Sentences with phrase «n't shape up»

Even worse, when Rambo doesn't shape up, he's banished to the basement or the backyard to live his days in solitude, or he's taken to the pound because «we just can't deal with him any more.»

I will take my student out if you don't shape up,» then those incentives are very different than when parents have no choice.»

The A Nation at Risk report warned in the starkest terms that if U.S. schools didn't shape up, the Germans and Japanese would beat our economic brains out, just as all the post-Sputnik Cassandras of the late 1950s and early 1960s warned that the Russians would win the cold war if the schools did not improve.

Here's another category where we'll have a first - time Oscar winner, though the field didn't shape up quite as planned.

Sugar Daddies may be finding themselves in need of their own benefactor if things don't shape up soon.

If it doesn't shape up quickly, like yesterday!

My problem is that I'm so nervous to over-flour the bread, but it doesn't shape up into a very nice looking ball like yours does in the pictures.

When my turn came I began by saying that I had studied up on him, too, and noted that he had previously threatened us with the wrath of God if we didn't shape up; and he interjected that he still stood by that warning.

When employee behavior or poor performance don't shape up after verbal warnings, its time to get formal.

There was a famous case with marine recruits being ordered to viciously beat a recruit who was not shaping up.

(This is not shaping up to be a good day for Rice, who was a no - show at this morning's City Hall News debate.

November is not shaping up to be a spectacular month for organic dividend growth but October was a boom with 6 different companies giving me raises.

2K claims that the game will benefit from four months of extra polish, citing an «overwhelmingly positive response from press and fans,» but should we be worried that the asymmetrical multiplayer experience isn't shaping up properly at this late stage?

But isn't there somewhere still too big an abyss of uncertainty as definitely for ten years, since 2001, maybe even since 1997 or 1998 the temperatures have not risen (and this year, at least now, is not shaping up as a hot year) while CO2 levels have grown with business as usual.

If you're not a fan of notches that dip down into a phone's display, 2018 really isn't shaping up to be your year.

Not exact matches

Sawyer is confident that his farm will move on successfully from the effects of the flooding, especially since the elevated areas of his property haven't been affected, but the weather has still been a bit of a shock to what was otherwise shaping up to be a good season.

To shape and vet the curriculum, the school has signed up a number of industry partners, including Telus, Hootsuite and Live Nation — ideally, these companies will also consider Red Academy grads for available positions, though the program doesn't guarantee employment.

Taylor says his team didn't want to use a thumbs up, so it tried a heart - shaped «like» button, much like Instagram and Tumblr use.

The company has not been shy about its ambition to eventually hold an initial public offering, and fortunately for Pivotal, its timing is shaping up right.

The changes — both announced in the last 48 hours — are only the latest in what is shaping up to be an arms race among tech companies seeking to prove themselves the most accommodating workplaces to build not just a career, but a family.

At first blush there seem to be plenty of audiophiles out there willing to trade up from an iPod to the US$ 399, Toblerone - shaped device when it becomes available in October, not to mention fork out upwards of US$ 15 for digital album downloads from Ponomusic.com for the superior audio experience it offers.

But a strange showdown is shaping up between the eurozone's powers, which can not and will not extend unconditional aid, and a country ravaged by austerity with little appetite for more.

Luckily, this did not get out of hand or cost me relationships, opportunities or my job because, of course, if I wanted to succeed at Waze, I had to shape up real quick.

«When I see Joe Montana doing an ad for Sketcher Shape Up sneakers, I don't think of Sketchers, I think what's going wrong with Joe these days?»

Unlike that time a man claimed he was served a deep - fried rat at KFC instead of a chicken tender (it ended up just being a rat - shaped piece of chicken), this Popeyes roach photo looks legit (though still potentially staged), and the company repenting on Twitter at least suggests that getting a bug in your food isn't beyond the realm of possibility.

The year 2010 wasn't terribly turbulent for tech, but 2011 is shaping up to be more of a thrill than you might expect.

One year on from the EU referendum, it is difficult to tell whether this number is shaping up to be correct: too many firms have not made public announcements, numbers have been vague and, with the terms of Brexit unclear, there are too many hypotheticals.

In some ways, this lines up with something I noted in my «Brittle Grip» series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being «intimidated» or «vilified».

Meanwhile, if you are nearing retirement and can't possibly catch up with a conventional portfolio, you can try for a «Hail Mary» with a Bitcoin investment — but understand that you will be in even worse shape if your purchase is mistimed.

Aspect Ventures believes that startups benefit from hands - on investors who can shape operations from the ground up, providing not only advice but also a network of advisers and potential hires to navigate the rocky and ever - changing path from zero revenue to tens of millions of dollars in annual sales.

But they certainly are not acting that way, and that is shaping up to be a challenge for his administration.

Whilst obviously a speculative play that is not suited to all subscribers, simply because of its low price, Smartcool Systems Inc. (SSC: TSX.V; SSCFF: OTC.MKTS; R3W: FSE) continues to shape up well, and look even more attractive than when we last looked at it on 14th March.

Take the following into account as you make your decision so that you don't wind up in worse shape than before.

Bonds and commodities aren't bouncing up or down nearly as much, which Reinhart says means the economy remains in good shape.

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

Always was and is and will ever be no matter what matters of materialized shapes to tend to seemingly clutter up His spiritual abundancy It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmologies as protruding «activists» are sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly being viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

let's see... there is the always evil getting up in the morning, having a blasphemous glass of mt dew (can't stand coffee) and doing my workout to keep in shape.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Couples should be encouraged to «shape» new desired behavior patterns in each other by affirming even very small steps toward those goals — e.g., «I really appreciate your hanging up your clothes, dear» (ignoring other messy behavior that hasn't changed).

What I don't believe in is that God is blaming us for it or telling us we need to shape up.

Or more up to date, I bet NASA doesn't talk about a spherical earth given that we now much better understand the true shape of the earth and many related parameters.

From my perspective, shaped by thinking of morality and war in just war terms, egregious violations of the rights of people caught up in a conflict constitute an injustice that is immoral not to seek to remedy.

now whip it into shape shape it up get straight go forward move ahead try to detect it it's not too late to whip it whip it good

These infantile Atheists need to grow up, & coexist peacefully like the genuine Atheists who simply ignore crosses or crescents or suns or pentacles as simply a shape that does not affect the way they think.

He made it clear from that statement that pedophile priests did not belong in the church in any way shape or form and should not be supported or covered up.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.

I don't mean some sort of epiphany that one might call enlightenment, but a kind of radical worldview change (caused by the Spirit) that shapes the way we interact with the world and causes us to take up arms for love and justice.

Surely Christianity is not in such bad shape that it must resort to using great art merely as a tool with which to tear humanity down so that we can later use Jesus to build it up again.