Sentences with phrase «of calling the shots»

This isn't news, but Sports Illustrated's Tim Layden did an absolutely masterful job of calling his shot in January 1996 in his piece titled Headed for a fall?

I am thinking that it just HAS to be the people in charge of calling the shots with the fashion over at Anthro.

For years they've been accused of calling the shots in our nation's classrooms.

-- Beth Gainer, author of Calling the Shots in Your Medical Care, bethgainer.com.

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

Netflix's head of programming, Ted Sarandos, did use the call Monday evening to shoot down one frequent rumor about the company, while declining to address another.

But following a string of mass shootings and nationwide calls for gun control in recent weeks, Bumble is setting plans in motion to ban images of firearms for its nearly 30 million users.

At the core of every SEO campaign is at least one person calling the shots.

When I was a technology entrepreneur doing startups, I kept having the experience that doing things the traditional way — a lot of advanced planning, raising a lot of money upfront, really making sure you call your shot — that didn't really work for me.

The games themselves were rudimentary, while licensors and wireless carriers called the shots and took most of the money.

As the six - person Paladin crews, which were partaking in an exercise called Bulldog Focus, waited for the go - ahead to test fire, they showed me a dry run of how it loads and shoots.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink took a shot at cryptocurrency bitcoin on Friday, calling it an «index of money laundering.»

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

As a result, you'll find Gharegozlou near the bottom of the page, but he is calling the shots.

In the wake of the shooting of two journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, in Roanoke, Virginia, many people on Twitter and Facebook have called for an end to autoplay.

Within a matter of minutes, Twitter users had identified him in one of the eyewitness videos — clearly not involved in the shooting — even as the police message was being retweeted tens of thousands of times, and TV news channels were still calling him a suspect.

The green - shoots predictions and pronouncements are simply meant to talk up the market and make everyone «feel» richer in the hopes of igniting the so - called confidence fairy.

Unlike Alberta, where major oil and gas firms are based right in Calgary, the managers of the Colorado drilling companies he approached all said that their Houston - based head offices called the shots.

One of Shahid's first tasks was getting Malala's story told in a book, called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Little, Brown and Company, 2013).

FedEx Corp. is maintaining discounts for members of the National Rifle Association, even as calls for a boycott mount on social media after a deadly school shooting in Florida.

ABC was slammed by fans of the show for what they called a «manipulative» unedited shot of the breakup.

An online petition calling for the Vancouver - based outdoor retailer to stop selling Vista Outdoor Inc. - owned brands has garnered more than 20,000 signatures because the company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of rifle used in a recent school shooting.

Given the state of the country, «Far Cry 5» feels like something made for an alternate reality where mass shootings aren't common, where there isn't a raging culture war between so - called Red and Blue states, where there isn't yet another misinformed scapegoating of violent video games unfolding.

Called Baxter, it is a humanoid robot that has the potential to be everything Brooks was shooting for: a breeze to use, capable of handling any number of basic assembly - line jobs, and ridiculously cheap.

While Nikolas Cruz — who shot and killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14 — did not use a bump stock, calls to ban or regulate the attachments have resurfaced in the wake of the school shooting.

The virtual reality short, called «Pete's Dragon: Elliot's Flyover,» was shot with Nokia's newly released OZO 360 - degree camera to capture the mountains, skies, and canyons of New Zealand.

Absent regulations, network owners get to call all the shots, from the rates MVNOs can effectively charge to the types of phones they're allowed to sell.

Murphy was joined by more than 30 Democratic colleagues on the floor, many of whom angrily told stories of mass shootings in their own states and called for action.

In less than 24 hours, the advocacy group Equality Florida has raised more than $ 2 million for the victims of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club called Pulse that left 50 dead and more than 50 injured over the weekend.

Isn't one of the joys of being an entrepreneur that you get to call the shots?

The center of the cord is gray matter — essentially an extension of the brain, like a tail — that is sheathed in fibrous white matter, with long, thin nerve fibers called axons shooting out at intervals to wire every part of the body.

At 700 yards in, one of them stepped off the trail, and Hathcock took what he calls the best shot he ever made.

Hours after the news broke on Sunday, President Obama addressed the nation and called the mass shooting «an act of terror.»

And he finally said... He called me up and said we're on the last day of a picture and then the last day of the picture if you'll come out I'll just shoot some film on you and nobody will know the difference and then you can see what you look like and all that kind of thing.

Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, decried the spate of shootings, including the most recent murders of police in Baton Rouge, and she called for criminal justice reform.

One official characterized the incident to The Post as involving «the fog of war» and said that one accidental shot could have caused what police call «contagious fire» amid the chaos of the day.

Called Lily, the gadget walked away with one of show's Best of Innovations awards in Unmanned Systems and Accessories for its «throw - and - shoot,» a technology designed to catch video of you without the need for any controls.

Users were quick to call out the application, which shot to fame earlier this year by allowing users to create images of themselves that altered their age or gender using artificial intelligence.

«Gun shots were just like crazy,» one caller outside the club told 911 operators, according to partial transcripts of the calls that were released on Tuesday.

The surprise acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the shooting death of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle set off a firestorm of outrage Thursday night, as top conservatives and critics of so - called «sanctuary cities» pinned blame for Steinle's death on illegal immigration and insufficiently aggressive deportation policies.

After meeting the scholarship student, the amount of money the average call center employee raised in a week shot up 142 percent and the number of minutes spent on the phone went up 171 percent.

Mark V. Eberhard, a lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserves, was raising capital with a partner to start a chain of commercial shooting ranges when he was called up for duty in 2002.

MEC doesn't sell guns, but has faced a petition calling on it to stop selling brands owned by Vista Outdoor because the U.S. company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of weapon used in a recent mass shooting in Florida.

Political stats guru Nate Silver pointed at the fences and called his shot this year, and since the election, his book The Signal and the Noise skyrocketed to the top of the charts.

High - profile technology executives have called for increased gun control in the wake of the shooting at YouTube's headquarters that left at least three people injured and the suspect shooter dead.

The 19 - year - old pop star led a $ 1.1 million seed round for the new social network called Shots Of Me, which is scheduled to launch later this week by the founders of RockLive gameOf Me, which is scheduled to launch later this week by the founders of RockLive gameof RockLive games.

Other CEOs don't even call the shots — they might be indentured to a group of equity investors with a majority share of the company.

Though the two leads get along and stuck around in the end, it's the people calling the shots who might actually be the biggest source of friction.

Kitsch also did so much research on Koresh that some of his ideas made it into the scripts, such as the fact that Koresh calls his mom after he is shot.

In response to the shooting, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the Confederate flag that stands on the grounds of the state capitol to be taken down.