Sentences with phrase «than shoot for»

This can be difficult when trying something new, and it might behoove you to stay conservative rather than shoot for the moon and miss.

These levels are more ingrained into the story of the game and involve more dodging than shooting for points than the DS ones.

37 years of trust deed investing have taught me that decades of getting lower real estate returns and actually getting them is way better than shooting for high returns and losing money.

Not exact matches

But as Andrew Coyne argued recently in the National Post, the barista who pulls shots while studying for his or her PhD is no less a risk - taker than the one who decides to open his or her own coffee shop.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

You might even want to consider shooting a short video in which you explain this messaging (shoot for less than five minutes), so your sales people can see how you do it.

President Donald Trump on Thursday called for action after the horrific school shooting in Florida the day before that left at least 17 people dead and more than a dozen injured.

Named for one of the world's most legendary drinkers, this bar offers more than 200 kinds of rum, as well as special rum - tasting sessions in which shots are interspersed with chocolate, nuts, and dried fruit.

With more than 3,000 followers on Instagram and shoots for Fashionista and Burger King under his collar, Fred is fast becoming a sought - after brand endorser.

rather than shooting the messenger i'd suggest that investors should have a read of the report and the company financial statements and decide for themselves.

More than 32,000 people died in shootings in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An online petition calling for the Vancouver - based outdoor retailer to stop selling Vista Outdoor Inc. - owned brands has garnered more than 20,000 signatures because the company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of rifle used in a recent school shooting.

More than $ 516,000 in bonuses was paid out, including «knockout of the night,» «submission of the night,» and «fight of the night» — the latter going to Thamesford, Ontario native Mark Hominick, who picked up $ 129,000 for his (unsuccessful) shot at the UFC featherweight belt against Brazilian - born Jose Aldo.

Calliet points to a photo shoot Boyega did around Thanksgiving last year for The Hollywood Reporter that shows off the actor looking «leaner and ripper» than he did in the movie.

But recovering the rest of the plane is still a long shot — former National Transportation Safety Board official Tom Haueter told ABC News that the wreckage was unlikely to lead investigators to the rest of the aircraft because it had been floating around the ocean for more than a year.

Because of the surprising bias we discovered, their finding of only a negligibly higher field goal percentage for shots following a streak of makes (three percentage points), was, if you do the calculation, actually 11 percentage points higher than one would expect from a coin flip!

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

Murphy was joined by more than 30 Democratic colleagues on the floor, many of whom angrily told stories of mass shootings in their own states and called for action.

In less than 24 hours, the advocacy group Equality Florida has raised more than $ 2 million for the victims of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club called Pulse that left 50 dead and more than 50 injured over the weekend.

Mark Barden, whose seven - year - old son Daniel was shot to death in his first - grade classroom, said he and other Sandy Hook parents had been advocating for the bill for more than three years.

Le Gette and Wilson are projecting revenues of $ 35 million for this year — more than double last year's sales — and are shooting to be near $ 200 million by 2005.

The freezes will be served in 16 - ounce cups, notably different than those for nonalcoholic drinks, with one shot of rum, vodka or tequila.

But getting too far ahead of your skis, spending more than you can afford shooting for levels of unnecessary precision, setting standards that make no sense and add no value to your offerings, or trying to address too broad a set of needs and customers are formulas for expensive failures.

And lastly, you'd need to figure out a way for the gun to shoot more than one bullet — because the current design only allows for one shot.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

In the past few days an ad run by the reelection campaign of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 has been popular online — and it's just one shot of one guy, talking for more than four minutes.

Sorry I had to put on my stern pants on for a bit in this post, but more often than not so many inspiring social entrepreneurs lose site of these critical items and shoot themselves in the foot immediately out of the gate — and that's the last thing I want to see happen.

A «quadrivalent» flu shot is built for more strains than a «trivalent» one.

Still, Robert is not an active manager and even his daughter Mary tours the grounds for more than just skeet shooting.

Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.

Overall, we shoot for an average winning trade that is 2 to 3 larger than the average losing trade.

Hogan called a news conference last week to announce his support for the Port Covington location, saying that the city «needed the shot in the arm more than anywhere else.»

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

And there is still one more reason the weapons are so popular in states like Florida: They are very easy to buy — and for a 19 - year - old like Nikolas Cruz, the shooting suspect, far easier to obtain than a handgun.

However, it's better to shoot for the ideal withdrawal rate that touches no principal and fail than be too aggressive as there is no reverse button!

Bloomberg Gadfly columnist Tara Lachapelle explains why T - Mobile and Sprint stand a better shot of winning regulatory for their merger now than in th...

Trump panned the bipartisan bill as little more than a building block for the «beautiful» and «comprehensive» legislation he envisioned would protect Americans from mass shootings.

«I think that we've all suffered enough, more than any kid should have to this year, and I think that having to study for a test that either lets you graduate high school or not is very unfair,» said Alexa Kitaygorodsky, a ninth grader who was in the freshman building when the shooting happened.

Now the 89 - year - old, the Academy's second oldest nominee (eight days younger than Faces Places director Agnès Varda), seems to have a clear shot at his first win for his gentle and poignant treatment of André Aciman's love story Call Me by Your Name.

Although affordability improved in Vancouver for the first time in more than three years (to 84.8 per cent, from 90.0 per cent in the third quarter), buyers in Vancouver still face the highest affordability hurdle in Canada, by a long shot.

Yesterday's results were mostly more of the same: wearables were up a lot (more devices per customer); ASP's were down from last quarter but still 11 % higher than a year ago; 2 services revenue, meanwhile, shot through the roof for reasons that are still a bit unclear, but impressive nonetheless.

Fred Abt, father of Parkland shooting survivor Carson Abt, said he had discussed with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over lunch that rather than waiting for first responders to arrive, it would be more efficient to have firearms locked on school campuses.

It probably won't make Wynne any more popular in Harper's eyes, and will be one more reason for him to avoid meeting with her, but it could also be the first shot in a Supreme Court challenge of the legislation, which could conceivably be much faster - tracked than it would be if we had to wait for a Charter challenge the traditional way, which could conceivably help save lives, going back to the thrust of the Bedford decision in the first place.

Less than two weeks after the worst mass school shooting in Florida history, teachers and staff returned to the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the distance.

The measure comes more than a month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17, and on the eve of the gun violence — focused March for Our Lives.

Less than three weeks after the MSD shooting, Schachter stood in a conference room at the Coral Springs Marriott surrounded by 25 school safety experts from across the United States for the inaugural meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission, a personal project that predates the state panel he was appointed to this week.

Understand that your credit history must be clean for at least six months to provide a real shot at approval, and many lenders set their minimum scores higher than the FHA requires.

Particularly if you use an email distributor that charges for each recipient, it may be worth cleaning your list — you can filter out those who last contacted you more than two years ago for example, or try an initial email confirming that the person still wishes to receive updates before sending out your first proper email shot.

«Shooting for the stars» is more than just an inspirational platitude these days.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting in a Parkland high school that killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others, pressure mounted for Congress to actually do something on guns — and Trump seemed enthusiastic about the idea.