Sentences with phrase «gambit works»

The state academic indicator gambit works like this.

The gambit works.

This bold storytelling gambit works because Wheatley and his collaborators (notably co - screenwriter / editor Amy Jump) have finely crafted the drama to continually up the ante, revealing just enough about who these characters are and what they're really up to.

And their gambit worked: Physicians and insurers defeated attempts under Presidents Truman and Eisenhower to reform health care.

For Yeo, the gambit worked.

It has to be said that the gambit worked for him.

The irony is that some of these gambits worked, but they still led nowhere.

His gambit worked and a film starring the card - throwin» scoundrel was announced with Tatum attached as star and producer.

With its newfound focus on people - moving, Nissan's gambit worked like a charm.

We're gaming over at the MIT Museum tonight as part of the grand opening of the new exhibit featuring GAMBIT work.

And the gambit worked.

It appears the size gambit worked.

Not exact matches

Wall Street hasn't been able to figure out whether Apple CEO Tim Cook's gambit to sell higher priced iPhones is working.

So we might have expected the Old Chieftain to make short work of Newfoundland and Labrador's recent gambit to extract $ 280 million from Ottawa in exchange for its co-operation in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union.

But this time, the gambit didn't work.

The North's gambit largely worked.

Kotick's online gambit doesn't make the need for consoles obsolete; in fact Activision is working with Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE), both of which sell Internet - connected systems, to ensure that Activision's web - based applications can be accessed on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

Like Carlyle, Rice turned to architects and built a quiet place deep under the ground, where her husband, Isaac, could work out his chess gambits in peace.

The gambit didn't work.

In Heifetz's terms, Moses maintained «disciplined attention» and resisted the «work avoidance» of the murmuring people, the tried - and - true gambit of blaming the leader.

(Remember that the Conservatives had their convention before the GOP in hopes of helping Lazio block Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from garnering sufficient support to get on the ballot — a gambit that ultimately worked).

Cameron's gambit, trying to unite politicians together against the media, didn't appear to be working.

The Grover gambit won't even work on the federal level let alone against an anti-tax populist legislator in the highest taxed state in the nation.

But if the example of their sister party across the North Sea is anything to go by, the gambit will not necessarily work.

I don't think anyone is in a position to know at present whether the Prime Minister's gambit will work.

However, the gambit hasn't always worked.

For a while, the movie was in the pre-production phase under the working title «Chess», which was ostensibly a reference to the game's sacrificial opening moves known as «gambits».

As Wallace, Segel soars, offering his most personal and affecting work yet and Eisenberg (who's perfected the fiercely intelligent but emotionally - guarded social outcast gambit) proves an able fulcrum for Segel's Wallace to pound ideas from.

The gambit doesn't work, however, since Funny Games is so obviously art - with - a-capital-A.

Many of the gambits employed by directors Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2) and Chris Buck (Tarzan) work, including the naturalistic voice acting and the clever mockumentary touches, like fake archival footage with film scratches and washed - out color.

With a fellow Democrat in Miller raising even more questions about the waiver gambit — especially after giving the Obama administration cover over questions about the legality of the entire process — Duncan will likely have to call up chief school officers of waiver states to work out these issues.

It may not yet be too late for reformers to push against the Obama Administration's waiver gambit — and reverse the damage that it has wrought.

Few senators seem concerned with the fact that the administration's gambit takes away real data on school performance (making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and making it more difficult for researchers to do their work), and lets states and mediocre districts off the hook for poorly educating black, Latino, Native and poor white and Asian kids in their care.

Model lines and trim levels run the gambit from economic W / T (Work Truck) packages that feature a fuel efficient V6 engine to «Cowboy - Cadillacs» that demand respect with plush interiors and high - powered engines.

The styling gambit apparently has worked.

This might be shocking to some purists, but the gambit seems to be working.

Which means that the tried and true gambit most indies have been using, which is selling based on price, at.99 or $ 2.99 or $ 3.99 or $ 4.99, likely won't work particularly well anymore.

You see, in the standard «blow - job masquerading as interview» gambit, it's generally enough to hope the reader will just assume the interviewer and interviewee are working at arms - length.

That works for a time, but the gambit comes to an end when the solvency of these quasi-public, quasi-private entities becomes threatened.

In this scenario, I don't think the gambit will work; we will likely end up with a higher rate of price inflation.

Ian Simpson's Chess Blog About - Insights into Romantic - style gambit systems aimed at quick development and working up attacking chances early in the game - particularly aimed at club level, for whom these lines can be a lot of fun..

The marketing gambit apparently works because high demand for the card depleted the issuer's initial supply of metal cards, forcing them to send out temporary plastic ones to new cardholders.

GAMBIT's game lab provides a place for students, academics and industry professionals to work together to develop games that both expand the boundaries of what is done in games while still keeping a close eye on whether the games are financially feasible and, perhaps more importantly, are fun to play.

GAMBIT is proud to present the Looking Glass Studios Interview Series, an audio podcast series in which we chat with various people who worked for the legendary developer (famous for groundbreaking franchises like Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Thief) before it tragically closed its doors in 2000.

Not wanting to keep the love to ourselves, the Singapore - MIT GAMBIT Game Lab has reached out to our friends in the area to help put together an evening featuring local game companies and their work.

«It's a gambit that works.

That giveaway is a gambit that may not work out well for Sony, as Driveclub doesn't strongly earn the upgrade.

Gambits will allow you to set your party up the way you want it to work as was the case in Final Fantasy XII.

This past fall the Brazilian - born, New York — based artist Karin Schneider baked a related conceptual gambit into the black, Ad Reinhardt — esque paintings that she showed at Dominique Lévy gallery, stating that collectors who acquired her work have to be willing to let another artist revisit them at some point in the future and add to it.

This two - gallery extravaganza at Sperone Westwater and Lesley Heller Workspace, both on the Lower East Side, takes up the tricky gambit (according to its press release) of featuring «artists whose work involves a methodical and controlled process of creating seemingly freeform or random daubs and spots.»