Sentences with phrase «patched up over»

The Minneapolis bridge had been poorly maintained, with cracks in its iron arches that had been patched up over the years.

Well we can rely on good old Arsene and his usual last ditch foray into the transfer market, possibly, and his patched up over the hill players again..

Not exact matches

You never once smacked one of those kids, the ones there on full scholarship with visions of patched sport coasts in the Ivory Tower, you never once icily mentioned that you were working full time, going into debt, commuting two hours to school, that you had three small babies at home, that you worked in a fast - paced and exhausting industry under tremendous pressure just to come home, kiss your kids for a brief moment, launching into that thesis until well past midnight, just to get up at 6 the next morning and do it all over again, relentlessly.

That very morning, when the sunlight streamed in the windows, my poor little BC boy jumped up and ran over to the patch of sun to exclaim «Mumma!

Surrounded by up - and - coming critics wearing a variety of bright yellow ties (it was rumored that Borges, blind for over 20 years, could still see patches of yellow), he clutched and caressed a favorite cane, offering few insights into himself, the man of flesh and blood.

If you have any mixture left over, keep it on hand — if you notice any cracking whilst they dry, add a little of the remaining mixture to patch up the tear

The dumbest comment of the year on the radio had to be from Glen Healy who was telling Doug MacLean that the Leafs, who were going through a little rough patch (mid-season), had to watch out from the teams just below them like the Rangers, Islanders and Hurricanes who were creeping up on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the closest competitor in the Atlantic, the Red Wings, were over 15 points behind them at that time... I just shook my head...

I have been frustrated to see how all other teams patched up their team, and field a reasonable balance team only Arsenal and Wenger leave a big whole in Defense like last year, plus striker issue which is rolled over to this season.

Very few of them seem to have changed their minds much, as we keep hearing such doubts like, «have Arsenal got the leaders we need to get through the tough times» and «can the Gunners keep it up over the course of the season rather than just a few patches of good performances»?

The largest gathering of shooting - dog enthusiasts in America is charging up hills, over streams and through pine patches this week after a field of pointers and setters in pursuit of game birds and gun - dog glory.

As limitless as Jackson's ceiling has appeared over the last two weeks, the Cardinals could still hit a bumpy patch and Jackson's September status as Heisman favorite could end up going about as well as most September favorites (Leonard Fournette, Geno Smith, etc.).

According to prosecutors, a blood test Haskins was given two hours after the crash gauged his blood - alcohol level at.16 (the legal limit is.10); fresh from a party and speeding south to Fort Collins, Colo., to patch things up with his girlfriend, Haskins had drifted over the center line and smashed into the Jeep.

Allegri tried to patch things up with a double sub, introducing Mario Mandzukic and Blaise Matuidi, but the first leg was essentially over, and in the 72nd minute Marcelo completed a neat passing triangle to sneak past the defense on a feed from Ronaldo, avoiding a credible challenge from Buffon to tap into the net and, in all likelihood, end the tie.

Over the last two years, Albany has stolen $ 260 million in dedicated transit funds from the MTA in order to patch up deficits elsewhere in the budget.

because if we don't do this it's patching up for the next 50 years an ageing Victorian railway system that is operating at a capacity way over than it was designed for.

Today's big oaks grew up in forest patches that were relatively open; over the past century, these parts of the forest became shadier as villagers abandoned small - scale clearings, which have since become overgrown with hornbeam and other species.

«We have to collect light over a bigger patch so we can slice it up into many different colors.»

But as she walks over an arid patch of Hell Creek, she perks up again at the prospect of discovery.

The meteors will appear all over the sky, so the best strategy is to lie down and stare at as large a patch of sky as possible — away from the Moon, if it is still up.

Over several hours, branches of the patch's tree lit up when bacteria sensed their corresponding chemical stimuli.

Professor McGeehan, Director of the Institute of Biological and Biomedical Sciences in the School of Biological Sciences at Portsmouth, said: «Few could have predicted that since plastics became popular in the 1960s huge plastic waste patches would be found floating in oceans, or washed up on once pristine beaches all over the world.

Fungus, yeast, and bad bacteria can all start to take over an unbalanced microbiome, leading to chronic, systemwide inflammation and showing up as acne, redness, irritation, dry patches, fine lines, and even premature aging — leaving you wanting to hide your face in a corner rather than charge forward with confidence.

Not least when she and my friend broke up, but we tried our best to patch over it all and keep going.

But Jodie Foster is all over the trailer for this film, in which she plays a nurse in a Los Angeles hospital specializing in off - the - books patch - up jobs.

