Sentences with phrase «had a crack at working»

I still loved working with all my friends there but I'd always fancied having a crack at working in the US and and the Big Huge Games opportunity presented itself and I thought it was worth taking a chance.

Not exact matches

Students are generally short of money and have no lack of other demands on their time (though, let's be honest, plenty of college kids aren't exactly getting up at the crack of dawn to hit the books or spending every waking hour working).

Trump and Sessions have also pledged to crack down on «sanctuary cities» — typically localities that limit how local authorities can work with federal immigration agents — as a way of getting at drug traffickers and gangs.

Clear works on only one device at a time: Obtaining one phone's PIN would not give the authorities the means to crack anyone else's phone.

So I was determined to have a crack at saying, «I think this is how the whole story works, and this is the crucial thing in the middle: the cross.»

I woke at the crack o» dawn this morning to work on all the recipes I promised to share and wouldn't you know it... the dropbox «thingy» (don't roll your eyes at me) didn't work right and my one hundred and something holiday baking photos didn't upload to my computer.

In fact, I've gotten food to work as a holiday gift in the past, so maybe I'll just take a crack at gifting some holiday sweetness this year.

If you can't find tostadas at your grocery, cracked taco shells would work well too.

and with the latest stories coming from the training ground, He is either going to crack and step down from his managerial duties at the club or he will start being more ruthless and aggressive with the team, Hopefully the rollicking he gave them demanding more passion and desire will have hit home and it will inspire our players to respond in a positive way, Wenger is not known for showing his anger at the players, So if this rollicking doesn't work!

Meanwhile, the exciting Bernardo Silva will have spent a year working with Pep Guardiola, though at the time of writing he hasn't cracked the Manchester City first team.

We have already looked at Amazing Astronomy and Cracking Chemistry from QED, today we are looking at «Why it works, Electricity «and «Inventions in Science and Technology `.

At 8 weeks I was just getting over the cracked - nipple - of - doom, if I had had to go to work there would have been no way I could have kept up with breastfeeding.

Neither one had ever even heard of a lactation consultant and no one at the hospital had mentioned breastfeeding at all, so the two young people just kept working through the cracked, bleeding nipples, engorgement, over-supply, and other issues until they got it figured out ~ and then they were breastfeeders!

And then those little ones wake us up at the crack of dawn or we have to go to work after not having any sleep the night before.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.»

It's not yet clear how badly the prime minister is going to be damaged by the news, but we've had a crack at working it out.

The damning report could not come at a worse time for Duncan Smith, who has recently lost a legal appeal on his back - to - work programme and been accused of misusing statistics to paper over the cracks in his policy agenda.

People waking up at the crack of dawn to check for a text to let them know if they've been given any hours, standing at the side of the road to see if the work van stops to pick them up, care workers not paid between calls or people told to work shifts at the drop of a hat, or it will be their last.

Cockfield is being brought on to do big picture communications work at a time when that sort of thing has fallen through the cracks for the Senate Democrats.

, in which 19 young scientists had a crack — often a first crack — at popularising their work for a wider audience.

At first, Hell said, other scientists couldn't believe his new approach had cracked a problem that had vexed researchers since Abbe's work in 1873.

Ever since NASA's two Voyager spacecraft snapped the first photos of icy cracks crisscrossing Jupiter's moon Europa in 1979, astronomers have speculated that tectonic forces could be at work.

A team led by Mónica Bettencourt - Dias at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC; Portugal) have cracked this mystery, shedding light upon a critical mechanism whose deregulation leads to infertility, and that is important for the working of other cell types.

«We see places where very clearly the ice has cracked,» says John Spencer, an astronomer working at the Southwest Research Institute's Department of Space Studies in Boulder, Colo. «And the two sides have spread apart, and material has come up frozen in the middle, to fill the gap.»

But as a notorious sleep procrastinator and night owl dealing with racing thoughts at bedtime, I've had to work hard at cracking the sleep code.

I loathed getting up before work at a time that felt unnatural, and to add insult to injury, my gym is a little too close to take a cab, so I had to walk all the way there and back at the crack of dawn.

My hands get so dried out and crack with all of the hand washing I have to do at work.

It's been a busy one here at Boho HQ, I took Monday off work, so I've been playing catch up all week, so I'm looking forward to a full week in the office next week and cracking on with some of those must do jobs!

