Sentences with phrase «good roll of the dice»

As a reader, buying a book based on a blurb or «recommendations» is at best a roll of the dice.

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His willingness to start over, and consistently roll the dice for something bigger and better, is one of the reasons Apple's products are so successful.

Add 4 ounces of cream cheese into a bowl, dice 4 ounces of smoked salmon, which is about 2 slices (the easiest way to dice up smoked salmon is to roll up each slice like a cigar, cut it right down the middle and then thinly slice it), then add the diced smoked salmon to the bowl with the cream cheese, next add 1/2 teaspoon of dried dill, 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder, season with freshly cracked black pepper and mix everything together until well mixed, cover with seran wrap and add to the fridge for at least 15 minutes

INGREDIENTS for the panna cotta: 4 cups of rhubarb (5 - 8 stalks depending on how big they are), green tops discarded, red - ish parts diced 1/2 cup of granulated coconut sugar (maple syrup works as well if you prefer) 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt 1 vanilla bean, scraped (or 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract) 14oz can of full fat coconut milk 2 tablespoons of agar flakes for the strawberry coconut crunch: 3/4 cup of frozen strawberries 1 teaspoon of vanilla 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt 2 tablespoons of maple syrup 2 tablespoons of brown rice syrup 1 cup of thick coconut flakes 1/2 cup of rolled oats garnish: several mint leaves (chopped or whole)

I'm not saying wait till the fourth round to pick a QB, I'm just saying top of the first round is the same roll of the dice as a good prospect that slips.

You don't have to roll the dice using one of your best corners on a TE; you don't have to keep big slow guys on your DB squad, just for TEs; and you don't have to worry about trying to cover a TE with a slower, smaller linebacker.

If drafting is a tangible skill instead of just rolling the dice, then he gets credit for good and bad picks.

with this situation, which is undoubtedly Wenger created, the waters are so muddy now I'm not sure things can return to normal... no matter what is said through official club channels, this is clearly their fault... when they rolled the dice with the whole Sanchez negative media spin to protect Wenger, when he didn't start Sanchez against Liverpool last season, (how ironic) they sunk to a new low... it's become too easy to deceive, just think of all the manufactured lies that have come from the mouths of Wenger and Gazidis since we've arrived at the Emirates... the only reason we allowed them to happen for so long is that we hoped it would eventually lead to something of some consequence and all would be forgiven... well I don't forgive them and I certainly won't forget anytime soon... the worst part is the lies are oftentimes so juvenile that you can only conclude that the club must think that we're a bunch of intellectually challenged 10 year olds....

They do nt have the money of a sugar daddy but Banks are behinf them, its a Rolling dice: buy the best player, sell the shirts, sell tickets, huge fan base around the world, in one week they recover and pay interest and then earn from everything else.

Following all this, there are claims that Bale, who became Wales» top scorer recently, has distanced himself from the rest of his squad and this could well turn out to be the final roll of the dice.

Research suggests that mothers often do better with subsequent babies, but not all mothers wish to wait passively on the roll of the dice.

The problem with all of those alternative methods is that they are better than flipping a coin or rolling dice — but not as good as a cervical check.

The chance of a double six with a good pair of dice is one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, you need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

However, in her review for Variety, Jessica Kiang writes, «Treat Me Like Fire is an engrossing and compelling tale about the dice - roll of female transformation, as well as a sexy little torch song for Paris by night, and for the men who make us into the women we are.

Two years after «Think Like a Man» introduced us to four couples, Story and his cast — which includes Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, and Meagan Good — are back for another roll of the dice in the game of love, this time with a romp through Las Vegas.

The idea of squashing people with a big dice roll or going small through pipes or playing item games were not executed well.

Charter schools are not the answer, but for those of us last - in - line for delivery of great neighborhood schools, maybe we have a better chance, rolling our own dice rather than playing in a game historically fixed against us.

During each turn, students have up to three rolls to try and achieve the best possible set of dice.

Small press publishers have better terms, but there you are rolling the dice, with a growing chance they will go out of business and leave your books in limbo.

While Note Everything has the capacity for supporting Paint Notes, and initial ink entry works well, storing and recalling the artifact is a roll of the dice.

With their retirement savings already badly depleted by the rocky, erratic performance of stocks on Wall Street, these returning students opted to go into debt, essentially rolling the dice for a better future.

Rolling the dice a little more in terms of accepting the idea I'm investing in something that is facing a lot of competition might work well over a diversified portfolio.

Anecdotally, as senior management once told us — earnings visibility is very good for one quarter, not so good for two quarters and beyond that, it is just a roll of the dice.

Every additional matching number scores a bonus point as well, so with the basic six dice the maximum amount of points you could theoretically get in a single roll is six, although I've never seen that actually happen and if it somehow did I would probably burn the person who did it for witchcraft.

Interestingly what is available at all three locations is determined by dice at the start of the game, thus you may roll an apprentice and a manager for the tavern, while the bank might be offering four and six coins on its two dice and Daalgard could be willing to teach a new escapist trick as well as one of your choice, as indicated by a question mark, although a magician can always learn a trick from their own school of magic regardless of dice rolls.

In addition, the HD Rumble in the Joy - Con is supposed to do a better job than past Monopoly games of simulating the feeling of rolling dice.

It's a challenging experience, but not in the chaotic way of the earlier, purely tactical XCOM games, where your best - laid plans could fall apart if the dice rolls didn't come down in your favor.

The idea of squashing people with a big dice roll or going small through pipes or playing item games were not executed well.

If your success does amount to a roll of the dice, you're better off, statistically, rolling as many dice as you can.

We took out a terrorist training camp in Libya with a recoilless rifle mounted on a pickup truck, a bunch of grenades attached to doors (the two sneakiest people set them up beforehand), a couple of machine guns, and a lot of luck (good dice rolls for us, bad dice rolls for the terrorists).

But is a science paper the best place to «not» use scientific language, or maybe it's okay in science papers to be scientific and then to have folks such as yourself, talking to a non scientific audience, explain what it means using relatable percentages, such as the «roll of the dice» analogy (which really isn't that bad because it is relatable).

Get some dice, write down what you're going to roll, then roll the dice, or a deck of cards shuffle well, write what the top card is, then turn it over.

If you're going to throw the dice and gamble monies on the recovery of text messages, hiring an expert will give you the best odds of rolling a seven.

At the risk of oversimplifying things, however, you should think long and hard if you're inclined to roll the dice and hope for the best.

On it, you can see how many resources you have, as well as icons for rolling dice, building houses or roads and, of course, trading, which is the heart and soul of any Catan game.