Sentences with phrase «leaps at»

Mr. Meyer, typical of the denialist mentality, leaps at any chance to denigrate a climate scientist.

The fixed viewpoint also hinders the game's platforming and puzzle - solving by forcing players to make dangerous leaps at tricky angles, which — coupled with fiddly double jumps — can be a source of frustration rather than fun.

As it opens, the beast leaps at you and an entirely new jump - scare take on the sequence plays out.

When a tiny Sheltie puppy comes gamboling up to us, wiggling with excitement and making small, clumsy leaps at our knees, it's natural to lean down and respond in kind.

For example, allocating $ 5,000 to stock and an additional $ 500 to options, which might be two leaps at $ 250 each?

But when scouts arrive to recruit young people with the gift, she leaps at the chance to join their ranks.

Bening especially leaps at the chance to play a hard - headed woman giving in to romantic footsie while keeping one eye on the exit.

Wilson suddenly sees a ready - made family just within reach, and he leaps at the opportunity.

When the opportunity arises to join Frank's band as keyboard player he leaps at it, no matter that the outfit is so shambolically underachieving that it lacks a fanbase, record label and — most unbelievable of all — a Twitter account.

When her news company needs new correspondents to send to Afghanistan because all the big - name talent has left to cover the newly engaged Iraq war, Kim leaps at the chance to leave her humdrum NYC life behind.

He leaps at the chance to return to the Congo, when invited by Parliament to serve as a trade emissary.

Might look like baby steps, but this team is taking leaps at times.

And again, these visions don't have to be overly complex or be wild leaps at greatness.

TD Bank Group, which embraces TD's operations in the U.S. and Canada, noticed that their 86,000 users weren't exactly leaping at the chance to engage with its corporate intranet; the words «intranet» and «excitement» seldom have much to do with each other.

So at the end of 2011, when he discovered The Barter Group, a trade exchange of 450 small businesses in Greater Phoenix, he leapt at the chance to join.

In what they said was an attempt to combat «speculation,» authorities last week forced over 200 supermarkets to slash prices, creating chaos as desperate Venezuelans leapt at the chance to buy cheaper food.

When they spot a chance to do something better or faster, they leap at the opportunity.

When American Express sent Capen, a cardholder for the past six years, a notice that she was preapproved for a $ 25,000 line of credit, she leaped at the offer.

When Vancouver businessman John Bruk approached him with the innovative proposal of creating a Foundation to help Canadians better understand Asia's evolution, Trudeau leapt at the idea.

The hedge fund lobby leapt at the report, with Managed Funds Association CEO Richard Baker saying it «tracks with MFA's view that hedge funds currently do not pose a systemic risk.»

This is a speculative leap at best!

Another deluded» war on Christianity» poster — why do modern faux Christians leap at every opportunity, no matter how tenuous the connection,.

Clinton on Religious Freedom We leap at every occasion for favorable comment on the Clinton Administration.

Given an opportunity to serve among refugees while attending college in Portland, Oregon, she leapt at the chance.

When an edited version of his diaries, England Have My Bones, became a bestseller in 1936, he leapt at his publisher's offer of a # 200 advance for a yearly book and resigned.

Only their mothers could love them, and even they would have a hard time staying interested in the plot of mergers and pages filled with acronyms like WCC / WCCESSA, WCCE, WFDY, YMCA, YWCA, WCC, NCCUSA and more which leap at the eye from the first two pages we opened at random.

Eagle, ID, October 10, 2007 — Wolfgang Puck and five of his world renowned chef friends leapt at the chance to partner with the Idaho Potato Commission IPC President Frank Muir and Chef Nobu Matsuhisa Present Wolfgang Puck with a $ 10,000 check to benefit LA Meals On Wheels.

Tessemae's All Natural recently contacted me to see if I would be interested in trying out a few of their vegan products, and I leapt at the chance.

If you time it wrong and leap at a guy, that's an automatic suspension.»

Have to take that leap at some point, and I'd rather we did than just twiddle our thumbs like we have the past decade.

In another was a display of bull - baiting, with fierce dogs leaping at the noses of frantic bulls.

The first item leaped at him: «Jim Kennedy: are you available?»

Felton leapt at him.

Barring a run to the national title, there's no way to leap at that magnitude again.

Don't leap at the finish line before it comes up.

The Magic, according to ESPN's Chad Ford, would have leaped at the chance to draft Oklahoma State point guard Marcus Smart, but he decided to stay in school.

We yesterday saw the ridiculous photo of Zach LaVine's vertical leap at a Lakers pre-draft workout.

Rutherford's 8.32 m leap at the Golden Gala from 2012 was his second best effort of his Olympic title - winning year, and the 29 - year - old will be looking to continue his unbeaten run stretching back to July in his first competition on the continent this year.

So when Nora, my eight year old, had a chance to speak with Bennett Parker (10) and Dylan Sengpiel (13)-- the two boys who share the role of Franz, Marie's little brother — she practically spun and leapt at the chance.

In Arkansas, just days before the June 8 Senate runoff, Republicans leaped at the chance to score points in a contest where another pesky Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, is running against Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the White House - backed incumbent.

Russia is not exactly leaping at establishing warmer ties with the U.S. following heightened tensions over Syria.

Obama and Edwards leapt at the chance to paint Clinton as a flip - flopper, and the storyline stuck.

But don't expect lawmakers and the governor to necessarily leap at new ethics legislation, which has been passed virtually every year Cuomo has been in office.

So in 2005, while planning a two - man expedition to the North Pole, when a tentative sponsor offered to back us if we played cricket there, I leapt at the chance.

When data became available to address the question, María Álvarez, a Colombian Ph.D. student at Columbia University in New York City, leapt at the chance.

As if on cue, a lightning bolt struck nearby, producing a big flash at eye level and a simultaneous bang, causing him to duck and leap at the same time.

I contacted leading oxytocin researcher Paul Zak, head of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies in Claremont, California, and he leapt at the opportunity to translate his lab studies into real life.

My supervisor will leap at any chance to discuss — often at great length — a topic he's passionate about.

Some people leap at the chance, but others prefer not to know the information.

It can be a tough leap at first, but once you give yourself permission to try not doing everything yourself — just once — you'll realize how much more effective it makes your efforts everywhere else.