Sentences with phrase «time taking a stab at»

At times taking stabs at the ineffectiveness and greed of the pharmaceutical industry and making light of very real think tanks who believe in the superiority of some individuals over others, the book is a fast - paced thrill ride of pandemic proportions.

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The social - media network is once again taking a shot at Snapchat, this time with another stab at its struggling Slingshot app, the new and improved Slingshot 2.0 (free, available for iOS and Android).

'» He takes a poetic stab at description: «It would be like plunging into the ocean of infinite love, a moment in which time — the before and after — no longer exists.»

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.

So please do me the honour take this time to check out all the amazing recipes created by my participating bloggers, because I am so touched that they all wanted to take part and to take a stab at creating a diabetic - friendly recipe for World Diabetes Day.

After years of longing, it was HIGH time I take a healthier stab at that delicious dish!

Jefferson and Lee simply didn't have enough time to look downfield the first time around, but you know they will take at least a small handful of stabs downfield.

Well, he could always re-up with the Heat, but look for the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks and pretty much everyone who eyed him the first time around to take a stab at the best player in the world.

Fowler Jr. took himself to a nearby hospital for treatment of a minor stab wound, sheriff's Sgt. John D'Eredita said at the time.

Hamilton noted that the commission's report is not the first time The Lancet has taken a stab at climate change, but previous reports focused on the worst - case scenarios of global warming and their devastating health consequences, whereas the current report highlights the benefits of addressing climate change and touts «no regrets» actions that benefit the environment and health.

► Several teenagers confront three other teens in a train car and fistfights erupt with punching, kicking, choking and slamming of bodies onto walls and floors: a teen girl punches a young man for leering at her (we see a few scrapes on teen girls and teen boys), a teen boy pulls a knife and another boy takes it from him and stabs him multiple times below the frame while a young man holds a teen girl's head out the boxcar door, choking her (she gags) and trying to toss her out, but another young man pulls him away; during one fistfight the arm of a young man catches against a pole outside the boxcar as the train passes and the young man screams (it is implied that he lost his arm, but we do not see this).

On the heels of making Painted Desert, Japanese director Masato Harada took another stab at presenting America to a mass Japanese audience — this time with a largely Western cast.

Given his oft - professed admiration for the infamous 1980 gut - muncher Cannibal Holocaust — whose Italian director, Ruggero Deodato, makes a cameo in Hostel: Part II — it was only a matter of time before Roth took a stab at reviving the cannibal subgenre.

Emily, the feature length debut from director Ryan Graves, takes a tiny - by - design story and earnestly goes deep, exploring the destructive impulses, badly timed stabs at nobility, and increasingly mixed signals of a couple on the brink.

Now's as good a time as any to take a stab at guessing the nominees... -LSB-...]

Heavy on battle scenes which include decapitations, stabbings, and nearly every other imaginable way of taking life known to men at that time, Troy also delves into the sexual immorality enjoyed by characters like Achilles.

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.

However, not everything has gone according to plan when Lou and fellow hot tub travelers Jacob, Nick and Adam (Clark Duke, Craig Robinson and Adam Scott taking over for the absent John Cusack) decide to take another stab at hot tub time travel.

Around the same time, he also became the latest writer — following Alex Garland and «Gangster Squad» scribe Will Beall — to take a stab at «Logan's Run» for Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling.

This time, an independent panel will take a first stab at rewriting the system.

It's a time when new entrants are jumping into the field with bold, fresh ideas, standing on the shoulders of the blogging giants that came before, taking a second stab at reinventing the new media landscape.

And do have a stab at flash — when so much else in the world of publishing takes so long to come to fruition, it's really gratifying to be able to complete a stand - alone story so quickly (though the polishing takes time).

Of course, naysayers are standing at the ready with jokes about having a «$ 99 Fire Sale» if the device tanks, taking a stab at the HP TouchPad at the same time.

In a major daring step that takes a stab at some mainstays in the digital business, Financial Times pulled its app from iTunes in order to protest the 30 % cut and retention of customers» private information.

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.

This particular operating system update would be able to give the Transformer Pad 300 a new lease of life, considering the tablet market is highly competitive at this point in time, not to mention Apple rumored to take a stab at the smaller display tablet range with their upcoming 7.85» iPad mini.

Let me take a quick stab at a couple of the Q's, and I might have to circle back later when I have more time... basically, my first thought while reading your questions on my investments is to try not to overcomplicate it, and try not to categorize each investment.

So now's the time to take a stab at what allocation you think is better, then go with that until your account (s) settle with your new custodian.

Circuit racing and checkpoint races make up the majority of your time along with stuff like solo time trials and elimination races, but Gravel does take an intriguing stab at a wholly original game mode where you have to crash through checkpoints that spin like a slot machine as you approach them; hit a red cross and you get slowed down, hit a green checkmark and you can speed through.

I didn't post that to take a stab at PS3 owners (i am one, as well as a 360 Elite), but only to show that all this stuff goes both ways.Why are people so upset about the PS3 version of Vesperia getting extra content... a YEAR after the 360 version had come and gone.Outside of Japan the PS3 version of Vesperia isn't likely to even sell very well.Look at Valkyria Chronicles for the PS3 (EXCLUSIVELY mind you) by Sega.While an EXSCELLENT action rpg, it sold horribly here in North America and not much better in the rest of the world, save Japan.RPG's only tend to sell well on the 360 here in NA.It's just a fact, and that's why the 360 most often get's them either exclusive permanant, exclusive additional content, and / or timed exclusivity, whereas the PS3 does not.

Science fiction has always been in the hearts of gamers but with the genre making a resurgence in Hollywood, it's the perfect time for Call of Duty to take a stab at it.

For the longest time Nintendo declined it the chance, so fans took it upon themselves to have a stab at remaking it themselves.

While Rastan Saga II didn't achieve the same success as the original, Taito took another stab at the franchise a few years later, this time turning it into a sidescrolling beat - em - up.

After id's revitalisation of its DOOM series, it may be time to take another stab at RAGE.

To take a stab at the Time Trial, set a waypoint to the marker on your in - game map and enter via the purple corona.

I have taken stabs at making a decent small painting from time to time, but my natural inclination and disposition since I was a boy was to paint larger than life, to feel my brush strokes travel and explore the arc and extent of my reach.

Many artists have taken a stab at exploring time, as well, from Salvador Dali to Christian Marclay, below.

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 in October 2014, the New York Times once again took a stab at Spotify's valuation — suggesting that the firm was now worth around $ 5bn to $ 6bn.

As an employed worker this is a terrific time to engage with a professional resume writer... sure, take a stab at doing it on your own... but starting a discussion with a professional resume writer who is in the trenches right now, and understands current resume and job search issues, will pay off.

Maybe acceptable at Christmas, and we mean maybe, any novelty wine related item have to go: decorated corks, stem decorations and name tags that hang from the corner of the glass and stab you in the nose every time you go to take a sip.