Sentences with phrase «from dicier»

It is «binding», inasmuch as it's the law and «no body» (to borrow from Dicey again) can ignore it — the House of Commons included.

What's interesting about American Sniper, which works from a dicey script by Jason Hall that's always in danger of becoming either a rote action thriller meted out in shootouts or a rote antiwar melodrama about how veterans never quite make it back home, is how obstinately it resists this narrative.

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We sifted through reports from Glassdoor to find some of the trickiest, and diciest, interview questions Goldman has to offer.

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.

That gets dicey from a compliance standpoint, and although Goodman says the company continues to monitor and tweak the platform, other issues might arise.

Assuming command from a legendary CEO or company founder is a more complicated and dicier process than your standard leadership transition.

If the negotiations had not foundered on the issue of how to safeguard farmers from surges in agricultural imports, Canada's delegation could have been caught in a politically dicey position over agricultural marketing boards.

I confess, I too wanted to believe that «Dubya» was, somehow, a man apart from most men» that a «Patriot Act» in his hands was something less dicey than it would be in anyone else's.

There will probably be some kind of hardware involved (Dugan suggested it might be glasses, similar to Google's failed Google Glass experiment from a few years ago) and wearable tech has always been a dicey prospect.

So for understandable reasons, educators retreat from the hard and dicey work of acknowledging and working with these differences.

This pumpkin spice latte doesn't come from Starbucks, and it DEFINITELY doesn't cost four dollars, and instead of dicey «pumpkin» flavoring and artificial sweeteners, it contains pumpkin — actual pumpkin!

The two leaders have dicey issues to discuss, including: the new US trade tariffs on steel and aluminum from which France wants to be exempt; whether Trump will recertify the Iran nuclear deal that France wants to preserve; and forging a path forward in Syria to defeat ISIS and prevent chemical weapons attacks.

But after the release of Trump Jr.'s emails, Caputo said in a brief phone conversation with The Buffalo News on Tuesday: «When it gets to be information from a foreign government, it gets to be pretty dicey.

Dietl's critiques of the mayor were mostly familiar: his intimacy with deep - pocketed developers, his dicey now - defunct political nonprofit, his regular midday pilgrimages from Gracie Mansion to the Park Slope YMCA and his failure to address and redress a host of municipal issues.

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Ocean highways likely provide a quick escape route from herons and other predators, meaning that turtles from Playa Grande have better odds of surviving their dicey youth.

I was there for about four weeks and I spent one of those weeks with the a young group of engineers, and I went back to a couple of the sites I had visited on my first trip, including the Quds power plant which is north of Baghdad; it goes through some kind of dicey neighborhood, so the trip from the Green Zone to Quds is always a bit of hot charger; so we went up there in these Reva vehicles, these heavily armored South African Reva vehicles; and much to my amaze [ment], when I found that they had gotten some of their power plants started; they hadn't been able to run when I was there in 2005.

Let whole foods form the bulk of your diet, drawing mostly from the list of Paleo foods, and experiment with the dicey ones such as dairy and legumes.

Opt for a classic design with these Dicey ankle boots from Steve Madden.

«The Shape of Things» (adapted from his stage play like his other two features, the memorable «In the Company of Men» and the dicey «Your Friends & Neighbors») is another scathing and insightful look into relationships.

From this corner - painted position, the film distracts with equally benign subplots about things like a misinformed assassination attempt, and Elizabeth's dicey decision to dress in full armor to lead her short - numbered army into combat.

Dwayne Johnson stars as Ray, a military vet back from a tour in Afghanistan and handling dicey helicopter rescues in California when a series of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault reduce San Francisco and L.A. (among other places) to digital rubble.

From the first 30 seconds when all is quiet, until the end credits roll, and then some, there is virtually not a moment when guns arenâ $ ™ t firing, people arenâ $ ™ t running, either towards them or away, and the hero of the piece, Mr. Smith (Clive Owen, isnâ $ ™ t coolly in charge of even the diciest situation.

VR continues to be a weird, scary frontier for mainstream media; between the high cost of initial investment, the often - daunting technical requirements, and the tendency to make a non-trivial portion of its install base toss their cookies faster than a rogue Girl Scout on the run from the cops, it's been a dicey...

