Sentences with phrase «hand of cards in»

We are all dealt a hand of cards in life that we must manage to the best of our ability.

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Financial products such as mortgages and credit cards are increasingly complex, and employers are putting more choices of retirement funding and health - care options in the hands of employees.

Being a private company has certainly helped Cirque establish control over the Vegas market, by putting all the cards in the hands of Guy Laliberté.

In the credit card world, tokenization means taking credit card account numbers out of merchants» hands, replacing them with strings of characters — essentially, digital tokens — that would, theoretically, be useless if stolen by criminals.

Players who continue to bet and stay in the hand, with the hope of the fifth card magically bringing a victory, are said to be «chasing the river.»

Remember your last cab ride - at the end of a cab ride, the cabbie tells you the fare, and you hand him a credit card — and then, of course, he asks you to pay in cash.

«There's some suggestion that we have all of the cards in our hands,» said Richard Olson, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan.

About the size of a pack of index cards, Aura fits easily in a shirt pocket or purse and connects via Bluetooth to a cell phone or laptop for hands - free calling.

While some people love cash because it's emotionally harder to part with than it is to hand over a card, in the grand scheme of things, credit and debit are usually better options.

Cards, on the other hand, now account for around two - thirds of all non-cash payments and the use of debit cards, in particular, has grown very stroCards, on the other hand, now account for around two - thirds of all non-cash payments and the use of debit cards, in particular, has grown very strocards, in particular, has grown very strongly.

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«We're not even one - third of the way through this year and we've already seen Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify on Capitol Hill regarding Cambridge Analytica getting their hands on 87 million Facebook users» private data, in addition to 800,000 payment cards getting breached via travel website Orbitz, and 5 million customers of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor having their credit or debit card data stolen.And for good measure, news reports continue to surface regarding Russia's meddling in U.S....

On the other hand, Capital One told ETHNews that it «has started declining credit card transactions to purchase cryptocurrency due to the limited mainstream acceptance and the elevated risks of fraud, loss, and volatility inherent in the cryptocurrency market.»

If on the play of the ace and king, your right - hand opponent plays two interesting cards (ten - nine, jack - nine or jack - ten) the odds in favor of finessing the eight are about three to one.

The majority of chip cards in the hands of cardholders today have come from larger issuers auch as Bank of America and Chase, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

If you've got a $ 5,000 balance at a rate of 15 % and you're just making a $ 100 minimum payment each month, you'll hand out nearly $ 3,000 in interest to the credit card company once it's all said and done.

In my entire career, none of these sophisticated institutional clients has ever handed me a business card with the title «Noneconomic Buyer.»

As in blackjack, when the bulk of the face cards have been played, the odds of «winning» with successive hands decreases.

As we look back over the last few decades, it is clear that the foreign sector and the mutual fund complex have played the bulk of the face cards in their hands.

In Walmart yesterday, there were farmers in their beat up hats and old boots, clustered in front of that rack of Hallmark cards, their worn hands thumbing through the glossy hearts, looking for a string of words that spoke their own hearts of few wordIn Walmart yesterday, there were farmers in their beat up hats and old boots, clustered in front of that rack of Hallmark cards, their worn hands thumbing through the glossy hearts, looking for a string of words that spoke their own hearts of few wordin their beat up hats and old boots, clustered in front of that rack of Hallmark cards, their worn hands thumbing through the glossy hearts, looking for a string of words that spoke their own hearts of few wordin front of that rack of Hallmark cards, their worn hands thumbing through the glossy hearts, looking for a string of words that spoke their own hearts of few words.

We know that we are in a safe pair of biographical hands when Lindop juxtaposes some of Williams's excruciating early poetry with that of his Aunty Alice, who earned an honest shilling or two composing rhymes for Christmas cards.

On the other hand whites often perceive these incidents as relatively less important, as isolated events that aren't necessarily related to larger societal issues, and / or the result of blacks engaging in «race - baiting» or «playing the race card.»

The bundle includes Fingerless Gloves from Azerbaijani Socks in Azerbaijan, Hot Cocoa Mix by Equal Exchange in Paraguay and Dominican Republic, Baby it's Cold Outside Note Cards, Set of 10 (proceeds go to Mercy House Maternity Home), and a hand knit Coffee Mug Cozy made by the Refugee Project in Houston

Equality of civil minded gay marriage is in the cards and their hand has here and nowadays been dealt a good hand!

The perfect judge would have to apply an infinitely complex law, so that each person under the law would be held to a standard that is individually tailored to his situation: «Anyone who was born on May 23 at 2:53 p.m. at 1128 Main St. and whose first sight was of a quite pretty nurse named Amy whose hands were slightly cold...» and so on, telling the exact story of your life in literally every detail, ``... any such person ought to have been able to control his temper upon discovering that the morning newspaper was wet from the rain, but could not be expected to remember to buy a card for his sister's sixteenth birthday.»

