Sentences with word «spanner»

And then some companies stepped in and started throwing spanners in the works, offering handsets that had good design and delivered a decent user experience.

I'm sure Arsene Wenger deliberately throws spanners in the works so he can avoid spending the money but is seen to be trying.

And even if it did, increasing neurotransmitter activity is no guarantee of increased mental performance; rather, it, can be positively deleterious to throw chemical spanners into the exquisitely balanced biochemical system that is the human brain.

Gently manoeuvring the now quiet Lambo near the garage, I heard a pop followed by a racket resembling a bag of spanners in an oil drum.

While the early stages of the game limit weaponry to obvious tools of murder, as the game progresses and you complete submissions and fell the bosses that punctuate each chapter, so you begin to acquire a more powerful, Diablo-esque arsenal, albeit one that must be maintained with spanners under heavy use.

Each kit comes complete with two front struts, a front and a rear spanner wrench, a rear adjustable shock assembly, red «Roush» rear springs, and rear adjustable spring mounts.

The wheel hubs are held in place on the spindles by spanner nuts.

I value and believe strongly in articulating an identity of a teacher educator as an education professional operating in a «third space» as a boundary spanner working in a territory given little attention in the scholarly literature.

Benteke not being keen on the move is not the only spanner in the works for this potential move, but Adebayor's colossal # 100,000 - per - week wages could be a problem for Villa, but Spurs reportedly could pay a percentage of his salary should the striker move to another club later this summer.

Before 2019 he might turn out be a big big spanner in the works

Yes, the move tossed a huge spanner into the works and threw everything off, but in the end it's really my own fault.

You'll find tried and true favorites like sashimi and nigiri along with regional dishes such as Moreton bay oysters and sake steamed spanner crab.

As a part of maintenance you will want to ensure you steering head doesn't have any play, this wrench works on special spanner nuts.

Wayne Spanner continues as managing partner, while HDY's former managing partner Michael Greene is now deputy managing partner and national head of the government practice.

It is a major victory and a glimpse of a world where legislation will be as far removed from the gay debate as spanners are from sandwiches.

indeed, by their peers... but we don't expect spanner salesmen (or farmers for that matter) to be able to mend fighter jets.

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«Lower oil prices are a serious spanner in the works for the Canadian economy,» said Douglas Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

The England international apparently has no interest in a move to the Premieer League champions however, which could put a real spanner in the works for Arsene Wenger.

Instead it relies heavily on mixing enemy types to throw demon - shaped spanners in the gears, but overall strategy is limited and instead focuses more on the pre-battle detail for creativity.

Some elders and leaders of the party led by Senator Spanner Okpozo had in a meeting on Tuesday in Ozoro, Isoko North Council area of the state, dissolved the party's working committee and constituted a caretaker committee led by Nathaniel Omo - Onyeke to run the affairs of the party.

As for working with clients, these things throw a significant spanner into the works when it comes to the predictability of things.

Throwing a small spanner into the works is the comely Penny (Knightley), who is desperate to get home to her family.

You then need to incorporate all your other attacks into your strategy and to throw another gaming spanner in the works, you also have to deal with grappling and submissions.

The first spanner in the works came when director Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor famously fell out after Boyle cast Leonardo DiCaprio in «The Beach».

It's true that the chassis remains unchanged compared to the Mk 7 Golf GTI but the car is so responsive to input the lack of recalibration doesn't feel like an opportunity missed by Wolfsburg's spanner men.

(Photo: Johan Spanner for The New York Times)

This theme calls us to address the «invisible» aspects of our work as boundary spanners who bridge school and university contexts.

Use a box spanner or a deep - pocket bar and ratchet.

He added: «You have to take responsibility for this as a media company because you are not a passive, sitting there, digital engineer, tightening the digital pipes, with your digital spanner, and not responsible for the flow - through content... you are responsible and you have to step up and take responsibility.

Canada is «inside the tent» for now, but the recent spanner we threw in the works in Vietnam has resulted in threats to conclude the TPP without Canadian participation.

Although Arsene Wenger was very complimentary about Arsenal's opponents in the last but one Premier League of the season, praising the North - East club for their recent great escapes from relegation, the Frenchman is also planning to put a massive red and white spanner in their works tomorrow evening.

Me thinks he goes after strikers but throws a deliberate spanner into the works to avoid it actually going through.

Not being offered a new contract is the best news we have about him, I honestly do not think we could sell him for a broken spanner... Shame as he shown some real nice potential at 1st but just didn't appear to take it serious enough.

Chimp Spanner — Bad Code 4.

But two forced substitutions would throw a large spanner in the works as Luke Shaw and more worryingly, their best center - back Eric Bailly were taken off after the 22 - year old suffered an ankle injury in the second half.

The international break does throw a little spanner in the works and no doubt Liverpool will raise their game.

We can certainly do without «celebs «throwing Thier personal spanner in the works at a crucial time like this.

Blackpool have been known to throw the odd spanner in the works, however Fulham are so well organised at Craven Cottage under Mark Hughes that I see only one winner.

Meanwhile, another potential spanner has been thrown into the works by St Albans MP Anne Main, who has been increasingly rebellious of late, not least over the European Union Bill.