Sentences with phrase «pin down where»

With the MateBook X Pro, MediaPad M5 series and the upcoming P20 smartphone series on the agenda for Huawei in the near future, it'll be tough to pin down where the Huawei Watch 3 will be.

That in turn helps the team pin down where that CO2 came from, and how much there was.

There was a noticeable amount of lag on takeoff, a few momentary dead spaces when accelerating (hard to pin down where in the rev range these happened), plus some shuddering on the «downshifts» when nearing a stop.

These creatures probably moved back and forth between continents, he holds, making it difficult to pin down where each line of animals originated.

Next, they used a method called in situ hybridization to pin down where in the leg those 80 - 90 genes were active.

Fossil incisors, canines, premolars and molars help pin down where we came from, but as Evolution's Bite shows, reading them is a tricky business

«We are continuing to observe this unique object,» concludes Olivier Hainaut, «and we hope to more accurately pin down where it came from and where it is going next on its tour of the galaxy.

Public - health experts — scattered across many state and federal ministries for health, agriculture and consumer protection — are still trying to pin down where the bacterium came from and why it causes such severe symptoms.

Other spacecraft have caught whiffs of methane before, but it has been hard to pin down where the gas might be coming from and what might create it.

Because they were positioned at ground level, the devices could not image the reactor building basements and so could not pin down where the fuel is or its condition.

It took hours to pin down where this took me and I realized that it conveys the same feeling of the attitude that is many times projected at women in ministry from the male dominated church.

Not exact matches

If so, I think he is like a wind — no - one knows where he comes for or where he is going and that trying to pin him down is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.

«Clean label» has been a rallying cry for years, but in the Instagram age — where trends and preferences change more quickly than ever — it's difficult to pin down exactly how location, culture, age and other factors are shaping the clean label movement and creating unique challenges and opportunities.

(I wish there were a reliable statistical method to value kicks based on the point w / in the 20 yard line where it is downed; kicks not returned; kicks that pin a returner to the sideline.

He now makes the best of it, especially in Miami where, together with eyes as dark as a raccoon's and a name you can't quite pin down, it gives him a handsome ethnic look that attracts invitations for appearances from the area's active Jewish community.

No one can quite pin down exactly where the team name came from, but a tale goes that the team's then - owner, Barron Hilton, of Hilton Hotels lineage, held a naming contest, opened a letter that suggested «Chargers,» and didn't bother reading another.

While some pinheads work the street corners and mountainsides, others will hunker down in either of the Games» two planned pin - swapping centers: one next to the athletes» village, the other downtown, just 50 yards from Olympic Plaza, where each night the Olympic medals will be awarded.

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.

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.

Next, place a pin at the crotch of the pants, so you know where the inseam should stop and then cut down to the pin.

During the first few weeks, I used to set the alarm for every three hours, then take my Moses Basket filled with pillows, blankets, my safety pin (to remind me where I had nursed last), and the notebook where I wrote down every detail of how long my son nursed for.

«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.

Worse, it's hard to pin down exactly where, say, the remains of a candy wrapper blown out to sea in China will eventually drift.

While this is a good way to get total emissions of methane in a remote location where the main source of the gas is natural gas production, it is not a good way to pin emissions down to any one well, gathering or processing activity in the basin.

Combining the 19th - century records of such effects with modern earthquake models helped Beauducel and Feuillet pin down both the quake's magnitude and the location of the fault rupture, the spot where the subduction zone tore apart.

Pinning down which mosquito species carry the virus can yield clues about who is at risk and where.

He plans to continue using optogenetics to pin down circuits of brain cells responsible for disease and to combine that knowledge with the colorful circuit images to home in on which wires need to go where to establish normal communication.

But cosmology could be in a similar situation where these fundamental parameters are pinned down, but we need some new theoretical ideas.

The most influential gene pinned down, KTN1, helps tell brain cells where to go in the putamen.

