Sentences with phrase «not be some dicey»

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If the negotiations had not foundered on the issue of how to safeguard farmers from surges in agricultural imports, Canada's delegation could have been caught in a politically dicey position over agricultural marketing boards.

As Claire noted, you can't use the previous batch as a starter indefinitely for regular pasteurized milk yogurt, and it's even dicier for raw milk yogurt.

Rosicky is dicey», I wan na keep him but if he won't get game time and If he wants to leave to another club for game time, then we should respect Him» the same way Cech left (that is if Rosicky wants to go)....

They'll argue otherwise, but committing to a major in some of those locales is dicey that time of year and may be a risk that they're not willing to take when considering future venues.

That's not something we needed the benefit of hindsight to complain about; it looked dicey at the time.

Whether McGregor got involved or not, it was still dicey matchmaking.

Plus the response to a provocative and dicey situation like this isn't decided upon unilaterally by the communications director, and in fact he / she is quite likely to have almost no say over it.

Admittedly, it's a dicey case to make because, like the divorced women I know who claim they wouldn't have done anything differently, because then they wouldn't have Biff and Buffy, I, too, can't imagine life without my magical son.

During the first several years of our marriage, however, becoming parents was either physically impossible, or emotionally dicey; we simply were not ready.

Normally I don't diagnose a lot of breastfeeding issues because I feel like that's something that's tricky and also a little dicey to do when you're not in the same room as the persona with the problem.

Putting fish in a lunchbox is a little dicey - there's always the risk that by lunchtime the fish smell will be overpowering not only your child but everyone else as well.

Dicey notes that «the word has often a different sense in conversation» so perhaps the tendency to conflate Parliament and the House of Commons is not a new one.

Acts of Parliament can't bind Parliament, in that they can always be «unmade» (to use Dicey's wording).

Trying to navigate a dicey issue for a Democrat running for governor, Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that public - employee pensions are «disproportionate,» but he wouldn't go so far as to back a plan to shift more of the cost — and risk — to workers.

Steve: Through the end of the book you start to talk about, and it's a very dicey proposition, but an actual diagnosis of either autism or Asperger's syndrome for Dirac, and [why don't you] talk about what you think about that.

Given what's happened since the Deepwater Horizon drill platform exploded on 20 April, the claim that things couldn't get worse in the Gulf of Mexico seems pretty dicey.

I was there for about four weeks and I spent one of those weeks with the a young group of engineers, and I went back to a couple of the sites I had visited on my first trip, including the Quds power plant which is north of Baghdad; it goes through some kind of dicey neighborhood, so the trip from the Green Zone to Quds is always a bit of hot charger; so we went up there in these Reva vehicles, these heavily armored South African Reva vehicles; and much to my amaze [ment], when I found that they had gotten some of their power plants started; they hadn't been able to run when I was there in 2005.

Trusting a restaurant not to improve the flavor by adding SOS is dicey.

Plus, it's a relief not to have to explain away those dicey innuendos so often slipped into animated fare.

His hired killer is a pot - bellied, nest - haired wreck, raising the question: Is cultivating the «gutter - sleeping hobo» look really the best way for a hit man to slip in and out of dicey situationis a pot - bellied, nest - haired wreck, raising the question: Is cultivating the «gutter - sleeping hobo» look really the best way for a hit man to slip in and out of dicey situationIs cultivating the «gutter - sleeping hobo» look really the best way for a hit man to slip in and out of dicey situations?

Her clue - gathering gains momentum and there won't be any spoilers here but a number of dicey hazards and run - ins with at least two ectoplasmic entities add to the narrative rather nicely.

From the first 30 seconds when all is quiet, until the end credits roll, and then some, there is virtually not a moment when guns arenâ $ ™ t firing, people arenâ $ ™ t running, either towards them or away, and the hero of the piece, Mr. Smith (Clive Owen, isnâ $ ™ t coolly in charge of even the diciest situation.

I recently had a conversation with someone about Michael Moore and why he has a dicey professional reputation, and the answer — not to put the filmmaker on the couch — was interesting.

