Sentences with phrase «series of stumbles»

According to Jon Entine, after a series of stumbles and scandals, the Food and Drug Administration's ability to oversee the...

The increase in Cuomo's numbers — and the drop in support for Trump — come amid a series of stumbles for the new president during his first month in office and the Democratic governor's vocal opposition to a temporary ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries and refugees.

After a series of stumbles and setbacks the Liberals have an ambitious but risky plan to break their slump and get back on track

Not exact matches

To uncover the influencers of employee motivation, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, psychologist Frederick Herzberg conducted a series of studies and stumbled across a fascinating discovery: The contributors to job satisfaction and dissatisfaction aren't related.

Aside from the awesome looks, perhaps the best thing about the next Formula E car is the fact that it'll mean the end of drivers having to change cars in the middle of the race in order to get to the end, a stumbling block for many in their enjoyment of the series.

The Yankees stumbled out of the gate to an ugly 3 - 6 start, but seemingly started to turn things around this past weekend with a series sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays, bringing their record to 6 - 6 on the year.

It's not like he hasn't stumbled — 2013 finals when he missed a late free throw, 2015 Clippers series when he flamed out offensively, 2016 when Durant turned the tables in the 4Q of Game 4 and Kawhi didn't rise to the challenge for the rest of the series — but he always comes back with more, and it would be easy for someone like him to say, «You know what, people already say I'm the best two - way player, why am I killing myself to learn the 9th option on a side pick and roll?»

De Blasio has seen his poll numbers plummet amid a series of recent stumbles.

However, a series of missteps by the challenger, including stumbling over the definition of a trade agreement during an on - camera interview on NY1 and then bragging at a press conference that organizing a student exchange program in Japan gave him the necessary credentials to deal with important international issues, appeared to have hurt his chances.

Duffy, already a top Democratic target, stumbled in trying to fill out a personal financial disclosure form, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which unearthed a series of irregularities.

This is a key release for Blue Sky as A) their Ice Age series stumbled last time out and B) the future of Blue Sky is now very much in the air after Walt Disney bought Fox on Thursday.

As I pointed out in Part One of this series, I've learned a great deal from friends and mentors, although stumbling along making my own mistakes has been a major education as well.

He stumbled through subsequent seasons, however, after a series of rips and strains in the tendons and ligaments of his throwing arm, shoulder and back.

Playing the role of Zelda Fitzgerald in the new Amazon series «Z,» Christina Ricci perfectly summarized our approach toward full - on sequins — like the ones we saw during pre-fall — when her character stumbles across a perfectly impractical, dazzling confection.

More recently, I stumbled across «Charles, 33» who had a series of photos on Tinder (which I * may * have shown both Gina Yashere, and B * witched during my interviews with them last week!)

Elders reading a section of the series to a child or stumbling into one of the films couldn't be blamed for not knowing who Mundungus Fletcher or Regulus Arcturus Black might be, or how, exactly, a Finite Incantatem overthrows a Furnunculus spell, or how so insignificant - looking an item as a cup could possibly be a formidable horcrux (an object into which a wizard deposits a portion of his soul to assure continued life).

For what cop Sal Frieland (Clive Owen: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Blood Ties) and his colleague (Colm Feore: Mean Dreams, The Amazing Spider - Man 2) stumble upon is a series of murders that can not be solved in the usual way, by merely looking at the last few minutes of the victim's Mind's Eye recording.

With all of these influences on show, it could be a mess of a series, but it actually ends up working out quite well, despite a number of stumbling blocks.

From Snipe's impression of a block of granite to Parker Posey, in a series of increasingly scary hair - dos, giving a stumbling, zoned - out performance that could easily be interpreted as a cry for help.

After the solid start to the Potter franchise leading to the series high of Azkaban, we suddenly take a little stumble in quality with The Goblet of Fire.

Rourke stumbles onto the type of atmospherically run - down carnival endemic to horror flicks and canceled HBO series, and in the freak show, he discovers Megan Fox, a bird - woman whose wings turn out to be real.

But in trying to solve a series of murders, Frieland stumbles on a young woman known only as the Girl (Amanda Seyfried).

The series will tell the story of Jake Epping (Franco), «an unassuming divorced English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that leads to -LSB-...]

In what instantly becomes one of the series» best aerial action sequences, Rey, Finn and BB - 8 stumble upon a «garbage» spacecraft in a junkyard and use it to take out pursuing TIE fighters.

The Professor Layton series reaches its fifth installment in as many years, and - differently from many other famous franchises of this day and age - the professor has somehow manage to stumble upon a weird formula which... Read Full Review

The Game Informer article details some of the polish coming to the third installment of the series as well, most importantly a heightened focus on gameplay, an element the previous games have stumbled over.

