Sentences with phrase «of having another crack at»

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I only wish I could have conjured up some of what helped Rae get through those meetings that day my boss cracked jokes at my expense, a grieving employee.

Students are generally short of money and have no lack of other demands on their time (though, let's be honest, plenty of college kids aren't exactly getting up at the crack of dawn to hit the books or spending every waking hour working).

Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at ESPN, the multi-billion dollar broadcasting behemoth controlling access to a huge swath of programming from almost every major sports franchise from the National Football League to Major League Baseball.

A team of researchers at UCI had been experimenting with nanowires for potential use in batteries, but found that over time the thin, fragile wires would break down and crack after too many charging cycles.

They also found chipped, cracked, and missing pieces of plastic on the onion production line; knives that were used to remove unwanted pieces of onions had initials etched into them; and blue tape that was being used to temporarily fix a cracked metal plate on a packing line where products meant for export were packed at the time of the inspection.

Trump and Sessions have also pledged to crack down on «sanctuary cities» — typically localities that limit how local authorities can work with federal immigration agents — as a way of getting at drug traffickers and gangs.

Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana, has hinted at initiating a federal crack down on state - legal marijuana businesses for the better part of a year.

You've heard the story before — the one about the entrepreneur who stays up all night, sleeps less than four hours, then gets up at the crack of dawn to crush another 80 - hour workweek.

«The FDA has been conducting a large - scale, undercover nationwide blitz to crack down on the sale of e-cigarettes specifically Juul products to minors at both brick - and - mortar and online retailers,» FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.

«The FDA has been conducting a large - scale, undercover nationwide blitz to crack down on the sale of e-cigarettes specifically JUUL products to minors at both brick - and - mortar and online retailers,» the regulator said.

And after a couple of years spent cracking down on wealth - making activities through a fierce anti-corruption campaign, Beijing could also reassure business and financial elites that it had their interests at heart.

He has still to crack 40 per cent of support at the ballot box.

We are now well into the year when I said stocks would plunge in January and would prove to be a gaping «crack» in the economy by summer, and look at how seriously the market has fallen apart since it started to drop in the last week of... [Read More]

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were met with delirious excitement by fans, many of whom had awakened at the crack of dawn — or even camped out — to buy them first.

Conspiracy charge against Lisi is related to a home invasion at the Etobicoke bungalow of Ford's former classmate, Fabio Basso, where the alleged crack video in question may have been filmed

We are now well into the year when I said stocks would plunge in January and would prove to be a gaping «crack» in the economy by summer, and look at how seriously the market has fallen apart since it started to drop in the last week of January:

Late last month, the White House said it would crack down on that behavior, outlining a series of actions aimed at punishing China for its trade barriers.

Meet Omada Health: With 87M consumers at risk of diabetes, 75,000 patients treated, 3 years of outcomes data, NetPromoter scores in the 90's, 70 + clients, and looming reimbursement by Medicare for its diabetes prevention online social network, Omada has «cracked the code» on integrating consumer technology, medical coaching and big data at scale.

«It's 2018 and I'm a woman, so you can not shut me up, unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $ 130,000,» she cracked at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents» Association on Saturday night.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

What cracks me up is the religious attack our science... we have their god pushed all the way back to TBB... they seem to lose track of the fact that their beliefs are based on, at minimum 1350 year old thinking (quaran) and somehow ancient philosophy can trump The Big Bang and the solid science that its based on.

After all of this shit and the Emergent cult and Solomon's Porch with a crack pot Pastor Doug who covers up affairs, and rationalizes divorces, and tries to have sane people admitted into mental hospitals... then instructs Steve Knight (the webmaster at Emergent Village) to wipe out all of the posts and cross posts between he and Courtney Perry's and take down her bio from the Board of Directors page and «clean up the website,» all within 24 hours of my coming to his home crying and sharing the sex emails.

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

I suppose I should have known what I was letting myself in for, but after about an hour's worth of extremely harrowing film depicting life in Nazi - occupied Poland, I finally cracked at the sight of a soldier pushing an empty pram [and at least it was empty] over the side of a railway platform.

Wouldn't be surprised at all to discover that some of them were the people who funded this crack - pot movie, and then they stir the flames higher to burn out the «Arab Spring» that threatens them all.

