Sentences with phrase «of them slipping through»

But every now and then one of us slips through the cracks, cracks up so to speak, it was nice knowing ya.

So I'm expecting to see the usual fight and determination that we normally see when the Wenger trophy is in doubt or in danger of slipping through our hands???

The only difference is... The Wenger trophy is in real danger of slipping through our fingers and that's what's making things more harder to swallow??

West Ham manager David Moyes tried to defend Joe Hart but the goalkeeper's hopes of going to the World Cup with England are once again in danger of slipping through his fingers.

But a small number of them slip through this process.

Approaches to tackle the growing issue largely rely on knowledge of species» invasion history elsewhere, giving new previously unrecorded alien species a higher chance of slipping through border controls and eluding early response management.

It's one of those wonderful recipes that kind of slips through the cracks I guess.

This is fine for most dogs, but the smallest breeds might have a chance of slipping through the gaps.

At this point, you can probably not bear the thought of it slipping through your hands.

Not exact matches

To get around this gatekeeper, researchers have tried a number of approaches — including attaching drugs to nanoparticles that might slip through the BBB.

Apple might be letting a lot of impulse buyers slip away by giving them time to actually think things through.

This certifies that all departments are held accountable at each stage of production and ensures that nothing slips through the cracks in terms of compliance.

If potential love matches slip through the cracks of Craigslist's Missed Connections pages — where users frequently attempt to reconnect after miscarried chance encounters — perhaps this conciliatory token is the next best thing.

A macro view of event preparations will ensure everyone has a reasonable amount of time to complete their work and nothing slips through the cracks.

People with such dispositions rarely find themselves in the role of boss, but some people do slip through the cracks.

And maybe you're on the verge of letting these dreams slip through the cracks.

Some say a glass test tube of the sludge slipped through his fingers and fell to the floor.

If your business is one of those that lets quotes slip through the cracks, implement a quote follow - up service immediately (in fact you can even outsource this).

Having this kind of clear, reliable communication means that fewer things will slip through the cracks and trust between teammates will build.

Their go - to defence as to how such titles were allowed to be sold in the first place is that they slipped through screening processes, mainly because of the «massive amount» of self - published material, as WH Smith put it in a statement.

While it is easy for you and me to say that this could never happen to us, the additional salaries given to these three guys amounted to an increase of only four percent of the total payroll cost — a figure that when unchecked could easily slip through the cracks.

WOODSIDE Petroleum may have slipped through Royal Dutch - Shell's fingertips but arguably it had already lost one of the key reasons for its takeover bid — shutting out a rival technology from Asia.

Click - through rates reached a new high of.88 % during the second quarter, while at the same time costs per click slipped to $ 0.46 from $ 0.53 in the first quarter of the year.

The Highland Floating Rate Opportunities Fund... has generated one - year returns of 8.26 % through August 25, which continue to place it at the top of its Morningstar category; but its year - to - date returns have slipped to 1.61 %, which place the fund in the bottom 32 % of bank loan funds.

Elsewhere the Japanese Yen slipped 0.06 % to ¥ 109.11 against the Dollar at the time of writing, easing geo - political risk and better than expected PMI numbers out of China supporting market risk appetite through the session, leading to a pullback in demand for the safe havens.

That means that without a formal lead nurturing program, the remaining 84 % of qualified leads that do not turn into short - term sales are slipping through the cracks.

Assets and talent are slipping through the now - permeable membrane of the Financial - Industrial complex as pros and their clients wake up to the fact that investing advice should be paid for, not investing products.

Not long thereafter, Citigroup slipped a repeal of the provision into the must - pass spending bill that would keep the government running through this September.

RRSPs is one of those opportunities, don't let it slip through your fingers.

The social network's announcement Friday could allay concerns of election experts and lawmakers that ads about hot - button social issues meant to be divisive and foment voter outrage might still slip through, leaving a dangerous weak spot on the network.

What happened here, is not a revolt by the Latter - day Saint church (despite the angry Rabbi's words), but a couple of people who unfortunately slipped through the system.

