Sentences with phrase «not tacked down»

Not exact matches

Tack on waning consumer sentiment — the latest Conference Board consumer confidence survey puts consumer optimism at 90, down nine points from its Ocotber reading — and it's hardly surprising owners aren't feeling super positive right now, Vitner says.

Should I tell them that what draws me to the keyboard each morning is not a sense of moral responsibility but an uncontrollable drive to hunt down my scattered thoughts and tack them down with words?

So don't worry that the book will be watered - down version of the blog or a cheesy devotional book with «for women» tacked to the end.

Now we're down to the brass tacks: I don't go to conferences because I can not afford to go to conferences.

«We're already going to back our tack (that gauges speed) down for tomorrow, so we won't have the speeding penalty,» Busch said.

And if that sounds like it was a focused - grouped decision, it probably is, but maybe that's the joy of licensing from Big & Rich: tack on an extra rapper and a fuzz pedal to «City,» and it's not like you turned «Sunday Morning Coming Down» into dubstep.

Getting down to tin tacks - I can promise the ramifications of me not breastfeeding my nurslings in - flight are for more intrusive and offensive to those on board than those of me breastfeeding them.

Dr. Danny Singley: So we cover things like that in the expectant dads class and we also get down to real brass tacks like you know, folks want to know about Core Blood Banking and getting a Doula, a midwife or daddy nesting...

In his moment of victory, Ed Miliband will have to face down the «red Ed» charge — that he won the election by appeasing the unions and tacking to the Left, which is where his party feels comfortable but the wider electorate does not.

The only caveat: Not everyone should be dropping down chest - to - ground, or tacking on a sky - high jump at the end.

i try to tack it onto a trip to a location where i haven't been: almost like a warm - up or a cool - down to the vacation.

Their love lives are probably discussed entirely too much for Disney's comfort, but the pair gets down to brass tacks more often than not; for what it's worth, this is the first time I can recall hearing of a film getting longer as a result of the test - screening process — a lot of Bartha's performance was rescued from the cutting - room floor after preview audiences responded favourably to his character.

This isn't to put down the film's first half, which sets up a genuinely distinctive near - future world (where Johnson's retro trappings make narrative sense, rather than feeling tacked - on), introduces two tremendous sides of the same coin in the performances from Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon - Levitt, plenty of intriguing philosophical dilemmas, and a grisly hall - of - fame demise for Paul Dano «s character.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent montNot as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent montnot that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

But when you get down to brass tacks, the powertrain's not half bad.

When it comes down to brass tacks, we're not sure what the Surface Mini will look like — or if it's even happening — until May 20.

It's true that advances haven't necessarily gone down, but it's also true that they haven't gone up, despite the fact that the publisher has tacked on a new primary right.

And if you do not put 20 percent down on the home from the start, you may also have private mortgage insurance (PMI) tacked on every month.

The wording in this and the linked articles capitalizes «The Humane Society» and does not specify whether they are referring to a LOCAL Humane Society, or the horrible lobbyist organization The Humane Society of the United States, which spends most of their donations in court lobbying to have Animal Rights bills tacked on to legislation and keep people from owning pets, while at the same time putting down any animals they get their hands on instead of finding them proper homes.

Where the first The Crew had the ambition and scope to transplant a racing game into a scaled down open world approximation of the United States, so many things didn't sit right with me, from the handling model to the overly serious story tacked onto it.

Before I get down to brass tacks, however, those who haven't played it already need the skinny on what L.A. Noire is all about.

I will confess to not getting down to direct and compelling brass tacks as you've suggested, although I can also confide that those exact thoughts are going through my mind every time I answer a doorbell to a smiling face & clipboard, or see a number I don't recognize on Call Display.