If any of the so called 100 pastors had even cracked the Bible with a ounce of understanding and not been so deluded that they couldn't see the facts as clear as the nose on their face then maybe we would know that they are liars or deceived or just trying to destroy a society that was at one time great.

The «protesters» are thugs and if these countries were at all civilized their police would crack down end of story.

After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.

That's what the new art and science of bioethics at the dawn of the 21st century had come down to in the end: No cracked ice for Terri Schiavo.»

While the apostle Paul doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd crack a joke or offer a sarcastic quip in a tight situation, he does share this ability to look positively at a crisis situation.

There are many other writers who have taken a crack at definitions — often with an apparent attempt to attack religion, Christianity, Alcoholics Anonymous, the «recovery industry,» addiction medicine, treatment programs, certain scholars, certain historians, and many other kinds of targets.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

And I also know that by 2:42 a.m. when all has been restored and babies are sleeping again and the window is cracked open for a bit of fresh air, when we are back in our bed and quietly groaning at how over-the-puking-thing we both are by now, it's then, when he reaches out for me and moves the hair back off my neck before resting his calloused hands on the baby still growing within me, when the baby rolls up against his palm, and he whispers, «hey, you» quietly, it's in that moment that I think the love we make or find or reimagine at the unexpected moments is still the sweetest.

Seriously u guys should listen less to d media and use ur common sense.Al - quada is an essential tool for d u.s. To extract as much oil as it can in d middle east and osama bin laden should get a memorial for himself right at d heart of DC just for being a good and patriotic american.what does d U.S want more than chaos in d mid east to stay in control of dat region, and who's serving better than bin laden in fulfilling it????!!! You guys r really sleeping or perhaps just too lazy to crack ur brains and think!

I would gladly crack some of their heads if they protest at a funeral I'm attending.

The Koran says this «Those who say: «The Lord of Mercy has begotten a son, preach a monstrous falsehood, at which the very heavens might crack...» (19:88)»

Personally I would have no issues at all with either the JWs or the LDS if they did not have the annoying habit of banging on my door at the butt crack of dawn on a Saturday morning (I suffer from Fibromyalgia and getting up early is not something I do very easily) to try to shove their religious beliefs down my throat.

One would like to think that each of us, at one time, might have been, before being saved, a «hard nut to crack» — so that spreading the gospel is not simply «putting out a statement» but, indeed, providing impassioned exhortation to the unbelievers to believe on Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

What happened during that hour was the natural culmination of my coming to faith: I had been cracked open to the divine, I read books that I would have laughed at before the cracking, and the stars lined up and there was God, and then I knew, and then I said it out loud to a third party, and then I giggled.

For a few days already now, I've been up at the crack of dawn and testing recipes with the water turned off.

All three human members of our household will lick this sauce right off the plate or eat it with a spoon, given the chance, and the cats wouldn't mind a crack at it, either.

And while corned beef usually isn't my first choice, I thought I'd take a crack at making a great sandwich out of it since St. Patrick's Day is coming up soon.

So if you'd like to get your geek on and whip up a batch of (not) Hagrid's Rock Cakes take a look at the recipe below and get cracking!

Wanting spicy bar food at the crack of dawn is a little weird, but I feel like we've all been there at some point.

I'm always so glad to see the end of the school year, not just because I'll no longer have to get up at the crack of dawn to rouse children that are dead to the world, but also because after the stressful month of May I just need to decompress.

Okay, so you know how you've been getting up every year at the crack of dawn to make cinnamon rolls for Mom's breakfast in bed?

Usually you hang your stocking on the eve of Dec 5th and if you have been VERY good, you get chocolates, an orange or tangerine, an apple, some nuts to crack and perhaps a small gift,, this is for my DH (he will get his favorite CD also) and the kids that live in town here,,,,,,, I was wondering, how would this travel, mailing from a cold state (WIsconsin) to an even colder state (Michigan), our temps have been 30's and low 20s at night and heaven knows WHAT upper Michigan has been,,,, at times, below zero (already!

One of my favorite things to do is replicate «convenience foods» at home, and for the past couple of weeks I've been seeing ads for these new breakfast cups where you just crack an...

White chocolate chips, brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla extract make this breakfast casserole taste like a sweet dessert treat, but you get to indulge and have it at the crack of dawn.