Sentences with phrase «really close call»

Xbox live & Games with gold are possibly overall a slightly better service, but its a really close call, both PSN and Live are perfected now, downtime and hacks aside, the core service is awesome!

This was a really close call for a sweet little dog and we decided to call this precious baby, Sunshine, and the Sunshine Fund was born.

Getty could be like «I think I prefer Chubb to Nelson or Barkley, but it's a really close call.»

If we provide people with information, more and more of them will see these are really close calls and some individuals will say, «Boy, I'm not going to be part of that.»

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Brand equity: The Yahoo - Verizon deal hasn't closed yet, but if you needed a clearer sign that its executives have full faith it will actually, really, truly happen, see Tim Armstrong's announcement yesterday, via Twitter: Upon closing, Yahoo and Aol will merge into one company called Oath.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

What really makes my head hurt trying to understand is when people claim to be of a faith or to be a Christian and have absolutely no clue as to the idea that they're supposed to actually believe and uphold the teachings of CHRIST and not their own religion ideas and call it «close enough».

But on closer examination, I find that even this so - called belief in the past is really reducible to belief in the future, for past events are important to me insofar as they affect my life as lived here and now.

The thing about «blind alleys,» I really don't know what you are getting at, but if they are inspired by God and are writing truth and transformation that is closer to Jesus I wouldn't call that a blind alley, that's the true North of christianity, whether Catholic or protestant.

Just one little (know it all) comment from a european fan living really close to Italy: Why do you call this a piccata (that's how it's spelt; — RRB --RRB-.

This game went back and forth for its entirety and an untimely technical foul call against them really hurt them in the closing moments of the Game.

Call me crazy, but I can really see Chelsea slipping away in a close - run battle for the top four this season.

I do not really like it when any player loses his cool and calls out their teammates during a match but with Alexis being virtually on his own in terms of effort to close the Germans down, stem the tide and get something going for the Gunners, you can understand the Chilean's feelings.

He really hasn't shown much on the field outside of one phenomenal catch he hasn't even come close to reproducing and his own coach is calling him out in the media.

The 21 - year - old has really impressed for West Bromwich Albion this season and was reportedly close to getting a full England call - up.

We are closest to your so called five WC players and are in the title fight so I don't know what your problem is really.

Do not disturb mode: If you're in the middle of watching a really close game and you don't want the call reminding you of your grandmother's birthday tomorrow, you can simply put the phone on do not disturb.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

Berdeyev is too astute to let his players lose focus, and with Erokhin and Kudryashev they will be boosted, but it is so close that it's really hard to call.

This really is too close to call, with neither bringing any meaningful credentials to the game with them.

That side was soon picked apart by bigger and wealthier clubs across the continent and even though they haven't really come close to emulating that achievement since Lille haves still been able to call upon some extremely gifted footballers.

I've had a close call with a car seat and choking before, I am thankful we weren't driving so I could get the baby out really quickly.

As the bills rolled in for web hosting and re-regestering my domain name, I felt that might be a good time to call it quits, but as their deadlines loomed closer I didn't quite feel ready to let it all go as I really have been missing this space, -LSB-...]

And by «working,» I mean «mainstream working»: as an employee, with little flexibility of working hours or home office and a very limited amount of holidays, which is dramatically reduced by the days you and your partner need for when childcare is closed, or those flu weeks you can not really cover by calling in sick again.

If Labour do get closer to the Conservatives in the polls (or indeed overtake them) in the new year, then Gordon Brown really should call an election there and then.

9 June With Australia reporting more than 1000 confirmed cases, WHO's flu chief Keiji Fukuda says the agency is now «really very close» to calling the epidemic a pandemic.

But at a press conference (audio, page loads slowly) today, WHO's flu chief Keiji Fukuda said that the agency is now «really very close» to calling the epidemic a pandemic.

Now, bear with me, I have never had the pleasure of tasting this hummus, so really I can't call this a copycat recipe, although it was delicious, I can't pretend like it's the same as the original (you tell me if I came in close!

Ben: Well, I'm down there on the floor usually when you're working at abdaptors and your abductors if you have, you know, a house or neighbors can see him through the living room whether you don't wan na close the curtains «cause it does look like you're kinda doing something perverted to a foam roller but that's same company that makes the rumble roller which is the foam roller that has the ridges on it, they also make one called the beasty ball which is basically like this little, it's like a crossball that has ridges kinda sticking out of it and that one is also really good but I'll take like my beasty ball and my foam roller and go and do slightly illegal things with them on a living room floor.

The only thing keeping my from having them is the fact that Nordstrom isn't really that close and when I called they said they didn't have my size and to call back in a couple days.

I am really a country girl at heart but I love going to theater, travelling, music and laughter,... I can also be a serious person when called to be... My love is mostly in gardening, watching plants bloom brings me closer to my maker.

With a script by Chris Terrio, adapted from a 2007 Wired article by Joshuah Bearman, the film certainly seems to take some creative licenses to ratchet up the tension — were people really so close to not answering a crucial phone call, was the timing of the escape climax really so harrowingly tight — but we believe in its earnest depiction of real - ish events nonetheless.

Is this year's Oscar race really too close to call?

All of these elements make it such a fantastic game and that is why I came really close to giving it the crown and calling it quits.

