Sentences with phrase «shot at turning»

Unlike a wave of other tablets that have emerged hopefully only to flop, such as the HP TouchPad, the Motorola Xoom, and the RIM PlayBook, the Kindle Fire has a good shot at turning the newest theater of war in high - tech into a two - tablet battle.

This tactic from the Oakland playbook is our best shot at turning around our most challenged schools, and as a city, we need to do everything we can to support efforts at Castlemont, Fremont, McClymonds, Frick, Brookfield, and other schools that are not serving our students as well as they deserve.

We may have a better shot at turning around our marriage trends if young people are waiting longer to have children, picking up important skills and work experiences along the way.

I marvel at his Thomas Hardy adaptations — the devastating Jude and the redemptive The Claim (his take on The Mayor of Casterbridge)-- and I hadn't thought, before I actually saw him do it, that anyone but Charlie Kaufman would have a shot at turning Tristram Shandy into a viable film.

Robert Dillon, superintendent of Nassau BOCES, said Thursday that if Elia «continues to communicate and communicate, I think she has a real good shot at turning this thing around.»

Certainly, a new administration elected on a trade - skeptical message is entitled to take a shot at turning rhetoric into action.

The prospect of additional funding, combined with a new plan from management, offered Shop.ca not just a chance to survive for a while longer, but a shot at turning an actual profit.

Not exact matches

The experimental device shot a beam of X-rays at its infinitesimal target, which in turn yielded a pattern on some photographic film resting behind it as the radioactive waves diffracted off of the molecule's atoms and etched a smudgy outline of its shape.

«You've got a terrorist problem on two sides, a serious problem with Sudan and Ethiopia over Nile water that could turn into a shooting conflict, and a pretty poor population that is growing at alarming rates.»

Millions of people draped in the rainbow hues of LGBT pride turned out for the annual parade through New York streets, two weeks after a deadly mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub stirred fear and solidarity among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

However this turns out, at least you know that you gave saving your friendship with this person your best shot.

Our hearts go out to the victims of yesterday's shooting at YouTube headquarters, where a woman opened fire, shooting three people before turning the handgun on herself.

If people feel that the CEO is taking pot shots at their ideas, they'll turn into resentful sheep rather than enthusiastic problem solvers.

They needed less money, since they were only offering one kind of shirt, but they also figured they might raise that amount quickly, and have a shot at going far beyond — a correct guess, as things turned out.

I was shot down at every turn:

They repackage older ones — the ones they know won't turn off quite so many voters that they'll have no shot at winning.

That same night, before Ford's speech and subsequent death, we saw a shot of Trevor balancing the glass on his head while guests took turns aiming at him.

Trump, however, went on to fire several political shots toward his opponents, including his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, who previously turned down an invitation to speak at the Jamboree in protest of the Boy Scouts» policy of disallowing gay members and leaders from joining its ranks in 2013.

In the weeks after the deadly Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Trump has, at turns, been sympathetic to student survivors who are demanding action to address gun violence, and he has sought to appease gun - rights proponents who are impervious to calls for reform.

In any event, there's no question or argument that my insistence on stress - testing against Depression - era data was a painful shot to the foot in this cycle, and is more painful because, at least to - date, it turned out to be unnecessary in hindsight.

David Hogg, the student turned anti-gun activist following the shooting deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in February, has announced he is putting off his college education to work on the 2018 midterm elections.

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP)-- An 80 - year - old man shot two people, killing one, at a Northern California apartment complex and later turned the gun on himself, authorities said Thursday.A woman died and a man remained hospitalized in intensive care...

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

Telegram's move into crypto could give him another shot at a massive fortune, while potentially turning the chat app into a vast payment network protected from government interference.

But Ted is proposing not just to turn down the big money for himself, but to ruin everyone else's shot at millions.

It turned out to be essentially a continuation of what had already been revealed — a plea for prayer and penance, but with an added series of images: a ruined city, a rugged Cross, a Pope shot at with arrows, bishops, clergy and faithful people martyred.

What at a distance seemed to be a quasi-public edifice flying only the all - inclusive flag of American nationality turned out, on closer inspection, to be the clubhouse of a particular ethnic group — the white Anglo - Saxon Protestants, its operation shot through with the premises and expectations of its parental ethnicity.8

On another occasion he was shot by a rubber bullet aimed at another prisoner (it was after this that he turned to centering prayer as a way to address his mental and physical pain).

The wilderness - shooter video game series has long been a sort of self - caricature, an unapologetic shoot - em - up that winks and nods at the genre itself, and for its newest iteration, Far Cry turns an eye toward Christian culture — barely.

When we finally got to see a doctor at an emergency clinic, it turned out that Richard had a quite common allergic reaction to one of the shots he had taken before the trip, and the condition was almost instantaneously cured by an injection.

As it turns out, those who are considered be physically «above average» are liked just a little more by teachers, get better grades and, ultimately, have a better shot at going to college.

Tonight was my first shot at making anything from your blog and this banana bread turned out perfectly.

But such obsession comes at a price: Liberte is out of stock roughly 50 % of the time in my «hood (and it turns what I'm sure are otherwise lovely people into scowling, darts - of - hate shooting shoppers).

Palmer was hitting brilliant iron shots at the pin, just as he had the day before, and he made the turn in an effortless 35.

May be we should all turn up for trials on concentration methods and see if we get a shot at the first team.

Woods made the turn at 1 - under 35 and took his erratic swing with him, as his tee shot went — yep — left again and traveled some 170 yards.

The Big Bang The shots heard «round the baseball world are home runs coming at a machine - gun clip, changing the way the game is played and turning mere mortals into power - hitting gods

Maye probably thought he had a good shot at intercepting the pass and then bolting about 100 yards for a game - turning pick - six.

2ND AT THE MASTERS: «A hooked tee shot on the second day put me deep in the woods, my worst trouble of the whole tournament.I had to turn to miss a tree on my backswing.

He looks at the green, plans his shot quickly and then turns to stare at the crowd if it is not his turn to hit.

It turns out he was really good at football, and ended up getting a shot in the NFL.

J.B. Holmes is scorching the Golf Club of Houston, and thanks to holes like the par - 3 seventh, where his tee shot clanged off the flagstick, is on a serious 59 watch after making the turn at 7 - under 29.

Kisner shot back - to - back rounds of 67 to lead at 8 - over, but Matsuyama turned in a 64 card late Friday to meet him there.

Nigel was typically no good at 3's either and learned he was hurting the team by taking them, stopped thinking about himself and then the team really turned around when he went back to his frosh / soph days of getting the shots down low and around the hoop.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

He has the physical presence to control the ball with defenders around him, therefore i feel he must also use that presence to turn the defender and take shots at goal, which i have seen he has a powerful shot on him

City head coach Manuel Pellegrini has made the addition of a new top - class shot stopper an absolute priority for the turn of the year after the recent costly errors made by England international Joe Hart at Eastlands.

the team that deserve to win is the one that want it the most over two legs and put there full effort in to both legs and puts there bodies on the line to win, (good example the c / h who put his body in the way of welbecks shot he knew what was at stake for his team and acted accordingly) we only wanted to win and turn up when it suited us, not in both games very typical of this team under wenger lately.

Losing Kos was the turning point, before then we could have pinched a win at the end if we had kept the number of shots down, Ospina made some fantastic savs but that was after Kos had come off.

Newton, who said nothing of the protests, wore a pin on his hat that read «don't be a puppet,» which seemed to be a subliminal shot fired at the franchise that hired a GOP loudmouth to try and turn the city's black quarterback into a marionette show of linguistic racial ambiguity.