Sentences with phrase «hours arguing over»

What's more, I have watched expensive, high - powered lawyers spend hours arguing over who gets a $ 100 vacuum cleaner.

Two, in particular, have spent the past 48 hours arguing over one question: should Pokémon move beyond Nintendo's handhelds and onto the company's fully fledged console?

It has taken three model overhauls, thousands of software tweaks, several trips to manufacturing facilities in China, and untold heated hours arguing over whether the perfect robo - pet should roll over, shake a paw or bark a song.

Unfortunately, it's not unusual for a committee to write a sentence that sounds great, only to spend an hour arguing over what it really means.

Not exact matches

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

They argued over the pros and cons for hours, in the end agreeing that call centers were the way to go.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who recently joined Trump's legal team and has been on a media blitz over the past 24 hours, argued that reports of a phone tap were bogus.

In a debate that lasted more than eight hours, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras argued that the commission is a requirement from the people who expect answers, and a way to eliminate any «revanchist» intentions for the «many question marks» that have arisen over the last five years.

And before the season was over, during a weekend, one of my ManU friend was ranting insults at Arsenal, that is when my nerves jumped to 6th gear and i argued for at least a couple of hours and insulting ManU and all other teams in turn.

Business groups and unions had strongly opposed liberalisation of opening hours in England and Wales, arguing that it would give large supermarkets such as Asda and Tesco a greater competitive edge over small retailers.

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani, who recently joined Trump's legal team and has been on a media blitz over the past 24 hours, argued that reports of a phone tap were bogus.

The press conference was held less than 24 hours after a top Cuomo administration counsel, Alphonso David, sharply criticized Vance's handling of the sexual assault allegations leveled against Harvey Weinstein as the administration and Manhattan DA's office argued over jurisdiction in the Schneiderman investigation.

As the editors write in this month's Scientific American, the ruling failed to define what «unreasonable» discrimination of Internet content is, leaving too much up for debate — «the only certainty it gives is of the tens of thousands of billable hours to be spent arguing over the meaning of «unreasonable» in federal court.»

How many voters in his corner could seriously argue their vote as anything other than an award for career achievement over the quality of his specific performance in Darkest Hour?

Aside from offering the uncensored version of the film in a 1.85:1 video transfer and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio track, the single - disc release includes a few hours of special features and hilarious interactive menus that show the duo arguing over the audience's failure to choose an option.

It could be argued that the ostensible neutrality actually shields 13 Hours from becoming the next hotly - contested political drama, a fate Eastwood's chronicling of the deadliest sniper in American history fell victim to last year — though shots of a topless (and completely ripped) John Krasinski, who plays experienced military man Jack Silva and the montages of substantially muscly men doing substantially muscly - man things like flipping over massive tires and knocking out pull - ups like it ain't no thang, does nothing but prop America up on a pedestal that the innocent Libyans pictured herein have nary a prayer of mounting themselves.

Many argue over exact time, from ten minutes to an hour.

When I called back frustrated after listening to the sound for over 4 hours on a drive back from Illinois, David in the service department accused me of arguing with him and was very confrontational.

I could argue all day over whether you should need hundreds of spare hours to unlock everything or if you should have to pay to get them instead, but that's neither here nor there.

The less there is to argue over, the less billable hours an attorney is going to rack up.

Class counsel argued the trial court stated it had seen the «thousands» of hours of time expended by class counsel over the many years the case has been pending and that it did not need time sheets to come to its conclusion in favor of the $ 124 million award.

She finally confronted him several weeks ago and they argued for over two hours with neither feeling heard or understood.