Sentences with phrase «other curve ball»

After all, if life has taught you anything, it's that there are certain things that you simply can not control - renters insurance can take care of the costs incurred in the event of a disaster, accident or other curve ball life throws your way.

Along your journey other curve balls are thrown at you like unruly teenagers, and you must deal with them accordingly.

Not exact matches

Other companies have gone a step further by having one of the interviewers throw a curve ball at the candidate by being purposely difficult or challenging to see how the candidate adjusts.

In other words, in order to deal with life's curve balls, you need emotional resilience.

Two players confront the ball, their legs slashing away, nipping it to one side and the other, frisking around and on top of it like balancing artists, faking and jinking, twisting and curving in ballet dances of muscle and sinew.

But, however, we feel Tottenham will be too strong for Bolton at White Hart Lane as Tottenham look to seize further control of fourth position with a win which could potentially open up a healthy little gap should others be thrown a curve ball.

In its 2012 Policy Statement on Baseball and Softball8, the AAP acknowledges the recent studies challenging the theory that the curveball and slider are stressful to the young elbow, but, on the basis of other studies showing increased injury among those who throw curve balls and sliders at early ages, continues to recommend that introduction of the curve ball be delayed until after age 14, or when pubertal development has advanced to the stage when the athlete has started to shave, and that sliders not be thrown until age 16.

Little League did not institute a ban on curve balls, and, in light of new research suggesting that the pitch does not, contrary to conventional wisdom, put more strain on a young pitcher's elbow than other pitches (indeed, the research suggests curveballs place less stress on the elbow than a fastball), was perhaps correct in not doing so.

Yet James threw a curve ball at us when I stopped breastfeeding him at 18 months and he gave a hard pass on other milks.

«I've heard about it in baseball, you know the curve ball that pitchers throw to curve one way or the other over the plate, but I really didn't realize how important it is in basketball,» said Duda.

In soccer, the same thing usually occurs with free kicks, corner kicks, crosses from the wings, and other kinds of passes or shots: The player kicking the ball applies spin during contact, creating rotation that makes the ball curve.

Islands of security we can hop on if life throws us a major curve ball: a free and clear primary residence we both agree is way too big for us and that we keep only because we like the business it currently houses, some land in the country and some investments that are more liquid than others.

The main mechanic outside of the procedural generation is that Bob tends to receive different abilities along the way, such as jetpacks, double jumps, or other additions that can be boiled down to being larger, smaller, having less friction and other similar tried and true mechanics (although the game throws a curve - ball by making you fly a spaceship at times).

There are three basic controls: the Triangle Button knocks balls up into the air for aerial shots and curves, the Square Button is for simply knocking a ball back to the other side with a Curve Shot, and the X Button is to shoot on the net.

Depending on the shape of the curve and the amount of random noise affecting the system, in some cases a «ball» approaching a critical threshold is likely to get knocked off its track and into the opposite basin of attraction, ending up on the other track — and then get knocked back again.

Not only did it match every other flagship device every step of the way, but also did better than most when it came to innovation.With the rocker button on the back, it played a curve ball in a world of side panel buttons...

That seems to be the case for the Korean giant, who has now been thrown a curve ball on Twitter from none other than Motorola, a rival Android OEM that, like most other OEMs, has been silent throughout the Galaxy Note 7 rumor and release period.