Sentences with phrase «of scattergun»

Instead of a scattergun approach to marketing (least effective), businesses can use targeted pull - marketing (most effective).

This is a cue to deliver a whole range of scattergun attacks, including a commitment to hold the referendum on the Lisbon treaty - despite the fact it's already been ratified.

Pies verdict: Can't see him going to Spain, and Chelsea's interest smacks of scattergun desperation.

That does not mean that I agree with the sort of scattergun spending we have seen from the likes of Chelsea, Man City, Tottenham and more in the last 10 years, but if the boss decides that a player is right for Arsenal then should he just cough up the cash and stop trying to buy champagne at lemonade prices?

Not exact matches

US President Donald Trump's decision to levy import tariffs on steel and aluminium typifies the administration's scattergun approach to trade policy: many victims, a lot of friendly fire and hitting all the wrong targets.

Now it's a scattergun case of «oh will you sell us your best attacker on the cheap because we are selling our best player»

So the scattergun policy of last summer never sat comfortably with me.

The approach that both Moyes and LVG adapted seemed to be scattergun in nature, a mix of last - minute gambles and questionable marquee signings that either failed to make the grade or were incorrectly used.

[76] It was described by The Daily Telegraph's economics editor as «an inventive, scattergun approach to growth that half - ticked the demands of every policy commentator, wrapped together under the Chancellor's banner of Britain as an «aspiration nation».»

This deliberately scattergun approach helps Gillespie avoid the straitjacket of chronology that is so stifling in most sports movies.

It isn't only lobbyists being targeted in Reitman's somewhat scattergun approach, however, with Hollywood execs copping a backhander in an amusing scene in which Naylor and Jeff Megall (Hollywood producer, played by Rob Lowe) compete to see how low each is prepared to go in their search for the perfect star - powered vehicle to reform the image of cigarettes.

Learning by interacting with a bot is targeted, not the scattergun, one - size - fits - all approach of the e-learning course.

The equipage of war hung by leather belts, pistols and knives and back - slung scatterguns of all gauges.

We are told that these scattergun releases are due to «publisher request» Now Harmonix have been hounding SCEE to release these since the first pack in January, do we really believe that after * five months * of trying to get SCEE to release the first of these tracks they decided themselves to release on Friday instead of Wednesday?

His instinctive and scattergun approach to collecting makes for a show that's wildly energetic and enthralling: an eerie cowhide and resin installation (Nandipha Mntambo's Enchantment) stands erect and proud like a regal spectre in the middle of the space; it mingles with arresting monochrome portraits of children with cement dust faces by Mário Maculau; a comedic and surreal ink drawing of a goat at an office desk by Ato Malinda; a sweet and naively rendered mixed media work by Richard Kimathi depicting a couple, the man delineated through a pistol on his crotch.

It's interesting to compare Impressionism to the Pre-Raphaelites but once we cross into the the 1900s the art movements come thick and fast, resulting in some galleries with a jarring scattergun of styles.

A former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research and the author of numerous publications on the subject, Gish is well - known for relishing confrontational publicly staged debates with evolutionists, employing a technique where arguments and topics are presented in a rapid - fire but scattergun manner for a prolonged period.

seems to me some IT person within CRU was designated to (or decided to) «cleanse» the email record systematically of any reference to FOI avoidance and associated chatter (likely without Jones / Briffa et al's knowledge, since no one remembers all their emails over 10 years) and just stored the scattergun scrapes for review

And we must further believe this conspiracy has been exposed by the scattergun technical analysis of a mining consultant turned blogger.

Most employ a «scattergun» approach by sending out letters to hundreds of landowners in the hope of finding a few feasible sites and paying the site owner -LSB-...]

By comprehensively tracking claims, the firm can gain insight on new trends, developing practice areas, the tactics of competitors and the activities of clients — knowledge that has traditionally been cobbled together through gossip, rumour and scattergun investigation, the firm says.

Often job hunters are tempted to use the scattergun approach and fire off the same CV to scores of vacancies, without even reading the job advert.

It's more beneficial to submit a handful of targeted job applications rather than send a large number of generic resumes in a scattergun approach.

The scattergun approach using just one version of your CV for multiple applications is unlikely to hit the spot.

Taking a scattergun approach to resume submissions While «resume bombing» may seem like a good strategy (you're sure to hit something if you apply to lots of openings, right?)