Hader is the star and co-creator of the HBO series «Barry,» about a hit man who stumbles into an acting class led by the hilariously ridiculous Winkler.

This interpretation follows a handful of angst - ridden teens (so just teens)-- Jason (Dacre Montgomery, «Stranger Things» TV series), Kim (Naomi Scott, «The 33»), Billy (RJ Cyler, «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl»), Zack (Ludi Lin, «Monster Hunt»), and Trini (Becky G., «House of Sin»)-- who stumble upon ancient power coins that grant them superhuman strength and agility.

This isn't exactly new, but I just stumbled across this video, one of a series from the Hollywood Reporter's actress Oscar roundtable last month.

After a rare stumble with the slender and skittish fifth game, this most consistent of series hit its confident stride again with the highly polished Forza Motorsport 6, and you're forced to wonder what this sequel could really bring to the table.

The crew of semi-anonymous British TV veterans behind the Crackle series Snatch have stumbled into the kind of job that gets pawned off on patsies and chumps: turn the Guy Ritchie movie of the same title into a crime series with the approximate production value of a Guy Ritchie - influenced student film.

The series, which Reiser co-created with filmmaker David Steven Simon and co-produced with David Gordon Green, will intertwine authentic footage from «The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson» with the coming - of - age story of Andy, a wide - eyed 19 - year - old Nebraskan who stumbles into a job at the iconic show.

More than twenty years ago, while working on a report for the Carnegie Foundation about teen pregnancy, I stumbled on a series of reports by a Washington Post reporter named Leon Dash that upset the apple cart about the then - popular notions about «the teen pregnancy crisis.»

The lightweight, aluminum front structure and the Active Steering pay handsome dividends every time you turn the steering wheel, because the 5 - series eats up corners with the enthusiasm of a dog that has stumbled upon a plate of steak tartare.

But the best part of the Geneva show to me will always be stumbling upon the dozens of niche brands and tuning houses you've heard or never heard of, small makers doing big things such as legendary German outfit RUF, which unveiled its Porsche - look, bespoke - platform SCR series cars.

I discovered the hashtag #rockfiction about a month ago when I stumbled onto the Behind Blue Eyes website: http://behindblueeyes.ca/ Anne - Marie Klein is the author of a series of rock «n» roll Behind Blue Eyes novels that trace the...

The series of blog posts that I've linked at the end of this post served me well as I formatted «Stumbling», and again when it was time to work on «Demons & Angels».

I stumbled upon this series during one of my Amazon searches, I was looking for something different to read in Christian Fiction; because I was tired of all the cookie cutter Christian Fiction books.

While things start off pretty calmly with Jerry slowly teaching Mike his first lessons in survival, mining and crafting, our two players manage to get themselves into a series of misfortune - mining too deep, escaping monster - ridden mines and stumbling into a mysterious and hostile clan.

Some people seem to be born with entrepreneurship running through their veins while others have stumbled on it through a series of life events, such as working a soul - sucking job.

What we can glean from the demo, Beginning Hour, is that the action takes place in a remote mansion (before you chip in, not in the Spencer Mansion) in the middle of the countryside; as is the bread and butter of the survival horror series, you play as a seemingly clueless guy stumbling about the rickety homestead with no idea what is going on, his only clues being the occasional shadow of a shambling body or gurgling noise from monsters lurking outside.

It was weird to see Isaac with a similarly dressed chum, odd to witness him stumbling around open spaces, and frankly the gameplay footage reminded me more of a Lost Planet - Mass Effect mashup than either of the two previous games in the series.

A big difference between PlayStation 3 and Wii U, however, is that while PlayStation 3 stumbled out of the gate because of a series of misguided and arrogant decisions by Sony, they turned the ship around.

The caveat is that while the game looks poised to offer you an accessible, streamlined rendition of the series and what has charmed gamers across three core titles, it stumbles in execution.

What was a little more concerning was that I was also getting a hint of the Modern Warfare series, as well as 2014's Advanced Warfare, and I'd yet to even crack open the multiplayer content: my point is, there comes a time when familiarity is the Achilles's heel of a franchise, and so I laid my hopes upon the content itself as redemption for this slight stumble.

You eventually awaken in your chamber and stumble out in to the blinding sun, where a quick series of events finds you indebted to Dan Hagar, the gruff head of a nearby settlement of survivors, voiced with conviction by John Goodman.

If you don't accept either quest then this one ends and you can't pursue the other quests in the series, even if you stumble onto the objectives that are part of them.

The series took a stumble, in my opinion, with the release of Ys III and has never recovered.

updated We stumble and groan our way through the best and worst of the wildest survival horror series in games.

After a rare stumble with the slender and skittish fifth game, this most consistent of series hit its confident stride again with the highly polished Forza Motorsport 6, and you're forced to wonder what this sequel could really bring to the table.