Sentences with phrase «go along the lines of»

I vaguely recall hearing a political quote when I was a kid that went along the lines of, «When the government is falling, it's the Opposition's job to get out of the way.»

If you go along those lines of thought you have to deal with the serpent.

I hardly doubt the conversation went along the lines of «Petr, you're the final piece of the puzzle, you would bring everything the club needs to win the champions league.»

A pretty standard comment on Twitter would go along the lines of: «Liverpool have not won a title for too long, for Klopp and FSG it is now or never!»

The officer did apologize, but «her apology went along the lines of, «I was offended, other people were offended, if you wanted to breastfeed you could have done it in the bathroom or stayed home»,» according to Mizzell.

Nervously we listened to the message, which went along the lines of: «Thank you for calling the office of [name], MP for [constituency].

The thinking goes along the lines of: «Only when I have found...

The thinking goes along the lines of: «Only when I have found «the one» will I be truly happy and fulfilled.»

John Brookfield is one example and a few other people have done things that go along the lines of this: 1,000 reps of push presses or 1,000 snatches or 2,000 swings and the ability to do other heavy exercises at the same time, but if you approach both capacities together, it is possible to have them at the same time.

But, as anyone who's ever tried this knows, you're quite likely to be taking telephone calls that go along the lines of «this one seems perfect for you in every way, it just isn't by the waterside».

Some of the common objectives of interracial dating raised by parents go along the lines of: people will look at you differently; I don't understand that race; your children could be treated differently, and so on.

They had initially intended for it to go along the lines of the many grown up films starring kids such as Mr. Mom and Kindergarten Cop.

At least in some cases, and especially in the instance of Sir Dan Moynihan of Harris - with its unblemished record of good or outstanding Ofsted reports and its at - face - value impressive performance in league tables - the argument can go along the lines of «they're worth it».

It goes along this line of thinking, and I'm guessing it applies to you: if you work your ass off, put in tons of time, energy, creativity, even money on writing and promotion, and yet your work doesn't get the kind of rewards you expect (let's say financial for simplicity's sake), either because that's life or because your publisher doesn't recognize the effort or your publisher drops the ball (it happens)... And in another area / format, etc., you work your ass off, put in the time, etc., and it DOES succeed in the way you expect or in a way that seems to be equivalent to the time and work you put into it, then it makes sense that THAT is where you should continue to put your time, energy, money, etc..

The general criticism leveled against bloggers went along the lines of, «How dare these amateurs fancy themselves as writers.»

There are numerous complaints against the broker, going along the lines of «I deposited a small amount, then got a call to deposit more with a promise of big gains.

aaaand we're back to the space shooting genre, going along the lines of its just - as - famous predecessor, Space Invaders.

I'm sure a previous Activision meeting went along the lines of «Why include a campaign which takes up a considerable portion of the budget and development time, when you can include a new hyped game mode which has the potential to generate huge amounts through micro-transactions».

There's an adage that goes along the lines of «show, don't tell» and while it's applied more often to films, it's still quite relevant to video games.

The challenges go along the lines of: Can they talk, write, invent technology.

The «admiration» expressed by the guru character goes along the lines of «if we want to fight them properly, we need to learn from them so that we can wallop the bejasus out of them asap» It's a deeply, deeply, nasty piece of writing — but an interesting cultural artefact for all that.

To have a correct third equation they should have gone along the lines of Pat Cassen.

The support to the Guardian in this thread go along the line of «there are some minor things wrong, but they're not scientists and it is a difficult task».

The deep oceans have by far the greatest carbon reservoir, so a «plausibility argument» could go along the lines of: the upper ocean will absorb extra CO2 and then pass it to the deep ocean.

Most conversations go along the lines of:

It was meant to be a surprise that went along the lines of one of those HGTV beat - the - clock makeovers.

It went along the lines of: «Ha!

Not exact matches

It's useful to do some more framing before launching into questions (something along the lines of, «I'm going to ask you a few questions so that I can try and help you find what you're most interested in, if that's alright?»).

Opinion differs on whether Research In Motion, based in Waterloo, Ont., can buffer its bottom line by establishing a significant beachhead in the increasingly lucrative tablet market to go along with its ever - growing smartphone sales, or whether it should close up shop and get out of the game while it still can.

Think along the lines of princess lessons that Mia went through in The Princess Diaries.

Speaking of, while we were in Shanghai at the Huawei Connect event, Huawei released a new line of «nova» smartphones at an event in Berlin, to go along with their world - class P9 phone and the recently announced Honor 8.

Along those lines, Smith and Microsoft's EVP of Artificial Intelligence, Harry Shum, are circulating a new book that, among other things, explores the demands that AI is going to create for new skills and job retraining.

If you're going to use the Request Recommendations option, I recommend sending personal invitations to one person at a time something along the lines of this:

I think a useful system along these lines would go a long way towards de-emphasizing the importance of «vanity journals» like Nature and Science.

I can't remember exactly but he was saying something along the lines that he only chooses to work with people who have the potential to create a huge impact and then went on to cite the work of Paul Tudor Jones and his Robin Hood Foundation.

The managing director, having seen this sort of thing before during the 1960's go - go era, calmly responded along the lines of, «You hire us for our advice.

Currently, claims along the lines of «data in, perform analysis, information out» are generally going to be difficult to obtain in the U.S. in the face of an eligibility rejection.

«There's just a lot of killing going on along sectarian and religious lines,» said Daniel Benjamin, coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department from 2009 to 2012.

I feel like I see something along these lines a couple of times every year, not necessarily satanist but someone challenging religion imbedded in Government in a headline grabbing way, and it rarely goes anywhere.

Of course, aging Jesus Freaks and Episcopalians alike are all about that brevity thing, so they happily go along with «the Dude abides,» another classic line from the film.

Beyond that, there were those who went along on apostolic journeys to experience the life of a spiritual soldier on the front lines as part of their training as well.

She said something along the lines that since Jesus died for all of her sins, and she has believed in Him, she gets to go to heaven when she dies.

Ok, to go along with this incredibly fallacious line of thinking, how come, as the rest of the world embraces evolution, they have also surpassed us education of just about every discipline.

The Martin / Zimmerman verdict, which saw strong divisions of opinion mainly along racial lines, was perhaps the best example of why King's conversation about race still has a long way to go.

Thus it goes beyond the realm of nature (typically understood along Newtonian lines) in search of a place to situate human freedom.

Whitehead is seeing that if you are having a radical view, starting from events and flying to get space - time, with his insistence on sense - awareness and durations for the strong notion of an event, this is going to affect everything all along the line.

I ran across a thought along these same lines this morning as we stand upon the threshold of a new season: «The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.»

If voters come to like Mitt along those lines, then they won't, of course, be buying it when the MSM says there that cold and classless ruthless downsizer goes again.

1) going along that line, it's interesting that the authors even knew the lineage of Mary or Joseph and they also make it a point to include that jesus has a royal bloodline (presumably to hammer home that Jesus fulfills the prophecies) and the second part is that the messiah is said to be born in Bethlehem (which is widely accepted that jesus was) and Bethlehem is Josephs (not mary's) fathers land, but they do end up living in Nazareth, so it makes you wonder a couple of things, why take a very pregnant mary to Bethlehem to have her son?

The Leviticus rules read more like war propaganda — they're presented in the context of god telling the Israelites a story along the lines of «It's ok to go invade people's lands, and kill and enslave them, because they're all a bunch of qu - eers who sleep with their own sisters anyway.»