Sentences with phrase «off mark»

The state funded Child Poverty Action Group was also quick off the mark once Mr Osborne had sat down.

Her criticism is especially off the mark when she joins a group pushing for about $ 3 billion more in education spending, nearly double what Cuomo proposed.

Price and Stratton are being quick off the mark.

I'll admit straight off the mark; I'm a bit of a leftie, and a lot of my friends are lefties too.

The campaign also criticized the DCCC's methodology and said its polls have regularly proven to be far off the mark.

Whoever faces off against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in this Democrat - dominated state will have an uphill battle right off the mark.

This is even as the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has pegged the cut — off mark for admission for 2016 at 180.

James Kirkup was quick off the mark for The Telegraph to brand the speech «awful, ugly, misleading, cynical and irresponsible».

My only concern is what ridiculous excuse will the defendant put forth and how vicious and off the mark will the cross of the complainant be by the defense.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the cut - off mark for the 2018 UTME would likely be 180 or 190.

«The national leadership of the apex students governing body, National Association of Nigerian Students, frowned at the drastic reduction of the JAMB unified cut off mark to 120, for admission into Nigeria universities.

«We should not be sentimental in fixing our cut off mark; we need not over-dramatise issue of cut off mark.»

19:25 - Labour, not wanting to be left out, are quick off the mark in getting some comments out from Ed Miliband.

«PEF supports true reforms that improve state services, but in this case some of the budget proposals are way off the mark.

BTW - your claim that there is a division in the Shadow Cabinet is off the mark - and the idea that Michael Gove and George Osborne are on different sides is simply laughable.

Looney's numbers often have been far off the mark in the past decade, with disastrous consequences for Connecticut.

Although Davis was at the May NTB dinner, he wasn't as quick off the mark as either Forsyth or Redwood.

The only man who had the decency to resign from cabinet over the war when it actually made a difference (even Clare Short was slow off the mark).

Then again, if PIT receipts for December and January are off the mark as much as September's, the added shortfall would translate into a more significant, added problem of $ 777 million.

There's no denying that the Tory right have been incredibly quick off the mark on this and caught supporters of the tax change unawares.

To put it bluntly, I really believe that polls now showing the Conservatives and Labour neck - and - neck will prove to be way off the mark on May 7th.

Yep... some of these will be on the money and some will be way off the mark... check back next year to see which are which!

Now they are taking action but the authorities here seem even slower off the mark.

(They can't be wildly off the mark, but they are not proportional.)

I guess my comment - written in too much haste and not enough thought - is a good example of how «ordinary» people can be earning a lot more than is typically expected or assumed, and in turn how popular perceptions of income distributions can indeed by quite far off the mark.

According to Dr. Ledwidge, the concept of «race neutrality» or «colour blindness» is «off the mark — what appears to be neutral is [actually] regressive and harmful because historical injustices have created such an unequal environment that initial material deficits [along racial lines] must be recognized before they are able to be dealt with.»

Though she downgrades her own experience as akin to being cat called on the street, the issue is rife in the UK and Australia, perhaps explaining why the top brass in California were slow off the mark to take action.

Not something we necessary are good at, especially when our expectations are way off the mark from how reality pans out.

Well, having just read Badinter's book, I don't think my simplistic interpretation of «clingy baby + busy working mother who can't get work done = enslavement» is really that far off the mark.

I HATED the idea of letting my baby cry, the only other sleep solution being offered to me by well meaning but «off the mark» (for me anyway) doctors, family, books and friends.

However, you are off the mark to call the sleep training culture misogynistic.

Other kids were far off the mark.

I think your assessment of the art categories, and what buyers want, is way off the mark.

If I'm way off the mark with my skirt suggestions, please let me know and I'll look for something different.

While the intent of this unfortunate term is positive, the reality is a bit off the mark.

For many of the millions of public school students, that's not far off mark.

I detest the sunscreens that say they don't have any fragrance, and boy, are those folks off the mark.

Whether you thought the Motrin ad was off the mark or not, I think it's safe to say that what happened on Twitter on Nov. 15 and 16 was unprecedented.

Alison at GreenMe jokingly said that mommy BlogHers should update their kids via Twitter and perhaps do some Skyped bedtime stories during their absence, but is that really that far off the mark?

It had been worth the wait, with Saints needing three games to get off the mark on home soil following a goalless draw against Tottenham, and a 1 - 0 defeat to Manchester United earlier that August.

All the hard work of the previous 75 minutes was undone, and fans were disappointed we weren't off the mark for the season.

Playing draws, rather than getting full points meant they ended up way off the mark.

He scored 11 goals in 35 appearances last season, and already is off the mark this term.

emphatic finish, equalised, finished with aplomb, finished, finished from close range, fired home, flung himself at the cross, forced the ball home, found his shooting boots, found the net, found the top / bottom corner, gambled, gave the keeper no chance, glanced, goal that deserves to win any game, goalkeeping gaffe, good time to score, got off the mark,

almunia is juz too far off the mark for a top club keeper.

Paul Clement praised his Swansea side's attacking endeavour as they got off the mark at home with a 2 - 0 victory over Huddersfield Town.

Continuing to put dangerous balls into the box, Alexander - Arnold found the diagonal run of Salah at the near post, and with an improvised finish off his shin, the Egyptian got the Reds off the mark.

His first shot on goal 9 minutes in had hundreds of millions of Reds fans praying it would go in, and he sliced a shot late into the game that gave him a chance to get off the mark.

Sam Gallagher will be trying his best to get his goal - scoring tally at Birmingham off the mark, in an attempt to pick ourselves up from this horrid run of form we have been enduring over the past weeks.

The 28 - year - old is yet to get off the mark for Cardiff and already his substitute appearances are becoming more fleeting with him only getting five minutes on the pitch per game.