Enthusiasm for kitchen gardens in schools has swept across Australia over the past decade, springing up as tiny pocket - sized patches and vertical gardens in the inner city to expansive plots in country areas.Nobody knows what proportion of schools have a kitchen garden, but anecdotal evidence at least in New South Wales suggests about 50 per cent of primary schools now have them.

Hop over that and you end up in the same cabbage patch — only a little further down.

A few things that wouldn't have ended up in my new novel, The Wednesday Daughters, if I hadn't traveled to England while writing it: a blue cottage door; a snowbow arcing over Windermere (which in England, means the lake); a castle that isn't really a castle; a leather patch in a manor house wood floor; three waterfalls spilling into a single pool before flowing under a miniature bridge - house; a coffin road; a slipper tub not in the bathroom, but evocatively at the foot of a bed.

Amazon for all the great stuff they've been doing for the eBook revolution, has completely dropped the ball on various fronts over the past years, clearly indicating that the company simply looks forward without ever trying to patch up previous mistakes.

Worried they might not get along, Niles introduced them to each other gradually, first giving Patches her own room, then putting up a child gate that only Patches could jump over.

Part of the beautiful Tortuguero experience, a boat ride leads you up through the Canal de Tortuguero and through some stunning patches of rainforests towering over swamps.

Well it seems Xbox can not keep up, I said nearly one year ago this would be all blown over and yes there has been more 1080p patches on the Xbox One with more titles but they still keep getting the» 900p» label replaced by» 720p».

All the basics are still there; you still have the blistering speeds, the variety of weapons you pick up by zooming over a lit patch of the course, and the satisfaction from making that jerk who just cut you off blow up in your face.

Not only did a recent patch optimize Killzone: Mercenary to look better on a bigger screen, but playing it with the ergonomically friendly DualShock 4 offers up a more precise, and more importantly, comfortable experience than on the PlayStation Vita proper over longer periods of time.

Over at the official Injustice site NetherRealms has put up the official patch notes for v1.0.5 which was released earlier today.

There's roughly a year's worth of patches for the console versions to catch up on (including a few additional classes to play as), so while the content might not be all there ahead of launch, there's plenty for En Masse and Bluehole to keep infusing the console versions with over time.

I must have logged over 120 hours into Civ 5 and I plan on spending at least another 100 with it once it is patched up and balanced.

As soon as I fired up my pc, I activated the code, and the actual download size was a little over 12 GB and the installed folder is right now as of release without any updates or patches is exactly 22.8 GB.

With a lawsuit ongoing between Sony and George «Geohot» Hotz over the latter's firmware exploit of the PS3 system, leaving it wide open for rampant piracy, the Japanese giant have taken the first steps towards repairing the damage, with today's firmware update 3.60 supposedly re-securing the PS3, patching up the gaping security holes Hotz and other hackers exploited to their advantage.

Such games might fill up the empty patches in the release schedules above or might spill over to 2018.

For the most part, the act of thinking is a muddled, disappointing and tedious journey over well - worn ruts and patches of quicksand up to my neck.

In the «Pavilion of the Common» an inexplicably large chunk of space is given over to works involving thread — tables hold piles of Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei's patched, ripped clothing; Filipino David Medalla invites visitors to embroider what they please onto a long swath of fabric (by the second day, it was filling up with stitched - on business cards, which seems about right for the Biennale); and elegant stitched texts and books by the late Sardinian artist Maria Lai are on display not far from terrific fabric pieces by Walther.

For the most part, the act of thinking is a muddled disappointing and tedious journey over well - worn ruts and patches of quick sand up to my neck.

The paper in Nature Climate Change, «Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands,» pulls together a wide array of research, including the work by Bruce Forbes of the University of Lapland last year, on what I called «pop - up forests» — patches of rapidly - growing tundra shrubs.

In the dark my mind sputters, shudders, stalls, and smokes and ultimately ends up going back and forth over the same patch of ground, again and again, arriving at no destination.

Combined into a single graphic, a patch of which you see here, each portrait pops up as you move your mouse over it; a click reproduces the chosen sheep image on the screen.

Intel's statement also shot down claims that patching the flaw could lead to PC performance slow down by up to 30 %, saying that, «Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload - dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time.»

Google have been releasing regular, monthly software patches for well over a year now and these are designed to shore up the operating system by removing discovered security vulnerabilities.

Last year when Stage Fright was making owning an Android device an act of constant faith, Google formally guaranteed that they would be keeping Nexus devices up to date via monthly security patches for three years after release with major over the air updates continuing to roll out for at least two years.

If you have gotten in the habit of sticking a band - aid over problems that have built up over the Winter, now is your chance to heal any remaining wounds — to patch them up, make peace, and restore your relationship to health.

Because you are so often «there» for each other, during the minor events in your lives, you have built up a hefty emotional bank account that will support you over any rough patches in your relationship (and keep many at bay).