Sentences with phrase «pretty close call»

On the merits of the probable cause determination, my own sense is that this was a pretty close call.

On the safety front it's a pretty close call.

That has slipped just a tad to 6.5, but it looks like Vegas was pretty close calling the betting action.

Not exact matches

Google calls such projects «moonshots,» so just to be clear, the company is not referring to a spacecraft on a mission to the moon — well, the Google Chrome experiment «A Spacecraft for All» comes pretty close to that.

Closing lesson for today Mikey, as soon as a person has to resort to name calling then he or she has pretty much failed and lost the discussion.

The website, called «Signs of End Times,» says pretty close to the top that they «never set dates,» but have drawn their conclusion from things like natural disasters, widespread violence, immorality and Christians around the world being persecuted.

And these brownies are pretty close to what I would call pure perfection.

Mayock called the former Wake Forest linebacker the «safest» pick of the draft, and while Kiper wouldn't say exactly the same thing, he came pretty darn close:

She and I have grown pretty close through this whole journey called parenting and, since neither of us have had family in the area for most of the past three years (my sis lives out here again now), our families have spent many a holiday together.

When I was about 10 minutes out from the church in Lafayette where the event was taking place, a friend of mine called me to say she was saving some seats for me and other friends of ours and she was able to get pretty close to the front.

«I actually wanted to leave for the hospital once the contractions got strong and pretty intense... but when we called the hospital they told us we should keep laboring at home because they weren't close enough together,» said Williams.

For close to three years, wherever I have gone, I see party members sneaking around almost ashamed to call themselves members of the APC because the people we fought so hard to remove from power, many of them are still sitting pretty in their positions and many members who worked hard for the party are still hanging around and didn't have a sense of belonging.

But, yes, the notion that we can drastically cut back what we use and consume to such a level that it's at least pretty close to zero is utterly attainable, says Kathryn Kellogg, who runs a site called Going Zero Waste.

I'm calling it Creaming Kefir soda because it is pretty close to creaming soda but a little tart, as kefir should be.

Magnolia Market at the Silos, as it's officially called, replaces Joanna's now - closed smaller Magnolia Market, which was a pretty standard — if very tasteful — retail shop located elsewhere in Waco.

However, do nt let a few bad judgment calls stop you from watching it because it truly is a pretty good movie with some great revenge and morals hiding behind the cover and as strange and slow as it gets closes off with a pretty solid conclusion.

By now there is usually one category that is too close to call and the other three are pretty easy to guess.

I went hoping for the best and while not the worst (they could have had the gorgeous Ms. Berry running around in her underwear, dripping with sweat, at a 911 call center because there's a heat wave and the air conditioning goes out and her clothes have all shrunk in the drier) this is pretty darn close.

It's not exactly a Call of Duty clone but it's pretty close.

Once the movie gets through explaining the rules of improv with a borderline - embarrassing wide - eyed earnestness, it settles into an exploration of what happens when one person from a tightly knit six - member comedy group gets close to a plum spot on Saturday Night Live (it's called Weekend Live, presumably for permission to speak freely, but the differences pretty much end with the name).

Considering the recent selections from DC and Warner Bros. it might be easy (and a little premature) to get overly excited and call The Lego Batman Movie the best Batman movie ever, but it's pretty close.

Maybe this is why Publishers Lunch has a section called «People, Etc.» I think I sat pretty close to Etc. at StoryWorld.

It's of course cheaper than the two, but comes with features pretty close to what we might call a high end tablet.

I thought about taking out a short - term personal loan, but the closing costs (or whatever they're called) would have been a significant chunk of the finance charges I've paid over 3 - 4 months, plus my life was pretty scattered for a few months and I didn't know how much I'd end up needing.

A trip to the groomer and keeping the hair shaved pretty close all around his boy part may help - most groomers call it a «sanitary clip.»

Pretty much everything can be handled through sniping, but occasionally a more up - close approach is called for either through mission design or just because you used up too much sniper rifle ammo.

With E3 closing in on us a pretty big backstage event has been leaked recently involving a technology called Xbox Smartglass.

It's not exactly a Call of Duty clone but it's pretty close.

However, from my experience these «so - called» launch dates first given by a retailer, end up being correct or pretty close to their «prediction date.»

As we get close to the release of Call of Duty: Ghosts, the next installment in the hugely successful franchise, we're getting more and more info about the game pretty much every day.

Besides the excellent single player of Call of Duty 4 (which I've played to death) and Armed Assault, was the game of the year for the multiplayer only reason, while CoD4 is a close second with an excellent singleplayer campaign and pretty good, but not great, multiplayer.

(* ok, there are some advantages of being a Rockefeller in terms of personal power and prestige that might outweigh the lack of modern medicine, hygiene, and so forth... but the fact that it is even a close call is pretty amazing).

A new app called Foodfully comes pretty close to that solution with just a bit more work than pointing your phone camera at the fridge.

Today, TL has another post taking a look at the latest wave of reviews of the iPad from people such as Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal (who calls it «pretty close» to a laptop killer) and Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun - Times.

Most disturbing to me, there are ICOs where the lawyers involved appear to be, on the one hand, assisting promoters in structuring offerings of products that have many of the key features of a securities offering, but call it an «ICO,» which sounds pretty close to an «IPO.»

It was a close call, but ultimately it looks like Android fans» consensus aligns pretty well with ours: The LG G5 is clearly the more innovative new phone, but Samsung's Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge likely still come out on top.

There is also a new addition called Moto Key, which is a security and password manager that debuts on the Moto Z2 Force, but on the whole, the interface is pretty close to vanilla Android.

As far as results go, 23andMe and DNA Land had what I'd call the best ethnicity estimates for me, getting me at 98 % to 99.9 % which is pretty close to 100 %.

I'd call that a pretty dismal closing record!

I was pretty close to tears by the time I finally located that freaking service desk, but again I reined in my fury as I negotiated my options with a nice lass called Michaela.