Sentences with phrase «sort of bull»

Oftentimes people wouldn't have read the assignments, and the discussion would simply turn into some sort of bull session where people would simply debate poorly thought - out personal opinions.

«I'm hoping this will create a sort of bull's - eye for other people to think about and talk about, and for people to come forward and make donations,» says Peter.

That article was, in my opinion, sort of bull shit (woops!)

This device — a sort of bull ride for buildings — is one in a network built around the United States to advance natural disaster science with more realistic and sophisticated tests.

That's sort of a bull market.

Not exact matches

Buybacks have been a safety net of sorts for the stock market through the almost nine - year bull market.

As I've noted before, since the start of 2013 — when the «fiscal cliff» calamity was averted at the very last minute with a deal struck between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY)-- investors have been impervious to the sorts of anxiety attacks that caused significant corrections during the first four years of the bull market.

Clearly, the bankers advising the Fed understand the bull case for bitcoin, though they argue that it is still too small a phenomenon to pose any sort of risk to the U.S. economy, calling it «more a curiosity than a threat.»

We're sort of eight to nine years into a bull market and economic recovery.

«With this sort of slump, are we still in a bull market?

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Still we must, obviously, distinguish between the two kinds of divine statues or visualizations humanity can make for itself: the kind involving strange gods such as calves or bulls, for example, and the sort which concerns the God of Israel himself.

i wonder if the pope gets a turn to ride... i don't think he wants the bull thou, i saw a young kid in the background... pope's all sorts of smiles now!

I know I'm sort of jumping around and rambling, we just brought home two pit bull puppies who were being abused and they have been attacking me and my laptop the whole time I've been trying to write.

Schemes like the Red Bull programme and its Mercedes / Ferrari counterparts pretty much cover all the costs of a race season, meaning that in the championships that followed such as Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2 Gasly didn't need to find money or a good seat, because Red Bull was helping to sort it all out for him.

Without Derrick Rose this season, the Bulls have had to pick up the scoring by a committee of sorts, and Gibson is one of the players who has stepped up.

As you see here, the Bulls sort of have two plays set up, a Hawk staple.

We were looking for an animal to characterise Manchester City's deflating title bid, and after a certain amount of brainstorming came up with an animal that has «the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is said that because of this it saves itself by running away, meanwhile emitting a trail of dung that sometimes covers a distance of as much as three furlongs, contact with which scorches pursuers like a sort of fire.»

In San Francisco, aficionados of the ancient and bloody art of bullfighting who find themselves hankering for the sights and sounds of the bull ring can find satisfaction of a sort no farther away than Broadway, in the picturesque El Matador bar, which is owned and operated by sometime matador and eminently prolific writer on bullfighting lore Barnaby Conrad.

But his big opportunity to get himself back into some sort of contention was not taken by Mercedes and, by not pitting under the Safety Car, he left himself vulnerable to the two Red Bulls and Raikkonen behind.

Testosterone, for example, has become notorious as the supposed cause of male aggression, a sort of «raging bull» hormone.

«Real Steel» is «Rocky» with robots that look like «Transformers,» managed by a «Raging Bull» washout in need of a «Cinderella Man» comeback that's complicated by «The Champ» and «Paper Moon» sorts of parent - child issues, with a sweet bit of «Wall - E» - styled scrap metal who never pulls his punches.

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki A sort of bizarro - world Raging Bull, the title subject of Juho Kuosmanen's biopic is a 60 - kilo Finnish boxer training to take on Davey Moore.

He ultimately decides to spin the car around and let the bull stand its ground - some sort of metaphor about respecting the power of nature.

I'd heard a bit about the movie — it would have been difficult, as a working film reviewer to not have — but not orally, so I thought that the title was pronounced with a long «o» or even a sort of «u,» so it rhymed with «Luke,» or, more pertinently, an obscure Italian - American slang word that Robert De Niro uses in «Raging Bull,» that word being «mamaluke.»

