Sentences with phrase «much closer call»

With mortgage rates so low, whether to make early payments on mortgage debt has become a much closer call than it used to be.

Explore its dynamics and you make more sense of its handling and feel, and while it isn't as finely honed as the ST200, it's a much closer call than first impressions would suggest.

The Senate is proving to be a much closer call.

Those were, I think, much closer calls.

Not exact matches

In the closing moments of the talks, Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been in Paris for much of the talks, called the deal «a remarkable global commitment.»

That's especially true on Sundays, when RBC's much - hyped investment in meeting consumer needs, whenever and however people want, is closed — just like in the good old days, when banks were called banks.

The move is a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy — a signal that consumers and businesses don't need quite as much help via monetary policy now that the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.6 percent, close to what economists call full employment.

He values it so much that when he launched his new messaging app for college students, called Islands, he rented a space in student housing at the University of Western Ontario so he could be closer to his potential customers.

«I've had several close calls while driving since my lifestyle changed so much.»

Some of the money is coming back from digital spending, and some of it is being moved from TV's so - called «scatter» market, when advertisers pay for commercials much closer to their air date.

For example, if the stock is callable at $ 100 and the shares are trading very close to that (say, at $ 99), the likelihood that the stock will be called soon is much higher than if the stock were trading at $ 89 (further away from the strike price).

Closing lesson for today Mikey, as soon as a person has to resort to name calling then he or she has pretty much failed and lost the discussion.

The author quotes scripture and closes with the following statement: «Maybe this Christmas season, we can reflect not so much on whether or not Jesus was white and instead consider what it meant for him to be called the «light» of the world.»

When a mornon kills a gentile, the mormon believes he / she will get more glory and be closer to the supreme god or what ever they call him, and if mittens can nuke russia and china, and they both return the favor, how much more glory can any mormon in history ever have??? Dan thinks Im nutso for thinking about this issue, as time has evolved mormons thinking as now they allow black people in where they never did before.

after much thinking the calts called the Denisova the Elves (the children o Danu) and the Neanderthal the Fomorii (children of Danu) we were hums (the children of MIll) in their mythological text making the pretanic religion older and with a biblical story of the creation making them closer to the true religion,... what the mahabharata is an older text what the book of Tets has an even older creation

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

I miss so much about her - those moments when we laughed or cried at the same things; our pet names for each other («I love you, Anna Banana,» we'd say); and how we would end our nightly calls by pressing our palms to our phones and whispering, «Hands on,» our mantra for always staying close.

The goal of sharing the gospel, of course, is to draw a person closer to Jesus, whether they are already a «Christian» or not, for Christians need to hear gospel truths just as much as so - called «non-Christians.»

Today in the markets of Vladivostok you can purchase homemade European - style sau kverkraut (mild - tasting, slightly soured white cabbage known as kislaia kapusta, and stronger, more fermented white cabbage called kvashenaia kapusta), as well as sauerkraut's ancient (and much more pungent) close cousin, Korean kimchi.

Broccoli rabe is also called Italian turnip, which is actually a more accurate name, as it is botanically much closer to turnips than it is to broccoli — like first cousins versus third cousins thrice removed — though they all belong to the big Brassicaceae family.

Three years and 19 defeats later, the close call against Post stings that much more.

But one thing i will like to add is the lack of quality in the middle of the park because our much loved almighty Lord Santi as i love calling him is without doubt going to be out for a while and might not perform close to the level he is capable of, so what i think we need is quality to pair with either Xhaka / Coquelin in a young and talented midfieder called Alexandre Golovin (the CSKA MOSCOW and RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL) as i think he is worthy to put on the Arsenal jersey.

Now, the system calls for much lighter penalties for signing teams, and even then, the teams have to be over the tax threshold, which means free agents are much closer to free than ever.

He really hasn't shown much on the field outside of one phenomenal catch he hasn't even come close to reproducing and his own coach is calling him out in the media.

