Sentences with phrase «pin down all»

Police said the vandalism was discovered Friday morning, though they were unable to pin down exactly when the damage was done.

It's follow up questions which pin you down.

They are also hard for branding professionals to pin down.

«The agency has yet to pin down a plan to get back on track,» Margaret Hodge, chair of the committee of public accounts, said.

Capitol Weekly, California's major weekly periodical covering the state legislature, publishes an annual legislative scorecard to pin down the political or ideological leanings of every member of the legislature based on how they voted on an assortment of bills in the most recent legislative session.

The damning condemnation of the parties comes on the day that Labour campaign chief, Lord Mandelson, clashed with journalists who tried to pin him down on which spending programmes will be reigned in or scrapped if the party is still in power after the 6 May general election.

Intellectual gurus and political philosophers and their influence on parties are always difficult to pin down.

The reasons for these jitters are not hard to pin down.

Changing global configurations of power also suggest that it is increasingly difficult to pin down agents, such as a particular state or a particular government within a state, that could be held responsible for the conditions within which people attempt to craft their lives or which people try to change by moving.

(Most losing presidential candidates in my life time were seen as the one who's exact beliefs were harder to pin down.).

Though it has proved impossible to pin down any single unifying cause for this undercurrent of societal disquiet, there is a strong implication that in the absence of concrete policy proposals to mitigate the riots» causes and effects similar events are likely to take place again — possibly even in the near future.

First, the inability of these enquiries to pin down a particular discrete set of root causes for the riots implies that any assessment of the problems of the status quo must adopt an interlinked, systemic approach.

It may not always be possible to pin down the exact results of a given outreach effort, but proxy measurements should let you compare the relative usefulness of different strategies, at the very least.

The key elements you need to pin down are:

Remember back in 2006 when Clinton was running for re-election to the seat Gillibrand now holds and everyone was always trying to pin her down no whether she would serve a full six years?

What is extremely difficult to pin down and, according to him, the greatest challenge for accurate polling is determining who is actually likely to vote in any given election, both among the respondents, and how that maps out to the larger population.

Like anything else, in reality there's a continuum, which, since we are dealing with humans, is messy and hard to pin down.

For the Most Promising list, FORBES strove for a holistic gauge of young, privately - held companies, trying to pin down their trajectories by looking at a slew of variables.

I try to pin her down to prevent her rolling in her own poo, get her cleaned and get her new nappy on, and she screams.

Have EVERYTHING you need to dress the child right next to you so that once you finally pin him down, you can get him fully dressed - new diaper, clothes, socks / shoes, and yes - even brush teeth.

I haven't been able to pin down if early exposure to healthy foods helps create a healthy appetite later in life, since all two - year - olds seem to become pretty picky eaters, but it doesn't hurt to try!

Heather McNamara: Yeah, on disposable diapers, you can cut it out but, you know, in the cloth I presume, just pin it down or you know, really anything.

In any case, the mainstays of permissive parenting aren't hard to pin down; a brief list follows.

And the range for what is normal crying is difficult to pin down.

As for the intangibles, they're a little more difficult to pin down.

Andrea Blanco: The average age of weaning is actually very hard to pin down.

«It's hard to pin down how much dredging will cost because we don't know how much we need to dredge or where we're going to put the dredged material,» said Park District Executive Director Robert Dunsmuir.

Knock humans on their backsides and pin them down while pummelling them until they are utterly defeated?

I'm trying to pin you down on who said what because it might not be the OB who asked your wife to lie.

From chicken nuggets made with broccoli to brownies baked with carrots and spinach, your kids will be getting their vitamins and antioxidants without you having to pin them down and force - feed them.

People can't pin you down, and it's a wonderful thing.

In horror, I watched her abuse our cat by starting to pet him gently and then either try to choke him, or pin him down and slap him repeatedly in the face.

It can be so hard when trying to comfort a colicky baby and trying to pin down food intolerances.

I change her on the floor and if she's really energetic and tries to get up, I gently place my feet on her arms to pin her down while I quickly change her.»

That is right, if you have patterened lining fabric you are to pin this down on the patterned side.

Now, Ferber is combating what he says are misconceptions about his method, which he says may not be appropriate for all children, although he's a little difficult to pin down.

trying to pin down a pooy bum 2 year old is not easy!!!! toilets are the answer

However, the truth is that by doing research on your own, you will be able to pin down the products you need to the best 3/4 brands and find out the right place to buy one of the best travel system strollers.

In his pre-game press conference, Van Gaal listed 6 potential causes of Luke Shaw's injury, and said it was impossible to pin down one factor.

He had to bide his time before making his first - team breakthrough though, enduring largely unfulfilling loan spells at Nacional and Real Zaragoza before returning to Rio Ave on another loan deal in January 2009, and it wasn't until this season that he managed to pin down a starting place at the Estádio da Luz.

A move to Manchester United followed where Park enjoyed great success, although the midfielder found it difficult to pin down a first - team place on a regular basis.

The rotation of wings between him and Walcott was not as often as Mataâ $ ™ s and Sturridgeâ $ ™ s, but I will not pin that down on him solely.

The hapless Philippe Mexes struggled to pin him down in the home tie and if we do happen to score in Rome it's more than likely we'll have the Dutchman to thank for it.

Giaccherini was hard to pin down and the Italian forwards» pressing of Sergio Busquets broke up Spain's normal short - passing game

The Belarusian has since returned to former club Stuttgart after failing to pin down a first team place at the Nou Camp.

An elegant former left - winger with a superb left foot, Grosso paid the price for a less than stellar season with Juventus, where he was unable to pin down a regular first - team place amid competition from 23 - year - old Paolo De Ceglie.

It's been very much a search via Google to trace some of the players involved recently but despite no end of searching, it has been difficult to pin down Cook.

For reasons that are not difficult to pin down, basketball has been popping up in American fiction with increasing frequency.

The problem with our club can be pin down to two sets of people; the French and the British.

After originally struggling to pin down a place in the team, he has scored five goals in the Copa Libertadores — including a hat - trick in his side's 5 - 4 win over Juan Aurich in their final group match.