With his horrendous turns in The Replacements and The Watcher also up for grabs, I can only say that these anti-Oscars would be more clever and thought - provoking if they quit aiming their guns at sitting hams (witness George C. Scott's Raspberry for his outstanding work in The Exorcist III); they long ago became the spoof - awards equivalent of a male comedian cracking wise about his mother - in - law.

Quentin Tarantino's first crack at making a Western may have resulted in the slightly disappointing «Django Unchained,» but his second attempt is a much - improved genre piece that represents his most accomplished work behind the camera to date.

Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) has a quirky enough personal life (she faces married life and the death of Kitty this season, not to mention a problem niece — played by Sedgwick's real - life daughter, Sosie Bacon — who overstays her welcome) but what makes the show so good is her loyalty and leadership and the chemistry of her team, a squad we have watched mature into a crack unit of detectives each working at the top of their game.

Going into Wang Bing's latest documentary, Mrs. Fang, I was too busy cracking jokes about how much shorter it is than his previous works (his breakthrough film, Tie xi qu: West of the Tracks, clocks in at nine hours; his recent masterpiece»Til Madness Do Us Part comes in at close to four) and had somehow failed to realize I'd be watching almost an hour and a half of a woman lying on her deathbed.

Matthew Michael Carnahan had first crack at the adaptation, after his work on two very intriguing political scripts for The Kingdom and Lions for Lambs.

Countless works of literature have taken a crack at finding an answer, and just about every pop song ever written dwells on the topic, or at least fusses around the borders of the question.

Since the announcement of P.T. (Playable Teaser) from Gamescom, gamers have been hard at work cracking all the...

But that hasn't been working out at all because he's a washed - up boxer with a crack pipe dream of mounting a comeback, despite a bad drug habit and regular run - ins with the law.

The movie was shot in the middle of the year with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) working hard to have it ready for a December release date and a crack at awards season.

The VW had less than 50 miles transmission stopped working due to coffee spill, at 50k Thermostat stuck closed, then Coil pack, cracked coolant tank, abs module, 3 faulty engine coolant sensor, complete lower and upper suspension, vacuum hose leak, starter, bad ground cable, driver window fell off the rail, AC stopped working, heater core clogged, hood cable broke, moon roof slides open on it's own, motor / transmission mounts, front snub mounts, 3 cracked oil pan for being to close to ground, driver window switch, rear light housing, + usual maintenance.

My daughter works at the local Humane Society where someone had dropped off an older dog (about 15), who grew up in a crack house, named Shake»n Bake.

Housemarque had a crack at this with Super Stardust HD for the PS3, and it worked.

Varejão is so prepared to back up her work that she has photocopies in her hands of some of the most important books and images that stood out to her while researching a culture and an ethnicity that at first seemed foreign: photos of Hopi women wearing a hairstyle of whorls, drawings of Mimbres's burial rituals, images of her own previous series where cracked paintings looked to make ties with 11th century Chinese Song dynasty ceramics, and American Indian portraits by George Caitlin were only a few of the many pages that she held and showed me during our time together.

«We think it's really important to open things up and give museums a chance to have a crack at acquiring these works — they need to be enjoyed and shown.»

At that time there was no formal means for children to have a voice at the summit, so we'd slipped in between the cracks, worked hard and used any contacts we had to get five minutes at the plenarAt that time there was no formal means for children to have a voice at the summit, so we'd slipped in between the cracks, worked hard and used any contacts we had to get five minutes at the plenarat the summit, so we'd slipped in between the cracks, worked hard and used any contacts we had to get five minutes at the plenarat the plenary.

The rigors of working at a white - shoe law firm such as White & Case might drive some young lawyers towards the edge, but one former associate has ended up as the poster child of Cracked.

In the Bitcoin news today — Venezuelan authorities are cracking down on Bitcoin mining facilities and are focused on «weakening» these mining operations within the region; Ethereum at a crossroad as corporate interest grows; Last week at the World Economic Forum 2017 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the technology firm Bitfury announced the formation of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC); Cryptoseed Adds Security to Your Bitcoin Recovery Seed; Paxful has unleashed their new «Bitcoin Kiosk» widget allowing anyone to buy bitcoin in 300 different ways; A working group within the US central bank believes digital currencies and distributed ledgers could come to have a significant impact on how its citizens and businesses conduct payments — 60 page report.

Our listing agents, because they've worked so hard to take the listing, get first crack at the lead that comes in.

Oh my goodness you are cracking me up because I have always longed for a white mantel, well a mantel at all would have worked for me too.