Sentences with phrase «first gambit»

LG is one of the first onboard with Android Wear, and the G Watch is its first gambit in Google's new smartwatch segment.

Deflection is his first gambit, rolling fluidly into anger, then denial, followed by bitter disappointment, and finally despair.

First gambit: FULL REFUND + COST OF MONEY: Ask for $ 243 million plus interest at 8 % for the past three years = $ 306 million now.

Ted Rogers's first gambit in the media business was buying control of Toronto radio station CHFI in 1960.

A progressive with Democratic majorities in both chambers of the statehouse, one of Murphy's first gambits will be an attempt to legalize recreational marijuana, something Cuomo considers a «gateway drug.»

Not exact matches

Opening Gambits Make an aggressive first offer.

The first is that it's a massive diplomatic gambit, creating the risk of retaliation from the countries that are affected.

Trump's trade gambit Tariffs are only a first test of what Trump seeks from China and WTOThe Trump administration wants to upend the world trading system, and tariffs are only the first step.

This axiom is actually, when coupled with No. 3 below, the first half of the «gemini gambit.»

Their last four Games will be against Team Kozin and then they too run the tough South gambit — first will be Defending Champs Team Lalez and then the tough Team Zimmerman and finally Team Levitan which could have real seeding implications.

«I hope it's not just a budget - cutting exercise» On the prospect of defence cuts, former army chief General Sir Mike Jackson told Channel 4 News: «I seem to recall Dr Fox in his first speech saying there will be cuts — an interesting opening gambit and not one I care for.

George Osborne's tactical gambit some weeks back of announcing a single year Spending Review so early for the first year of the next parliament was reasonably transparent.

The first thing that comes to mind is the Phillips gambit - the post hoc assertion that dimensional analysis notwithstanding, legaland scientific evidence are interchangeable.

The opening gambit, first text — «Dinner on Saturday night in Reading?

Treachery and action still abound on 24 — its brand is crisis, after all — but the nail - biting, espionage - like first four hours erect a scenario that promises a recharged season built on smarter suspense gambits than the tiresome 24 (and, by extension, Bushian) tropes of outlandish risk, torture and Armageddon - mongering.

The gambit repeats in the movie's final minutes, as Marina, first seen in profile naked on her bed, looks down at a reflection of herself, a round looking glass placed strategically over her crotch.

For Holmes» miraculous reappearance, there is a pay off to his chameleon gambit in the first act.

This May, Thanos» creator Jim Starlin is taking the Mad Titan back to the battleground of his first - ever defeat to begin to piece together his next major gambit.

The gambit system can seem overwhelming at first and it might put you off, but we can't stress enough the need to embrace the gambit system early on.

In this Voices of the Dropout Nation, Sandy Kress, who as adviser to Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, helped craft No Child (and helped mastermind the first waive of reforms in Texas), offers his thoughts on the Obama administration's waiver gambit — and how both President Obama and Secretary Duncan will have to take responsibility for the consequences of their counterproductive effort.

By engaging in the waiver gambit in the first place — and then handing out waivers to nearly every state with a half - baked plan — it effectively gave away all of its leverage without getting anything in return.

And considering the sloppiness of the Obama administration's handling of the waivers thus far, no one in Congress can reasonably expect it to hold states accountable in any way — especially since it can be argued that the waiver gambit itself is legally questionable in the first place.

But the problems with the waivers became even more apparent last year after the administration granted waivers during the first two rounds of the gambit.

It would be great if the Obama Administration would abandon its No Child waiver gambit and enforce No Child's accountability provisions as it should have done in the first place.

Whatever the case, Harkin and his colleagues don't seem like they are going to ask any hard questions about the efficacy of the process by which the Obama administration is granting the waivers, the consequences of the gambit on the systemic reforms needed to help all children get high - quality education, or whether the waiver gambit is legal in the first place.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

Achievement First's latest gambit is called the Elm City Imagine School.

But first he'll have to earn his detective's badge, advancing through the department's different desks (i.e., Patrol, Traffic Squad, Homicide, Vice, Arson) by solving cases pretty much run the gambit of every Law & Order spin - off ever aired.

This is part three of a multi-part series reflecting back on the games developed during the first year of the Singapore - MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a five - year research initiative created to address important challenges faced by the global digital game research community and industry.

The list of finalists of the first annual Independent Games Festival Mobile competition was announced yesterday, and GAMBIT's game Backflow is a contender for IGF Mobile Best Game and Innovation in Mobile Game design.

Have some less than ideal gambits set up (or structure them poorly) and Balthier (for example) may shoot first, heal later and suddenly it's too late for your trio of party members.

With «Ongoing Retrospective» (the Bulgarian - born artist's first institutional solo exhibition and Elena Filipovic's inaugural gambit at Kunsthalle Basel, where the curator began her directorship this past November), Filipovic asks us to privilege the tenebrous now over the familiar know, to commit to the curious void of an emerging artist ’s

The first thing that comes to mind is the Phillips gambit - the post hoc assertion that dimensional analysis notwithstanding, legaland scientific evidence are interchangeable.

This will ensure that the game - makers first smartphone - based gambit is shared easily on social media websites.

Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey are not the first politicians to think that with a few budgetary gambits they can turn Medicare into a safety - net system for the disadvantaged, and given the response to their first Budget from the health sector and the community, they may not be the last.