Sentences with phrase «make gambit»

Instead of being aimed at consumers, like Amazon and Kobo, Sony made the gambit of constructing a device aimed exclusively towards people who need a world class PDF experience.

«GAME REVIEW» IN EPISODE 9 OF «MAKING A GAMBIT GAME»: The two focus tests are now complete and Team 4 has a game review left before there game can «go gold» (have their final prototype approved).

This page contains an archive of all entries posted to GAMBIT in the Making a GAMBIT Game category.

«ART AND DESIGN REVIEW» IN EPISODE 4 OF MAKING A GAMBIT GAME, Team 4 has taken the best elements from their early prototypes and has begun designing the game eventually known as «elude».

MAKING A GAMBIT GAME Episode Nine.

The questions now become these: What is more important in the greater scheme of things; the interests of ingrained sales types, or the public at large, and, where does the real estate practitioner fit into the equation (depending upon one's philosophy) regarding whether being a Realtor should simply be a money - making gambit or a widely respected profession?

Not exact matches

So we might have expected the Old Chieftain to make short work of Newfoundland and Labrador's recent gambit to extract $ 280 million from Ottawa in exchange for its co-operation in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union.

They made a good opening gambit, I'd say, on public sector pensions and MP pensions.

It's leading to the «game - ification» of the business world, where everything has become a gambit with a focus on superficial metrics as opposed to building a business that will make the world a better place.

It's a bit of a strange gambit for a treaty that has a six - month escape clause for any participant; while all parties currently seem reluctant to make any hasty decisions, the idea of tearing the bandage off over five excruciating years doesn't seem to hold much appeal either:

His most amusing gambits include making sure you visibly flinch at the other side's proposals, and that at the close of a negotiation that you feel you've won, you should say something like, «Wow, you did a fantastic job negotiating that.

Opening Gambits Make an aggressive first offer.

Kotick's online gambit doesn't make the need for consoles obsolete; in fact Activision is working with Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE), both of which sell Internet - connected systems, to ensure that Activision's web - based applications can be accessed on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

He and other analysts said Icahn's gambit may enrich investors by pushing up the share price, but the ultimate goal of activist investors is to make money for themselves.

Cobb's gambit in presenting his interpretation of the extensive continuum was to make it appear that the extensive continuum in the future has a kind of reality such that it makes no sense to speak of its regions originating with concrescence, This effect was obtained by quoting Whitehead (PR 103) to the effect that «the extensive continuum... underlies the whole world, past, present, and future....

The physical weakness does not make it possible for me to be as powerful as I need to be, and this makes your decision something of an understandable gambit, does it not?

It may just be an opening gambit to ensure he doesn't fall behind early, but there's a point to be made that it's not a viable strategy in the Premier League anymore.

While everyone is talking about how Messi might move to Manchester City and they are making a huge gambit of 265 million euro to get both him and gardiola also how Manchester United has summed up over 360 million euro to get both Messi and Neymar on their side, the most shocking news might come as Luis Suarez moving to Liverpool again.

If the Biafra fiasco (1967 - 1970) didn't curb land hunger, by making the East retain its best within its homeland, what guarantees a future Biafra gambit — success or failure — would?

At the same time, Cuomo had called on lawmakers to «make the case» for a pay increase by personally testifying to the commission — a gambit only a handful took up in an election year.

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

But they fitted the Government's narrative as well as playing to the Conservatives» key audiences, which means they can stand as more than just a political gambit to make life difficult for the two Eds.

«The commission has information that the desperate cabal could take their gambit to the ridiculous extent of purchasing properties and registering them in the name of Ibrahim Magu to make the plot believable.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

20th Century Fox seems to be putting focus on bringing THE NEW MUTANTS into the X-Men world and making two sequels for DEADPOOL, along with an X-FORCE spin - off and (hopefully) GAMBIT.

It's uncertain if Channing Tatum will make his debut as Remy LeBeau in «Apocalypse» or wait until the character's solo GAMBIT film.

Maybe it was a conscious decision by Rodat and Spielberg to objectify the squad much like how most who serve in military combat are seen as walking statistics, but it makes the risk of their lives a gambit curiously low in emotional involvement.

Last year, in the run - up to the launch of the waiver gambit, Duncan tried to make the case that 82 percent of schools (and as many as 90 percent) would be found academically failing.

