Sentences with phrase «is off the mark on»

They say he lacks leadership skills and is off the mark on handling the state's fiscal situation.

However, the lead author of the IPCC chapter, Indian glaciologist Murari Lal, told New Scientist he «outright rejected» the notion that the IPCC was off the mark on Himalayan glaciers.

Not exact matches

That's how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off his keynote address at the company's F8 developer conference on Tuesday.

«The market does not trust management expectations on profitably because their production forecasts have been wildly off the mark,» he says.

But Lindsay and other entrepreneurs like Mark Falcone, who co-found tCheck, a company that makes a spectrometer device to test the potency of edibles, says they were kicked off all the processors at once - which is highly unusual based on the previous «Whack - a-Mole» cancelation patterns these processors had practiced in the past.

The New England Patriots are facing off the Philadelphia Eagles at the 2018 Super Bowl on Sunday, marking the Boston team's eighth trip to the NFL championship since quarterback Tom Brady joined the team.

The agreement marks the culmination of four years of on - again, off - again discussions between T - Mobile and Sprint; this is the third time the two rivals have tried to merge.

You don't want to be the one who blows off the next Mark Zuckerberg, nor do you want to be carrying on a monologue in your interactions.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off with a room full of senators on Tuesday in what many believed would be a tough grilling about privacy in the wake of news that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained data about 87 million Facebook users.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off an effort to get U.S. small businesses to spend more on advertising as the image of the social media network's ads have taken a hit for their role in alleged Russian attempts to sway U.S. voters.

Last year Maker's Mark drew brickbats after it announced that it would reduce the proof on its signature expression from 90 to 84 (proof is twice the alcohol percentage) as a way to make supplies last (it backed off).

Hoguet, who is not a millennial, went on to note that Macy's internal economists accurately predicted a number of metrics last year when crafting the company's three - year plan — such as GDP growth, inflation, employment and wages — but missed the mark on GAAP growth, and fell short on sales of general merchandise, apparel and furniture, partially because they didn't predict how much off - price retail and consumer electronics would weigh on sales.

«Anything that is still on the clearance rack is going to be marked down over Presidents Day weekend, up to 70 percent off,» Vera Gibbons, founder of a personal finance website, told Yahoo News.

I can see how yours could be way off the mark:) Topic / niche and keywords you are bidding on definitely matter if broad match is a good fit.

Chinese proclamations on coal consumption and the corresponding decline in carbon emissions may be off the mark, a journal study found.

Secondly, if the debt amassed is one you can not pay off, or are late to pay, the consequences (known as derogatory marks) will be reflected only on the primary accountholders credit history --- not that of the authorized user.

Full disclosure: one quarter into 2015, I've been terribly off the mark on Canadian employment in pretty much every month.

McDonald's posted global comparable sales growth of 5.5 % in the first quarter, ahead of estimates of 3.9 %, on a 0.8 % increase in traffic, marking the 11th consecutive quarter of positive comparable sales and fifth consecutive quarter with increasing guest counts, further evidence that efforts to modernize the brand and menu are paying off.

If you've been waiting for mortgage rates to «bottom - out» and want to take your risk off the table, today and Tuesday mark good days on which to do it.

The Fed has other holdings, on and off balance sheet, that would likely take the Fed's book value well past negative $ 400 billion if mark to market accounting were applied.

Families had lots of brothers and sisters so you bet your take on this is way off the mark.

We don't proselityze and we are not open to conversion to any other faith... so just get it through your head... leave us alone... and I'll give you a little hint... Jews, in general, because of all their accomplishments and contributions to the progress of humanity have a well earned sense of superiority... we're only 14 million strong in the world and yet our contributions, our genius, and our work ethic has made indelible marks on the world... So, if anything, you guys should be trying to become Jews... maybe some of our genius will rub off on you... just go your way and LEAVE US ALONE!!!!

The video and song start off harmless enough, until the 1:19 mark when Duncan gets into a rap battle with a TSA agent and transforms into a potentially offensive hip - hop stereotype to unleash rhymes like On a mission from God; I like to call Him a Friend / I think that people are sick, and He's the med - o - cine, and this mind - expanding verse: Think I'm just a white man with a sheltered life / Nice home, two cars, two kids and a wife / Just look a little closer while you're starin» at me / «Cause sometimes what you get is more than what you see.

First off what are you on Mark?

Professor Mark Baker from NICE said: «There's a considerable saving both from the management of the diabetes and the heart attacks and strokes that diabetes often causes to offset against the one off expenditure on obesity surgery.»

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

Rice and his colleagues focused on epi - marks, which are molecular changes that act like temporary «switches» to turn genes on and off.