Astronomers were able to pin down a planetary mass in only one case: a lucky alignment where the planet crossed directly in front of its star (ScienceNOW, 15 November 1999)

Namely, a circle is the set of all points (that's the curve you drew with your pencil) that are all the same distance from some common point (that's the spot where you pinned the string down with your finger).

In contrast to the situation in rats, where long periods of theta oscillations are easily observed using electrodes implanted at many sites, theta has been difficult to pin down in primates, even when intracortical electrodes have been available.

While there are thousands of eligible singles around town, knowing who is available and where to pin them down leaves plenty of singles guessing.

In fact, their hot bodies get together every now and then, but neither of them can pin down quite where the relationship stands.

It's devilishly difficult to pin Drive down (note its disastrous marketing campaign), but a good try would be to focus on its absolutely convincing performances, or on a bit where Driver and Irene try to prolong the good day they've had together by staring at each other with goofy expressions on their faces.

Why a person is nominated for a supporting actor or actress Oscar often has a lot to do with riding coattails, which probably explains why it takes so long for awards prognosticators to pin down the nominees in these two categories: It's all about waiting to see which films catch fire at the box office — or on the blogosphere, where most Oscar campaigns seem to be launched nowadays.

While Wiseau's heritage has been difficult to pin down, his glaringly Eastern European accent makes it easy to determine where he isn't from.

In In the Mood for Love, the camera is pinned down, obliged to repeat the same povs again and again on repeated activities and behaviors, like musical refrains — Leung and Cheung knocking on each other's doors and talking to each other's offscreen spouses, Leung's wife barely glimpsed behind the partition at the hotel where she works, Cheung walking down the steps of the noodle - shop and wiping the sweat from her brow with the back of her hand.

That's harder to pin down, but there's no evidence there was ever some sort of golden era where America teachers received the respect or pay they deserved.

Where the standard car gently presses you into the seat, the SVR pins you down and holds you there till it is done clawing up the tarmac.

The scruff shake consists of grabbing the pup by the loose skin of the neck (scruff) and giving a shake; whereas, the alpha roll, consists of an outdated technique where the puppy is pinned down until it «submits.»

When you look down at him, he should have a pin - up girl hourglass figure, with his body having an indentation behind the ribs and then flaring out again where the hips are.

We spend this week trying to pin down what makes Nintendo's offbeat life simulator so popular, sharing stories from our Animal Crossing history, and discussing where the series could go in the future.

It's thrilling when you're pinned down by enemies or you find yourself in a situation where you need to react to avoid certain death.

A lock for strongest studio debut of 2016, Campo Santo's Firewatch is infamously a hard game to pin down, so here I'll simply say that it's a narrative adventure where you're uncovering intriguing morsels of plot simply by moving forward through the world, and that it's one of the best true «mystery» games we've had in ages.

Knowing where to regroup, or where to spread out to give the team a fighting chance for victory when the heavies roll in and try to pin you down, is key to your success here.

Our favorite minigame is bowling, where you have to knock down seven sets of bowling pins with your car, but we also enjoyed the obstacle courses, and a highly challenging four - minute race that doesn't even give you a directional arrow to follow.

Rather than crafting intricate matches where you focus on a particular body part to wear it down and weaken it, 2K18 often just feels like you are hoping that you can hit a finishing move without it being reversed, and then relying on the fact that the pin kick - out system is still far too hard to master.

Besides, an opportunity to let loose was waiting at two separate events that followed: a party at the David Roberts Foundation in Camden, where Sarah Lucas performed by frying eggs and pinning them to the breasts of female volunteers; and Anal House Sit - Down, a record release party hosted by artists Eddie Peake, Prem Sahib, and George Henry Longly, sponsored by the Vinyl Factory at Hoi Polloi in the Ace Hotel, Shoreditch.

I don't know of any studies where the GCM runs are re-done with real - world forcings and unforced variability to pin down exactly where the original projections differed from reality.