This is the closest the movie gets to finding something deeper than simply going through the motions of the story, although the relationship that develops between Bob (and Kathy) and Roberto (and his wife) isn't convincing enough of a conflict for it to really hit home (More intriguing is a moment of solidarity between Bob and Kathy after a close call — an embrace that goes on for a beat too long).

«I think we have to be really careful about calling them [the electronic formats] «data walls» because the purpose of a data wall is that it is the moral imperative of that student in your face and you can't close the lid of the laptop and turn it off.

school funding campaign, is calling for a much closer look at what the variation in funding really means for those outside the capital.

He called me back and told me that the Highlander I am interested is still available and we are almost very close on the deal and we really wanted to take a look at my trade - in vehicle.

My truck was towed into the Mercedes - Benz dealership on Monday January 15th I was told that I would be able to get a loaner on the next day which would have been January 16th I understand due to all the bad weather that they may have not been open on the 16th of January so I didn't worry about it on the 17th when I called to see what was going on then turn tell me they were trying to see if they could get the warranty company to pay for the part which I was told was $ 1,400 by Frankie at this time I asked him what about a loner car well he in turn told me that it wouldn't take but a day to put the part on because they already had I was already been inconvenience because my truck is there I have no transportation and I work for the hospital so I have to get back and forth to work so after Saturday morning of my mom's passing I called the dealership and spoke with the young lady and she told me all the time cars had been taken for people that had appointments for them now at that point I'm thinking to myself while I'm a customer as well why wasn't I call to pick up a rental car so she in turn told me that she wouldn't have the manager call me back and indeed he did call me back but when he call me back he let me know that they did have a loaner cars and that they would be closing in 30 minutes well I live in Pearland and they're over by Greenway Plaza so that was no way I would have made it to get a car and he let me know that they're trying to wait to see what the warranty company it's going to do don't steal mind you I don't have a loaner car due to the fact they were closing in 30 minutes and I needed to get a ride back all in the same token my mom has passed so he went on to say that he had spoke with Brian from AutoNation Chrysler Jeep and he had told him that he would give him the family discount which was $ 1,200 if they were going to fix the car now mind you if the warranty company is going to fix the car they're going to charge them $ 1,200 but I was told by Frankie that I had to pay $ 1,400 to have this car fixed that I've only had two months that I had a 90 day warranty on but it doesn't cover the port so once he told me he was charging AutoNation Chrysler Jeep the 1200 I told him I didn't think that was fair to me that I would have to pay 1400 at that point when he noticed he had told me the price he would on to say that oh well it may be 1200 or it may be a little lower than 1200 and I informed him once again had to prepare things for my mother's funeral and then have to come up with $ 1,200 on repairs for a car I've only had two months I really don't think it's fair and if I have to pay the 1200 I'll have to I'll just have to come out of pocket with it but I will take it as high as I have to because if you have a 90 day warranty the car came from Mercedes - Benz Greenway Plaza someone should make it right.

The introduction of SVO, or as it's really called, Special Vehicles Operations, is meant to bring that Jaguar name closer to the marque.

With the markets closed today in religious observance, it seems a good time to note that next Tuesday, after the close of the normal trading day, Amazon will announce its most recent quarterly earnings and hold a conference call for analysts to drill down on what the numbers really mean.

When the price of the «Mother Bar Breakout» get rejected and closes back within the range of the mother bar, it's called a «Fakey» (sign that this break wasn't really a break).

Throughout the year I have provided updates (My House is on the Market in March, Housing Update in April, 5 Months Later Housing Update and finally We are Getting Close to a new Home) and we are really close so I am going to call this a success as we are just waiting to close on the new pClose to a new Home) and we are really close so I am going to call this a success as we are just waiting to close on the new pclose so I am going to call this a success as we are just waiting to close on the new pclose on the new place.

The date is surprisingly close to the usual launch time for a Call of Duty title; will gaming's biggest shooters really be going head - to - head?

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

The real question is whether they'll close or just fade away into some other company so we can't really call them gone.

We'd already gotten a really good look at Call of Duty: Ghosts courtesy of the Pre-E3 show, but I got to see a much better view of the game from the comfort of a behind - closed - door meeting with the developers at Infinity Ward.

I'm not one to respond back to comments but to say Horizon Zero Dawn didn't earn all those awards in my eyes they deserved more they delivered on every aspect of the game, come on the game was so good and unique that it caught the eye of the great Hideo Kojima let's say this again the Great Hideo Kojima and now he's teamed up and working with gorilla games on his Death Stranding project after that I need say anymore but one thing when it comes to all time classics I put this game in my top 3 story mode games of all time and this game ain't even called a classic yet but you'll see in due time this game stands up to great games like God of War, The Last of Us and Uncharted just to name a few and if real hardcore gamers are out there they would agree with this statement, so in closing I don't think you really took the time to let this game absorb and immerse you in all its richness and fluidity of gameplay and character movement and mind you I didn't even add the beautiful Frozen Wilds Dlc which was breathtaking and masterfully done and crafted this game is original.

The developers want to call it a survival / management game, but really, it's closer to a visual novel with a very number - intensive stat and crafting system than what I think of as a survival game.

As a fresh set of eyes it could be fairly easy to overlook the now simplistic gameplay on offer here, but the heavily Aliens inspired (it's as close as you could get without a lawsuit; in fact, one of the tophies is actually called «Ripley») art direction and tight twin - stick - shooter re-imagining really hit a nerve with me, even if it wasn't for as long as it could have been.