Sentences with phrase «pinned down exactly»

The two prior post have it pinned down exactly.

The researchers caution that their study can't pin down exactly how much achievement is down to prior math success and how much is because of the way positivity pumps up learning in the brain.

You'll need to pin down exactly how much it'll cost to send a child to college, or how much you'll need to live on in retirement.

«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.

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.

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

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.

The Vampyrellid amoebae make a great modern analog, but because vampirelike feeding behavior is known in a number of different unrelated amoebae, it makes it difficult to pin down exactly who the predator was.»

In all that time, they have failed to pin down exactly what that world's surface is made of, in large part because the key wavelengths of light they need for definitive detections are in the infrared, a region of the spectrum mostly blocked by Earth's atmosphere.

All type 1a evolve from a type of star called a white dwarf, but pinning down exactly which white dwarfs are supernova precursors could lead to much more precise measurements of dark energy — and even reveal its true nature.

In other words, I wrote like someone who knew he wanted to do Important Things but couldn't be bothered to pin down exactly what they were.

Webb — custom - built to study these murky epochs — could use gravitational lensing to unveil these and even older galaxies in sufficient detail and number to pin down exactly how these ancient objects arose and first brought light into the universe.

But researchers could never quite verify the theory because they couldn't pin down exactly what the cost and benefits were or study them over the many generations needed to see evolution in action.

That number, according to Bruno Sicardy of the Paris Observatory, is hard to pin down exactly because timings derived from the three telescopes» light curves have some uncertainty.

That would confuse any attempts to pin down exactly which imprinted genes are truly crucial for normal development.

For the paper, the scientists did not try to pin down exactly how and why this happens, and they stressed that correlation did not equal causation.

It's hard to pin down exactly what I like, because I'm into so many different things.

With so many different timelines, gameplay types, and art styles on display throughout the history of The Legend of Zelda, it's difficult to pin down exactly what a Zelda mobile game might look or play like.

On Saturday Night Live, it's hard to pin down exactly what the Blues Brothers joke even was: the incongruity of young white men performing music associated with ancient black musicians?

While it's difficult to pin down exactly what's underneath all the black - and - white swirls, nothing stands out as particularly new or radical when it comes to shape and styling.

Jersey City, NJ renters insurance can be tough to pin down exactly what you need.

It's been impossible to pin down exactly what Poloz thinks about Canada's housing market for several years now.

Since I'd already had a go over at E3 last month, I was keen to pin down exactly what we can expect from the handheld port.

Between carrying out the daily life of a prisoner, building relationships with the other prisoners, suspicious behavior elevating security level, gathering materials, and crafting weapons, it is hard to pin down exactly what The Escapists 2 really is.

It's hard to pin down exactly why this should be.

This leads me to an aspect about games like this that I find difficult to pin down exactly, as many of the quirks of Dark Souls II are considered design choices that define the rules and establish the difficulty of the game.

It's hard to pin down exactly what this is, but quality isn't something unappreciated by the gaming community.

There are so many issues with the game that it can be hard to pin down exactly why fans have stopped playing, but this «realistic» parody trailer does a pretty great job of explaining everything Pokémon Go got wrong.

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.

Jersey City, NJ renters insurance can be tough to pin down exactly what you need.

It becomes increasingly difficult to pin down exactly what is wrong with your network (or what is even causing it in the first place).

It takes a little bit to get the hang of optimizing things to pin down exactly what settings work best for your needs, but once you have some solid optimization rules in place the whole experience is fire and forget — no more stuttering video or buffering.

This is a useful way of pinning down exactly what you want.

Sometimes it can be hard to pin down exactly what your State or Territory Facilitator is for.

The drivers tend to be as much local as anything in the national economy, and sometimes it's hard to pin down exactly what's affecting each property.

Not exact matches

Because endometriosis is so difficult to pin down, it makes it so that there isn't exactly a wealth of dialogue about the condition, which creates confusion.

«And the uncertainty with which that tax refund arrives is exactly what enables us to pin down the connection between cash flow dynamics and healthcare spending,» says Greig.

But what exactly qualifies as fully driverless is more difficult to pin down than you might think.

It is difficult to pin down someone using the term to obtain an explanation of exactly what is meant.

What exactly those things mean in practice is harder to pin down though.

Precisely when and exactly through what process this consummation is to be reached the writers of Scripture do not specify in terms which the historian can pin down to exact details.

We know that at some point we shared a common ancestor with chimps, but exactly when — and what that ancestor was like — have been maddeningly hard to pin down.

Exactly how much the Arctic contributed to the severity or persistence of the pattern is still hard to pin down, but it's becoming very difficult to believe they are unrelated.»

Despite boredom's ubiquity and pathological associations, psychologists have yet to pin down what, exactly, it is.

It is important to pin down why exactly a user is more likely to vote if their close friends do, says Michael Macy, a networks expert at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Once the LHC at CERN is back up and running later this year, its LHCb experiment will use a 4500 - tonne detector to spy out billions of B mesons and pin down their secrets more exactly.

Different prebiotics may nourish different types of bacteria, and researchers have not yet pinned down the specifics — that is, exactly what prebiotic nourishes which bacteria.

Scuba blue is a difficult color to pin down, so I'm not quite sure if I got it exactly.

By writing down exactly what you want from a partner when it comes to their religious choices you'll be able to really pin down what you're looking for.

Thing is, it's hard to pin down just what, exactly, makes the Legacy work.