Sentences with word «scattergun»

James will also bring some discipline and order to the somewhat scattergun approach DD has adopted in the past.

That does not mean that I agree with the sort of scattergun spending we have seen from the likes of Chelsea, Man City, Tottenham and more in the last 10 years, but if the boss decides that a player is right for Arsenal then should he just cough up the cash and stop trying to buy champagne at lemonade prices?

Don't like Lambo's scattergun policy of buying several foreign players when the NextGen lads like Carruthers and Grealish are palmed off out on loan I think they are at least as good as players like Bacuna and Helenius.

The approach that both Moyes and LVG adapted seemed to be scattergun in nature, a mix of last - minute gambles and questionable marquee signings that either failed to make the grade or were incorrectly used.

It isn't only lobbyists being targeted in Reitman's somewhat scattergun approach, however, with Hollywood execs copping a backhander in an amusing scene in which Naylor and Jeff Megall (Hollywood producer, played by Rob Lowe) compete to see how low each is prepared to go in their search for the perfect star - powered vehicle to reform the image of cigarettes.

With so many hefty policy files in play at once, the Trudeau government's method can appear more scattergun than strategic.

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You get a bit scattergun after that.

Victorious in seven consecutive games prior to Saturday's 1 - 1 draw at Köln in the Rhineland derby, the «Werkself» have successfully substituted the reckless and scattergun high pressing game they used early in the season for co-ordinated dominance in all areas, more pragmatic, more alert to the threat of being hit on the break and thoroughly more resolute defensively.

Pies verdict: Can't see him going to Spain, and Chelsea's interest smacks of scattergun desperation.

Jay, rather scattergun at the moment, quotes Murdoch from a 1999 Time magazine interview talking about libertarian rules.

This is a cue to deliver a whole range of scattergun attacks, including a commitment to hold the referendum on the Lisbon treaty - despite the fact it's already been ratified.

This deliberately scattergun approach helps Gillespie avoid the straitjacket of chronology that is so stifling in most sports movies.

So it's a huge relief to discover that, with «Chappie», the South African filmmaker has re-engaged his emotion chip and ramped up the weirdness factor for this lovably scattergun cybernetic satire.

The equipage of war hung by leather belts, pistols and knives and back - slung scatterguns of all gauges.

It's interesting to compare Impressionism to the Pre-Raphaelites but once we cross into the the 1900s the art movements come thick and fast, resulting in some galleries with a jarring scattergun of styles.

A former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research and the author of numerous publications on the subject, Gish is well - known for relishing confrontational publicly staged debates with evolutionists, employing a technique where arguments and topics are presented in a rapid - fire but scattergun manner for a prolonged period.

By comprehensively tracking claims, the firm can gain insight on new trends, developing practice areas, the tactics of competitors and the activities of clients — knowledge that has traditionally been cobbled together through gossip, rumour and scattergun investigation, the firm says.

But his uneven, scattergun approach led to an irritating hour

Those big eyes looked down and saw that grandma had a scattergun aimed right at him.

«It has to be rifle shooting, not a scattergun approach.»

US President Donald Trump's decision to levy import tariffs on steel and aluminium typifies the administration's scattergun approach to trade policy: many victims, a lot of friendly fire and hitting all the wrong targets.

I merely took a scattergun approach by establishing small stakes in many low - priced stocks on the basis that few star performers would outweigh the many basket cases.

The scattergun approach continues at Spurs.

So the scattergun policy of last summer never sat comfortably with me.

Yet even accounting for their desperate need for such an addition, the scattergun nature of rumours surrounding possible targets has become laughable.

[76] It was described by The Daily Telegraph's economics editor as «an inventive, scattergun approach to growth that half - ticked the demands of every policy commentator, wrapped together under the Chancellor's banner of Britain as an «aspiration nation».»

The result is a scattergun approach involving triangulation, right - wing rhetoric and occasional forays into left - wing principles.

The 2011 Budget will be remembered as one in which the chancellor fired out a scattergun approach, bombarding the economy with small - scale measures.

However, the scattergun approach can get in the way of finding love.

I'm no scattergun,

The «scattergun» approach of sending messages reading «Hi fancy a drink» to all and sundry is not a tactic likely to succeed.

It's not a deadeye pistol shot from a gunslinger, but a wild shot from a scattergun.

This scattergun approach suits the manic nature of the character, and leads to a fair amount of laugh - out - loud moments.

Learning by interacting with a bot is targeted, not the scattergun, one - size - fits - all approach of the e-learning course.

This creates a network effect that allows your book to spread by word - of - mouth much more quickly than if you had a scattergun approach to marketing.

Traditional PR may not have worked for me because a much more targeted audience is better, and a scattergun approach is not right.

Instead of a scattergun approach to marketing (least effective), businesses can use targeted pull - marketing (most effective).

He's considered and articulate, yet sometimes seemingly on fast - forward, extended pauses followed by an explosion of thoughts and ideas («I am scattergun to the nth degree,» he laughs).

We're always open to seeing more pitches... but with the caveat that we're still a small outfit and don't want to take a scattergun approach.

We are told that these scattergun releases are due to «publisher request» Now Harmonix have been hounding SCEE to release these since the first pack in January, do we really believe that after * five months * of trying to get SCEE to release the first of these tracks they decided themselves to release on Friday instead of Wednesday?

And we must further believe this conspiracy has been exposed by the scattergun technical analysis of a mining consultant turned blogger.

Most employ a «scattergun» approach by sending out letters to hundreds of landowners in the hope of finding a few feasible sites and paying the site owner -LSB-...]

Targeted adverts will work far better than the scattergun approach.

Often job hunters are tempted to use the scattergun approach and fire off the same CV to scores of vacancies, without even reading the job advert.

It's more beneficial to submit a handful of targeted job applications rather than send a large number of generic resumes in a scattergun approach.