Sentences with phrase «quick stab at it»

Andrew Dessler made a quick stab at answering them on Twitter:

Let's take a quick stab at what Elan's net cash & Tysabri royalty stream might be worth: Currently, Elan has $ 844 mio of cash & securities, plus $ 600 mio of debt — the Biogen payment would transform this into a $ 3.5 bio net cash position.

While trying to pin this down is a fool's errand, that doesn't mean we can't at least take a quick stab at it, right?

Let me take a quick stab at a couple of the Q's, and I might have to circle back later when I have more time... basically, my first thought while reading your questions on my investments is to try not to overcomplicate it, and try not to categorize each investment.

A quick stab at the gas pedal got the car rolling again.

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The incident happened at Lone Star Community College in Cypress, Texas, yesterday, when Dylan Andrew Quick allegedly began to stab fellow students with what appeared to be an Exacto - knife before being tackled by onlookers.

The RB runs a quick stab route at the middle linebacker, pulling him out of the passing window to the TE or becoming a checkdown option, if Louisville's handled the TE's route fake.

But for the most part, the stabs here at quick - paced, shouty rage come off as second - tier David O. Russell.

A modest stab at the gas sees the Acadia step out nicely — tromp it and it scoots to 100 kilometres an hour in 7.3 seconds, which is pretty quick for a 1,794 - kilogram crossover.

3) I couldn't find (on quick read) if the paper takes a stab at the overall carbon accounting of estimated shifts in fire patterns.

I really hate having to adjust the brightness outside with a swipe down, a poke at the left quick settings button, a stab in the dark at the brightness grid label and a feel for the brightness slider.