Sentences with phrase «saddle as»

Game Freak's new mashup puts players in the saddle as a jockey who must complete a fast - paced, simplified version of solitaire to propel the horse through intense races.

Were I back in the saddle as a buyside analyst, I would be building my spreadsheet, and calling reinsurers to get an idea of how much exposure (not losses per se, but did they write business there?)

He «borrows» a horse and rides after the thieves, throwing Annie over the saddle as he goes.

Otherwise, the balance of the principal cast acquits itself admirably, from Tommy Lee Jones in the familiar role of an orders - barking boss, to Vincent Cassel as an appropriately - despicable diabolical villain, to the inimitable Matt Damon back in the saddle as the two - fisted protagonist.

I am a bit on the heavy side but can hold my own in the saddle as my...

There are still trending bags out there that are the evolution of the saddle as well - their shape is more rectangular, but their flaps are rounded, like this one.

Kaley Cuoco, Mary - Kate Olsen and Iggy Azalea have all spent time in the saddle as amateur equestrians — Azalea even said riding horses «saved my life and gave me my confidence back» — and Georgina Bloomberg and Jessica Springsteen are both pro riders, but can you actually burn calories while doing it?

You can also adjust the saddle as per your comfort level i.e. back and forth and up and down.

Take a well - deserved break but jump back into the saddle as soon as you are ready to avoid visible gaps on your resume.

The anti-graft agency is prosecuting him in court for alleged corruption and money laundering offences committed while in the saddle as governor.

Babangiga, who reluctantly «stepped aside» from office after eight years in the saddle as military President, is believed to still be a member of the PDP.

Now back from Greece and back in the blogging saddle as well as starting a new job!

Well these guys don't care about a sore butt maybe so much but they want the kind of the feeling that they've really gone far and that it's professional and it's the same as, I don't know, somewhat the famous cyclist, the same saddle as a famous cyclist has.

And even the most successful companies in music streaming are hardly cash cows, saddled as they are with royalty payments to artists and labels.

The younger generations are finding it extremely difficult to get started, saddled as they are with student debt loads and a shrinking job market.

Saddled as the guardian of his employer's love child, Will is annoyed and burdened.

Saddled as she is with Rushdie's hazy historical signposting, there's little excuse for Mehta's flat visual style, particularly given the sensory vividness of her earlier films.

Ward, unfortunately, is saddled as a forgettable character, whose personality (is there one?)

Not exact matches

Some firms, such as Caterpillar Inc., are saddled with pension liabilities that need to be funded.

That deal, though, saddled Whiting with billions in debt just as oil prices cratered, giving Continental an edge as it spent cash to improve ways it fracks wells.

In many cases, rural households don't have the necessary speeds to stream high - definition video or they're saddled with low monthly usage caps that don't play well with the heavy bandwidth demands that HD content such as House of Cards have.

Mortgages aren't the only debt Canadians are saddled with, however, and the rates on credit cards, car loans, and home equity lines of credit could tick up as well, further increasing a household's overall carrying costs.

Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.

The retailer was saddled in debt, some $ 4.9 billion, left from a 2005 leveraged buyout for about $ 6.6 billion by private equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital, as well as real estate trust Vornado.

The company's rapid expansion under Josef Ackermann as a global investment bank saddled it with an unwieldy structure and a culture of excessive risk - taking, critics say.

Zahid identifies young people as a key demographic that has largely been reticent to get on the saddle, since cycles to this point have not featured the same social connectivity options that are a staple of every other aspect of their lives.

As programmers begin to develop more advanced AI systems, computers should become more capable and could begin saddling up to trickier tasks like, say, driving cars.

The layoffs came almost two years after the tech giant bought Nokia, a deal that was criticized as Microsoft saddling itself with an aging business.

But the serial acquirers that defined the last decade of specialty pharma dealmaking — Teva Pharmaceuticals, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Endo International — are no longer in the position to take on bigger deals, as they're all saddled with too much debt.

For one, if Trump passes his plan to impose heavy import tariffs on U.S. companies in a bid to deter outsourcing, Under Armour and the retail space as a whole would be saddled with a much heavier tax bill.

Some borrowers have no credit history or were saddled with bad credit as a result of a divorce or other issue.

As part of its pitch, the company explains to potential customers that the so - called «net present value» of a $ 7,000 saddle is actually less than the all - in cost of using an ill - fitting one — expenses that include frequent vet bills, replacement saddles and even the costs associated with the premature death of the animal due to saddle - related health problems.

Women who rode a lot on saddles made for men, she adds, could find themselves suffering from a range of health problems, such as lower back pain and bladder disorders.

The chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last fall, saddled with $ 5 billion in debt that hurt its attempts to compete as shoppers moved to Amazon and huge chains like Walmart.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Otherwise, you only sell the property if you need a sudden large infusion of cash, as might occur if you suddenly are saddled with expensive medical bills.

-LRB-...) Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners bought iHeart, then known as Clear Channel Communications, for about $ 24 billion in 2008, saddling it with debt.

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

She was actually named after yeast FUNGUS and a plant; Again, I need to do more research, but in order to take a article seriously, you need to address the source first This woman, as educated as she MAY be, (having a degree, and knowing how to use it are two different things) spent her earliest, most developmentally crucial years under the direction of at least one parent who thought NOTHING of saddling their kid with this name.

Sheesh skintag, you are as windy as Rick Warren, who tries to put a saddle on the backs of believers, with all yer proofs and facts to back you up!!

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

When it stood as tall as it could stand, Jesus leaned forward in the saddle.

When religion is saddled with direct political responsibilities its judgments necessarily become political as well as religious.

Updike shares the optimistic 19th - century vision of America as a free - riding nation which is not saddled to the worn - out nag of European Christendom.

Here he complains that we have been saddled with an ironically Anti-Federalist view of the Constitution as a charter for a shackled state.

In a moment I shall defend my account from this charge, but let me first point out that Cobb's theory of regional inclusion leads to a position that is equally as absurd as the conclusions with which he attempts to saddle my presentation.

By boosting in the saddle, I mean that many people use Jesus as their helper for THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS PROJECT.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

This tradition probably comes from a second - century Christian book known as the Infancy Gospel of James, which says that Joseph «saddled a donkey, and he set her upon it» (17:2).

The language of rights might do the job, but it is saddled with an emphasis on negative rights (i.e., our right to be let alone), and it is both too legalistic and overused as a quasi-moral language.