Sentences with phrase «of pinning down»

This is a useful way of pinning down exactly what you want.

But then I realised that there might be a means of pinning him down.

«I think this study does a good job of pinning down the fact that the [Arctic sea] ice is disappearing for a whole bunch of reasons — and that is causing the surface of Greenland's melt area to increase,» Francis said.

It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color [emphasis added].»

«False Narratives» proposes multiple notions of narrative and means of creating narrative: the fact that a narrative can be implied, suggested (by), or projected (onto); and the difficulty of pinning down a particular narrative as fact, as true or false, as reliable.

«Not only addresses the obstacle of pinning down the nebulous term «contemporary art,» but also manages to pull off a legible presentation of it in a single book... Ultimately, Defining Contemporary Art functions as both a demonstration of contemporary curation and a poly - contextualized historical view.»

It was just a way of pinning down the joy of colour», he began to establish the basis for the creation of a series of works made «by a person trying to paint like a machine».

It was just a way of pinning down the joy of colour.»

Amidst the urgency of pinning down which strain was used in the letters — it turned out to be the Ames strain — he forgot about the strange similarity.

It was a matter of pinning down their direction, which requires measuring the Doppler shift in the spectrum of the light emitted by the stars.

Another way of pinning down high - profile MS academics is by flicking through a publication you will find in your library, Current Research in Britain, and a search on the Internet should come up with companies working in the field.

As Hillary Clinton's campaign focuses its attacks on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, she faces the challenge of pinning down someone who rapidly shifts positions on issues, sometimes within a single day.

This describes the fight that me and my little one just had moments ago... somehow I have the superhuman power of pinning him down with one arm and changing him with my free hand...

Not exact matches

Because endometriosis is so difficult to pin down, it makes it so that there isn't exactly a wealth of dialogue about the condition, which creates confusion.

The researchers caution that their study can't pin down exactly how much achievement is down to prior math success and how much is because of the way positivity pumps up learning in the brain.

Create a ball of rubber bands Still have some rubber bands lying around after pinning down that telephone?

So it's kind of a lower your expectations mindset, but it's still a market that I want to be involved with because, but it's just, it's not a time to bet big, you know, late cycle is a notoriously difficult part of the cycle to pin down, whereas midcycle is really the sweet spot.

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

The mythology surrounding ecoterrorism makes it hard to pin down how much of it actually happens.

Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

late cycle is a notoriously difficult part of the cycle to pin down, whereas midcycle is really the sweet spot.

Though going public is something of a rite of passage for a company of Facebook's size, it isn't easy to pin down why it's choosing this moment to do so.c It's true that, through its many private offerings, the company had acquired nearly enough investors to legally require it to make public much of the information in the IPO filing.

It's one of those concepts that is hard to pin down, yet at the same time is so important to the success of your brand.

To pin down what should really be important to investors in the long term, Cramer ticked down some of millennials» favorite sectors and companies.

That's the contention of Carson Tate, author of Work Simply, who claims to have pinned down four distinct productivity styles along with ideas on how each type of worker can best contribute to his or her team.

Moreover, the definition of «healthy» is ever harder to pin down.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Beasley bobbled the ball, but was able to come down with it after pinning it with one hand to the name on the back of his jersey.

The latest data release pins down the positions of almost 1.7 billion stars.

«While the overall effect of the 1MDB saga is hard to pin down, suffice to say that it is not something that Malaysia needs at this point, given that it already faces a number of substantial economic challenges ahead,» echoed OCBC economist Wellian Wiranto said in a note on Wednesday.

By pinning down North Vietnam during the 1960s and»70s, he said, the U.S. bought much of the rest of Southeast Asia time to develop and ward off communism.

On your timeline, find the post that you would like to pin, click the down arrow in the corner of the post, and click «Pin to Top.&raqpin, click the down arrow in the corner of the post, and click «Pin to Top.&raqPin to Top.»

Equity crowdfunding is an equally high - risk investment strategy and because it's still relatively new, pinning down an average rate of return is difficult.

It's tough to pin down the root cause of this metamorphosis, but get used to it.

Instead, write down your pin and recovery seed on a piece of paper, make copies, and store them safely in your home or at a bank.

To pin a post on your Page, click on the small down arrow in the top right corner of a published post.

It's difficult to pin down the reasons that this can be the case, and that's the primary reason that opening a restaurant is one of the riskiest business opportunities out there.

First and foremost, the nature of cyber-attacks makes it difficult to pin down those responsible.

My question... is getting peoples insights into whether to diversify some more or something different altogether... there is simply so much time ahead of him, its hard to pin down a strategy, even the Vanguard Retirement 2065 is not far enough away to accommodate the time in front of him, he'll only be 56 by then, but I want to help him and set the strategy out before I shuffle off the mortal coil so he doesn't really need to think about pensions etc. as he grows up, comments / suggestions welcome... Cheers

In the daily chart of USD / CAD below we can see multiple pin bars formed at the top of a range bound market that was most recently in a large down trend.

One challenge in pinning down a safe withdrawal rate: large additional cash flows because they plan to purchase of an RV and then sell it a few years later.

The bar that formed just after the pin bar setup moved down to the 50 % «balance point» of the pin bar, allowing for a tight entry near the 50 % balance point of the pin bar's range.

I think the 10 - yr yield, Peter and I have not discussed targets and I hate choosing targets but when I got pinned down I said,» The 10 - yr will be at 3.4 % at the end of December of this year.

And yet there are critics and commentators who are impatient with him and want him to pin down the exact date, time and pace of a slowdown in bond purchases.

While the relevant data is difficult to pin down, proof - of - work, the consensus protocol that underlies bitcoin mining, is best defined as an energy - intensive process.

Informative and accessible, J.K. Lasser's Guide to Self - Employment is designed for you, the self - employed person working alone as a service provider, to help pin down all of the tax breaks to which you may be entitled.

I think it's still one of those records to me that I can't pin down.

It IS possible to prove that a god does not exist, but you have to pin down a definition of god before trying to prove anything.

Many Christians have faith in Jesus, not faith with Jesus and I've always thought the point of Jesus and his ministry and teaching was pointing to a God that could never quite be pinned downed (hence the parables and analogies and such).

Many of these claims tend to project our own desires on a man who will always remain somewhat elusive, hard to fully understand and impossible to pin down.