Sentences with phrase «many rolls of a dice»

«When you shoot a special, you have no idea what's going to happen, and the fact that I got to do the first one with Comedy Dynamics was a roll of the dice.

Insurers like Anthem have refused to cover the exorbitantly pricey treatment (around $ 300,000) since the drug's label admits that Exondys hasn't proved its efficacy, making the therapy a roll of the dice for payers and patients alike.

The proposal by Tidal Energy Australia for a compromised plan to provide power to the Kimberley appears to be a desperate last roll of the dice.

«I don't think it's a roll of the dice, I think it's a call to action,» he said.

His latest roll of the dice was a two - minute, $ 9 million Super Bowl ad, featuring Eminem's anthem and the rap star himself, to launch a new strategy and tagline around the Chrysler brand: «Imported From Detroit.»

His roll of the dice has cost the long esteemed LIBERAL PARTY its position in parliament and brought to the fore a more left - oriented NDP.

It's a roll of the dice.

He knows and wills every roll of the dice.

In other words, one can not predict the outcome of a roll of the dice from knowing what numbers would be helpful to one of the players.

That means that one can not predict the outcome of a roll from knowing the outcomes of previous rolls or subsequent rolls of the dice.

Its a roll of the dice and we've been living on borrow time.

LOL The weather here is a roll of the dice.

At the end of the day, Danny is our last roll of the dice!

I'm not saying wait till the fourth round to pick a QB, I'm just saying top of the first round is the same roll of the dice as a good prospect that slips.

It is a roll of a dice a toss of a coin.

As far as I'm concerned, Welbeck is the last roll of the dice for Our Premier league hopes!

Balo is a head case and a 16M roll of the dice by Pool.

But Faulk is the needle in the haystack that is the rest of the team's second round picks, and I'd much rather have a proven defenseman than a 1 - for - 12 roll of the dice.

I see Allen as a big roll of the dice.

And if you really want to resort to the idea that a player who has «never seen an NFL field» is automatically a bigger roll of the dice than a player who has played in the NFL, does nt that then apply to ANY player in this draft?

Cross pins Evans with Roll of the Dice.

The draft is always a roll of the dice.

It's a roll of the dice.

Three low - priced rolls of the dice — Demario Davis, Austin Seferian - Jenkins, and Morris Claiborne — all outplayed their expectations, but none justifies the high cost of a franchise tag.

Boykin's place on this list is shaky — having the raw undrafted rookie out of TCU be the first man up in the event of an injury to Russell Wilson would be a big - time roll of the dice for a Seattle team that plans to play deep into January — but he is fun to watch even when things aren't going perfectly.

Hughton brought on Anthony Knockaert and Glenn Murray with 14 minutes to go in one last roll of the dice, and Murray headed agonisingly wide from Pascal Gross's cross, as Arsenal held on to their clean sheet and all three points.

The introduction of Abdelhamid Sabiri in place of Joe Lolley proved to be the first roll of the dice after the interval.

With Milan's season on the brink of disaster and continued scepticism around the financial security of their owners, the appointment of Gattuso seemed like a desperate roll of the dice.

Following all this, there are claims that Bale, who became Wales» top scorer recently, has distanced himself from the rest of his squad and this could well turn out to be the final roll of the dice.

Research suggests that mothers often do better with subsequent babies, but not all mothers wish to wait passively on the roll of the dice.

Every week we have roll of the dice on what is delivered.

But the reality is, motherhood is a much bigger roll of the dice than anyone would probably like to admit.

Umbrella style prams are a roll of the dice in this department but the Summer Infant 3Dlite Umbrella Stroller is coming up sixes.

I think Cliff Richard should have a little roll of the dice... he has had some great hits in the past, mainly the 70s or early 80s, «Carrie doesn't live here anymore».

It was a huge gamble - arguably the biggest - scale roll of the dice in military history.

But people around the Premier believe it's a last roll of the dice for Ms Sturgeon if she feels backed into a corner.

And the Prime Minister is focused solely on making sure Ms Sturgeon doesn't take this final roll of the dice.

What was behind this mad last roll of the dice?

The use of the «Post Code Lottery «is only to draw attention to the fact that people are placed in n invidious position to one or another extent, for many its amounts to a # 10,000 one time tax based on the roll of a dice and that a mile away others avoid the axe only heightens the sense of injustice OK Personally I am unconvinced by the minor sub theme of localism which has after all been tested to destruction by the likes of Enver Hodge and Hit Man Hatton but this is a very different context but is it not possible to have localism for some things, planning for example, and not others... why yes I think that might actually be possible even for dim witted bureaucrats.

Boris will always be a big roll of the dice; a gamble.

«If you know anything about the game of craps, you know that 11 is significant,» she added, alluding to a winning roll of the dice.

Our first roll of the dice landed us not far off the coast of the southern African nation of Namibia.

Each round of antibiotics is a roll of the dice that could lead to lasting changes in a person's gut microbes, says Dethlefsen.

By «chance» Tomasetti meant the roll of the dice that each cell division represents, leaving aside the influence of deleterious genes or environmental factors such as smoking or exposure to radiation.

The probability of winning a roll of the dice, for example, is equal to the proportion of winning outcomes relative to all possible ones.

NO DICE For computers, generating random numbers is more complex than a simple roll of the dice.

At each oscillation, the switch opens for a short time and grants the cell a short window in which it can use noise as a «roll of the dice» to decide whether to escape into competence.

Visually, that distribution forms a bell curve, a shape that represents everything from height (some very short people, some very tall, most American men about 5» 10») to rolls of the dice (the occasional 2 or 12, but a lot of 6s, 7s, and 8s).

Then 13 years ago, in a strategic roll of the dice, the group decided to fund the search for a cure that would target not the symptoms of CF, but the defective protein causing the disease.

The use of stingray and related technologies is a roll of the dice in the sense that law enforcement is hoping that either the defense attorneys don't have enough savvy or wherewithal to find out about the technology and ask the right questions or, even if that does happen, they're hoping that the judge that they have is favorable to their approach and not going to order them to reveal information about its use.