The increasingly omnipresent actor is some way from «Breaking Bad,» a broken, grizzled failure of a man, always aware of the price he pays for running with the dicier members of society, and grudgingly, heartbreakingly accepting of the inevitable conclusion to his lifestyle when it comes.

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.

Closing out the books on the $ 800 billion - plus economic - stimulus package from 2009 is proving to be a messy — and even politically dicey — endeavor.

Whether charter supporters can maintain the movement's bipartisan backing while receiving support from a deeply unpopular President who promises to be «the nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice» remains an open, and dicey, question.

To be fair, the V8 S stands head and shoulders above the competition from Porsche and BMW where power and price are concerned — a fairer and more favorable comparison would be with one of Jaguar's V - 6 models — and at $ 102,325 as tested, the F - Type pushes into the lower reaches of Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet territory, where things start looking dicey for the British roadster.

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While there is much to learn about the bestsellers in genre fiction and what proportion is indie vs. legacy, and what their respective slices of the pie amount to be, extrapolating from that day to annual income from sales is a bit dicier.

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

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.

Selling add - on issues of common stock is a very dicey game for most managements whose companies are not benefiting from the presence of speculative bubbles such as existed in 1998 and 1999.

Unfortunately, the ladder is also gone, which makes the exit from the water a bit dicey.

Mel Gibson and Gisele Bündchen own homes in the area, which includes the neighboring town of Mal Pais, as well as Playa Carmen and Playa Hermosa, all connected by a dicey dirt road set back from the ocean.

Third - party emulation has always been a dicey issue for hardware and software manufacturers alike as it offers access to content people may not legally own, but that's about to change in the case of Wii emulator Dolphin, which has become so adept at emulating Nintendo's decade - old console that it can access the official Wii Shop Channel and directly purchase games from Nintendo.

For the show, Kurland worked with adolescent girls, depicting them in secret, sometimes dicey locations, so that they appear as wanderlusts or runaways from the confines of society.

«Rigorous processes» may help avoid a hockey - stick fiasco, but there are still two very basic problems: a) the proxy data themselves are often dicey, especially when the time scale is large, and b) the interpretation of the data is based on an «argument from ignorance» (i.e. «we can only explain this if we assume...»), where unknown factors are simply ignored and it is falsely assumed that we have the knowledge of all factors that could possibly have been involved; if these studies are used to provide evidence for a preconceived hypothesis, I think they are next to worthless.

Where it gets dicey from an ethical perspective is that Cook set up the forum (using his own software, so it wasn't like he pushed the wrong button and it happened on its own), so he clearly knew that independence of raters had been violated, yet he as clearly stated that the ratings had been done independently in his paper: «Abstracts were randomly distributed via a web - based system to raters with only the title and abstract visible.

But the subjective interpretation of dicey paleo proxy data taken from carefully selected periods of our geological past A) and B) is not much better.

GISTEMP is a good bit more dicey than UAH from my understanding of it.

Then come the subjective interpretations of dicey paleoclimate data from cherry - picked periods in our geological past.

Dicey and many others since him have mostly been preoccupied by this problem in the context of fundamental individual rights, and their protection from a legislature unconstrained by a supreme law constitution.

We are struggling to reconcile parliamentary sovereignty, which suggests giving effect to legislative attempts to insulate administrative decision - makers from judicial review, and the Rule of Law, which, as Dicey himself suggested, requires courts of justice to apply the law.

P. Cumming and N. Mickenberg, Native Rights in Canada (2nd ed, 1972); K. Lysyk, «The Unique Constitutional Position of the Canadian Indian,» Canadian Bar Review 45 (1967); D. Sanders, «Indian Hunting and Fishing Rights,» Saskatchewan Law Review 38 (1973 - 74); J.C. Smith, Regina v. Drybones and Equality before the Law, Canadian Bar Review 49 (1971); W.S. Tarnopolsky, The Canadian Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court Decisions in Lavell and Burnshine: «A Retreat from Drybones to Dicey?»

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