Sentences with phrase «strike out less»

Want to improve your grip and wrist strength in order to hit more home runs, get more hits, strike out less, and just plain hit the ball harder next season?

Although the snakes struck out less often, they could «strike at and capture fish swimming several centimetres from the head and tentacles,» Catania says.

Not exact matches

The reasons are four-fold: structural changes in the American economy have triggered a long term downward trend in entrepreneurial activity; changes in the banking system have made small business credit more difficult to get; a post-recession shift in attitudes has made Americans less interested in striking out on their own; and a shift in government policies has made entrepreneurship more challenging to undertake.

If those options were exercised and the stock was then sold at, say, $ 40, it would amount to a bonus of almost $ 330 million — the market price less the strike price, times the number of options granted — paid out to Siebel employees over the next nine years.

But two items on the list strike a considerably less serious tone: Disney's out - of - the - ballpark animated hit Frozen, which tells the tale of two sisters, nabbed the No. 9 spot (not a surprise, if you have kids or know kids or know of anyone who has kids).

The company isn't afraid to take risks, which means that it's going to sometimes strike out, but it's also much more likely to hit an occasional home run than companies that are less innovative and play it too safe.

In a bold strike against terrorism, Hugh Ambrose had to have his own passport, no doubt to make him slightly less likely to hijack a plane if the rusk supply ran out.

... It's possible to strike out in history no less than in a ballgame.

MM: Surely the pseudo-pod has a gradient; it can strike out further or less far, or more this way than that way.

None the less, the contemporary Oxford theologian, Keith Ward (b. 1938), points out that although Charles Darwin spoke mostly of life on earth as a «war of nature», he occasionally struck a different note, as when he wrote, «I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations between all organic beings.»

On the second try, I only used raspberries and blueberries, and the cakes still turned out quite delicious, though a bit less striking in appearance.

The thought struck me... why not just roll out my paleo biscuit dough very minimally... then it's already tall to start with, the buttermilk / baking powder action will have less work to do and we could have a perfect biscuit!

He's always been impatient, but now he's broken, swinging at more balls out of the strike zone and making far less contact than ever before.

I strongly believe he should / will be given another season at least to show what he can do albeit in a different role to which he wants... he will have ro reinvent himself and learn to play and score from the wings because to be perfectly frank he had more than enough time and games to show he can top strike for us when he first joined and Giroud was out Injured and he was less than impressive goals wise.....

There are other striking options out there that we're less aware of.

A number of other strike - targets look less and less likely to be sporting our famous red shirt this term, with Lacazette the latest name to have his sale ruled out, while Morata and Vardy have also had their supposed moves fizzle out.

He's walking less, striking out more, and is even somehow hitting even more ground balls than he did a year ago when he led the league in ground ball rate.

Hernandez should move further up that list this year, given Hudson strikes hitters out at less than half the pace of Felix these days, and Peavy is dealing with a back injury that has limited him to 7 2/3 innings on the season.

Communication: If a government decides to carry out a nuclear strike right now, contacting a submarine via ELF is less than ideal, due to the low bandwidth, and the size and expense of an ELF transmitter.

This creates an air cushion that causes the raindrop to flatten and spread out, which the team believe would be less likely if the drop was striking a higher friction surface, and may help the splash evolve into a crown (Physical Review Letters, vol 102, p 134502).

One might expect that residents would be less likely to move out of disaster - struck areas after this date, if FEMA increased payments of federal disaster relief.

Shoulder pain is no joke: once it strikes, it can be hard to sleep, get dressed, or even walk the dog, much less work out.

Our message to all the single ladies out there who are looking for a date is strike whilst the iron is hot — the football season will be start again in less than two months!»

This religious - fish - out - of - water narrative involving the Hasidic community has been well trod in films before, but in the hands of filmmaker Sebastain Leilo and his more than capable cast, Disobedience doesn't treat it with anything less than striking intelligence and humane interactions.

Striking out at the box office, where it recouped less than a third of its $ 25 million budget domestically, The Hoax has unsurprisingly ended up at Echo Bridge Home Entertainment along with Miramax's less profitable titles.

Although Brendan Gleeson «s Father James Lavelle may have never touched a fly, much less an alter boy, that's exactly why this abusee wants to strike out at him, «I want to hurt someone good.

Unfortunately, whole is considerably less than the sum of its parts — and striking out with a big swing is still striking out.

With the director's perhaps inevitable branching out in recent years to an R rating (The Happening), story / producing - only (Devil), and adapting another well - known family property (The Last Airbender), his departures have become less striking.

Eileen Gunn sez, «Amazon, seeking to force independent book distributor IPG to accept a new, less favorable contract, has struck out at all the publishers and authors whose books are distributed by IPG.

A call option is out - of - the - money if the market price of the underlying stock is less than the strike price of the call.

Let's say you buy an in - the - money Jan 2015 call with a strike of 160 on IBM (stock currently at $ 182) for $ 29.50 (that's $ 2,950 for 1 contract, but that's still less than the $ 18,200 or so you'd need to buy 100 shares) and then sell an out - of - the - money Oct 190 strike for $ 2.34.

A strike further out until expiration will move slower than the same strike with less time until expiration.

What can a pet owner do to make their canine companions less likely to strike out?

As well as our child - friendly villas and services, Villa Kubu is well - placed for several of Bali's stand - out family destinations: The 4 - hectare Waterbom Bali, ranked as best waterpark in Asia and in the world's top three by TripAdvisor, is less than 6 km to the South of Kubu; while to the North the renowned Canggu Club has been transformed into a family paradise, complete with Cubby House Kid's Club, Bounce Trampoline, Strike Bowling and Splash Waterpark, as well as plenty of pampering for parents with a day spa, restaurant, bar and pool club.

At home i troll for SM with two lines the longer under surface (less than 10 feet) and the shorter the deeper (30feet) but last time I lost probably a 10 kg which did open the hook because i tight it too much to avoid to mix the surface line or did I was impress by the strike shaking my 14» 29 ″ kayac out by the sea.

They are far less likely to drop out of your Strike, there is a good chance they know what which end of the gun faces toward the enemy, and it's really the only time you'll hear another player in the game as voice is heavily restricted.

It's rather striking to me how many people will buy a $ 6000 SubZero or Northland of dubious efficiency without batting an eye, and how few will shell out less than half that for a SunFrost.

Clause 3.01 (1)(b) of the Regulation is amended by striking out «less than seven days» and substituting «seven days or less».

The majority of our respondents answered somewhere on the spectrum of choosing less job security in favor of more pay — not surprising, considering many FinCon attendees are bloggers and entrepreneurs who struck out on their own!

I wouldn't even have noticed it or mentioned it had the rest of the phone been less striking — but the rest all looks so refined that this one element looked out of place.