Sentences with phrase «from tacking down»

Rob Riggle stars as Travis, the main antagonist who is trying desperately to stop the two buffoons from tacking down Harry's daughter.

Not exact matches

Tack on waning consumer sentiment — the latest Conference Board consumer confidence survey puts consumer optimism at 90, down nine points from its Ocotber reading — and it's hardly surprising owners aren't feeling super positive right now, Vitner says.

Assembled one evening in the church basement after eating, the members adjusted their chairs toward a wall on which was tacked a long strip of butcher paper with a horizontal line drawn a third of the way down from the top.

And if that sounds like it was a focused - grouped decision, it probably is, but maybe that's the joy of licensing from Big & Rich: tack on an extra rapper and a fuzz pedal to «City,» and it's not like you turned «Sunday Morning Coming Down» into dubstep.

Buhari said it is hight time Africa stopped relying on «fit - for - all - purposes prescriptions handed down from abroad» in tacking its economic problems.

Then he got down to brass tacks, answering questions from host Joe Donohue, WAMC president and CEO Dr. Alan Chartock and listeners.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Each workout is a link in the chain to the next cycle, and tacking on too much weight from one cycle to the next will create a very weak link, and your chain is likely to break down much faster than it would have, otherwise.

I started tacking down the moss from the corner and I used pins to hold it in place.

Their love lives are probably discussed entirely too much for Disney's comfort, but the pair gets down to brass tacks more often than not; for what it's worth, this is the first time I can recall hearing of a film getting longer as a result of the test - screening process — a lot of Bartha's performance was rescued from the cutting - room floor after preview audiences responded favourably to his character.

This isn't to put down the film's first half, which sets up a genuinely distinctive near - future world (where Johnson's retro trappings make narrative sense, rather than feeling tacked - on), introduces two tremendous sides of the same coin in the performances from Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon - Levitt, plenty of intriguing philosophical dilemmas, and a grisly hall - of - fame demise for Paul Dano «s character.

Adapted from Ernest Cline's terrible novel, Ready Player One dials down the book's self - satisfied checklisting but, disastrously, tacks on a «gather ye rosebuds» message about how reality — without all the intellectual property worship and dork one - upmanship — is ultimately preferable to virtual reality.

And if you do not put 20 percent down on the home from the start, you may also have private mortgage insurance (PMI) tacked on every month.

The wording in this and the linked articles capitalizes «The Humane Society» and does not specify whether they are referring to a LOCAL Humane Society, or the horrible lobbyist organization The Humane Society of the United States, which spends most of their donations in court lobbying to have Animal Rights bills tacked on to legislation and keep people from owning pets, while at the same time putting down any animals they get their hands on instead of finding them proper homes.

How about we shift gears from that uncomfortable yet oddly seductive analogy and get down to brass tacks.

Where the first The Crew had the ambition and scope to transplant a racing game into a scaled down open world approximation of the United States, so many things didn't sit right with me, from the handling model to the overly serious story tacked onto it.