Sentences with phrase «like slam dunks»

But I've read a few briefs in my career and based on the one the Department of Justice filed last week and the one Apple filed yesterday, Apple vs. FBI looks like a slam dunk for Apple.

The Cougars looked like a slam dunk.

Using market power to improve school food seems like a slam dunk, but the process isn't always easy.

«The last event seemed like a slam dunk in theory,» Brewster said.

It's beginning to look like a slam dunk for whole food plant based dieters.

Finding Dory seems like a slam dunk, right?

Though «Whiskey Tango Foxtrot» sounds like a slam dunk on paper — in addition to Tina Fey reteaming with frequent collaborator Robert Carlock, it boasts a talented cast and a pair of directors (Glenn Ficarra and John Requa) with a solid track record — the trailers aren't very encouraging.

Then sometimes a killer tape (like Viola Davis's stillborn baby episode last year) seems like a slam dunk and then Tatiana Maslany swoops in, a year after the highest buzz for her and Orphan Black, and wins.

Yep, looks like a slam dunk from here.

The Shape of Water looks like a slam dunk for at least a DGA nomination for Guillermo Del Toro — premature, I know, but he is a titan.

It's an idea that sounds like a slam dunk on paper: Pit two of the world's biggest superheroes against one another in a cinematic battle for the ages and force the audience to choose sides.

The prospect of Tom Hardy playing dual roles as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, two legendary (hence the name) East London gangsters from the 1960's, seems like a slam dunk.

It hardly seems like a slam dunk to me that portfolio / quarterbacks are bad and loose regulation is good.

The Toyota's many virtues — including its strong reliability reputation and resale value — may make it seem like a slam dunk, but this vehicle class is just too strong for a one - and - done shopping process.

The Kennedy Detail, with the former Kennedy Secret Service seemed like a slam dunk.

It seems like a slam dunk.

It looked good under $ 1 — all that was needed for $ 1 payout was approval to market (which seemed like a slam dunk).

sounds like a slam dunk.

This can seem like a slam dunk in your breeder search, but should be taken with a grain of salt.

I have always wanted Nintendo's mobile offerings to be mildly successful, but Mario on mobile seems like a slam dunk!

Add that Hulu has said that «more devices are coming soon,» and it seems like a slam dunk.

This is true no matter how much your case seems like a slam dunk.

It looks like a slam dunk, but that's not where problems will manifest themselves.

Not exact matches

On the face of it, this may seem like a slam - dunk for sole proprietorships, but the difference between the low corporate tax rate and higher personal income tax rate often makes it more even.

Even for a world famous brand like Hermes, this is by no means a slam dunk (and this is why the Jeremy Lin case will be tougher than Michael Jordan's).

It doesn't look like an animal sacrifice is a slam dunk in the first chapters of Gen. And it's a bad hermenutic to say that's a blood sacrifice for sin is what is happening in Gen. 3.

In fact, I will bet London to a brick that; (i) in their search for two miracles, they will quickly find them, just like George Bush's underlings, under pressure, found «slam dunk» evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and (ii) the two miracles will both be medical «miracles».

He compares the two like different approaches to basketball: vegetables are like a child throwing up a weak underhand shot and missing the hoop entirely while meats are like an NBA star soaring into a slam dunk.

When NASCAR announced Thursday it would require drivers to undergo baseline neurological testing starting in 2014, it seemed liked a slam - dunk decision by the sanctioning body.

Arsenal are currently small road favorites with a game total of 2.5, so this isn't exactly a slam dunk like last year against Aston Villa (winning 5 - 0 on Super Bowl Sunday).

How about this for footage: Erving ramming home a backhanded dunk after taking a pass from Jumbo Jim Eakins; the Doc leaping high for an offensive rebound and tipping it in with a single long finger: Dr. J slamming a couple of running hook - dunks: dunking an offensive rebound behind his head: slamming one that looked like it would raise a blister on Jones's face.

This is not a slam - dunk marketing idea like Chicharito is, but there are still similar benefits.

The brazen Bronx pol grinned like a Cheshire cat as he sauntered out of Manhattan federal court yesterday after the judge declared a mistrial when jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked on a slate of charges that many saw as a slam dunk.

But these victories in New York — a minimum wage hike, paid - family leave — should be slam dunks in a liberal state like New York.

Slam dunk trash like an all - star athlete!

This Chico's necklace seemed like a slam - dunk purchase but it wasn't.

Despite the fact that he perfectly looked like the character, he was by no means a slam dunk as the lead star.

As for [Allison] Janney, she seems to me like a slam - dunk for a best supporting actress nom [for her portrayal of Harding's mother]-- which would be her first - ever Academy recognition, and hugely deserved.»

No Call Me By Your Name for Best Screenplay or Best Director Luca Guadagnino's coming - of - age romance has been considered an Oscar frontrunner all year, and its international pedigree made it feel like a slam - dunk for several Golden Globe nominations.

'» From a potential lead who died of a drug overdose to a marshmallow man suit that went up in flames, Ghostbusters looked like anything but a slam - dunk when Columbia Pictures made it.

Though it's not a slam dunk like the filmmaker's 2010 effort, To the Wonder is a fascinating portrait of love, infidelity, and mistakes that plays more like a tone poem rather than a feature film.

With Spielberg helming such a cast (which also includes Sarah Paulson, Bradley Whitford, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Zach Woods, Michael Stuhlbarg, and others I've doubtless missed), The Post seems on paper like an obvious slam - dunk.

It's not hard to see the appeal of a movie like this — again, the premise is a slam - dunk as far as high - concept comedies go — but the execution is, at best, lacking, and at worst, baffling (why, for example, does this movie have more false endings than

These international posters for Focus Features Insidious Chapter 3 are a slam dunk, personifying what it would be like to be...

But as the three - way best - picture race has clambered along and maybe settled in favor of The Revenant, this has started to look like the one slam - dunk place to reward The Big Short, which derives much of its success from McKay and Randolph's thoughtful adaptation of Michael Lewis's book.

Like the basketball world champions, Pixar is an East Bay powerhouse that knows how to execute key plays with creative and technical ingenuity and deliver slam - dunks (not counting «Cars 2»).

He looked like a slam - dunk choice, until Hill reluctantly came forward.

Like the Indiana results, this isn't a slam dunk for vouchers, but it, too, shows students struggling early, then rebounding over time.

«If the game of basketball operated like NCLB, every student, despite her or his athletic ability or interest, must make the team; and then, the only way a student can score points is by a slam dunk,» she wrote.

With a title like mine, I was certain that getting representation and securing a contract would be a slam dunk.