Sentences with phrase «to pin down»

Doing some research and polling each family member about what is important to them in a dog will help pin down what you will be looking for.

But researchers could never quite verify the theory because they couldn't pin down exactly what the cost and benefits were or study them over the many generations needed to see evolution in action.

But we'll start today by pinning it down by some simple steps.

Scientists haven't pinned down exactly how much temperatures rise per doubling of carbon dioxide — known as the climate sensitivity.

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It's a fun thing to tweak to your advantage if you feel pinned down in a fight.

We could never quite pin down how to use this accelerator to get consistent performance.

You can't pin them down on meeting days / times, agendas, project action items or end goals.

This is a performance that can't be pinned down as good or bad — it's more a manifestation of sheer force of will.

It's easily understandable, fast paced so you don't get pinned down with info and interactive.

This is a useful way of pinning down exactly what you want.

Toss it at a smaller enemy and it'll get pinned down for a few seconds, enough time for you to target another creature that may represent a more immediate threat.

There's an aspect of making a game feel fun to play but difficult to pin down when trying to describe it, and even more difficult for a developer to create.

I can't quite pin down why, but I think its time may be past.

If a food has several ingredients, it is often impossible to pin down which ingredient is causing the reaction.

Looking back, it gets hard to pin down precisely when the found imagery became so thoroughly his.

The execution and context is so large that no one can really pin down whether the idea worked or not.

And you can never pin down just what the heck Millennials are doing with their money: they're the worst with it, or the best.

That in turn helps the team pin down where that CO2 came from, and how much there was.

The problem, and please think about this, is that the sensitivity will be hard to pin down because of the positive feedback that all the models assume.

Thanks for the details too - I've made this a few times and I'm trying to pin down why it comes out too soft for some people.

But they had not pinned down whether particles or gases were the culprit.

The problem with liquidity isn't just that we have a hard time pinning down a definition, but also have a hard time measuring its presence or absence in the market.

Curious of what you think might be at stake here from finally pinning down climate sensitivity.

If they do get infected, researchers will try to pin down if they got the bug from the original subject, or someone else.

Change was constant, and it could be difficult to pin down who, exactly, was using what when.

This weapon's fast rate of fire and 100 round magazine keeps squads pinned down from a distance.

Gently pull it back and pin it down at the crown.

In addition to finding good sites, you must also pin down the things you want your sugar daddy to have.

Design research is more about finding inspiration and ideas than it is trying to pin down specific numbers or tactics (like with market or competitive research).

It's a persistent problem, so pinning down precise progesterone deficiency symptoms is tough.

By - election analyses are always about pinning down the variables: were people voting on national or local issues?

Things that seemed open and dynamic are now pinned down and displayed like butterflies in a case.

Initially, I probably spend more time on the phone trying to pin down all the details of the client's situation.

Now, scientists are eager to pin down more and more bursts.

The best feature of this gearbox, however, is no - lift shift, which means you can keep the accelerator pinned down while changing ratios.

I was told by exhibitors that they were excited about how busy it has been during the show - indeed it was difficult to even pin down exhibitors to talk with them at all.

It's not an incredibly high ATS win % so there's still a little work to do after pinning down a list of teams.

To its credit and main issue, «The Final Girls» isn't so easily pinned down to one specific genre.

One of the biggest challenges in cosmic - ray physics is to accurately pin down the absolute energy of a measured cosmic ray.

He was then pinned down on the floor and another police officer managed to remove a razor which the deceased was holding.

Although you will enjoy the affordable and even cheap payments at the beginning, the increase each year will soon pin you down and take a significant portion of your disposable income.

It is difficult to pin down only one thing that I love most about being a travel blogger.

What exactly those things mean in practice is harder to pin down though.

We're still pinning down a final release date.