Sentences with phrase «made stabs»

Catholic agencies have sometimes made a stab at including priests, but usually only for special «moral» services or as regular social case workers.

I would probably have to say my favorite fermented food at this point is my homemade kimchi, but we're going to make a stab at some fermented garlic soon.

As things now stand, foreigners in Tokyo must grope their way around town by looking for weather - beaten wooden arrows erected years ago by the occupation forces when they made a stab at sorting out the main streets by letters and numbers.

Whether it is agent posturing, touting his players» availability around in the media in order to garner interest, or journalists making stabs in the dark, however, the vast majority of these links are unfounded and ultimately come to nothing.

No it's not just the schools and the school food programs that are the only problems in the USA, but it's a darned good that Jamie Oliver is attempting to make a stab at improving this one small area.

If Palin does make a stab at presidential politics, she'll have a natural following among Tea Party activists, whose grassroots network is fueled by anger over the growth of the federal government and President Barack Obama's policies.

But let's make a stab:

Nevertheless, Liz Jones made a stab at responding to the question about whether the cuts were necessary or ideological by pointing to rising mortgage interest rates, something that she blamed on Gordon Brown and the previous Labour government.

With state lawmakers in the hunt, the legislators could presumably make a stab for the House seat but safely be able to keep their seat by still running for the Sept. 11 state primary.

Now, researchers have made a stab at that calibration.

When he began working on surreal numbers, Conway made a stab at describing their anatomy; later Kruskal came up with a powerful, intricate, and precise way to dissect them, based on certain surreal numbers that can't be broken down any further.

Our story explored why some highly respected scientists had embraced tweeting, but we also made a stab at compiling a list of the most followed researchers on Twitter, which online we dared to headline «The top 50 science stars of Twitter.»

I had met this guy who I would have happily made a stab at a future with.

For over a decade he has not spoken to his twin, Maggie, (Kristen Wiig) who is making a stab at suburban normalcy with an all - American husband called Lance (Luke Wilson).

This is where Get Out does an amazing job, making stabbing, poignant comments about the awful, racist, lenses that white people can have of a black man.

Shandling was always drawn to comedy, but made a stab at a civilian vocation by majoring in business in college.

Thus does «Star Trek» make a stab at keeping up with the times, nodding at a present - day cultural reality.

Like the frustrated screenwriter played by Vincent D'Onofrio in The Player, you may want to make a stab at regaining your faith in the movies by taking another look at this neorealist masterpiece.

Yet Dibb and co-scripter Matt Charman do at least make a stab at including a smattering of Nemirovsky's vast supporting cast, among them an embittered farmer who joins the Resistance (Sam Riley) and a couple of aristocrats only too happy to make nice with the enemy (Lambert Wilson and Harriet Walter).

Amazon at least made a stab at this with the non-touch-screen Kindle 3, now discontinued.

I make a stab at classifying the main offerings of each startup based on their short mission statement.

I read through many dense documents on the Library of Congress website, made a stab at it and realized I needed help.

Let me revisit the emails / comments you responded with & hopefully make a stab at a write - up of the best reader recommendation.

The FDA made a stab at defining the term in 2016 to satisfy requests from consumers but the agency has not produced any definition.

R1 and R2 will make you stab or swing respectively, and L2 is a one - size fits all block.

If we had to make a stab in the dark, we would put money on it having something to do with the new Avatar system.

In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (out today, 11/16, on all major consoles), everything that made your stab - happy heart go aflutter in prior AC games gets turned up a notch, and Ubisoft has a few spring - loaded tricks up its sleeve, so watch your back.

She coolly displays each piece, though her demonstrations are sometimes violent and unusual — using the knife, for instance, to make stabbing rather than chopping motions.

The scenarios makes some stabs at atmospheric concentration growth rates based on emission growth rates; and it is the atmospheric values that are the model input and the focus of all calculation and discussion.

We made a stab at looking at global UHI impacts back in 2011 here, if you need any inspiration for your approach: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/05/the-impact-of-urbanization-on-land-temperature-trends/

«She was still angry, and kept lunging with the knife and making a stabbing motion towards Miss Uche,» the report states.

Then, as most everyone will agree, there's a swath of cultural and gender knowledge that judges bring to bear, often unconsciously, when deciding cases, which is one reason why we make a stab at diversifying the bench.

They've made a stab at it, and have used their home - grown resume.

Not exact matches

You're also able to see a freelancer's work history and reviews before you hire them, which makes it less of a stab in the dark than other hiring methods.

Numerous governments are taking a stab at this right now through structuring policies around what makes sense for them as a sovereign entity.

What makes the message of Mystic River doubly powerful is that the audience knows Dave is innocent (of this particular crime at least) and can only watch as his former friend first stabs him and then shoots him at point blank range.

OK, let me take a stab: if love (heart) is large enough, and you put it as the denominator of the equation, no matter what is in the numerator, the huge heart makes them disappear (approach zero).

Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...

Believing in stupid carp like this is what makes a mom stab two of her children to death.

The script makes a telegraphic, unconvincing stab at a rationale — but in effect, the idea is that the dream of multi-culti America circa 2017 is enough to inspire a Resistance in an alternate 1962.

My rather uneducated stab at a paraphrase would include the preceding verse to make more sense of it in context as follows (borrowing partly from the ESV here): ``... and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

How can a religion be peaceful when someone will get stabbed, beheaded, ect for making a cartoon?

Theo Van Gogh was stabbed in the chest for making a movie about Islam's treatment of women.

As art students in the 1980s we ALL took rude stabs at christianity, and we ALL said the same junk about how we wanted to make people stop, think and discuss, etc. so i don't need to stop and think about this nothing - new - to - think - about artwork.

In the Indonesian language they are referred to by the word for iron dagger because members of this order, after having reached a state of ecstacy by reciting dhikrs and making all kinds of bodily movements under the leadership of their teacher, tried to stab themselves in the chest or shoulder with the iron dagger.

And any time another Christian suggests I'm not doing my part to help make this happen, I feel a sharp stab of guilt.

Last year, I took my first stab at making it sugar free and it was just as good.

Stab a skewer into a brownie bomb, Dip it into the bowl of melted chocolate and make sure the whole brownie ball is covered.

The unique design of the top insert can hold many grill tools, making it easy to flip, stab, and baste with ease and precision.

Seeing the apples spiralized into tendrils with fennel and red onion in a creamy dressing made me want stab a fork at the screen and take a bite.