Sentences with phrase «stab at how»

Just work out roughly how long you think it might take in days, have a stab at how much the moon moves over that time, swing the launch pad over roughly that far in that direction and press the «Go» button.

And you could take a stab at how much louder or quieter they were.

Many different folks have taken a stab at how much miles are worth.

Part 2 digs into some of the key financial & operating ratios, and takes a stab at how you'd calculate intrinsic value.

There are some difficult problems to solve regarding pricing and the mechanics of delivery, and it must suit everyone involved in the chain from author and agent to publisher and bookseller, but Amazon and the others offering bundling are having a good stab at how to deal with these issues.

Each week during the holiday season our panel of critics will take a stab at how the box office money will

Not exact matches

At the same time, her hard words suggest that she has not been able to break utterly free: «If you knew» she goes on, «how many times I've dreamt I battered you to death, that I murdered you, that I stabbed you, that I kicked you.

My rather uneducated stab at a paraphrase would include the preceding verse to make more sense of it in context as follows (borrowing partly from the ESV here): ``... and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

As art students in the 1980s we ALL took rude stabs at christianity, and we ALL said the same junk about how we wanted to make people stop, think and discuss, etc. so i don't need to stop and think about this nothing - new - to - think - about artwork.

One time I was driving very slowly with my oldest living brother Through an arboretum he loves, where there are ponds and foxes And owls and kingfishers, and all sorts of other holy amazements, And I asked him what was up with his wicked cancers, how much Pain was he in and what were his chances and what new medicine Could he take a stab at; questions with hooks and bristles on them.

It sucks that the atheist use a tragedy to take a stab at the religions they hate «Where is God» and how the paster is usually responsible for answering that question.

And how about taking a stab at my question?

Soshe took a stab at freelancing psychological how - to articles, and by the late»90s her work was popping up in magazines such as Golf for Women.

The alarm is set for 5 am and I know I am going to regret watching reruns of Sex And The City but I feel like I need something to stop the thinking (worrying) about how I take another stab at my to - dos...

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said that, in response to last week's fatal stabbing at a school in the Bronx, the Education Department would focus its training for teachers on how to defuse behavior crises and make sure that bullying was reported.

In honoring the spokespersons of the two detector collaborations, the prize committee has taken a stab at the thorny question of how to hand out laurels for a discovery that was made by large teams of people.

The commission took a stab at these complicated questions, issuing new analysis and recommendations for how to manage these increasingly complex issues in medicine, research and with direct - to - consumer tests that allow a patient to send in a cheek swab and get health information (like the personalized genome services kit offered by 23andMe, that was recently blocked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

A team of molecular biologists has taken a stab at defining how we became human.

To see how my week - long stab at the fruitarian diet went, keep reading.

There's no word on how many beloved cinematic icons Driver's character will stab through the heart in this movie, but you've got to assume it'll be at least one or two.

But the movie plays fast and loose with how strong they make Thanos at any given moment — sometimes he's nigh - invincible, at others apparently susceptible to shallow stab wounds — and that goes for his henchmen as well, who have such delightful names as Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.

I would have thought it was the smartest movie of the year and admired how it took a book - report stab at discussing class and racism.

With his latest film Like Crazy, Drake Doremus takes a stab at a truth that still stands regardless of how many times it is said — love is tough.

These are dull, one - dimensional participants about whom one finds it awfully tough to care, no matter how hard the movie tries to prod us with shameless stabs at emotion.

For my latest DVD / Blu - ray column, over at ShockYa, I confess how unsettling I find Channing Tatum's moustache in The Son of No One, plus take a gander at Dirty Girl, a tribute to Bernie Mac, 50 Cent's latest stab at screenwriting, the memorably titled Nude Nuns with Big Guns, and more.

A pair of researchers recently took another stab at the question of how test prep affects the classroom and wondered if better tests might shake things up.

The monumental thrust is metered so progressively and gently at low revs that it's easy to forget how much remains on reserve, a problem very easily rectified by a stab of the right pedal and a pull on the downshift paddle.

If people don't respond to your stabs at filmmaking, try making it more about you and how you can help others instead of making it about the book.

How long have you been writing, was this your first stab at it, etc..

As mentioned in our Glo review, we were a bit taken aback at just how well Kobo had managed to tackle the challenge of front lighting the first time around, blowing Barnes & Noble's stab at the technology right out of the water and even besting Amazon by a bit.

So here's a first stab at a more in depth loan discussion, where I get a bearing on how debt and credit can hit one's finances.

Whether or not the theory holds any water depends on whether my stab in the dark at how FRMs are actually funded.

«She doesn't know how to read the room,» scoffed one vet, twice her age, who, while listening to Ellison, threatened to take the stubby pledge pencil at the table and stab herself, if I recall this correctly, in the eye.

Edwynn Houk, Edwynn Houk Gallery: «And then there is the famous story of how [Dora Maar] met Picasso at a café and at a large dinner party where she took a steak knife and she began to outline her hand and stab in between the fingers...» (03:55)

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How about a stab at a «useful map» of why there seems to be such disbelief at the response to the mismatch.

With the IPCC previously «taking a pass», in its assessment of Greenland's contribution to sea - level rise - due to poor understanding of how ice sheets would respond to global warming back in 2007 - this new paper is an important first stab at pinning down the slippery mechanisms of «ice sheet dynamics».

Volokh takes a stab at predicting how Kennedy will rule, based on his approach to Kennedy's majority decision in Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court in 2004.

Todd Zywicki takes a stab at reading the tea leaves on how it all happened — and while I don't think he and POTUS have been chatting, I am impressed by his musings on how Roberts» upgrade happened.

Take a stab at our quiz and see how your knowledge stacks up.

This is their first stab at a real flagship though, and having just reviewed the Nokia 5, I was eager to see how a high end model would hold up and whether HMD would be able to fly the flag proudly for the Nokia brand (no pun intended!).

Some readers asked me how to change this pattern, and I decided to take a stab at it in this article.

Anywho, they've been trying to decide how to lay out the area next to their living room, so I thought I'd take a stab at creating an inspirational photo drawing in Photoshop for them.

I'll be honest, I haven't completely figured out how to use Pinterest yet, but I saw these cool vases when I logged on there the other day and thought I'd take a stab at recreating something similar.