At about 1.15 am on August 19, 1989, Mark MacPhail, an off - duty police officer working as a security guard, attempted to intervene in the pistol - whipping of Young.

Mark: Wow, christmas is not christian and why the hell shouldn't I celebrate when you do??? I have to take the day off of work, so you're damn right I'm going to celebrate on the day it is.

Muslims believe the false prophet, the one doing the Islamic banking system, with a mark on the forehead and hand (dust from praying into the ground), they won't buy or sell to anyone that isn't Muslim... and they chop off your head if you don't convert... like it says.

Also the Jewish idea of God is to be marked off on the negative side from any metaphysical dualism.

Jesus had previously demonstrated this divine power when he healed the paralytic which is recorded in Mark 2:1 - 12 (NJB) in which Jesus says: «But to prove to you that the Son of man has authority to forgive sins on earth» — he said to the paralytic — «I order you: get up, pick up your stretcher, and go off home.»

This was coming off of a weekend of reading about Mark Driscoll, so it may just be his particular brand that I'm responding to, but I'm amazed that some complementarians seem to believe that we should create an entire social system solely designed to keep men from feeling bad about themselves by making sure there is always someone below them on the food chain that they can rule over.

Throughout Jonathan Edwards's admirably rich and delicate description of the supernaturally infused condition, in his Treatise on Religious Affections, there is not one decisive trait, not one mark, that unmistakably parts it off from what may possibly be only an exceptionally high degree of natural goodness.

Off we go cross-country into regions we would never have found on our own, and which are probably not marked on any tourist map.

Baking Soda, Baking Powder, and Yeast: On my calendar, every 3 months, I mark off a day to test to see that all 3 of those are still good.

No excuses, in a little less than half of a quarter - hour (or 560 seconds), you can mark «exercise» off your «to do» list — and still have time to pat yourself on the back for being so efficient and smart!

BUBBA»S BBQ JOINT — You're seated at a Formica - topped table that must have been stolen off the Sanford & Son set - one metal leg broken but held up by an upended tomato juice can, cobwebs dangling from the underside of one chair, a sticky substance on one corner of the table attracting a marching band of ants, another corner chewed away with obvious teeth marks.

Mark Lansley, managing director of Broadland Wineries, that runs its own third party bottling facility in the UK as well as shipping bulk wine to help create its own brands for the on and off - trades, it is a complex issue.

CEO and owner Mark Lansley will be speaking at IBWSS UK conference, while Master of Wine Dr. Arabella Woodrow and other members of the Broadland's team will be available to discuss how companies in the UK On Trade and Off Trade can take advantage of bulk wine to grow sales, profitability, and the value for money offered to consumers through the UK packed exclusive labels.

While CO2 laser radiation is unable to generate codes on uncoated beverage cans due to its reflection off metal surfaces, the latest fibre laser systems are perfectly suited for these type of applications: thanks to their high pulse peak power they can code bare aluminium, as well as coated or anodised aluminium, leaving an indelible mark by anodising the surface (a process that does not engrave but actually creates a protective layer on the aluminium).

Coming off of its second billion - dollar year and passing the 2,000 - member mark, the La Farge - based co-op is cultivating a venture to put its dairy products on the shelves of as many as 140,000 more stores nationwide.

If your grill is big enough you can grill off the pineapple by brushing on the reserved marinade and grilling both sides until softened and grill marks happen.

The buns came out of the oven about 10 minutes ago and are cooling off before he toasts them on the grill (grill mark fiend), but I did manage to grab one and put a little butter on it to taste test since I didn't want to serve anything to our guests that as sub par....

Personally I would set picks off the play with players like Koz who are tightly man marked on corners and have them loop around.

To add insult to injury, it was Stoke's first effort on target in the game and Mark Hughes» side took full advantage as they look to pull off a surprise by denying Chelsea a win.

Naturally, the response on Twitter wasn't kind to him as Spurs fans and others took the opportunity to criticise and mock him respectively, and unfortunately for the former AZ Alkmaar man they won't stop until he finally gets off the mark from open play.

The report goes on to claim that the Portuguese manager is not planning to stand in the way of Martial moving on, and why would he if the transfer rumours linking the club with another round of massive summer spending are not completely off the mark?

Indeed, Poulter's T3 standing after battling the wind and rain on the English coast on Friday marks only the second time in 16 starts at the British Open that he will tee off on Saturday inside the top 10 (he was ninth after two rounds in 2002 at Muirfield).

His best moments came off dribble penetration, and the biggest question mark is whether or not he can create shots for others when initiating the offense on his own.