Sentences with phrase «shot at failure»

What he said above reads like a softening up of the fans before the announcement that he is staying for a further undeserved shot at failure.

We could make a few bad decisions with our independence because their reasoning was that it was better to fail while they were there to help pick up the pieces than to send us out into the world for the first shot at failure.

Not exact matches

While that's partly the result of his teammates» failure to finish — at week's end the Warriors were shooting 41.9 %, third worst in the NBA — the figure has some questioning Hughes's ball handling and decision making.

Had Cerdan beaten Paduano, he could at least have had a shot at being an authentic failure.

That it is exactly when failure is manageable (and yes, your child will survive a forgotten homework assignment) that kids have their best shot at developing the coping skills that are the underpinning of resilience and success.

«The grave threats and pressures at the time do not justify the serious failures in the internal and external communications following the fatal shooting of Mr de Menezes,» he added.

De Blasio campaign spokesman Dan Levitan responded with a shot at the Republican real estate exec, who until recently lived in Larchmont in Westchester, for his failure to answer questions on whether he supports expanding police use of stop and frisk.

For shooting themselves in the collective foot, Albany's leaders could not have chosen a more effective method than their failure Wednesday night to extend Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over New York City schools for at least another year.

Despair not — even big shots have endured terrible failures at some point or another in their career!

I was at 365 lbs and taking five shots of insulin a day and 2 different oral meds, I lost a friend to kidney failure when I finally woke up to the seriousness of diabetes and what might happen to me.

During an emotional public safety forum in Broward County, Fla., shaken students and enraged parents and educators demanded fixes for what they consider lax security, district indifference, and failure to act to prevent the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Faulty classroom design and failures in the police radio and 911 systems contributed to the chaos and 17 deaths during the recent Florida high school massacre, a commission investigating the shooting in February was told at its first meeting last week.

In other academic environments, students often only get one shot at an assignment, which creates a fear of failure.

The two leading Toyota TS050 LMP1 cars retired in rapid succession due to mechanical failures, leaving Porsche with a clear shot at its third Le Mans win.

It's not a failure if that game doesn't show up at E3 this year, but you can't make shots you don't take.

At the New Museum, Chris Burden's documentation of Shoot (1971), in which he famously staged his own shooting, conveys the possibility of failure inherent in performance, the chance that something can go wrong in a public space.

This might depend upon the nature of the evidence at trial - if A did not raise the failure of the prosecution to provide corpus delecti (i.e. a dead body) or the misidentification of an alleged victim's body as a defense and instead, for example, argued an alibi defense (e.g. he was in jail at the time of the alleged shooting).

After President Donald Trump linked the shooting and the FBI's failure to act on a tip about accused gunman Nikolas Cruz to the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, some of the students lashed out at Trump.