Sentences with phrase «misses the mark as»

While the spot's execution makes for a powerful video, it seems to miss the mark as a marketing tactic.

As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beings.

The film persistently misses the mark as a raunchy comedy amid all the side commentaries and Park's earnest tone.

And Soon the Darkness by D. B. Bates — December 22, 2010 — It comes close to greatness but misses the mark as a result of some clumsy foreshadowing and director / co-writer Marcos Efron emphasizing the film's familiar plot rather than its unique, fairly compelling characters.

While it misses the mark as an enjoyable game released for a Nintendo system, I'd imagine that as a Ninntenndo game, it's done quite well for itself.

The Forever Now» misses the mark as a collective assessment of painting today.

I think you have missed the mark as far as understanding why John Q. Public does not worry about global warming.

But this attention to customized cover letters may be missing the mark as far as achieving a high ATS ranking.

Not exact matches

Mark it as a missed opportunity for the Republican nominee to soften an image now drawing record disapproval ratings from voters.

«As I told my client, I'm in some pretty good company,» Mitchell said before listing other major polling institutions that missed the mark with the Democratic primary.

Roberts said every time he teamed up with traders on an automated trading venture, their strategies and ideas missed the mark even though they had previously been successful as market professionals.

Getting dressed for work as a woman can be difficult; it takes longer to do than the guy who can throw on a suit, and most of the options available are missing the mark between flattering and «cute.»

Cerner missed its own expectations for revenue in the first quarter as it took hits from a delayed Veterans Affairs Department EHR system contract and an unpredictable market.The VA electronic health record system contract has been sitting in limbo for months and will likely be delayed until the second half of the year, according to Cerner Chief Financial Officer Mark Naughten.

Hoguet, who is not a millennial, went on to note that Macy's internal economists accurately predicted a number of metrics last year when crafting the company's three - year plan — such as GDP growth, inflation, employment and wages — but missed the mark on GAAP growth, and fell short on sales of general merchandise, apparel and furniture, partially because they didn't predict how much off - price retail and consumer electronics would weigh on sales.

When an employee misses the mark, rather than looking at the result and judging it as wrong — a failure — get them to look at what they know now that they didn't know before.

Promoted as a way to help first time home buyers with a down - payment in order to «make [their homeownership] dream come true», the program completely misses the mark.

While some have hailed Mr. Son as the Warren Buffett of technology investing, that comparison misses the mark.

Despite missing the mark on your figures, other calculators and tools such as Personal Capital and Financial Engines give me a «very likely» chance of hitting my goal retirement date and income.

As part of Facebook's cleanup effort, Zuckerberg publishes a Washington Post op - ed allowing that the company's privacy options «just missed the mark» but also underlining that the company's goal is to make the world more open.

If you do not make contact with them and you miss payments, you will be marked as delinquent and eventually default.

That wouldn't be the first time the island has missed a payment — as in August the small U.S. territory failed to make a $ 58 million payment on its Public Finance Corporation bonds — but it would mark the largest loan it has missed a payment on so far.

It seems to me that the position that «Prayer is all bad (/ «delusional»)» misses the mark; as well as the position that «Prayer is all good (/ «changes things»).»

As you missed the proofs so you missed the question marks in my remark about predestination.

As the title suggests, Mark seems to miss the point a bit, but I am grateful that the elders at Mars Hill held him accountable and asked him to «do better» in speaking about these issues with decorum and respect.

The word no longer means «missing the mark,» as it did originally.

Of course once you separate sin from good / bad and define sin as missing the mark on what God tells us to do, then there can be no moral attachment to what God tells us unless you mindlessly operationally define anything that God says as Good.

There is no such thing as objective sin of which we have missed the mark.

Besides missing the mark, as even a cursory survey of the history of religions shows, Harnack's barrage falls back down upon his own head.

