Sentences with phrase «in ridiculous numbers»

They sliced and diced it in a ridiculous number of ways to provide context to their passing numbers.

No longer can we partake in a ridiculous number of events, championships and the like that generally took over 50 hours to complete.

Not exact matches

As long as your offer is not ridiculous, the other side will continue the negotiations in hopes of settling at a better number.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Your being ridiculous for assuming my math is wrong when it is actually correct... In order for things to be correct like life itself the numbers have to be exact on point off and everything crumbles.

I would challenge not only the anecdotes in the story, which I don't think are anything but lies or half - truths at best, but also the numbers, because the resurrection and the rapture are two entirely different things — although they're both equally ridiculous notions to posit.

I have a ridiculous number of plums in my kitchen right now!

The number of times we got caught in possession today was ridiculous.

Wilshere is Arsenal number 10... He would not get into the top 6 sides in the league... That is how ridiculous the situation is.

Both sides have a ridiculous number of top players, but both also have plenty of talent off the pitch in the form of hot WAGs.

«He had a record number of passes in one game, 200 in one match, which is ridiculous.

With the ridiculous haul the Giants could make with Buffalo or Miami, either of those trades would be worth missing out on Chubb, Barkley, and Nelson (again if not taking a QB at 2) In fact, if the Giants are open, they might be able to move down twice, still pick top 12, and end up with an even more ridiculous number of picks.

Everyone knew that Schumacher was the number one driver at Ferrari, and that everything was done with the aim of making him champion, but what happened in Austria in 2002 was totally ridiculous.

Palermo pulled off similar s *** in the pastore deal... they overrated their own player... spoke about interest from number of clubs and ended up selling him at a HUGELY inflated price And paying 40mil euros for a young player who scored 17 goals in a league where even gervinho is considered a star is beyond ridiculous.

He had a record number of passes in one game, nearly 200 in one match, which is ridiculous.

Man United see that Welbeck isn't good enough yet Arsenal think he would help them win the league... Ridiculous!!!! Bergkamp, Rooney, Lampard in his days... all the following can score over 15 goals per season and still get a good number of assist, ozil is great at assists but a second striker should be able to score.

Lock piled up ridiculous numbers in his junior season, setting the SEC single - season record with 43 touchdown passes as the Tigers woke up from their start on the strength of one of the nation's most explosive offenses.

The midfield missed a ridiculous number of passes in 1st half and got slightly better in the 2nd.

Each year in December, a sports radio host, columnist, or whatever takes the time to scoff at the number of 6 - 6 teams in bowls, the ridiculous bowl sponsorships, or some other (admittedly silly) aspect of college football's postseason, and either proposes getting rid of them altogether (usually with some sort of NFL - style playoff expansion) or hearkens a return to the day when men were men and there were only about 15 bowls.

Putting you're number 2 goalie and starting with fullbacks who haven't played for ages in such an important game is ridiculous.

Its ridiculous putting in defenders from relegation threatened teams, especially going by stats... sure the amount of shit they had to deal with its no wonder they have high numbers, what about the percentages from successful.

As per usual, Holloway's men created a host of chances and could of won the match by something ridiculous like 9 - 6, the game wide - open throughout as both sides continued to plough forward with purpose and in large numbers.

There may be a few more bad outcomes in the homebirth groups depending on how you look at the data, but when you consider the number of births we are looking at, the absolute number is so very few that the argument is a little ridiculous.»

Baroness Warsi said Michael Gove had been «making an incredibly serious point» when he hit out at the «ridiculous» number of Old Etonians in David Cameron's inner circle.

Senior Tory Education Secretary Baroness Warsi has complained about the numbers privately - educated who are at the heart of British politics, backing Michael Gove's claim there are a «ridiculous» number of Old Etonians in Cameron's inner circle.

Education secretary Michael Gove is in the doghouse for calling the number of Old Etonians in No 10 «ridiculous» and Baroness Warsi supported him and called for Eton mess to be taken off the menu.

The number of former Eton pupils in Prime Minister David Cameron's inner circle is «ridiculous», Education Secretary Michael Gove has said in an interview with the Financial Times.

Rochdale's Liberal Democrat candidate Paul Rowen, MP for the last five years, said: «To label Mrs Duffy a bigot for raising concerns over the numbers of migrants entering Britain from Eastern Europe because this Government failed to put the correct controls in place is ridiculous.»

His allies defend his poll numbers with the following argument: Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron were also unpopular at the same stage in their leaderships, yet the following general elections propelled them to Downing Street; suggestions that he is Labour's William Hague or Iain Duncan Smith, and destined for failure, are, they say, ridiculous.

First, Go has a ridiculous number of possible moves and outcomes — according to the researchers, there are more possible positions in Go than the number of atoms in the universe.

Some people are able to eat ridiculous quantities of food and barely gain any weight, while others gain fat almost in exact proportion to the number of excess calories they eat.135, 139 Again, the former tend to be skinny people who don't need to lose weight in the first place.

I also like that you come right out and say the formula is inexact for a number of reasons (just like the ridiculous one - size - fits - all magic 2000 calorie DV for all humans printed on every food label in the universe).

I have a ridiculous number of blazers in my closet.

but that being said, i have a ridiculous number of cardigans that i've collected over the years in different colors and styles.

The number of conferences called over Holiday Pageants in elementary school was ridiculous.

In states like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number of abortion procedures.

As well as being copiously stuffed with a ridiculous number of mind - twisting puzzles, the Switch version features touchscreen controls for maximum intense finger action in handheld mode.

There have been an ridiculous number of great moves in this year's program, many of which, it seems, revolve around the theme of crime (or at least have the word «crime» in the title).

Here is Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 film of the same name, except that one had words instead of numbers in the title, and I must say that Mr. Scott had a tough job to update this movie without making it completely ridiculous.

Love in the Time of Cholera is almost laughable, since it asks the viewer to buy into Florentino's patently ridiculous rationalization and into the idea that he somehow remained ever faithful to Fermina as the number of notches on his busy bedpost mounted.

Perhaps even the world was not ready for Last Action Hero (it is underrated and unfairly maligned in my opinion) and there needed to be a the ridiculous number of comic - book fantasies (and Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson films) to get to this point.

Granted, the balancing act doesn't always go as planned, and there are certainly some tonal issues in a number of scenes — ahem, the love story that's soldered in; the ridiculous gun fight — but it's a sour character study that's always held at arm's length, all while you're duck - taped to a chair wondering what's going on.

Civil War even manages to succeed where most superhero sequels fail by squeezing in a fully ridiculous number of characters without over-burdening the narrative.

I recently spoke with an academy trust chief executive whose schools had a ridiculous number of commissioner officials and Ofsted in at the same time.

We won a re-opener bargaining agreement, ratified by 97 % of voting members, that reflects the next steps in fighting for control of our profession, including a reduction in the number of elements used for evaluations and cutting back against ridiculous workloads that take away from instruction.

And number five on that list I suggest is ridiculous, academy head teachers who have only recently converted their workplace certainly only have that limited experience and expertise, (their own school), however, there are some very experienced (in leading and managing) LA workplace head teachers.

Besides that and other incorrect facts, you have a ridiculous number of spelling and grammar issues in your article.

I want to share my experience, so you can see that these numbers aren't ridiculous pie - in - the - sky dreaming.