Sentences with phrase «is a dicey proposition»

Hiring for cultural fit can be a dicey proposition, as sometimes biases — hidden or otherwise — can lead hiring managers away from great candidates who would have been star employees.

In the political and policy worlds, though, many bloggers seem to resist the notion that their ideas are influenced by outsiders, and pitching them stories can be a dicey proposition.

Crop tops are a dicey proposition after a certain age (quaere: which age would that be?)

Prequels are a dicey proposition, and most make it unnecessarily hard on themselves by trying to exhaustively satisfy a fan base that's already an easy lay...

Stepping out of line at Indy or Daytona gets to be a dicey proposition.

Buying a car on the internet can be a dicey proposition, but not so at Law Auto Group.

Similarly, within stocks, it's pretty clear that smaller companies and emerging markets are dicier propositions than blue chip companies, so it seems reasonable to expect some extra return — even if the extra return from small stocks isn't as great as history suggests.

Anything under 5 years is a dicey proposition.

We are not talking about fine - tuning the climate system, but of altering the weather and that is a dicey proposition at best.

«Even before the recession began, going to law school was a dicey proposition.

Still, downloading APKs from Google Play is a dicey proposition at the best of times, and downloading them elsewhere is just asking for trouble.

Not exact matches

That's a much dicier proposition and it's a lot riskier than simply selling to T - Mobile at a small premium on the current stock price.

But Solyndra was always a dicey technology proposition: Take a temperamental semiconducting film that must be perfectly applied at high speed and pair it with a shape that is both hard to manufacture and ship.

Steve: Through the end of the book you start to talk about, and it's a very dicey proposition, but an actual diagnosis of either autism or Asperger's syndrome for Dirac, and [why don't you] talk about what you think about that.

I think it's a subtle way to wear lace at the office (always a dicey proposition), so I'm looking forward to remixing it in some work outfits.

This is a dicey enough proposition for any anthology, but it's absolute anathema to the effectiveness of horror.

Video game movies are still a dicey proposition, as we saw when Warcraft tanked in the U.S. earlier this year.

Video game movies are always a dicey proposition: there are a few surprisingly unshitty ones (Silent Hill, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within), but even those have significant flaws that keep them from being called great movies.

Rest of the world is a more dicey proposition.

Messing with the Corvette faithful is always a dicey proposition.

Those coins are sold at a high premium over melt value, and are a very dicey proposition from an investment return standpoint.

The problem is that playing games made before 2005 is an increasingly dicey proposition and not just because of the prohibitive cost of vintage hardware and games.

«So unless the review paper already exists (always a dicey proposition) I have no answer for you that could conceivably be worth the effort»

Staying with a stranger or inviting one into your home is an inherently dicey proposition.

But when the value proposition seems to be getting dicier and more platitudinous (is that a word?)