Sentences with phrase «roll of the dice for»

Insurers like Anthem have refused to cover the exorbitantly pricey treatment (around $ 300,000) since the drug's label admits that Exondys hasn't proved its efficacy, making the therapy a roll of the dice for payers and patients alike.

As far as I'm concerned, Welbeck is the last roll of the dice for Our Premier league hopes!

Boykin's place on this list is shaky — having the raw undrafted rookie out of TCU be the first man up in the event of an injury to Russell Wilson would be a big - time roll of the dice for a Seattle team that plans to play deep into January — but he is fun to watch even when things aren't going perfectly.

But people around the Premier believe it's a last roll of the dice for Ms Sturgeon if she feels backed into a corner.

It is a roll of the dice for everyone else.

You carry on rolling and adjusting health until either you or the monster dies, or you opt to retreat, at which point the monster gets one free roll of its dice for a final swipe at your rapidly retreating rear end.

Not exact matches

His willingness to start over, and consistently roll the dice for something bigger and better, is one of the reasons Apple's products are so successful.

The proposal by Tidal Energy Australia for a compromised plan to provide power to the Kimberley appears to be a desperate last roll of the dice.

Nevertheless, the evidence from more than fifty years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker.

Once in Vegas I prayed for a four to come up each of 600 times I rolled a dice, and God answered my prayers about a hundred times.

Add 4 ounces of cream cheese into a bowl, dice 4 ounces of smoked salmon, which is about 2 slices (the easiest way to dice up smoked salmon is to roll up each slice like a cigar, cut it right down the middle and then thinly slice it), then add the diced smoked salmon to the bowl with the cream cheese, next add 1/2 teaspoon of dried dill, 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder, season with freshly cracked black pepper and mix everything together until well mixed, cover with seran wrap and add to the fridge for at least 15 minutes

2 cups rolled oats 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted 1/4 cup pepitas (hulled pumpkin seeds), toasted 1/4 cup hazelnuts, toasted 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground clove pinch of fine sea salt 1 egg 2 cups almond milk 1/4 cup pure maple syrup 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 ripe pears, diced 1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted, plus more for greasing pan

1/2 cup sprouted rolled oats 1 teaspoon chia seeds 1 teaspoon ground flaxseed few dashes of ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon maple (plus extra for the squash) 1/2 cup diced butternut squash coconut oil instant cashew yogurt (recipe below)

INGREDIENTS for the panna cotta: 4 cups of rhubarb (5 - 8 stalks depending on how big they are), green tops discarded, red - ish parts diced 1/2 cup of granulated coconut sugar (maple syrup works as well if you prefer) 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt 1 vanilla bean, scraped (or 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract) 14oz can of full fat coconut milk 2 tablespoons of agar flakes for the strawberry coconut crunch: 3/4 cup of frozen strawberries 1 teaspoon of vanilla 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt 2 tablespoons of maple syrup 2 tablespoons of brown rice syrup 1 cup of thick coconut flakes 1/2 cup of rolled oats garnish: several mint leaves (chopped or whole)

The thing is, the degradation of the Pirelli tyres at the Bahrain round at the start of 2017 was so high that the Prema team and Charles Leclerc decided to roll the dice and stop for new tyres.

You don't have to roll the dice using one of your best corners on a TE; you don't have to keep big slow guys on your DB squad, just for TEs; and you don't have to worry about trying to cover a TE with a slower, smaller linebacker.

If drafting is a tangible skill instead of just rolling the dice, then he gets credit for good and bad picks.

It was a calculated risk to keep forgo the 100mil + they would receive for the transfers and roll the dice and try and make champs league, lose them on a free or hope for something to change at least one of their minds, and make up the money in Comp payouts, broadcasting and general worldwide marketing.