In January, 1968, 31 North Korean commandos managed to slip across the border, through the woods, and make it within a few hundred meters of the president's residence.

Through them all we learn finally what Sukhanov thinks must be the meaning of his life: «And it was only after twenty - three years of mute crawling through the mud» only after he had felt the smooth taste of betrayal on his lips and the chilly weight of thirty pieces of silver in his sweaty palm, only after he had learned about the slow fattening of the soul, the anguish of wasted chances, the pain of love slipping away, the soft, horrifying slide into death» yes, it was only then that the elixir of life was granted to him and his resurrection assured.Through them all we learn finally what Sukhanov thinks must be the meaning of his life: «And it was only after twenty - three years of mute crawling through the mud» only after he had felt the smooth taste of betrayal on his lips and the chilly weight of thirty pieces of silver in his sweaty palm, only after he had learned about the slow fattening of the soul, the anguish of wasted chances, the pain of love slipping away, the soft, horrifying slide into death» yes, it was only then that the elixir of life was granted to him and his resurrection assured.through the mud» only after he had felt the smooth taste of betrayal on his lips and the chilly weight of thirty pieces of silver in his sweaty palm, only after he had learned about the slow fattening of the soul, the anguish of wasted chances, the pain of love slipping away, the soft, horrifying slide into death» yes, it was only then that the elixir of life was granted to him and his resurrection assured.»

With what sense of contempt or ambivalence did he slip through his grave clothes into his body and back to his troubles?

One must have felt deeply the pain of being plunged into that multiplicity which swirls about one and slips through one's fingers if one is to be worthy of experiencing the rapture that transports the soul when, through the influence of the universal Presence, it perceives that reality has become not merely transparent but solidly enduring.

Time to slip covertly through the eye of the needle?

Thus the divine inspiration of the scriptures is downplayed and they are treated largely as merely historical documents, thus letting divine revelation slip through its fingers.

But the question is whether this intelligence, this strength, this self - control is real, or whether through the devotion of long - continued attention to it, it does not easily slip into the lie of simulation which kindles the unsteady blush of double - mindedness in his soul.

I just do not see the point in biased slandering of religious organizations that intend good, because a few clever criminals found a way to slip through there system.

It's like saying a collander can «stop» water from passing through it because of the water that hits parts that aren't holes stops briefly before slipping through.

Slipping in, he will find an ancient shrine where kings have worshipped and martyrs lie buried, with glorious old windows where the light shines through the scenes of the Savior's passion.

To paraphrase one of the defining icons of my generation, «The more you tighten your grasp, the more will slip through your fingers.»

We might wonder idly from time to time whether Fermat's Last Theorem has slipped through the net of the formally decidable, but this is of no consequence to anyone seriously engaged in number theory.

While her male captures are playing games she uses their distraction and the darkness of night to slip through a hole she's found under the straw in her cell.

As we, his family, felt the sweet sensitive boy of his childhood slip through our fingers we gladly prostrated ourselves at the altar of anyone who claimed wisdom — first and foremost our local evangelical congregation (more on that later).

He writes that the «sensuous aspects of his faith — the familiar fundamentalist hymns, the voices of small - town preachers crackling through his AM radio, the «thunderous, rhythmic word pounding the Spirit of God» — bound him, far more than dogma did, «like a slip knot, loosely but decisively to my religious place.»

Later, passing through the countryside, Juan happens upon a peasant wedding feast, seduces the new bride with promises of marriage, deflowers her, and then slips away back to Seville.

At the largest gothic structure in town several people slip hastily through the darkness and enter a small door toward the rear of the building.

Riders can pay $ 15 per ride (or $ 50 for a day pass), to slip and slide through several downtown blocks of cities like Detroit, Phoenix and Miami.

Rather you're advocating the brand of idiotic Faith which blindly abandons reason and lets people slip through life abusing their own intellect by allowing themselves to believe lies, call lies truth, and change their own history of understanding as the whim suits.