Sentences with phrase «hands of an amateur»

Giving it in the hands of an amateur might lead to serious consequences.

In the hands of amateurs, the difference is negligible.

I considered an electric shock collar but worried that in the hands of an amateur... it might do more harm than good.

[In March 1997, Sony launched the Net Yaroze project, which put the power of the original PlayStation in the hands of amateur developers.

The bottom line is your resume is too important of a document to leave in the hands of an amateur or to use resume books to copy lines that do not accurately reflect who you are and what you have to offer.

In past columns I have quoted Pip Holmes, a legendary Canadian Realtor, who, in 1986, admonished licensees: «So much of what is done today in our business is, because of technology, in the hands of amateurs.

Thirty years ago, «Pip» Holmes, iconic Canadian Realtor, past - president of everything including the world organization of FIABCI, said: «So much of what is done today in our business is, because of technology, in the hands of amateurs.

If an old Roman isn't relevant to you, then consider former FIABCI president Pip Holmes, who said, «So much of what is done today in our business is, because of technology, in the hands of amateurs.

«In today's marketplace, technology allows the real estate business to be in the hands of amateurs.

Not exact matches

To deal with these wobbly videos, Facebook built a new algorithm that Kopf said can automatically improve amateur videos by removing some of the unwanted unsteadiness that is typical when non-professionals film using a camera in their untrained hands.

It has long been clear from apparatus like miniature and 8 mm cine cameras, as well as the tape recorder, which are in actual fact already in the hands of the masses, that the individual, so long as he remains isolated, can become with their help at best an amateur but not a producer.

Inevitably, part of the credit for Buchan's triumph must go to his father, an amateur boat builder and designer with as large and tough a pair of hands as ever handled a spinnaker.

Merrins also remembers May's hitting his second shot into the water on the par - 5 17th at Cherry Hills in the quarterfinals of the 1990 U.S. Amateur, handing the match to eventual champion Phil Mickelson.

Gazidis is a hack... he will never get another substantive job in this sport unless Kroenke is the owner... enough of dealing with the amateurs, anybody who believes that this man has any real say in the day - to - day operations of Arsene Inc. hasn't followed this club very closely... in fact I used to empathize with him; who would come out and make some of the statements he has, especially regarding our financial capabilities, unless he was instructed to do so under false pretenses... let's face it, if that wasn't the case, he would have been thrown to the wolves long ago... on the other hand, if he did know and public deception was well within his job description, he's truly a piece of shit

In the minds of much of the cricket establishment, though, a pro is what he always has been, just a hired hand recruited to stiffen gentlemanly, amateur sides.

Urena is a [frantically googles] right - handed... starter, who, uh... [still googling] was acquired in 2008 as an amateur free agent and... [moving on to Bing]... was strangely effective last year, with a 14 - 7 record despite a 5.20 FIP and one of the lower strikeout rates among qualifying starters?

During this hands - on, 2 1/2 - hour session, you'll earn amateur brewmaster status as you mill, mash, sparge, boil, cool, pitch, ferment and package your way to hand - crafted beer greatness with the expertise of a Calgary brewery.

Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Eric Hand reported that «[a] group of crowd - funded amateurs, students, and NASA retirees are on the cusp of resurrecting — and possibly taking control of — a disused NASA spacecraft that has been coasting around the solar system since the days of disco.»

The ingenious device he employed for measuring G, called a torsion balance, had been built by the clergyman and amateur naturalist John Michell and was invented simultaneously by the French electrical pioneer Charles Coulomb, but in Cavendish's skillful hands it revolutionized the science of precision measurements.

Rich Lohman, an educator, amateur astronomer with Hands - On Universe, and founder of Over-The-Hill Observatory in Woodacre, California; and,

Star parties feature science presentations along with an array of fun and interesting activities, such as WorldWide Telescope, hands - on activities related to light and color, visits to a portable planetarium, and night sky viewing opportunities provided via amateur telescopes and the Maryland Space Grant Observatory.

