through a list of specs and the shots below, that BGR came across.

The number of e-book purchases sailed past hard copy numbers in several categories, firing a warning shot across the publishing bow that the whole world felt.

The video shows it being used to put out fires, make a mound of crap you can climb, shoot enemies, and even to build a bridge across a huge gap.

Additionally, 48 billion shots were fired across 22 million matches completed, which spanned a massive 362 years worth of playtime.

Bug fixes are still update worthy (hopefully none exist) 5 Types of towers: - Arrow: Single target, attacks ground and air units - Cannon: Single target splash damage, attacks ground units only - Splash: Area of Effect (AoE) attack in radius around tower, attacks ground units only - Air: Single target shot that splits into two new projectiles, attacks air units only - Wall: Cheap tower for creating a path for creeps 3 Tower Elements: - Ice: Slow attack, long range, costly, applies slow to enemies - Fire: Fast attack, short range, expensive, applies burn to enemies - Normal: Average stats across the board, cheap 6 Types of Towers: - Normal: Basic creep that progresses slowly ahead with an average health - Armored: High health point creep that can take a beating, but is also very slow - Speed: Fastest creep in the game, but also one of the weakest - Flying: This creep will bypass your ground defenses and walls by flying from start to finish - Dividing: This creep will separate and split into smaller creeps until it is killed a total of 7 times - Parachute: You thought the Flying creep was bad?

You play the way you want to, and we'll do the same... there doesn't have to be shots fired across those lines.

- attacking on horseback with items like a pitchford work very well - knock people off their horse and then take the battle to on - foot - lizalfos can be covered in snow and then pop out and come to life - multiple enemies can attack at once - lizalfos can take up to 6 hearts of damage at once - make potions to soften your steps and be quieter - fire arrows work well against Lizalfos - firing a bomb arrow at a guardian can interrupt their lasers - a laser shot can kill you in one hit even if you have 6 hearts - you can wander into areas with enemies that will take you out easily - cook a bunch of hot pepper meals to take into the snow areas to stop losing hearts from shivering - Serene Stable is one of the stables you'll come across - you can go down to the bottom of a ravine and explore - Bosh Kala Shrine is one of the shrines you can find - one shrine has a puzzle where you use your control wind vents with your magnet tool to roll a ball to a goal - almost all shrines have an extra chest in them to grab

Players will also come across drones that can enable more powerful shots, a wider spread or a higher rate of fire on your current firearms.

Fans will take to the skies and rain down bullets on the worms below using a helicopter, or traverse across landscapes in warfare - ready tanks, helping players move more quickly, protect worms, and fire a barrage of shots.

Set across five decks of a massive spaceship, robot opponents slash, shoot, launch missiles from their backs, fire screen sweeping lasers and create smaller enemies to attack, while the giant enemy bosses fight with everything they've got across multiple phases.

For the more magically inclined, there's the ability to take the trail created by firing off a power shot across the stage and temporarily set it ablaze.

Does also run across your screen and you'll want to avoid shooting them unless you enjoy the penalty of being unable to fire for several seconds.

In the first level that I played, I jumped across platforms lighting the character on fire in order to ignite blue flames that were shooting out of the wall.

However, rather than, say, two kings locking swords for control of the land, the conflict was more like two armies firing shots from across the battlefield.