I see God as the Patron, and the issue of talents as an allegorical way of expressing activity for the Kingdom of God using familiar social realities (but in keeping with Mark 4:10 - 12, 24 and Matthew 13:11 - 16, the peasants may have taken it too literally and thus missed the whole point — thinking that the unprofitable servant is the hero when he's really not).

Whatever one thinks of this theology, it wholly misses the mark to interpret it as an ethical retreat.

We can certainly talk about sin (missing the mark) as we all do while in this world, yet must we come to recognize that sin no longer had power over us, nor any eternal consequence on our being as all sin and death were overcome at Calvary.

For me this phrase just means that we should value, respect, cherish and love each human inherently because they are fellow human beings regardless of any labels we wish to put on them and that it is helpful and constructive to distinguish people's «mark - missing» behaviour from their inherent value as a human being i.e. «I think what Donald Trump said about banning all Muslims from the United States of America is stupid» and NOT «Donald Trump is stupid».

For example, the word we translate as «sinner» denotes an Israelite who, though trying to do as he ought, «misses the mark» (see Josh.

Often times, as in my case, the religious community is a substitue for our broken families of origin.Idolized leave it to beaver believers... what results, ineviable, is people do what people do... display their confusion and pathological leanings to miss the mark... Finally, after a slow painful death to my / our illusions, we can give up being perfect in favoure of a peace that passes all understanding and give a big jucicy kiss to the abusuridy of our naccasistic culture while finding ways to celebrate our ONENESS....

Sometimes, as at this present moment, I feel I miss the mark by so far.

However, not one person has succeeded in this (for all fall short of the glory of God), as we are mired in carnality (sin aka «missing the mark of choosing spirituality») to this day.

She seems to have missed her mark a little, since, today, many modern women, despite the widest possible encouragement to re-educate themselves, nevertheless still desire to «adorn the gilt cage» as much as ever.

This book was like a missing piece of a puzzle, as I had already read part of the conversation in Mark Amory's collection The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, which unfortunately contains only one of Waugh's seven extant letters to Merton.

If you're constantly relying on processed carbs and refined sugars to get you through as a vego, you're missing the mark.

Michigan State QB Brian Lewerke, who entered Saturday's game vs. Michigan as the Spartans» 3rd string quarterback, will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a broken leg, Mark Dantonio shared on Sunday:

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

As it seemed as though the Gunners had missed a glorious opportunity to close the gap at the top, up stepped Welbeck to make his mark and take his side to within two points of the league leaderAs it seemed as though the Gunners had missed a glorious opportunity to close the gap at the top, up stepped Welbeck to make his mark and take his side to within two points of the league leaderas though the Gunners had missed a glorious opportunity to close the gap at the top, up stepped Welbeck to make his mark and take his side to within two points of the league leaders.

As for Mark Hughes» side, BBC Sport note that Jonathan Walters and Joe Allen are expected to join Jack Butland, Ibrahim Afellay and Stephen Ireland on the list of players missing through injury.

While «your intelligence analysis» missed the memo on your and you're as well as intelligent versus intelligence, it is not completely off the mark when evaluating the UConn vs State matchup.

He has been injured a bit this season, missing two weeks with a separated shoulder as the Flames have struggled below the.500 mark, but he is back and firing and making other people duck.

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Chelsea's Oscar is missing from the squad having not recovered from injury, and his absence could see this summer's tournament as the moment Coutinho steps out of his shadow and makes his mark on the international stage.

HERMAN HICKMAN SAYS: How much Dickie Moegle will be missed is the big question mark at Rice as Coach Jess Neely starts his 16th year with the Owls.

Aguero gets himself in loads of scoring positions, but his misses are not openly criticised as it's a mark of his quality that he finds himself in so many of those positions.

The Eagles also have to get by for a little while with Mark Sanchez, a man synonymous with turnovers and one turnover in particular, as their starting quarterback until Nick Foles can return from a broken collarbone (for reference, Aaron Rodgers missed seven weeks with the same injury last season).