Sentences with phrase «often call the shots»

In fact, females often call the shots, employing tactics such as cooperation and persistence to get their way.

In these movies, strong women often call the shots, or have fun trying, and they're always dressed to thrill.

Not exact matches

«I frankly don't know how I am going to come up with the rest of the money,» Thomson told Sun News Network's Brian Lilley on Byline.Canada's justice system has a knack for punishing people for defending themselves and their property, often called «castle law.MORE: Court drops final charge against Ontario man who fired shots to protect his home under attack by firebombers Joseph and Marilyn Singleton of Taber, Alberta spent $ 30,000 in court.

Often times they're called «Score - O» and the fan has to shoot a puck from the blue line or red line through a hole in a board that covers the net.

I have even noticed that Sanchez is more conformable playing with Walcot than he used to do with the so called «Mr. Hold up play», with Theo they interchanges positions and he can have room to shoot more often.

But I think his mum needs to tell him to collect the number of all arsenal's players and call each one of them and tells them to f ****** shoot more often cuz they have so many opportunities but 98 % of them will prefer to pass instead and that can be really frustrating.

In his speech, peppered with references to African nationalists such as Nelson Mandela and Burkina's revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, Mr. Macron promised a break with a past in which France often seemed to call the shots to former colonies.

As America has suffered through mass shooting after mass shooting, it often seems there is an unbridgeable chasm between activists calling for reforms and gun rights purists who have worked to redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment through the courts and exercise outsize influence on legislatures.

The union honcho has often bickered with NYPD brass, calling for then - Commissioner Bill Bratton's resignation last year and storming out of a meeting with O'Neill in October following a controversial fatal shooting of an unarmed mentally - ill woman in The Bronx.

Besides witches» broom and frosty pod rot in the Americas, other threats to the tree include cocoa swollen shoot virus in West Africa and a moth called the cocoa pod borer in Southeast Asia, the latter often costing $ 600 million in crop losses a year.

Police shot Terence Crutcher, an unarmed man, and police academies often do not prepare officers to make the right call

Such shots are frequently celebrated in film — think of Martin Scorsese's use of tracking shots over the years, or the self - parodying opening of Robert Altman's The Player — but critics rarely call attention to them on TV, perhaps because TV is more of a writers» medium, or perhaps because they're simply not as showy as others, often blending into the background.

But instead it manages to be a shot in the arm for the often stale sports genre (look no further than the often stale Southpaw from earlier this year, a film that is forgotten within twenty minutes of its credits rolling), and a hell of a calling card for Coogler moving forward.

While most public Cloud services give you several pre-configured packages and tiers (and often the option to switch to any of them at any time), with a private Cloud solution you call the shots, and you create the perfect environment for your needs in an «a la carte» manner.

They're often young, intact male dogs who want to call the shots with people but then tremble or seem to act «remorseful» afterward.

All too often, Call of Duty games especially, the game designers will set arbitrary limits on magazine size having nothing to do with reality or have wildly different weapon damages for guns that shoot the same bullets.

«Last week should have served as a wake - up call to our community that we have children who need help, who all too often have cried out for help, but no help has been there for them,» said Bill Sublette, the Orange County School Board chairman, referring to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, where a teen with a history of disturbing behavior is charged with killing 17 people.

It often seems that demands of one or both are out of our control and that we're only able to respond to needs rather than call the shots.