As I was telling my friend who is an artist why I stopped blogging, she simply held up her hand and said, «Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.»

A black gospel choir, led enthusiastically by amateur white gospel singer Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), raucously hand - claps and rocks to the rhythm of the lively spiritual «Yes I Do.»

There aren't so much characters as there are factions of men, soldiers and British amateurs looking to lend a hand.

In amateur hands, «American Made» would be a mixed bag, but Cruise and Director Doug Liman, who previously worked on «Edge of Tomorrow,» combine for infectious manic energy.

Based on the incredible true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), and his attempt to win the first single - handed...

There was excitement in the air at nearly every turn of the minute hand as true professionals and admitted amateurs vied for the checkered flags.

The SRT - tuned Caliber has the unsophisticated feel of something amateurs created under a tree with hand tools.

My avatar is in support of keeping guns off the UH campus — where they do not belong in the hands of untrained amateurs who want to arm themselves against imaginary dangers.

Shun the amateurs — we've seen enough degradation at the hands of their shortcomings.

In a game of poker, a lucky amateur may beat a pro in a few hands but the pros edge would become clear as they played more hands... only a small percentage of investors possess enough skill to offset fees.

One of the volunteers, The Changeling, is a strange girl who believes she can heal with her hands, and the other, The Haruspex, is a talented amateur who's fond of experimental surgery.

It completely and utterly fascinates me and inspires me to travel, taking snaps with my own amateur hand and trying to capture the feelings and moments of the people I come across.

These included Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's «Two Planets series,» in which members of Thai villages discuss several well - known European paintings; Barry X Ball's seductive computer - and hand - modeled heads; and Eija - Liisa Ahtila's stunning three - screen video projection, The Annunciation, which retells the biblical story using professional actors and amateurs from a center for social services.

Amateur photography and video using hand - held devices is allowed in the Blanton Museum of Art unless otherwise indicated by museum staff or signs.

Allen Gilchrist, a local amateur astronomer, will be on hand with others pointing out objects of interest in the night sky and helping visitors use the telescopes that will be available.

Once associated with young women and amateur «Sunday painters,» the medium became, in the hands of Winslow Homer and John Marin, a theater for radical experimentation.

Wonderfully off - hand and slovenly in a way that brings to mind doilies and contorted cigar cleaners as much as amateur pottery, the piece owes something to the imposing clusters of vases and pitchers for which Mr. Lord was first known but has its own raucous D.I.Y. energy, and an air of inclusiveness that this show, ambitious as it is, might have taken a little more to heart.

Intended to mirror a scene created by amateurs during the opening hours of some terrible cataclysm, the scene appears like the work of a group of crazed convenience store workers who, faced with impending catastrophe, have taken whatever materials were close at hand and erected a slapdash religious altar.

And on the other hand we have a growing band of so - called amateur scientists, who have firstly taken it upon themselves to challenge this consensus, and secondly learn, or claim they have learnt, about climate science in order to try to acquire some credentials.

Although this particular Seattle - area boating accident was still under investigation at press time, all too often it happens that Washington's lakes, rivers, beaches and riding trails are the destinations for crowds of amateur boaters, bikers and other operators of recreational equipment that can quickly turn from «weekend toys» into deadly weapons in the wrong hands...

Matthew Evans, partner at Hugh James, says: «Amateur executors may not want the money of the deceased to go outside of their immediate family and so take matters in their own hands distributing the assets as they see fit, even if that means they are acting contrary to their responsibilities as a legal executor.

Definition of «prize fight» (2) In this section, «prize fight» means an encounter or fight with fists or hands between two persons who have met for that purpose by previous arrangement made by or for them, but a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass, or any boxing contest held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province, shall be deemed not to be a prize fight.

What kind of distorted signal are amateurs receiving when the mother ship announces to the world that everyone on that ship is a bona - fide professional, that all hands on deck are equal in acquired institutional education, knowledge, a sense of ethics and morality (the two are not one and the same) and an inherent sense of altruism (and experience... seriously?)