Add in the fact that waiver states only had to focus on the worst - performing five percent schools along with schools with wide achievement gaps (and ignored the mediocrity of the remaining 85 percent of schools), and it is clear, as EdTrust President Kati Haycock declared today, that the administration's gambit «invited [states] not to actually make those goals meaningful for the vast majority»

Which is what makes the Obama Administration's No Child waiver gambit so disappointing.

This was made clear last year in a report released last year by the New America Foundation that showed that 73 percent of 6,058 failure mills in 16 states identified under No Child in 2011 - 2012 escaped scrutiny under the waiver gambit a year later.

The fact that the gambit has resulted in 35 different accountability systems — the very thing Duncan deceptively accused No Child of doing — has led to an even bigger mess that can not be fixed easily; the evisceration of No Child has also made it easier for traditionalists and Kline to push to ditch the law altogether because the administration has all but done so for them.

The fact that some organizations even went so far as to push for aspects of the waiver gambit that have led to states defining proficiency down for poor and minority kids has also made them vulnerable to accusations from traditionalists that they care little for children while making it more difficult for allies to support them in other ways.

And given that the Obama administration has shown a willingness to ignore congressional critics of the waiver gambit (including Miller and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, who, despite his protests, benefits greatly from the evisceration of No Child), reformers and activists in those states will have to organize on the ground and battle to make graduation rates more accurate.

And because the Obama Administration has followed up on its waiver gambit with other senseless decisions — including Duncan's move this past June to allow waiver states a one - year moratorium from fully implementing teacher evaluation systems they promised to put into place in order to allay opposition from teachers» unions and others to the use of exams aligned with Common Core reading and math standards — the waiver gambit has also made it harder for reform - minded politicians to push ahead on transforming education for kids.

Few senators seem concerned with the fact that the administration's gambit takes away real data on school performance (making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and making it more difficult for researchers to do their work), and lets states and mediocre districts off the hook for poorly educating black, Latino, Native and poor white and Asian kids in their care.

As Dropout Nation made clear earlier this year (and over the past year), the No Child waiver gambit is a stain on Obama's and Duncan's otherwise admirable legacy as school reformers.

So it would make senses that the administration would embarrass itself again — and stain both Duncan's and President Barack Obama's otherwise admirable reputations on the school reform front — by, yes, allowing Virginia (along with Arkansas, Missouri, South Dakota, and Utah) to evade No Child's accountability provision as part of the administration's misguided waiver gambit.

The carefully tweaked V - 10 makes for a compelling opening gambit.

«What I wouldn't give to have a grandson of my own one day,» the matchmaker said, making her closing gambit while peering hard at the boardinghouse keeper's creased, brown face.

What's significant in relation to Locke hitting the million - seller Kindle ebook mark is that it showcases that while choosing the Kindle Direct Publishing route removes agents and publishers from the equation, Locke makes less money with his 99 - cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher.

Take advantage of buffs like Haste and Protect and make sure you have gambits in place just in case your characters get hit by debuffs like Poison and Stone.

Gambits aren't just made, they're perfected.

Cheats are located inside the in - game menu that allow you to obtain maximum Gil and License Points, and you can also speed the game up to four times the usual pace, which makes traversing some of the larger map areas and loot grinding a breeze, especially with the game's fantastic gambit system in play.

Stoeckley's talk covered the gambits of street artists from Banksy and Shepard Fairey to the Guerrilla Girls and the artist known as Mat Benote (Make Art That Benefits Everyone Not Only the Elite).

Such gambits are designed to make us forget the gallery was once just a tea house in Kensington Gardens.

As one of the essayists astutely points out, he even smuggles in reference to Dutch geometric abstraction in the primary colors of the workstation.4 That one prominent art critic's review frames Marshall's retrospective as «not an appeal for progress in race relations but a ratification of advances already made» is somewhat bewildering in the face of this opening gambit.5 After all, both of these paintings date from the year after the 1992 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing waves of unrest.

At the same time, the American scene was equally hostile to us because if, as we thought, to make an authentic gesture without any a priori idea of how it would turn out, was the real gambit, then everything — «hard - edge» abstraction with its ideology, Social Realism with its ideology, regionalism with its ideology, landscape painting with its sentimentality, portrait painting with its class background, anything you could imagine — was equally threatened by our premise.

I think the RICO gambit is indeed an attempt to silence those who are making legitmate arguments in opposition to the so - called settled science.

President Obama yesterday announced plans to buy 17,600 American - made, fuel - efficient cars and hybrids for the government fleet, the White House's latest gambit to steer aid to the nation's beleaguered automakers.