KEY FACT: This is the first top - flight encounter between Huddersfield and Brighton MATCH ODDS: Huddersfield 17/10 Draw 21/10 Brighton 2/1 bet365 Pick: Half time score 0 - 0 @ 6/5 ANDY SAYS: Home win here for me, be close but think Town will win... 2 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: Hard not to see SILKY SAYS: Tough one to call, but will just side with Huddersfield... 2 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: At 64p, Solly March is very much one to watch for Brighton

Huddersfield are without Nahki Wells, Jonathan Hogg, Martin Cranie and Jon Stankovic KEY FACT: Huddersfield's last top - flight match was in April 1972 and was also away at Crystal Palace MATCH ODDS: Palace 4/5 Draw 12/5 Huddersfield 15/4 ANDY SAYS: Be an interesting one this, and I think my old club might get held here — 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: Such a tough call, how do Palace play under De Boer, I will give them the benefit of the doubt — 2 - 1 SILKY SAYS: Be a close game this one, but I fully expect Palace just to have too much — 2 - 1 LADBROKES PICK: Crystal Palace and under 2.5 goals @ 21/10 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Christian Benteke is still a class performer and for us could still be a very good addition to your portfolio

It was a bit close to call if you would survive or not last season but you did and the team looks much more prepared for the coming season.

By: Meika Rouda I didn't think much about getting older, all the cliches about midlife crises and affairs and sports cars and a deep reflection on how happy one is and whether life would be better if (fill in the blank)... So I was blindsided last weekend when one of my closest friends called me in -LSB-...]

I don't know the right call here, but be prepared to make a lot of judgment calls about how much close contact the adoring - but - coughing big sister can have with the new baby.

Cuomo has been negotiating behind closed doors with legislative leaders over an ethics bill for weeks now (much to the chargin of the NY Times editorial page, which called over the weekend for these talks to go public).

«Patronage in Nassau is much more of a terminal cancer than a common cold,» said Muir, who called for residents to pay close attention to the new administration.

And what's in all this talk of cliques, of entryism and movementism (your own version of what I called above «affective language»), of closed versus open and so forth except so much hot air?

Governor David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Leader Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (all Democrats) reached an agreement behind closed doors to repeal much of what is left of the draconian drug laws that govern the state — ones that were passed in the seventies during a heroin epidemic in urban areas and are commonly called the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

«They call Pete a turncoat, but I don't see the Democratic Party doing much for Hispanics,» says Felix Rosado, an accountant who has been one of Espada's closest friends for 38 years.

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

We're not ready to call for an outright rejection of the proposal yet, but the state's math — and the long - term ramifications — regarding a two - year property - tax freeze need much closer scrutiny.

Assemblymen Jeff Aubry and Sean Ryan plan to introduce a bill today that would close the so - called carried interest loophole, which allows fund managers to pay a substantially reduced federal tax rate on much of their income.

But a source close to the Senate Dems called Heastie's tweet «a strange choice given how much is at stake in only three weeks.»

All too often, deals continue to get cut behind closed doors and rank - and - file lawmakers are called upon, sometimes in the dead of night, to cast votes on bills they are given little time to read, much less vet.

Several sources, including people close to her, said she is strongly considering mounting an official campaign, making calls to legislators across the state and seeing how much support she has from Brooklyn to Buffalo.

After years of calls by scientific leaders for young scientists to become independent much earlier, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has put its money — close to half a billion dollars, thus far — where its mouth is.

And second, younger stars often have planets — including the massive so - called hot Jupiters — orbiting much closer than Mercury does to the sun.

But smaller - scale bursts called terrestrial gamma - ray flashes (TGFs) can occur much closer to home, erupting thousands of times a year in association with lightning strikes during storms in Earth's atmosphere.

The team discovered that a protein called Sema3a is produced much more abundantly by astrocytes close to motor neurons than by astrocytes from other regions in the spinal cord.

But it wasn't outdoor air causing the greatest risk; it was something much closer to home: A chemical, called p - dichlorobenzene, found in many inexpensive toilet deodorizers and moth repellents in bathrooms and closets.

Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle alien suns.

They know that too much of a protein called mucin causes the lungs» airways to close, triggering an asthma attack, but until now, the mechanism behind this was unknown.

«This planetary system is much closer than any other that we know so detailed investigation is easier,» astronomer Ansgar Reiners, with the University of Gottingen in Germany, told reporters on a conference call.

outdoorsy, loves fishing, canoeing (i am close to a very nice river called north fork river) hunting, gardening, and trying to get back to basics as much as i can.my ideal partner in life would be an all natural, hirsute female who isnt afraid of what people think...

American Wedding feels a bit too much like the closing chapter in a series, where the ideas (if bodily function jokes can be called ideas) are starting to wear out and the characters may have gone as far as they can possibly go.