Sentences with phrase «pick up the slack on»

Ozil's inabilities went pretty much unnoticed as someone else in the team was always picking up the slack on his behalf.

If one parent is working and the other is staying home with the baby, you may choose to arrange things so the working parent gets more sleep on weeknights but picks up the slack on weekends, when the stay - at - home parent can sleep later, sleep longer stretches, or take naps.

But somebody else has to pick up the slack on basic research.

With Chris Evans currently on Broadway, Sebastian Stan is picking up the slack on the promotional trail.

Fortunately, the S8's hallmark is a furious engine that is eager to pick up the slack on the backside of the bend.

According to the information over at the help desk, warranties for Kobo eReaders purchased through Borders will continue to be managed by Borders, so Kobo isn't picking up the slack on that.

Etihad owns over 20 % of Virgin Australia so it's not particularly surprising to see it pick up the slack on this route but, at the same time, it s a shame to see Virgin Australia hand this route over.

We need to figure out how to storage that energy so that we don't need to keep natural gas power plants spinning as backup in case there's an unforeseen change in wind power output, or to pick up the slack on days when there's simply no wind.

Faced with the collapse of current federal clean energy policies, however imperfect they currently are, private investors will be left largely incapable of picking up the slack on their own.

«The second - home market always takes an economic hit first,» she says, «but in a downturn, we'd pick up slack on the rental side of our business.»

Not exact matches

Make sure that other team members know what's going on so they can pick up the slack when someone leaves.

Identify where you're not strong and lean on others to pick up your slack.

In my judgment, weak demand has been a drag on the economy and strong fiscal stimulus could help to pick up the slack.

Without it, Lilly is counting on other fresh market entries to pick up the slack, including diabetes drug Jardiance and Basaglar, its new biosimilar version of Sanofi's insulin blockbuster Lantus.

I won't always be here to pick up your slack, but do carry on...

Mario Chalmers also helped to pick up the slack and added 17 of his own on 4 - of - 8 shooting from the field, including 4 - of - 5 from behind the three - point line.

Glad some of the others have started to pick - up the slack on the goal - scoring front though.

The run game struggled, and rookie John Brown was the only player on the offense to pick up the slack, finishing with three catches for 61 yards — two of those catches being impressive sideline toe - touch grabs.

Michael Floyd wasn't able to pick up any of the slack, finishing with no catches on two targets.

Wenger's comments on the matter name Laurent Koscielny, Santi Cazorla and Petr Cech as the players who will pick up the slack for the absent defender.

Nene was suspended for this one, but Trevor Ariza picked up his slack and then some, scoring 30 points on 10 - of - 17 shooting and 6 - of - 10 from long range.

The Red Devils have been sorely lacking the necessary scoring threats this season with Wayne Rooney struggling (and now injured) while expensive summer pickups Memphis Depay and Anthony Martial have struggled to pick up the slack and capitalize on scoring chances.

There's still plenty of talent on the Soldiers to pick up the slack — including fellow All - State talent and national recruit, Jabari Bird of Salesian.

When the incredible momentum of Vardy's record - breaking run of 11 consecutive games in which he has scored slowed down, the Algerian was on hand to pick up the slack, scoring a hat - trick in their 3 - 0 win against Swansea after being held 1 - 1 by Manchester United in November to keep the team pushing forward.

Like, we all know that we should cut down on saturated fats, but we don't always do that, so medicine can help pick up some of the slack for us.

People often chip in to help during the first few weeks, but when that help begins to trail off, find ways to pick up the slack: Take on more chores yourself, talk to her friends, or hire help.

I'd rather pay for Grandma to come away on holiday for a week to pick up a bit of the slack than dump the baby off for a whole day somewhere!

The belt - tightening that individual UK residents make on their own charitable contributions in austere times makes it all the more important that government picks up the slack.

«By going hell for leather on cuts, at a time when the private sector can not be expected to pick up the slack, they run the risk of leaving us with higher unemployment, deprived communities and a diminished society.

«If obstructionists in Congress insist on delaying any federal action on fair and just immigration reform, it falls to municipal governments to pick up the slack,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

Adams blamed the shortfall on the state's «ongoing denial of legally - mandated Campaign for Fiscal Equity funds,» but said the city needed to pick up the slack.

Focus on investing in backup sources, like nuclear and bioenergy, to pick up the slack that renewables can't cover.

Wondering whether other enhancers pick up the slack — providing a backup system to keep limb development on track — Osterwalder and his colleagues bred mice lacking a pair of enhancers specifically implicated in digit formation.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That makes sense too, because I — I worked with lots of menopausal females and the big issue is as you start transitioning in the menopause, you start leaning on your adrenal glands more to help pick up the hormonal slack.

That makes sense too, because I — I worked with lots of menopausal females and the big issue is as you start transitioning in the menopause, you start leaning on your adrenal glands more to help pick up the hormonal slack.

That means that your back and abs end up picking up the slack, which puts a lot of pressure on your lower back.

According to Dr. Edward Howell, an early pioneer in the field of human nutrition who spent his entire professional life studying enzymes, if you don't have enough enzymes to digest your food, great strain is placed on your entire body to «pick up the slack.»

When you challenge your metabolism with exercise when you don't have a lot of carbs to use for fuel, two things happen: your athletic output (which, in your case, depended on carbs) drops because you only have fats to burn, and your energy levels also drop because when your fat - burning metabolism gets exhausted, there's no other energy system to pick up the slack: even though the anaerobic (sugar - burning) metabolism isn't exhausted, it doesn't have any fuel to burn.

I know I have slacked on my posting schedule but I am hoping that will all pick up soon!

The developers opted for a realistic, on - court feel by removing play - by - play announcers, but the crowd and music fail to pick up the slack.

With his father on the run, and Nik unable to work, it falls to his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) to pick up the slack.

Slacker Richard Linklater is known for making conversation - driven films, and that's pretty much all this one is — a nearly plotless wandering around the streets of Austin, picking up unrelated conversations here and there, then moving on to the next one.

Whenever the story starts to flag and the creaks and groans of bloodsucking clichés steal onto the scene Gillespie falls back on his talented cast to pick up the slack.

Though there's been some duds on the big screen - both Texas Chainsaw 3D and The Last Exorcism Part II are insufferable films - the independent channel has more than picked up the slack.

Unfortunately, if the state does not fund such reforms at the appropriate level or ensure some level of competence on the part of suppliers before they open schools, there may not be enough responsible peers available to pick up the slack.

Movies are selling less tickets at higher prices, and DVD sales are practically on the verge of collapse while Blu - ray has not picked up the slack.

If this is becoming the new norm, publishers asking for more rights, paying smaller advances, taking forever to make a decision on buying a manuscript, and delivering less marketing and promotion then expecting authors / agents to pick up the slack, I'm not sure how I'm going to keep convincing my hybrid authors to stay the course with traditional publishers when they are making more money self - publishing.

Many universities picked up the slack by offering on - campus jobs that were not affiliated with the Federal Work Study program.

This places a whole lot of pressure on the tax reform package to pick up the stimulus slack.

Nintendo is picking up the slack by being the publisher for their games so when do we start seeing them carry the load on their own for once?