Sentences with phrase «more stabs at»

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As content marketing gains steam as a strategy in the marketing world, more businesses are taking a stab at building buyer personas.

President Donald Trump's tax blueprint will closely mirror his proposals on the campaign trail last year, leading some to dismiss the still - fluid plan as more of a public relations stunt than a stab at real policymaking.

The yield on 10 - year U.S. notes took a stab at the psychologically important 3 % level before pulling back on Monday as strengthening inflation prospects added to expectations of a more hawkish approach from the Federal Reserve.

Trump's blueprint will closely mirror his proposals on the campaign trail last year, leading some to dismiss the still - fluid plan as more of a public relations stunt than a stab at real policymaking.

Mrs Maguire was 61 years old and had taught at Corpus Christi Catholic College, in Leeds, for more than 40 years when Will Cornick stabbed her multiple times during a Spanish lesson on April 28 2014.

A female Religious Education teacher has died after being stabbed at a Catholic high school in Leeds... More

Some projects that take a stab at «diversity» can fall back on stereotypes, and often do more damage than if they'd just stuck to a homogenous cast.

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.

Continue roasting 2 more hours or until temperature of goose at thickest part of meat (between breast and thigh) reaches 180 degrees, or until juices run clear when stabbed.

I wish my stomach didn't hate me so much when I eat a lot of dates as otherwise I would try these out but unfortunately I get the worst stabbing pains every time I eat more than 1 date at a time.

I think the stab at the elder Fuller kind of says KC's more willing to spend money than draft picks on CB.

The Brazilian stabbed home Artur Yusupov's cross at the far post to give the Sine - Belo - Golubye their fourth Super Cup and set up the summer... [Read more...]

I would personally be much more likely to take a stab at using a urinal if everybody else couldn't see my perplexed face as I tried to figure out what I was doing.)

I'll take a stab at this but it's not a very well referenced answer, so someone with a better clue is more than welcome to provide a better one.

The WOR host was spotted Thursday at Upper East Side restaurant Philippe Chow, where he had the crowd — including Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Wyclef Jean, former Universal Motown head Sylvia Rhone and BET host TJ Holmes — in stitches recalling his support of Sharpton after the reverend was stabbed in the chest more than 20 years ago.

A trio of Democratic pols lashed out today at the Bloomberg administration during an announcement of 17 long - awaited security cameras at the Brooklyn public housing development where two children were stabbed, one fatally, more than a week ago.

The irony is thick because techniques used to insert genes from one organism into another were developed in European university labs more than 30 years ago, and the first stabs at commercial cultivation of so - called «transgenic» crops occurred in Europe's fields.

William Calvin makes an excellent stab, however, at convincing us that abrupt climatic changes had a profound impact on human evolution, selecting for increased cooperation that required more complex brains.

No doubt many groups within established Big Pharma entities are also taking a stab at this, more quietly, and with less press attention.

In other words, those messy first stabs at writing that gradually improve with practice are building neurological foundations that make learning easier and more enduring.

But now technology is offering a much more direct way to take a stab at your self - esteem — or...

Rust has always been on my list of hues to incorporate a little more into my daily wardrobe and I even took a stab at it here and here.

that being said, ill take a stab at something a little more unique.

Ron Howard's third (and weakest) stab at a Dan Brown adaptation, Inferno follows Tom Hanks» Robert Langdon as he and an emergency - room doctor (Felicity Jones» Sienna Brooks) team up to prevent a catastrophic global plot designed to wipe out more than half of the world's population.

2007: More than 20 years later, director Oliver Hirschbiegel takes a stab at a remake with «The Invasion,» in which psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) races to protect her son (Jackson Bond).

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

Undaunted in this first stab at real love, the 60ish Doris sets about dressing even more colorfully than usual and friending him via a fake Facebook identity in order to learn more about him — at one point deliberately attending the same concert by a band he and his friends are really into.

At this distance, the «Star Wars» project is harder to judge, particularly in the blizzard of confusing rumors about which movie is what — see the Gareth Edwards bit of this list for more of that — but as we noted when he was announced, his super-short «Stabbing at Leia «s» shows he loves the source materiaAt this distance, the «Star Wars» project is harder to judge, particularly in the blizzard of confusing rumors about which movie is what — see the Gareth Edwards bit of this list for more of that — but as we noted when he was announced, his super-short «Stabbing at Leia «s» shows he loves the source materiaat Leia «s» shows he loves the source material.

