Sentences with phrase «strike out more»

As the series winds down, however, the actors are looking to stretch, and strike out more on their own.

Hitters strike out more now than ever.

The undersized fireballer is still striking out more than a batter per inning, but his team has emerged victorious in just two of his ten starts.

Dude just strikes out more.

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.

Last year, when he was with the Reds and a first - time All - Star, he struck out 26 lefthanded batters while walking just one; only two pitchers in history had ever had seasons in which they struck out more lefties while walking one or none.

The Mets, the Astros, and the Diamondbacks have all struck out more than the Yankees this year.

Not exact matches

Another, and arguably more successful, way to becoming an expert in something is to just strike out on your own and teach yourself.

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.

They call it a «four position» carrier because in the chest face - in configuration you can use a neck and head support flap or fold it out of the way, so really it's more of a three position carrier, but that's not really a strike against it, just a matter of semantics.

More and more people are striking out on their own, launching small companies and working from hMore and more people are striking out on their own, launching small companies and working from hmore people are striking out on their own, launching small companies and working from home.

Citron Research strikes again: the firm founded by combative U.S. short seller Andrew Left lashed out at Canada's e-commerce darling Shopify yesterday, driving down its share price by more than 10 % in one day.

Insolvent German airline Air Berlin aims to strike deals to sell assets to two or more buyers by the end of September, before a government loan keeping its planes in the air runs out, its chief executive said.

The opportunity share of new entrepreneurs increased 10.5 percent from 2014 to 2016, meaning more people are striking out on their own because they want to, instead of being driven by necessity.

Doing so may be more difficult once you strike out as an entrepreneur because a lenders and landlords like people with steady jobs.

Last fall Quimby, who'd bought out Shavitz when he retired, struck a deal to sell 80 % of the company to AEA Investors, a private - equity firm, for more than $ 175 million.

Depending on which period you're looking at, I suppose you can pick out a recent episode in which employment rates in the U.S. increased more than in Canada, but the most striking thing to me in that graph is the much steeper fall in the U.S. employment rate.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

INC.COM: Adam, you recently started your own business, and I'm wondering if the economics of heath care made it more difficult to leave a job that offered you insurance and strike out on your own.

Anime Strike is the first of these channels to be curated specifically by Amazon, though Variety reports that the company plans to roll out more genre - specific channels in the coming months.

Despite the US and allies» latest missile strike, the Syrian government has strengthened and fortified its position by clearing out more rebel strongholds.

If your mission stands out, you are more likely to be able to hire people who understand and share your goal; to find managers and executives who are good leaders and understanding employers; to together agree on a core set of company values that strike a chord with everyone on your team.

There are a million and one science - backed happiness hacks out there, from redesigning your commute to spending more time in nature (and no doubt you'll benefit from trying any of these that strikes your fantasy), but one intervention might just beat them all when it comes to the size of the well - being boost you can expect: helping others.

More recently, it's struggled to strike a deal for its consumer healthcare business, with major potential bidders like GlaxoSmithKline pulling out and Procter & Gamble deciding to buy German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA's consumer unit instead.

In 1995, more than 200 workers walked out of the plant and, after striking for four days, voted to unionize.

Since massive Hurricane Maria struck in September and knocked out the dialysis center on the tiny satellite island of Vieques, more than a dozen patients needing treatment now must fly several times a week to the main island.

But if all the deals Vice has struck are to work out, Mr. Smith may have to play more by the rules of traditional media.

Four years after striking out from big - brand venture capital firms to set up their own shop, Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad are back for more with a second fund and several high - profile new supporters.

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.

Four years after striking out from big - brand venture capital firms to set up their own shop, Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad are back for more...

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More than four out of five people say they have Internet access, while a striking 89 percent of 18 - to - 24 year olds say they use smartphones to go online.

SAN FRANCISCO — More than a year after striking out on their own, the founders of Aspect Ventures are preparing a formal introduction of a...

Better still, an even more defensible position is staying out of the market entirely, holding cash as you wait patiently to strike at the right opportunity.

Sorry, if this comes off as some super-sensitive defensive reaction, it just struck me really odd as I've only ever heard one person phrase the differences between men and women quite that way before and it was a man who was also an engineer which he kept bringing up to point out that that made him more analytical than any woman was capable of (apparently they don't have women engineers where he comes from).

I know it sucks to have dirty laundry aired, but this looks like more that airing of dirty laundry — if Julie is correct (and I realize I'm hearing her side in this thread), denigrating your partner to give you an out, and maintain your state of paragon exemplar in ministry strikes me as a sinister act.

In the meantime, check out these cool people I met at BioLogos: Dennis Venema (who strikes me as being both smart and wise), Steve Matheson (who knows how to make just about any conversation more interesting), and Justin Topp (who instantly felt like a friend).

He gets one more chance — three strikes and you're out.

In a number of ways, his work remains out of fashion, but it is striking that at least four of his interests now seem much more in step with the times.

I have never had a problem with the story of Jesus saving the woman... but that last comment of go and sin no more always struck me as odd... so out of character with Jesus previous statement...» Neither do I accuse you».

Still more striking, liberated slaves are to be given generously of their masters» produce, a clear effort to meet the situation where formerly the slave, after his years of service, went out into society as poor as he had been six years before and hence liable soon to lose his freedom again.

Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

HOWEVER... it is exceedingly rare that two or more individuals who witnessed the same event would disagree on the fundamentals of that event or completely omit details that would strike any rational person as being too important to leave out.

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

For it is striking that this joy comes out only the more brightly in misery and darkness.

It's claimed Israel has carried out an air strike on a Christian church and cemetery in Palestine as... More

How could the richer animistic aspects of Nature, the peculiarities and oddities that make phenomena picturesquely striking or expressive, fail to have been first singled out and followed by philosophy as the more promising avenue to the knowledge of Nature's life?

He was falsely accused, arrested, slapped, spit on, had His beard pulled out of His face, sent to court where though no guilt was found was sentenced to be beaten to within an inch of HIs life, struck with rods, whipped with a weapon that had sharp bones and different pieces tore large chuncks of flesh off, drug back to court wearing a robe which when the blood dried to it became its own bit of torture, the first beating not good enough so sentenced to die, had a crown of thorns pressed down into his skull causing much more blood loss, beaten some more, forced to carry an extremely heavy wood beam as he marched toward His death, whipped and beaten along the way, had huge nails driven through His hands and feet, and had a shoulder separated.

Instead of shoving the leftovers into the fridge and hoping that inspiration will strike, I'm intentional with what I want to do with them, which also takes the guesswork out of a few more meals for the week.

I'd chomping at the bits to share more about foot strike, pulling not pushing, «falling» and more, but I also want you to check out the book and come to your own conclusions.