Sentences with phrase «instead of a hammer»

The judge hearing the case, Justice Sean Dunphy, sounds a bit puzzled as to why the case was brought before him at all, instead of hammered out in council chambers, according to reporters in the courtroom:

Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

Instead of hammering Phil Mickelson and the usual subjects left on the BPNTHWM list, let's focus on another group: the players whose finest moments are behind them.

The Hunt affair only confirms this and expending valuable political time on the intricacies of the Ministerial code instead of hammering home Tory failure on the recession totally misses the point.

But instead of hammering metal, these archaic tool - wielders processed animal remains.

Now, the migraines are changing into headaches instead of hammers.

But instead of a hammer and nails, you'll need different tools in order to get started.

Like every other enemy that's affected by the Gold Ring, Hammer Bros. will become gold and throw three Coins each time instead of hammers while under the effect.

If they are hit by the shockwave from the Hammer instead of the Hammer itself, they will be stunned briefly, allowing normal attacks to damage them.

Prefabricating it inside instead of hammering it into formwork on site probably has benefits in terms of consistency and less worry about rain getting on it prematurely.

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Instead of filling their days with strategic planning meetings and sketching out a long - term vision for the company, the pair donned hard hats, wielded hammers and changed light bulbs on whatever projects they could scrounge together.

If he were a true scientist, he would search for evidence and base hypotheses on this evidence, instead of drawing a conclusion and hammering evidence to fit his views.

Instead of looking at a universal definition of the poor as those who have been deprived, stereotyped and discriminated against, they are on a mission to make the cripple to walk; the blind to see forcibly; the deaf to hear by knocking their ears with sledge hammer; the dumb to speak by inserting tube in their esophagus and the list goes.

David shares what's on his mind and instead of giving him the benefit of the doubt we hammer him about word usage and phrasing.

His actions were those of a rapist, suggesting he intended to have his way with her, but instead she «hammered» him.

Instead, Fitzgerald becomes a mirror image of Kaczynski — alienated, resentful, obsessive, and yet (they hammer home to us) different from Kaczynski in that he is capable of empathy and love.

Against West Ham he went to intercept a Hammer on the wing near the corner flag and in a dangerous position for a cross, he closed the player down but whe a West Ham player arrived behind him and an Arsenal player was closing from his right he dropped back to cover the pass to the 2nd West Ham player instead of trying to win the ball.

Im quietly confident that we can get by Barca and heres why; ● They are seriously underestimating us ● No team has defended the UCL ● They have hammered us once 4 - 1, rest were tight ● We beat Bayern this year, we can beat them ● If we had took the 1st 2games seriously instead of underestimating them thinking we would walk it (like barca do now) we wouldve topped our group with Bayern, wouldnt be as far anyway off 1st ● Lastly, Injuries!

A player can get the luck of the draw and be on the course during the prime weather, or get hammered by conditions instead.

The title race will definitely go down to the last game this season, it may even be won on goal difference, So we really do need to start hammering teams from now on, instead of trying to hold on to one goal leads.

The operation was successful but rather odd: instead of more normal surgical tools, Dr. Lee used a hammer and chisel to take it off.

Instead of to repair any dent, the Gunners MUST wreck more havoc to the Red Devils» home game superiority by hammering the Red Devils to cause more dents.

For example, instead of saying «your left back is shit and you are going to get hammered» say «our left back looks tired and I'd be happy with a point».

The former Hammers manager talked a lot of sense on Sky Sports last week when he said that Andy shouldn't be training all week and should save himself for the games instead.

Total crap back passing for fun instead of going for the kill.Against a decent team we will get hammered To think we scrapped our league programme for this dross.Southgate learned nothing from this pointless friendy against a very poor side.Dutch football really has gone to the dogs.It shows how low...

In lieu of vaccination, ask instead for the gods TO INOCULATE YOUR YOUNGLING AGAINST COWARDICE AND WISH FOR STRENGTH SO THAT HE MAY LIFT MJÖLNIR THE GREAT HAMMER AND SMASH HIS PATHETIC FOES.

Gov. David Paterson said earlier today that he will ask state lawmakers not to depart Albany midweek as planned and instead remain at the Capitol in hopes of hammering out a deal on the 2010 - 2011 state budget, which is now almost two full weeks late.

I now believe that chambers must democratize, hold more public hearings on major legislation and use joint conference committees to hammer out agreed upon legislation, instead of relying upon closed door meetings between their leaders and the governor.

Instead the general mood was upbeat, with the hammer blows of the spending review and tuition fees still to come:

Instead, the voting rights of Scottish MPs will be curtailed — though exactly how is to be hammered out by a Cabinet committee headed by Commons leader William Hague.

«Instead of working with us in a bipartisan way to fix flaws and improve health care, the majority is pushing a bill that will drive up premiums, eliminate coverage for millions and hammer our hospitals,» Schumer said.

Instead of deforming the steel by hammering it or bending it, Gao and his colleagues took small cylinders of TWIP steel and twisted them.

Instead, they predict that the two chambers will hammer out NIH's final 2014 budget as part of a government - wide spending bill months from now, long after the fiscal year begins on 1 October.

Instead of forcefully grinding with a sharp drill bit, Honeybee's drills use a more energy - efficient hammering motion with blunt bits to fracture the bedrock.

Any craftsman knows that it is much easier to always keep a pair of pliers or a hammer safe at hand inside a belt instead of having to retrieve it every time it is needed.

So, instead of employing 6 different varieties of the same exercise while checking your Facebook between sets, you'll be switching from deadlifts to bench press, from overhead press to squat, bringing your muscles to complete exhaustion and hammering your central nervous system.

Drop that hammer hovering over your 2016 piggy bank and nab one of these transformational reads instead.

Instead of extending the hips and propelling the tire upward, you drop your hips to swing the hammer into the tire.

Instead, use your bathroom scale as a tool to help you, not a hammer to bash all of your efforts.

Dips: that's about it... dips... similar to decline press except your hand positioning is in hammer position instead of palm out.

This stance of having your palms facing each other during hammer curls can also be equally applied to back work, incorporating narrow grip pulldowns instead of wide grip lat pulldowns, to work your brachioradialis muscle more.

To change it a little bit, you should do the alternating hammer curls instead of the barbell curls, now and then.

As I already said, to change it a little bit, you should do the alternating hammer curls instead of the barbell curls, now and then.

I should have bought that hot chocolate instead... It's a game of hammering the A button on your gamepad for about 30 seconds whist not really looking at the screen, then getting a 10 second break, then repeat... kind of for eternity, or so it feels!

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

Instead, Dench could bask in a low - key night at the Ritz - Carlton Bacara Santa Barbara resort, with speeches from actors Armie Hammer, Ali Fazal, Jeff Bridges and SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling, along with lots of film clips.

Starring Aja Naomi King as Nat's wife, Armie Hammer as his slave master, and Colman Domingo as his right - hand man in the rebellion, plus supporting turns from Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, Aunjanue Ellis, Mark Boone Jr., Roger Guenveur Smith, and Gabrielle Union, «Birth» provides no clear villains, instead delivering nuanced portraits of classic arcs.

Though they clear one hurdle, they don't reach their destination, instead winding up in the company of angry, threatening men in whose hands Christina dies and Hammer barely lives.

Instead of the solos and hammer - ons of a music game, NBA Baller Beats uses fadeaways and fancy behind - the - back maneuvers as flourishes.

Don't get me wrong — Weisz and McAdams make a far more captivating and believable couple than Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, and Lelio's techniques, at least in the more casual scenes, express emotion instead of framing pretty pictures in the manner of Luca Guadagnino.