In fact, there's a variety of ways to watch: highlights are on Channel 5 and BT Sport in the UK, while there's also coverage on Red Bull TV (online) and on the sport's dedicated online portal (WRC +), which also enables all sorts of data to be accessed — although you'll have to buy a subscription.

Sort of like a bull «services» a herd is how I am thinking.)

For all the popularity of the funds, gold bulls worried about a sort of financial Armageddon argue you're only really safe owning the metal itself, something like what Diehl sells, a coin you can hold in your hand and use to trade and survive.

In that sort of environment, both bull markets and bear markets become logical impossibilities.

The same sort of thing happens with insurance underwriting, and I even think bull markets in stocks.

The following chart (from Too Little to Lock In) provides a view of the sort of valuations we typically see at the beginning of secular bull market advances, versus where we are at present.

«The problem with your reader's point of view is that this is the sort of reasoning you always hear at the top of a bull market.

We want to see if the bears can maintain control or of the bulls can build some sort of reversal right here at support or just below it.

Recapturing he $ SPX 1196 (20 day moving average) and 1200 (psychological) levels are crucial for any sort of short term reversal back up for the bulls.

Robert Shiller, John Bogle, Warren Buffett, William Bernstein and other stock investing experts have often warned investors that it is not reasonable to expect the sorts of returns that fueled the bull market of the 1980s and 1990s now that valuations have reached such high levels.

Now that we have sort of the bigger picture in mind, let's lower the time frame and look to see a way the bulls could make this happen.

And those sorts of investors are better off without the economic crises that out - of - control bull markets bring on.

They seem shocking because we all are affected by the psychology of a mad bull, even those of us who like to entertain the idea that we are above that sort of thing.

«An able recent writer on the dog considers the bull - dog as a sort of abnormal canine monster, a dog idiot, yielding to uncontrollable physical impulses, now of blind ferocity, now of equally blind and undiscriminating maudlin tenderness which renders him more addicted to licking, slobbering, and mumbling the hand, the boot, or any other part of any person to whom he takes a sudden and causeless liking, and who he is just as likely to assault the next moment, than any other of his species.»

At the Clothing Dock, a trendy consignment store in Arcata, owner Susan Paul [in photo below with Roxy] sorts through a basket of sweaters and knit tops, while «talking dog,» the term she uses for gabbing about her tan - colored pit bull - cross, Roxy, who lounges on the floor nearby.

There were Toys that weighed from four to seven pounds, medium sized ones of some fifteen and sixteen pounds, as well as the more usual sort resembling the full - sized Bull Terrier of this day.

Banatics would like us to believe that the American Pit Bull Terrier as a breed, in general, possesses some sort of «dogfighting gene,» and for this reason, the APBT is not suitable for today's society.

Maddie, ironically, was just the sort of small, friendly dog who has become the most frequent victim of pit bulls in the decade since the Vick bust.

Twelve countries in Europe, in addition to Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Malaysia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, and Venezuela have enacted some sort of breedspecific legislation on pit bull type dogs, including American Pit Bull Terriers, including outright bans to limitations and conditions on ownersbull type dogs, including American Pit Bull Terriers, including outright bans to limitations and conditions on ownersBull Terriers, including outright bans to limitations and conditions on ownership.

It is uncertain exactly why this decade saw the pit bull suddenly rise to a new, less pleasant sort of fame, but many trace the entire trend to a single, ultra-sensationalistic Sports Illustrated cover article.

Pit Bull - type dogs face a barrage of prejudices, most of them based on misinformation that falls apart under any sort of scrutiny.

These dogs are either not Pit Bulls at all or are mixes of some sort.

Darla's foster mom describes her as the sort of love maniac many pit bull owners would recognize: «She's literally crawl - inside - you affectionate and a big giant baby on the sofa.»

we have just had are little 14 week old Yorkshire terrier killed bull two bull terriers and there ant a thing the polices or the RSPCA can do about it, this sort of thing is happening every day so how come no one is policesing these things.

We regularly see Sea Urchins of various colors, Purple Stars, Bat Stars, Sunflower Stars with many legs, Brittle Stars, all sorts of crabs and other shellfish and the ever present Bull Kelp.