Buying a car on the internet can be a dicey proposition, but not so at Law Auto Group.

I got the Rover Sport stopped and switched places with the Land Rover instructor, only to find that we couldn't move forward — and backwards was going to be dicey.

Thirty - degrees doesn't sound like a very steep angle but if you have ever done any off - road driving, then you know it can be dicey.

Quick direction changes somewhat upset the 4,100 - pound FX, so tight hairpins and quick switchbacks were a bit dicey if not taken with care.

Yes, you do have control over this, but oh dearie me, this is slicey dicey stuff that shouldn't be left in the fingers of the neophyte.

I think where this gets dicey is when we let the worst case scenarios blind us to other options that while not common or ideal are still viable and WAY better than giving up entirely!

Again like a true Briton, facing facts eventually and not forever denying them, Dicey was jolted by the famous Arlidge case 1 into writing an exposition of its deep significance.

You're trying to refinance, but your credit is dicey and you don't have much home equity.

Similarly, within stocks, it's pretty clear that smaller companies and emerging markets are dicier propositions than blue chip companies, so it seems reasonable to expect some extra return — even if the extra return from small stocks isn't as great as history suggests.

This is not suitable for new traders as it is very dicey.

Selling add - on issues of common stock is a very dicey game for most managements whose companies are not benefiting from the presence of speculative bubbles such as existed in 1998 and 1999.

Remaking a classic that has dominated the childhoods of so many gamers is a dicey move that requires very strict adherence to tradition and updating but not changing the original medium.

Pre-orders are usually a pretty dicey affair, but if you were keen on Dead Rising 3 anyway, $ 38 is not too shabby.

Third - party emulation has always been a dicey issue for hardware and software manufacturers alike as it offers access to content people may not legally own, but that's about to change in the case of Wii emulator Dolphin, which has become so adept at emulating Nintendo's decade - old console that it can access the official Wii Shop Channel and directly purchase games from Nintendo.

The problem is that playing games made before 2005 is an increasingly dicey proposition and not just because of the prohibitive cost of vintage hardware and games.

Gwaul just couldn't finish existing tasks and new ones were pretty dicey.

What gets really dicey is when the geometry and structures in his later works get so chaotic and convoluted that we begin to glean a kind of dark matter of mathematics, things that don't fit the script but are there nevertheless.

We are not talking about fine - tuning the climate system, but of altering the weather and that is a dicey proposition at best.

I understand that humor is a dicey business for a professional physicist to engage in but still I can't help myself.

If, for the sake of discussion, measuring the year - by - year temperatures and coming up with anamolies that add up to 0.7 degrees over 100 years or so is dicey, measuring reliably the even finer temperature gradient one meter, five meters, 100 meters, whatever, has to be damn near physically impossible, is it not?

Historical data are not questioned when it comes to «anecdotal (or reported) evidence» of battles of WWII, for example, and it is inconceivable to me that climate scientists give higher weighting to dicey paleo - climate studies than to historical documentation.

Where it gets dicey from an ethical perspective is that Cook set up the forum (using his own software, so it wasn't like he pushed the wrong button and it happened on its own), so he clearly knew that independence of raters had been violated, yet he as clearly stated that the ratings had been done independently in his paper: «Abstracts were randomly distributed via a web - based system to raters with only the title and abstract visible.

But the subjective interpretation of dicey paleo proxy data taken from carefully selected periods of our geological past A) and B) is not much better.

Measurements of ocean alkalinity are so rudimentary and dicey, that we can not say with any certainty where the «missing» CO2 is going quantitatively.

Too bad we don't even know if there is an ongoing energy imbalance of the Earth system, because the data we have are so dicey and mixed and the uncertainties so great

Isn't it a little dicey then trying to get ahead of the global warming curve at * precisely * the time that:

In the absence of a codified constitution, it is necessary for us to turn to constitutional convention or, as Dicey termed them, the «understandings, habits or practices which, though they may regulate the conduct of... officials, are not in reality laws at all since they are not enforced by the courts» (An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1959) 10th edn, Macmillan, p 24).