Sentences with phrase «n't pin down»

You can't pin them down.

Most results are because of a variety of reasons and you can't pin down an exact number to one specific element in the array of elements that caused the effect.

You can't pin them down on meeting days / times, agendas, project action items or end goals.

Rest is foggy (the thing fell off my hands early) but now i can't pin it down and it's annoying.

Don't know, don't care, and you can't pin me down on it.

Any way I may be off base but something doesn't feel right and I can't pin it down yet.

Because even the great academic of our time, Wikipedia, can't pin down a true definition, I can't either in so many words.

Kenneth Baker, «Artist Gets Subtle Changes with Metallic Paints that We Just Can't Pin Down,» San Francisco Chronicle, January 10, 2004

«Because everyone is different, and it's an emotive thing, you can't pin it down with a set formula.

I can't pin down how to describe it, you simply have to see it for yourself!

And if you can't pin down Amazon's volume and market growth (ignoring the even greater challenge of placing a dollar figure on it, which is what the industry is most interested in), comparing other stores» perceived volumes to Amazon is a pretty useless exercise.

Essentially, we can't pin down whether the pedagogical content was likely to be effective or not.

If you can't pin it down you sound retarded and he nailed it so good, I actually thought he was an Australian actor before I realised it was Donald Pleasance in the role.

We can't pin down the source of...

Director Steven Soderbergh is one of those filmmakers who you can't pin down to a genre.

Up to this point, I can't pin down a difference in performance based on what I've eaten recently, although I do find myself craving raw milk after a long game (probably because that's usually my biggest source of sugar / carbs).

While Dundas said the scientists can't pin down an exact age of the new ice deposits, in geological terms they appear young.

But researchers could never quite verify the theory because they couldn't pin down exactly what the cost and benefits were or study them over the many generations needed to see evolution in action.

Although the results couldn't pin down whether the neutron stars were squishy, some theories that predicted ultrasquishy neutron stars were ruled out.

People can't pin you down, and it's a wonderful thing.

I think it's still one of those records to me that I can't pin down.

«Uh-oh» moment: This was before the iPhone kicked off the mobile revolution, and Mehta couldn't pin down a revenue model.

The researchers caution that their study can't pin down exactly how much achievement is down to prior math success and how much is because of the way positivity pumps up learning in the brain.

In all my reading I could not pin down anyone more than that.

And love is a hard thing to give up, but the more I read about other religions and philosophies, the more I realized I could not pin myself down to just ONE belief, particularly not the personal deities of Western religion.

The rotation of wings between him and Walcott was not as often as Mataâ $ ™ s and Sturridgeâ $ ™ s, but I will not pin that down on him solely.

Because they were positioned at ground level, the devices could not image the reactor building basements and so could not pin down where the fuel is or its condition.

The method revealed the world's tiny size, but could not pin down its mass precisely.

Scientists have not pinned down the syndrome's cause, although another recent PLOS One study identified a possible RNA - based biomarker for its diagnosis.

You probably know the type... the «skin - and - bones» person that can't gain a pound and devours every morsel of food that isn't pinned down.

I've been busy writing my second journal article, planning a third article (or at least a third chapter in my dissertation), figuring out when to defend (sometime in the latter half of May but the date isn't pinned down yet), applying for jobs (because I have a PhD, I don't have any experience — ugh), and trying to stay sane by keeping up with my blog.

We really haven't pinned ourselves down.»

She has no connection to nationality and can not pin herself down.

So far, the rumors haven't pinned down OS, though there are two key possibilities: Windows 8 (or, more accurately, the ARM - specific breed, Windows RT) or Android.

To recap: 1) Use the Internet to track changes so you don't miss the news, and take advantage of communal advice on the strategies of any change; and 2) Review from time to time which program you belong to, and whether it has enough flexibility among its reward offers to not pin you down when changes come about.

If you can not pin down what it means for (say) a coral reef to be normal and healthy, then what on earth should we «conserve»?

Heather Eisenlord hasn't pinned down all the details of her year off, but she has some thoughts.

... The SC Bar data indicate that nominal masculinity is significantly higher in the judiciary; however, these data can not pin down whether the higher nominal masculinity in members with judicial status is due to the Portia Hypothesis or an overrepresentation of males.

Not exact matches

«It's like a blind person looking for a black cat in a dark room — it's not easy to pin down,» says Krishna.

Because endometriosis is so difficult to pin down, it makes it so that there isn't exactly a wealth of dialogue about the condition, which creates confusion.

The problem with liquidity isn't just that we have a hard time pinning down a definition, but also have a hard time measuring its presence or absence in the market.

It's not strictly a business book, but it does contextualize the Information Age and the often subtle ways in which Shannon's ideas — simple but devilishly hard to pin down — have affected everything around us.

So it's kind of a lower your expectations mindset, but it's still a market that I want to be involved with because, but it's just, it's not a time to bet big, you know, late cycle is a notoriously difficult part of the cycle to pin down, whereas midcycle is really the sweet spot.

Though going public is something of a rite of passage for a company of Facebook's size, it isn't easy to pin down why it's choosing this moment to do so.c It's true that, through its many private offerings, the company had acquired nearly enough investors to legally require it to make public much of the information in the IPO filing.

One thing he doesn't like is being pinned down.

The publisher added that Trump's penchant for frequently changing his positions on issues can be an asset because the candidate doesn't let himself be «pinned down.»

«While the overall effect of the 1MDB saga is hard to pin down, suffice to say that it is not something that Malaysia needs at this point, given that it already faces a number of substantial economic challenges ahead,» echoed OCBC economist Wellian Wiranto said in a note on Wednesday.

How Alexa and Echo are doing as a business is impossible to pin down precisely: Amazon, which is famously reticent to specify sales in units, has not disclosed how many Echo devices it's sold or how many users Alexa has.

My question... is getting peoples insights into whether to diversify some more or something different altogether... there is simply so much time ahead of him, its hard to pin down a strategy, even the Vanguard Retirement 2065 is not far enough away to accommodate the time in front of him, he'll only be 56 by then, but I want to help him and set the strategy out before I shuffle off the mortal coil so he doesn't really need to think about pensions etc. as he grows up, comments / suggestions welcome... Cheers

I think the 10 - yr yield, Peter and I have not discussed targets and I hate choosing targets but when I got pinned down I said,» The 10 - yr will be at 3.4 % at the end of December of this year.