I've seen that first hand as I've celebrated with friends marking their first day of debt - free living, thanks in part to Ramsey's teachings and all those white envelopes of cash he urges his students to use instead of credit cards.

Modern televangelists and Evangelicals have invented Christianity 5.0, which consists of dialing a toll - free number with one hand while holding your Master Card in the other.

In the hands of some Protestants, «priesthood of believers» became an anti-ecclesial slogan, a «get out of church free» card.

«It's like putting millions of business cards in people's hands,» Asher says.

In what must have felt like a scene straight out of a Hollywood thriller, Guest Service Associate Justin LeVaughn and Guest Service Coordinator Shane Venhorst had a hand in nabbing credit card fraud suspects at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort earlier this montIn what must have felt like a scene straight out of a Hollywood thriller, Guest Service Associate Justin LeVaughn and Guest Service Coordinator Shane Venhorst had a hand in nabbing credit card fraud suspects at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort earlier this montin nabbing credit card fraud suspects at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort earlier this month.

A perfectly sweetened cup of tea, thoughtfully prepared lunch and dinner, homemade cards and hand - written poems, and moments of peace in the backyard while sipping on Prosecco.

Teams of baristas (in on - theme red and green aprons) will be traveling to «community celebrations, like tree lighting ceremonies, caroling, and events featuring local pillars, like volunteers, veterans, and teachers,» per Food & Wine, and handing out millions of dollars worth of $ 20 Starbucks gift cards.

For those nights when washing and chopping just aren't in the cards, I keep an assortment (broccoli, peas, corn) of organic frozen veggies on hand.

After several rounds of bidding, he bid a grand slam, expecting to find just the right cards in North's hand.

This hand is valued at 24 in support of any suit partner may bid; 19 in high cards plus 5 for the void.

Because he was not in favor of making the league too lively, Commissioner Charles refused to sanction the hiring of such obvious wild - card prospects as a trick - shot artist who could roll seven balls down the alley simultaneously or a California chimpanzee who bowled with both hands.

Anfield boss Brendan Rodgers has been told that should a club offer a fee in the region of # 50m then he will be handed the lion's share of these funds to invest in further strengthening his squad and as such the Northern Irish manager has started the process of putting out the «feelers» with exploratory talks on the cards.

The Cards still have the NFC West in hand at 9 - 2, but with the Falcons, Chiefs, Rams, Seahawks and 49ers on their slate to finish the year, they will need to get more out of their offense to avoid a slump at the absolute worst time of year.

We should also acknowledge his unique contribution to the field of protesting unjust yellow cards: first he holds his hand out in front of him, then, while stalking away from the referee and bellowing his disagreement to the unjust universe, he slashes it back over his head, as though he's removing an invisible wizard's hat.

Technically, the first wild card in the AL is also unclaimed, but that seems unlikely to change hands, as the Yankees are 2.5 games up on the Astros for it as of Thursday morning.

«Sitting here in this moment right now, it's kind of like everybody's got a poker hand and we haven't seen any cards,» Keselowski said.

On Wednesday, when the Gunners face Chelsea at the Emirates we will have another ref from Manchester in Anthony Taylor, who is thought to be a much more even - handed and careful whistle - blower, and we can happily say that Taylor has only been in charge of one Arsenal game this season in which we easily beat Bournemouth 3 - 0 and we got through the whole 90 minutes without sustaining even one yellow card.

Manchester United may have been handed a huge boost in their chase of striker Robert Lewandowski after his agent, Maik Barthel, admitted that an exit from Bayern Munich isn't off the cards, German publication Bild reports.

You are allowed to look at your cards and North's but cover the East and South hands to see whether you can equal the defense of Jan Barna, who, as West, brought off a brilliant coup that set the three - no - trump contract at the recent Canadian - American tournament in Montreal.

The American League East has been the Boardwalk - Park Place corner of the baseball world ever since the first wild cards were handed out, in 1995.

He showed him every sleight - of - hand and trick in his remarkable repertoire, and it was enough to win on every judge's card.

Since he could have at most one more minor - suit card and all the rest of his hand must be trumps, the only thing he needed to do was to avoid being overruffed in whichever minor suit he elected to play.

They have two games in hand and only a four - point gap to Liverpool in fourth, and there's the wild - card option of the Europa League.

Seattle was scheduled to play 39 of its final 48 games against wild - card contenders or division leaders, «so it's in our hands,» Piniella says.

And in both of the latter cases they had the game in their hands before it all went the way of the pear, like a man who falling victim to a violent sneeze just as the last card is placed onto the fragile, trembling pyramid.