«Baywatch» takes a few amusing stabs at satire — Efron declares that the group's adventures sound like «a really entertaining but farfetched TV show» — but, in the end, director Seth Gordon and a cargo ship full of writers use the beachy setup as little more than a vehicle for generic hard - R and gross - out gags.

Otto Preminger's stabs at comedy are few, and none got more lethal notices than this one.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

Take a stab at which character will ultimately become more endearing.

Zant betrayed Ganondorf for sure, but from more of a «hell's heart I stab at thee» sort of thing.

for the Sandler bunch, the fact that it was a throwback to the old Hawks / Sturges brand of farcical morality play (a subgenre that has been more or less dead for decades outside of the occasional stab at it by the Coens (Intolerable Cruelty) or I ♥ Huckabees «s director David O Russell).

But, far too much of Three Billboards trumps its humanity and empathy with vicious cynicism, which makes its goal of at least partially redeeming a handful of characters feel like little more than a hollow stab at stamping some sense of humanity on a film that otherwise wallows in the worst of it.

If anything, The Crucifixion is an even more egregious misfire than other head - spinning stabs at the genre because this movie is actually based on an intriguing, horific real - life case.

For most, the choice was relatively easy since even though Eastwood's output of late has been a bit on the uneven side, he has still made more than his share of stone - cold classics and his willingness to experiment at an age when most filmmakers become increasingly entrenched in the tried - and - true, even when those experiments end up going sideways, promised something more interesting than the wooden acting and tepid stabs at «kink» that have distinguished the «Fifty Shades» films so far.

For my latest DVD / Blu - ray column, over at ShockYa, I confess how unsettling I find Channing Tatum's moustache in The Son of No One, plus take a gander at Dirty Girl, a tribute to Bernie Mac, 50 Cent's latest stab at screenwriting, the memorably titled Nude Nuns with Big Guns, and more.

I'm still trying to figure it out and don't expect to personally come to a full conclusion until more time passes, but here's my first stab at reassessing my personal Metroid ranking after Samus Returns.

Debut director Jason Zada takes a stab at claustrophobic, surreal horror and there are some fog - choked trees and ominous ice caves that nearly chill the blood, but rest assured your last camping trip packed more thrills.

Wii Party is Nintendo's first stab at the genre for the Wii since 2007's Mario Party 8, which has sold more than 7.6 million units worldwide.

More chases, shootings, stabbings and hand - to - hand conflicts continue throughout the film and although the carnage isn't explicit, we do see blood at times.

With your two companions taking hearty swings at a massive Cyclops as you climb up its back to stab its eye out — not to mention the swaths of NPC combatants massing behind you, anxious to join the fray — it's fair to say that the battles in Dogma tend more towards baroque chaos than, say, Geralt's more - considered clashes with harpies and bandits.

I do personally feel like the Metal Gear games leaving Nintendo is more of a stab in the back; but at the same time it did have it's roots there so yeah.

More a footnote to a revered career than an epic swansong, the late Alain Resnais final film takes him back to the works of Alan Ayckbourn for a third stab at adapting that most English of playwrights.

At the beginning, you can get away with putting up fences and stabbing zombies through them for the most part but as you progress and meet new kinds of creatures, things become a lot more involving.

It's been 18 months and two more viewings since I was first wowed by Andrea Arnold's sink - estate drama, and Fassbender's is the performance that reveals more at each turn: as the kindly boyfriend of the teen protagonist's neglectful mother, his delicate negotiation of the queasy divide between parental and sexual impulse gives the film its messy emotional heft, but he's responsible for some unexpected stabs of joy too.

It's a self - conscious stab at maturity for the long - running series, and one that reminds me that just because something is more mature doesn't make it better or more enjoyable.

The CALDER study takes a stab at the important question of «predictive validity» — whether candidates who achieve a certain score on the edTPA help their students learn more than those who don't.

Given its fairly humble underpinnings the Audi A3 has a fairly decent stab at being decent to drive, but it's more about being inoffensive, classy and rounded than focusing on any real dynamism.