But Faulk is the needle in the haystack that is the rest of the team's second round picks, and I'd much rather have a proven defenseman than a 1 - for - 12 roll of the dice.

with this situation, which is undoubtedly Wenger created, the waters are so muddy now I'm not sure things can return to normal... no matter what is said through official club channels, this is clearly their fault... when they rolled the dice with the whole Sanchez negative media spin to protect Wenger, when he didn't start Sanchez against Liverpool last season, (how ironic) they sunk to a new low... it's become too easy to deceive, just think of all the manufactured lies that have come from the mouths of Wenger and Gazidis since we've arrived at the Emirates... the only reason we allowed them to happen for so long is that we hoped it would eventually lead to something of some consequence and all would be forgiven... well I don't forgive them and I certainly won't forget anytime soon... the worst part is the lies are oftentimes so juvenile that you can only conclude that the club must think that we're a bunch of intellectually challenged 10 year olds....

With games against two extremely defensive - minded sides (Stoke and Chelsea) coming up on either side of a Champions League fixture midweek; maybe its time for the manager to roll the dice.

The use of the «Post Code Lottery «is only to draw attention to the fact that people are placed in n invidious position to one or another extent, for many its amounts to a # 10,000 one time tax based on the roll of a dice and that a mile away others avoid the axe only heightens the sense of injustice OK Personally I am unconvinced by the minor sub theme of localism which has after all been tested to destruction by the likes of Enver Hodge and Hit Man Hatton but this is a very different context but is it not possible to have localism for some things, planning for example, and not others... why yes I think that might actually be possible even for dim witted bureaucrats.

«He rolled the dice with casinos, but there's nothing transformative,» said Mike Durant, executive director of the National Federation for Independent Businesses.

The probability of winning a roll of the dice, for example, is equal to the proportion of winning outcomes relative to all possible ones.

NO DICE For computers, generating random numbers is more complex than a simple roll of the dDICE For computers, generating random numbers is more complex than a simple roll of the dicedice.

At each oscillation, the switch opens for a short time and grants the cell a short window in which it can use noise as a «roll of the dice» to decide whether to escape into competence.

Then 13 years ago, in a strategic roll of the dice, the group decided to fund the search for a cure that would target not the symptoms of CF, but the defective protein causing the disease.

For example, in the 17th century the question came up, do you have the same chance of throwing a six by rolling one die four times or of throwing two sixes by rolling two dice 24 times?

The chance of a double six with a good pair of dice is one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, you need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

For so many of us breakfast is a roll of the dice.

However, in her review for Variety, Jessica Kiang writes, «Treat Me Like Fire is an engrossing and compelling tale about the dice - roll of female transformation, as well as a sexy little torch song for Paris by night, and for the men who make us into the women we are.

Although it represents a significant roll of the dice as the most expensive project ever undertaken by the filmmaker's EuropaCorp shingle, «Lucy» should capitalize on its strong international elements and Johansson's bankability to become Besson's biggest worldwide hit as a director since «The Fifth Element,» no small feat for an f / x-heavy original property in this over-franchised day and age.

As for the key to winning, the participants seem to agree that despite the incredible amount of strategy necessary for a serious shot at the title, a lucky roll of the dice might ultimately decide the outcome.

Two years after «Think Like a Man» introduced us to four couples, Story and his cast — which includes Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, and Meagan Good — are back for another roll of the dice in the game of love, this time with a romp through Las Vegas.

The whole system is purely about rolling the dice for a chance to expand your list of collectibles but it does have an addictive quality to it.

On opening night of Bank's posh new casino tower The Bank, every turn of a card and roll of the dice will come up a winner for bettors.

It requires students to fill in a two way table for the possible outcomes of rolling two dice and summing them together, then answer probability questions based on this.

A simple dice game, along the lines of a beetle drive - ie roll the right number to visit 6 european countries and write the relevant language's word for «hello» in the box.

This is a straightforward activity where students have to complete the table of outcomes / probability space / sample space for the event of rolling two dice and adding the scores together.

