Sentences with phrase «of dicey»

Then come the subjective interpretations of dicey paleoclimate data from cherry - picked periods in our geological past.

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.

Yet there are historical records, which can give us far better information than these subjective interpretations of dicey proxy reconstructions.

It could be a comic trap but a narrative of a dicey symbiosis lurks behind.

Your followers can even get you out of a dicey situation, depending on their abilities.

The high waves and wind make for great surfing, but make swimming kind of dicey.

These days, bailouts, federal intervention and regulation seem to be the way out of any dicey situation we find ourselves in (as a nation).

Still, that — and a handful of dicey plot holes — aside, this is all fun all the time, a dizzying carnival of wisecracks, fisticuffs, explosions, chases and truly eye - popping effects.

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.

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 situations?

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.

It's a bit of a dicey question for a politician seeking support on Staten Island, but a reasonable topic and important in both transportation planning and broad budgeting for Staten Island services.

The cheerfully confident and calm parent can smooth over a host of dicey situations.

The schedule is all sorts of dicey — home games against Auburn and Florida State, road trips to Louisville, Virginia Tech, NC State, and South Carolina — but that might serve to keep expectations loose.

This pumpkin spice latte doesn't come from Starbucks, and it DEFINITELY doesn't cost four dollars, and instead of dicey «pumpkin» flavoring and artificial sweeteners, it contains pumpkin — actual pumpkin!

For USC, it seems like a bit of a dicey proposition.

this is one of the diciest issues with DIY and self publishing.

Not exact matches

In other situations, such as trying to extrapolate numbers on current trends or predicting the tipping point of technologies, things get a bit dicier.

We sifted through reports from Glassdoor to find some of the trickiest, and diciest, interview questions Goldman has to offer.

Ron Carson, a CFP and CEO of Carson Wealth Management Group, thinks conservative investors should not take on credit risk given the dicey economy.

While the bill's authors are tweaking the legislation to try to appeal to some of the wavering members, the political calculus is dicey.

Dudas, a partner at Vertical Research, refers to the emerging asset class as a «dicey investment» — citing the amount of fast money flowing into the space and the lack of regulation.

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.

The danger of failing to hold the line on any of these three big issues has to be deeply worrisome for Freeland, and there are many other dicey issues on the table.

Pruitt is the subject of no fewer than 10 ethical investigations, as reports about his extravagant spending, taxpayer - funded flights, and dicey living situation have come to light.

While companies have different rules about relationships between employees — some prohibit them, while others require disclosure — Uber is in a dicey spot right now and any revelations of an out - of - control company culture, especially by top execs, are problematic at this time.

No. 1 diciest was Houston (22 percent chance of price declines within two years) followed by San Antonio (20.3 percent); Tampa - St.

With the 1 MDB debacle behind them the Swiss private banks have concluded the dicey last leg of their tie - up.

Orange County was the riskiest market in the region — if having a 4 percent risk of a price decline in the coming two years is what you consider dicey.

After a long period of leaking retail clients, it's a dicey bet on continuity.

But it's a dicey issue, and wrongly accusing an employee of stealing — whether it's a bartender or a bookkeeper — can lead to serious ramifications for your business.

There will probably be some kind of hardware involved (Dugan suggested it might be glasses, similar to Google's failed Google Glass experiment from a few years ago) and wearable tech has always been a dicey prospect.

So for understandable reasons, educators retreat from the hard and dicey work of acknowledging and working with these differences.

With food the center of attention, Thanksgiving can be a bit dicey when it comes to the...

It's a bit of a project, but worth it if you have the time and are in the mood for a slicey - dicey sort of afternoon in the kitchen.

All were delivered in the snow late Monday afternoon which, if a little dicey, was a lot of fun.

Overhanging limbs of a large tree forced a layup that left a dicey downhill lie in deep rough above a green - side bunker.

Collins inherits a front seven with proven playmakers (and dicey experience on the line, at least outside of the projected starting four) and an unimpeachable secondary.

I think building a strong OL and knowing how to preserve yourself (going down for a sack, sliding, heading out of bounds) when things get dicey is most important.

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.

It would be dicey to draw conclusions about the probable outcome of the Tyson trial in light of the Smith verdict.

If it gets a little «dicey,» KC could trade up in the 2nd to get one of them.

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

That's the point at which the NCAA's governing delays of game start to make it dicey as to whether a suspended game like this one will actually get played.

There would surely be plenty of other suitors though so the fact that Madrid's keeper situation is looking dicey, with Casillas having left and them maybe having to wait until next summer to get David De Gea.

Things got dicey for NYC FC in the middle of the first half as Andrea Pirlo went down with a knee injury, but Frank Lampard barely got warmed up before the Italian legend went back onto the Yankee Stadium pitch.

All of these squads are still capable of grabbing a top seed come Playoff time, but they must be careful as a couple losses down the stretch could land them in dicey territory.

It's definitely getting the Tour into dicey territory, but FedEx is putting a ton of money into their organization.

Not only does he represent the future of the team, the present might get dicey if he keeps sitting.

It's dicey to paint all of us in one swath.