Sentences with phrase «take the long way around»

These are circumlocutions that really take the long way around.

With time running out in the final heat, he paddled straight into the path of the 40 - foot waves, rather than taking the long way around.

Then he starts to circle the crowd in front of him, losing length after length as he takes the long way around.

Taking the long way around the room, he entered from the opposite side of where we had set up our camera, joking to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson as he passed us that they should not have let me in.

I'm sorry the first top was such a pain in the butt for you, but this one looks like it was worth taking the long way around to get to!

Take the long way around campus: leave to class a bit early and walk up that extra flight of stairs or bike ride to class, it all adds up in the end

There's an act three sequence involving a bus full of kids and a crane that shows the filmmakers» taking the long way around for the purpose of one simple site gag.

THE Kettering Incident may have taken the long way around to the small screen — after filming wrapped back in 2014 — but a sneak peek at the first two episodes of the showcase series packed enough in it to have this TV Insider now desperate for more.

Although this is an airy story of a young woman who takes the long way around to maturity, Maggie's Plan rarely feels dull, and it's a joy to watch Miller work with a light, confident touch that gives the film a personality all its own.

I gasped my way up the back stairs, then took the long way around to my office.

Note: This post does read as though I am a ~ 22 year old single guy, but I took the long way around to school and am currently 27 with a wife and child.

Today we recommend you take the long way around and all the while, it'll be a journey that few people have the opportunity to do.

Today we recommend you take the long way around, it'll be a journey that few people have the opportunity to do.

This is a holiday and today we recommend you take the long way around.

These obstacles can be easily overcome in various ways, taking a more direct approach like running straight through / over them will only get you so far in some cases but you can also take the long way around or shut them off completely if you give yourself the right resources.

I often found myself taking the long way around an area just to avoid wasting my precious resources.

Sure, you could take the long way around to the top of this building, slowly climbing up its exterior — but there's got to be another way, right?

Shortcuts may actually take you the long way around.

An argument can also be made that if lawyers are required not to take their usual (linguistic and thus conceptual) shortcuts, they may clarify their own thinking as they take the long way around — so both SRL and counsel benefit, and probably the court too.

The Grabby Cabby We're all familiar with cab drivers who take the long way around, but what about cabbies who tell you that your hotel has burned -LSB-...]

We're all familiar with cab drivers who take the long way around, but what about cabbies who tell you that your hotel has burned down and offers to take you to another (where they collect a commission)?

I took the long way around, I know.

He grabs a sheet and takes the long way around the classroom back to his desk.

Take the long way around when returning!

Not exact matches

The final twist came with the realization that HFTs could figure out a way around a delay if they knew how long it was, so the team decided to randomize it between five and nine milliseconds, about one - fiftieth of the time it takes you to blink your eyes.

«The moon would be easier than Mars, because it takes you so long to get to Mars and back,» she said, estimating the length of the journey at around two years each way.

Take it from Liz Graham, vice president of sales and service for online home store Wayfair, who says she's been around the world of business long enough to have noticed the kinds of behaviors that stick in her mind, and not in a positive way.

It doesn't take long to become familiar with the various neighborhoods and find your way around.

@ praise the lard have you ever considered taking a course in reading comprehension?understanding basic english would go a long way toward making you look brighter.of course in your case there is only so much wisdom to be gained, you can shuffle the bricks around but i fear you will still come up a few shy of a good load.i extend sympathy to you.

«God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply... They were commanded by God to have children... We don't know how long it was until Cain took a wife... > Well that is one way of dancing around the obvious

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

I walked around our neighbourhood, just shoved my hands into my pockets and walked lazy, taking the longest way I knew to take to the mailbox.

I have ashes on my forehead — I will go around town today and I don't plan on taking it off (by the way guys, they don't last that long.

Liren... it took me a long time to come around, too, but try it - I think you will be a convert... it's so much more accurate baking this way!

That's how long it took Cuban legend Alfredo Despaigne to run around the bases according to Tater Trot Tracker, by way of Ben Badler, and you're reading about it here for two reasons:

i would love nothing more than we get a forward thinking manager in at the end of season pep klopp etc or however can take us to the next level, i just realistically accept the present problem at the moment and just hope we can maneuver our way around it until end of season, i want nothing more than that we not just compete but run the league for years to come and am fully aware this may or may not happen under wenger as long as we win something big and take our place among the big 4 European clubs with a manager that wants to make a name for himself with us.

The Dutchman now takes way too long on the ball to make a decision, and his movement around defenders is nowhere near good enough.

Of course, it takes longer if the baby is crying, or if there are women around saying «how cute» or telling you how to do it their way.

And when sitting is unavoidable, find ways to get your child some activity, such as taking breaks during a long car trip just so your child can run around a bit.

Taking the class helped my husband see that cloth diapers have come a long way from giant pins and messing around with folds, big inventions like Velcro and inserts can be life changing!

But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.

Steve: And when you smash the particles together — and by the way, at these speeds how long does it take for them to make the trip around the 17 miles?

The best way to prevent hunger is to take a casein protein shake which will take around 5 to 6 hours to digest in your stomach which will make you feel full longer.

Taking the stairs, walking around the block, or getting up every hour or two to do a few stretches goes a long way towards keeping your muscles strong and your metabolic rate high.

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# 5 The way from Stansted airport won't take you long — there are several buses to Stratford, from where it would take you around 10 minutes on the Overground.

It ended up being a great work out — the loop trail we took is about three miles all the way around, but it feels WAY longer than that since 75 % of it is uphiway around, but it feels WAY longer than that since 75 % of it is uphiWAY longer than that since 75 % of it is uphill.

It took me a very long time to figure this out, but the way I feel like I've made my wardrobe go from okay to awesome is by building my entire look around a few key pieces.

Hi my name is julie, glad you found me, I am a young 48 year old lady, based in Essex England, looking for that special guy, romance me and take good care of me, treat me like a lady, lets travel around together, have lots fun and passionate times, im very loving and affection, I know how to treat my man well, would love to have finer way of living with the man of my dreams beside me, but genuine long term guys only not one night fling....

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