Sentences with phrase «too big a wall»

I've been trying to figure out how to make a gallery wall in my living room (it's too big a wall just for one or two things) starting with my kids» portraits.

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Apple is constantly considering acquisitions and there is no size acquisition that would be too big, Cook said, offering a clear signal to Wall Street that nothing should be considered off the table.

His big announcements did little to address the concerns of critics (and some Wall Street analysts), who find many of Musk's proposals too vague.

But at least one analyst who tracks big Wall Street firms» bonds says there may be an even bigger problem: Investors, pressured by the need to generate income, simply don't care whether the banks are too big to fail — one way or the other.

Legendary Wall Street value investor Howard Marks says the big money has already been made in hedge funds, and maybe in private equity and junk bonds too.

Although Yahoo's board said it still believed that the company would prevail in any tax dispute, too many people on Wall Street were worried that challenging Uncle Sam over a possible $ 10 billion tax bill was just too big a risk, and those fears were depressing Yahoo's stock price.

But the concept of Too Big To Fail was legislated under Obama and Wall Street indictments / prosecutions fell precipitously from the previous Administration.

For example, Barack Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder — the chief enforcer and prosecutor in the United States — said with regard to the obvious crimes committed by the big Wall Street banks: some banks are too large to prosecute.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Last month, just ahead of the digital currency's big November rally, Ford Financial Solutions founder Julie Ford said in a Wall Street Journal interview that bitcoin was just too big a chance for many investors to take.

The great thing is that walls are never too big to fall.

I think I saw this on MSNBC the other night.Seems like the Penn State officials have too much baucarerucy when it comes to reporting crimes on campus and that they're too big to jail like how the Wall Streeters have been getting off easy not even with a slap on the wrist (for now).

It shouldn't be boiling too fiercely, if it starts climbing the walls of the pan in big bubbles then lower the heat a bit.

One of the biggest complaints I hear about eating Paleo is that the recipes are too time consuming, too difficult, or take too many off - the - wall ingredients.

But the pressure was just too big, and in the final 15 minutes Barça found the goals to turn this into a big win: Lionel Messi scored twice, including a gorgeous free kick under the wall, and Coutinho gave Suárez a tap - in just before halftime to put the leaders up 4 - 1.

If a daily journal seems like too big an obligation, consider taking notes on a wall calendar instead — an even easier place to note milestones.

The Wall Street connection looms big in this campaign too, and Mr. Doheny's Wall Street background and his Fintech activities loom big now.

Take the most significant new authority the Fed was given under the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: the power to take actions to stop runs on systemically important, so - called «too big to fail» financial institutions that threaten the entire economy.

In 2000, Wall Street firms said, «It's okay to repeal the Glass - Steagall law, we're too big to fail — trust us.»

At 6:30 p.m., ProPublica partners with New America New York City for Too Big to Jail: Executive Impunity from Wall Street to the White House, a discussion on corporate crime and the government's prosecutorial strategy for top corporate executives, Interface, 140 W. 30th St., Manhattan.

Clinton said she will release transcripts of paid, closed - door speeches she gave to Wall Street firms «when everyone else does,» an answer unlikely to quiet criticism that she was too cozy with big banks.

O'Malley's campaign said the former governor would send «an open letter to the Too Big To Fail Wall Street mega-banks telling them how — as President — he will pursue every avenue to put in place real structural and accountability reforms that will rein in their reckless behavior.»

I am sure they will find jobs they are well educated and their skill set is need by «Wall Street» and «Big Corporations» Before there was the «Oracle at Delphi» there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli VJ Machiavelli The Legislative Budget is Too Damn High

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

It gives us the English word «anxious», signalling a place that presses against you, where the walls are tight, and you might be too big to get through.

For practical reasons this was extremely fortuitous, as most astronomers had assumed the black hole would be too big to get a good look at, he explains, «like putting your face right next to the wall and trying to describe it.»

You didn't carry them around in your pocket because they were too big and they had a cable coming out the back that plugged into the wall.

Poor health keeps killing economic growth, but if too many people suddenly get healthy it could burst the big Wall Street bubble.

If you feel a big stretch in the back of your legs, your hips may be too close to the wall, and so move farther away from it.

The problem isn't merely that the movie is too long, and too filled with speeches about how Wall Street screwed main street out of its last red cent; it's that Stone can't decide whether he wants it to be about the aging lions like Gekko who stick around long after they already received their so - called comeuppances, or about this generation's young turks, like Jake, who operate on a scale far bigger and more dangerous than Gordon ever did.

The Great Wall is one of the biggest flops of the typically dependable Matt Damon's lengthy career, and, thanks to accusations of whitewashing, one of the most controversial too.

For all those worried about it being too juvenile and not up to the dramatic standard of Wall - E or Up... you are failing to see that the trailers are meant to sell the film to the biggest possible audience and the first people they need to rope in are the younger crowd.

Based on a critically acclaimed book by Michael Lewis, these mavericks use Wall Street's markets to bet against banks deemed too big to fail.

The climax, for one, is too clever by half: Ready to shoot the big reenactment Greene has been teasing since his opening shot, Sheil theatrically, sanctimoniously breaks the fourth wall to summarize the film's moral position on itself.

The danger with an exercise such as this annual shakedown — aside from driving off a mountain face, careening into a 12 - point buck as it sprints from the underbrush (almost happened), or spinning off the track into an unprotected wall — is that it's all too easy to become infatuated with big money, big horsepower, almost impossibly aspirational items.

Rin grips Juney's hand while they sit in the waiting room, her palms sweating as she scans every inch of the place: walls too white, lights too bright, posters too cheerful, a television screen as big as a door blasting a cooking show.

The Fire comes packed with a wall charger that is too big to fit into most small carrying cases or smaller purses.

Third, he wanted to take the fight straight to the megabanks on too - big - to - fail, making Wall street defend against structural reforms it opposed, at least to increase the chance that other provisions opposed by the banks, like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, would pass.

I think Greenberg got sucked into the Wall Street earnings game, and it eventually got too big for him.

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The Moto3 bikes are the easiest to learn with little in the way of throttle management required, but jump on one of the big machines with 250bhp and suddenly opening up the throttle too early will catapult you into the nearest wall, although accidents are usually more amusing that wince inducing thanks to some pretty unconvincing physics.

Jagged lines are a big problem, too, as is clipping when arrested crooks, their heads passing straight through entire walls.

And it can fly, too, with aerial play taking a big role in the equation, along with driving along the walls.

Yes, the wall - running, grappling and Titans do the same too, but the Smart Pistol is something very unique to the series and a gateway for a bigger player pool.

«This wall piece: [It's too large to] do in most commercial galleries in the world, so that's a big opportunity.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The most impressive example here, from 1960, is a painting less than half a metre high and almost 10 metres wide, actually a long strip cut off the bottom of a much larger painting that was to cover a whole gallery wall but proved too big.

Stating the obvious, the paintings are big too, occupying a lot of wall space; the product of such a man, with the paint larded on in big gestural strokes.

However, most of the collection was in safe storage elsewhere during the war, and a large Stanley Spencer painting, deemed too big to move, had a protective brick wall built in front of it.

That said, it doesn't look too out of place on a wall next to the door, and while large the trade - off is that the battery can be a little bigger — which is always nice.