The pack includes: Display banner - A long banner for a display with pictures Father Christmas - A large picture of Father Christmas for your displays Display lettering - Large letters to spell out «Father Christmas» decorated in red and whte stripes Number line - A number line to 50 on Christmas doors Alphabet line - An alphabet line on Elves Story words - Word cards with words relating to the story - great to include in your writing area Counting cards - Cards from 1 - 10 with different numbers of drinks to count Speech bubble worksheets - Various worksheets to fill in the speech bubbles Word mat - An A4 word mat with pictures to help when writing about the story Face masks - Colour and black and white face masks of Father Christmas and Elves to use for story telling and role play Father Christmas model - Make a model of Father Christmas using split pins Playdough mats - Various colourful mats to use with play dough for counting and Christmas Matching pairs - A colourful matching pairs game to make and play Colour Elves - Different coloured elves with the colour name Worksheet - Design a new drink for Father Christmas Christmas tree game - Spin the spinner and collect different decorations for your tree Banner - A long «Happy Christmas» banner for your classroom decorated with holly leaves Worksheets - Various worksheets to draw different parts of the story, to draw your food and drink for Father Christmas and to design a sleigh for Father Christmas Game - Deliver all the presents in your sleigh first to win the game Maths worksheets - Various worksheets with counting, addition, subtraction and symmettry Design a decoration - Design a new decoration for your Christmas tree Decorations - Various Christmas decorations to cut out and colour Game - Roll a die and cover the numbered star in the night sky - plus a version to use two dice and add the numbers together and cover the number Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

Display pictures - Large A4 coloured pictures of things to do with bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes Colouring pictures - Large black and white pictures Display border - Each piece is decorated with pictures and can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size Songs and rhymes - Six decorated songs and rhyme cards related to Bonfire Night for the children to learn - 2 of these rhymes are number rhymes so would be great for your maths lessons A4 border - Individual A4 sized page with a border - great for adding work to ready for the display or for the children to use in the writing area Questions - Question cards each decorated with colour pictures Topic words - Words about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night each decorated with fireworks Fireworks - Colour photos of fireworks - great for discussion and displays Houses of Parliament - Colour photos of The Houses of Parliament Counting card - Rocket counting cards Dice game - Two different sheets with a black and white firework picture - roll the die and colour the correct part of the firework Literacy Worksheets - Various worksheets such as completing the sentences about fireworks, true and false worksheet about Guy Fawkes, describing fireworks, writing safety instructions Maths Worksheets - Make the rocket symmetrical, complete the addition and subtraction sums on the fireworks plus blank calculation sheets so you can differentiate the sums Ideas - An ideas sheet with lots of ideas to cover different areas of the curriculum when teaching about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot Cutting skills - Cut out the parts of the firework and assemble - there are two different sheets Safety Posters - Eight posters about firework safety for the children to colour Picture dominoes - A colour dominoes game Guy Fawkes pictures - Pictures from old documents about Guy Fawkes and the plot Draw the fireworks - A colour and a black and white worksheet Size worksheet - Cut out and order the rockets in size order - in colour and black and white Matching pairs game - Match the coloured Bonfire Night pictures Rhyme - «Remember, Remember the Fifth of November» - A decorated rhyme card

On a Roll: A Math Game for Reinforcing Computation Skills This dice - and - math game provides practice in a wide variety of math skills at all levels.

Charter schools are not the answer, but for those of us last - in - line for delivery of great neighborhood schools, maybe we have a better chance, rolling our own dice rather than playing in a game historically fixed against us.

A variation of this game is for one child to roll the dice after the other child specifies the number used to multiply the roll of the dice.

The You're on a Roll Dice Game is another fun example of vocabulary games for high school students.

Admittedly, every roll of the dice counts for more when your pockets are shallow, which observation has led many to conclude that building luxury cars can only be a game for those with high - rise billfolds.

If you prefer a sure thing to a roll of the dice, Acura's legendary record for reliability makes spending $ 50,000 - plus on a 2016 Acura RLX luxury sedan about as safe a bet as you can make.

the man nonetheless moves her to challenge his captor to a roll of the dice in exchange for his life.

Although then you get into this weird situation where you're actually creating a lot more comic than ever sees the light of day, just so you're not desperately strapped for an idea when the dice roll comes the way you don't want it.

While Note Everything has the capacity for supporting Paint Notes, and initial ink entry works well, storing and recalling the artifact is a roll of the dice.