Sentences with phrase «is the diciest of»

Blunt is the diciest of the trio, as it's believed that the film's shoot could clash with her role in the Tom Cruise sci - fi actioner «All You Need Is Kill,» but even if she does fall out, all three are terrific actresses and would certainly fit nicely into a part that Noomi Rapace and Kate Winslet had previously been mentioned for.

Not exact matches

While the bill's authors are tweaking the legislation to try to appeal to some of the wavering members, the political calculus is dicey.

If the negotiations had not foundered on the issue of how to safeguard farmers from surges in agricultural imports, Canada's delegation could have been caught in a politically dicey position over agricultural marketing boards.

The danger of failing to hold the line on any of these three big issues has to be deeply worrisome for Freeland, and there are many other dicey issues on the table.

Pruitt is the subject of no fewer than 10 ethical investigations, as reports about his extravagant spending, taxpayer - funded flights, and dicey living situation have come to light.

While companies have different rules about relationships between employees — some prohibit them, while others require disclosure — Uber is in a dicey spot right now and any revelations of an out - of - control company culture, especially by top execs, are problematic at this time.

No. 1 diciest was Houston (22 percent chance of price declines within two years) followed by San Antonio (20.3 percent); Tampa - St.

Orange County was the riskiest market in the region — if having a 4 percent risk of a price decline in the coming two years is what you consider dicey.

After a long period of leaking retail clients, it's a dicey bet on continuity.

But it's a dicey issue, and wrongly accusing an employee of stealing — whether it's a bartender or a bookkeeper — can lead to serious ramifications for your business.

There will probably be some kind of hardware involved (Dugan suggested it might be glasses, similar to Google's failed Google Glass experiment from a few years ago) and wearable tech has always been a dicey prospect.

With food the center of attention, Thanksgiving can be a bit dicey when it comes to the...

It's a bit of a project, but worth it if you have the time and are in the mood for a slicey - dicey sort of afternoon in the kitchen.

All were delivered in the snow late Monday afternoon which, if a little dicey, was a lot of fun.

I think building a strong OL and knowing how to preserve yourself (going down for a sack, sliding, heading out of bounds) when things get dicey is most important.

They'll argue otherwise, but committing to a major in some of those locales is dicey that time of year and may be a risk that they're not willing to take when considering future venues.

It would be dicey to draw conclusions about the probable outcome of the Tyson trial in light of the Smith verdict.

The schedule is all sorts of dicey — home games against Auburn and Florida State, road trips to Louisville, Virginia Tech, NC State, and South Carolina — but that might serve to keep expectations loose.

That's not something we needed the benefit of hindsight to complain about; it looked dicey at the time.

That's the point at which the NCAA's governing delays of game start to make it dicey as to whether a suspended game like this one will actually get played.

There would surely be plenty of other suitors though so the fact that Madrid's keeper situation is looking dicey, with Casillas having left and them maybe having to wait until next summer to get David De Gea.

All of these squads are still capable of grabbing a top seed come Playoff time, but they must be careful as a couple losses down the stretch could land them in dicey territory.

It's definitely getting the Tour into dicey territory, but FedEx is putting a ton of money into their organization.

It's dicey to paint all of us in one swath.

During the first several years of our marriage, however, becoming parents was either physically impossible, or emotionally dicey; we simply were not ready.

Normally I don't diagnose a lot of breastfeeding issues because I feel like that's something that's tricky and also a little dicey to do when you're not in the same room as the persona with the problem.

Dicey maintained that the primary principle that operates within the British constitution is the absolute sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament.

For over a century, theorists and politicians have been drawn to the ideas of A. V. Dicey, a late nineteenth century legal theorist.

Frequently people think that there are only two ways address flexibility in a constitution: to legally entrench an entire document and to protect it with strong judicial oversight, or to have a political constitution and a sovereign parliament, which, in the words of A.V. Dicey, «has... the right to make or unmake any law whatever....»

But after the release of Trump Jr.'s emails, Caputo said in a brief phone conversation with The Buffalo News on Tuesday: «When it gets to be information from a foreign government, it gets to be pretty dicey.

It's a bit of a dicey question for a politician seeking support on Staten Island, but a reasonable topic and important in both transportation planning and broad budgeting for Staten Island services.

«It's too early for those on the throne to forget their days in the trenches, when the media held the torch that alighted our path, through the dark and dicey path of struggle for change.»

Dicey notes that «the word has often a different sense in conversation» so perhaps the tendency to conflate Parliament and the House of Commons is not a new one.

It is «binding», inasmuch as it's the law and «no body» (to borrow from Dicey again) can ignore it — the House of Commons included.

Acts of Parliament can't bind Parliament, in that they can always be «unmade» (to use Dicey's wording).

Dietl's critiques of the mayor were mostly familiar: his intimacy with deep - pocketed developers, his dicey now - defunct political nonprofit, his regular midday pilgrimages from Gracie Mansion to the Park Slope YMCA and his failure to address and redress a host of municipal issues.

Trying to navigate a dicey issue for a Democrat running for governor, Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that public - employee pensions are «disproportionate,» but he wouldn't go so far as to back a plan to shift more of the cost — and risk — to workers.

Notwithstanding the outrageous cost (which ought itself, perhaps, to be the subject of an inquiry), Blair's misapprehension that a report commissioned just as the peace process was bearing fruit would, a dicey twelve years on, bring «closure» was hopelessly naive.

Mack's dicey start would seem to create an opening for LeMieux, who served 16 months in the Senate after the resignation of Sen. Mel Martinez (R) in 2009.

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.

But even Cannon, who would like to see the law eliminated as soon as possible, concedes that «the politics of those two things would be dicey.»

Given what's happened since the Deepwater Horizon drill platform exploded on 20 April, the claim that things couldn't get worse in the Gulf of Mexico seems pretty dicey.

In the past, analyzing the structure and function of a genome has been a dicey process.

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

I was there for about four weeks and I spent one of those weeks with the a young group of engineers, and I went back to a couple of the sites I had visited on my first trip, including the Quds power plant which is north of Baghdad; it goes through some kind of dicey neighborhood, so the trip from the Green Zone to Quds is always a bit of hot charger; so we went up there in these Reva vehicles, these heavily armored South African Reva vehicles; and much to my amaze [ment], when I found that they had gotten some of their power plants started; they hadn't been able to run when I was there in 2005.

Bamforth decried beer's sometimes dicey image: «Beer is perceived as a bad - boy drink, and beer has been too often marketed in all sorts of strange ways — flatulent horses [an infamous ad during the 2005 Super Bowl, overshadowed by the even more infamous Janet Jackson «wardrobe malfunction»] and men behaving badly.

«And that's dicey in terms of statistical analysis,» Plavcan says.

A few seconds later, after some dicey turns and some close calls, I was skidding face first on the lava rock that surrounded the pool at the base of the slide.

I'm slightly nervous about the drive back since the weather looks pretty dicey this weekend / next week, but I'm so ready to spend a few days hanging out with some of my favorite people and eating mountains of delicious food!

The National Weather Service has been reminding everyone that the East Coast / Midwest / Southeast is in the midst of a winter storm of epic proportions today, which has already meant some dicey travel conditions, flight cancelations, tons of snow, ice, scattered power outages, and very cold wind chills.