Sentences with phrase «knocked him off track»

While these survey results among small business owners may not surprise political reporters, the level at which optimism has been knocked off track is alarming.

When he finds a sitting duck like Patterson, or a Williams, he knocks them off the track.

Fordham's Tom Courtney charged into the lead, cut sharply, collided with Sowell and knocked him off the track into the infield.

The train hit the bumping block... the bumping block basically knocked it off the track,» he said, adding «it was a train that didn't stop when it was supposed to.»

«When it hit the bumping block, the bumping block basically knocked it off the tracks.

A temporary illness and some poor diet choices knocked him off track.

The discovery that teachers in some schools may have kept copies of last year's exams and used them to help students prepare for this year's tests, which ask the same questions, knocks off track, at least temporarily, state efforts to raise student achievement through greater school accountability.

That's 200,000 students who are either launched onto the path to high school graduation or knocked off track.

Director Andrew Cohn captures this part of the education world movingly with his «Night School,» an 85 - minute documentary showing people whose lives have been knocked off track, but who still hold hopes of getting an elusive high school diploma.

In World Championship mode, I'd find my way to 4th place before being surpassed and knocked off the track by faster, braver men.

It just would have come in useful when I'm penalised for another car knocking me off track.

This occurs if you bash into an opponent from the side or rear, knocking them off the track.

One very nice feature for online races is the ability to turn off collisions which means you don't have to worry about some insane rider taking you out by going the wrong way, or some overly aggressive rider knocking you off the track.

Depending on the shape of the curve and the amount of random noise affecting the system, in some cases a «ball» approaching a critical threshold is likely to get knocked off its track and into the opposite basin of attraction, ending up on the other track — and then get knocked back again.

Not exact matches

«More than 10 million borrowers have had their servicer change in the past five years... When servicers change, payments may be lost, consumers may incur surprise late fees, and processing problems and missing account records can knock borrowers off track on repaying their loans.»

The times I have actually tried to come up with a vision for all of us, one of them usually knocks that vision clean off the tracks.

(James can, and does, absorb a lot of contact without being knocked off - track, much like peak Shaquille O'Neal.)

While it sucks that the reliability of the Honda engines still seems to be some way off, it also has the knock - on effect of denying McLaren and the drivers track time in the new MCL32.

The football is fluent, the goals are coming thick and fast and so confidence is high right now, but we must not forget that momentum is a lot easier to lose than it is to build and one poor performance could knock Arsenal off track as we have seen happen to Man City in recent weeks.

@Dee @ease Like I wrote» IF we play our way and do it right» Players not tracking back, gettin easily knocked off the ball, not pressin off the ball, layin down on the pitch waiting for the ref to call foul, while the opposition runs through us, no that is not AW's tactics gone wrong.

This question knocked me off my Wall Street track and into graduate school for economics.

Hanna Bevan of Trabuco Hills knocks the bar off as she attempts a jump in the Division 1 high jump at the CIF - SS Track and Field Divisional Finals in Torrance on Saturday, May 19, 2018.

The fact that the Vette guys finally woke up after all my hundreds of letters (more like 90 plus;) asking them to add the Michelin Sport Cup tires to the ZR1, I knew for a fact that it would cut at least 5 seconds off the Nurburgring times because at my home track, just by changing from the PS2 stock tires on my Z06 to the sport cup tires that the Dodge ACR Viper used to set the old N - ring record I knocked off a ton of time.

The original build featured leather, heavy duty cooling fan, heat shields, powder coated chassis, rack and pinion steering, bonded body floors and foot box, seat tracks, glove box, ceramic coated black side pipes, aluminum engine compartment, correct bent shifter, trunk mounted battery, original - like Smith counter gauges, and pin - drive Halibrand Cobra cast knock - off wheels.

Moreover, because many parents face college costs at exactly the same time they're starting to ramp up their savings for their retirement, there are competing interests that can knock your college savings off track.

In the nano - second it took to pull the trigger, Scobie lunged at him, knocking the gun off track... enough that the bullet glanced off Theresa's glasses, nicking her eyebrow instead of blowing her head off.

It's entirely possible to indulge your tastebuds without completely knocking your finances off - track, and it all comes down to making strategic choices about when and where to eat, how to pay, and what to order.

Pulling off stunt jumps, drifting and drafting (staying in an opponent's slipstream) fills a power play meter which, when activated via button press at certain track points, allows parts of the environment to be affected in ways such as giant, rubble throwing explosions that can knock the other drivers off course or yourself if unlucky.

And you can knock Vettel off the track!

This game really takes me back to the very start of my gaming career, arguing with friends about who knocked who off of the track as we sat next to each other on the sofa.

While playing, the power - ups found on the track are a shield, homing rockets, boosters, an oil spill, shock paddles and an Uzi that can knock players off their scooter.

Some reviewers (such as the one linked at the end of this article) have criticised it as too simple a game to enjoy singleplayer, but lauded it as a wonderful multiplayer experience while you try to race each other and knock each other off the track.

The real jewel in the crown in Obliteracers is it's multiplayer, it is definitely geared more to be a party game than a racing game with the full pack of racers being followed at one time, this gives it an arena feel rather than an actual straight up racing game, you still have to try and lead the pack (at times) although that's only to knock other racers out as the main aim is to destroy your enemy, within multiplayer you can customize your game to suit your preferences from turning certain or all weapons off, reversed controls, ice skating which is an extremely slippery track speed boosts etc etc, i'd liked to have listed them all in this review but with so many you'll have to take a look yourself.

I used to spend hours and hours playing Grand Prix 2... though admittedly most of the time I was just driving in reverse and knocking other cars off the track.

Best of all, the game engine is quite competent but more so, thoroughly enjoyable as you bump, speed, collect power - ups and knock your opponents off the track.

In SpeedRunners, players play superheroes racing around a circular track, trying not to cross a finish line but rather to maintain a lead long enough to knock others off the screen.

The race mode can be enjoyable enough, but it's basically a shoving match with players trying to knock each other off - track.

If you find yourself knocked off of the track a couple of times early in the race then you can pretty much kiss any hope of finishing first goodbye.

However, there are further elements to car combat generally; even when not participating in a battle race or takedown event such as side bashing into other cars to knock them off their preferred racing line and making contact with any number of cars when having engaged a full in the zone boost results in those cars being momentarily taken out of the event and being reset to the track without any immediate speed, alongside certain areas of some tracks containing objects which can be towed behind your car and fired as a projectile at an opposing car.

You carry on through the scenario, laying tracks, connecting metropolitan areas to farms and other towns and cities in a mission that will take between thirty to sixty minutes to complete whilst knocking off tasks that must be completed before certain dates along the timeline.

Like knocking over buildings using explosives or bulldozers, or setting fire to things that are flammable, or blowing up the monorail track so the train flies off and obliterates the orphanage below.

In my 10 years of bicycling in the city, I have been fortunate enough not to be knocked off my bike at the hands of streetcar tracks, but my rear tire has occasionally been caught in the track, causing a brief slide and an drastically increased heart rate — but no fall.

Even the best of us slip up sometimes, and even if we do everything right, something out of control — like the 2008 recession — can knock us right off track again.

According to CIO Magazine, 75 percent of job hunters get their career aspirations knocked off - track because of the way that ATS software handles resumes.

This also accounts for 10 % of the school year and can knock students off track for success as they slowly fall behind.

However, there is more than one thing that can knock a merger off track.