Sentences with phrase «took whack»

We'll dive into this one later in the week, and shine a light on a process that's sure to generate sparks in the year ahead — in part because it's a complex issue with real challenges, but also because Fabius only took a whack at the illusion.

It's no wonder Nintendo almost called him Jumpman, but we're glad they took another whack at naming their soon - to - be mascot.

My score will go down now because I have two other credit cards with balances, and my debt - to - credit ratio just took a whack.

Rodriguez does leave a certain creative stamp on the movie; I suspect he took a whack at the script, which bears evidence of his trademark pithy dialogue.

Arrows seem to be all the rage lately, so I took a whack (Ha!

The Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, California, also took whack at 23andMe.

Outgoing NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton took another whack at Trump, telling a roomful of Muslim - American officers the GOP presidential nominee «denigrates» their contributions to the community.

When the Associated Press manufactured and distributed a story about insurgents capturing Havana, The New York Sun took a whack at the AP, running the headline «FAKE NEWS FACTORY.»

-- Antoine Martin, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, penned an op - ed that takes a whack at Bitcoin.

Sounds like the author is just trying to take another whack at Christianity.

She attends a national meeting of bridal consultants where attendees can take a whack at a piñata representing «the bride from hell,» travels to Aruba to learn about «destination weddings,» and visits struggling downtown Hebron, Wisconsin, where a financially strapped Methodist church is marketing itself as a wedding venue called «Chapel on the Hill.»

Yeh, Shack, I'll take a whack at that one.

About 50 yards in front of the 9th tee, one of the guys tossed a ball on the ground, handed me a seven - iron and told me to take a whack at it.

This is a board meant to take a whacking.

Lundqvist stopped the initial shot by Nail Yakupov, but the puck dropped to the goalie's left and Patrick Nemeth and Duchene both took whacks at the puck with Duchene putting it in.

Sammy Sosa takes his whacks at Enron Field, where the cozy dimensions and a favorite victim could produce fireworks.

Gabriel is a long - term absentee, Laurent Koscielny is out, Shkodran Mustafi is out and Per Mertesacker missed the curtain raiser against Leicester too after taking a whack from Gary Cahill in the Community Shield.

With the Foley scandal, the Democrats have a chance to take a whack at one of the sweetest hanging curve balls ever wafted across the slime - caked plate.

IMHO this question can be easily salvaged to not be speculative, i may take a whack if I have a moment.

The Riverdale Press takes a whack at the Parks Department with three stories (here, here and here) about long - delayed park projects.

The rubber keeps the grip comfortable so you can get a nice grip on your tool while the metal butt end means it can take whacks from a standard hammer.

It's comfortable to use and control plus it can take a whack from a mallet without breaking or losing its shape.

Biologists have taken another whack at the human ego, showing that our brain's cerebral cortex — the seat of higher thought — is eerily similar to a clump of neurons inside the head of the lowly marine ragworm.

«We have to take a whack at it,» the Nevada Democrat told the Associated Press in an interview, explaining that failure to act «would be neglectful.»

Most every fashion blogger is sharing their Fall preview of styles for the AW season so I thought I'd take a whack at it with footwear.

Twenty years on, he takes another whack at explaining the inexplicable.

Seth MacFarlane is taking another whack at the movie making business with A Million Ways To Die In The West.

To further that extent, many trap effects can be compounded to ensure that when the big damage traps take a whack at them, they'll go down for sure.

Public education is the piata of society; everybody takes a whack at us.

Since they say they can't handle them, nor can they correct them, let us take a whack at it.»

Particularly when I saw how much more story there was to be told, and how little The Godfather had touched on the glory years of the mob in the late 1950's, I was thrilled to have the chance to take a whack at all of that.

The income statement shows little effect, though the balance sheet takes a whack.

I wonder how well the Wii would take a whack from the Wii remote.

Ready at Dawn has experiencing developing for the PS4 as well as playing in the Jak and Daxter sandbox, so they would be prime for taking another whack at the universe.

But now with enough of these studies in the bank, a group of researchers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory decided to take another whack at a national estimate.

Not exact matches

Once you have reached the target level, annual inflation adjustments should take care of increases; but the level should be reviewed every five years, in case things are getting out of whack.

The suits are «a sign of how seriously Apple takes Samsung as a competitor, trying to whack them with a legal stick as well as a competitive one,» says Neil Mawston, executive director of Strategy Analytics.

But the hot schools of the boom, like Harvard, have been whacked horribly, taking huge losses on PE stakes.

Citi took the biggest whack of all — unsurprisingly, given its historic DTAs — with a charge of $ 22 billion that included a $ 19 billion DTA revaluation and $ 3 billion relating to repatriation.

The budget that President Donald Trump proposed Monday takes a hard whack at the poorest Americans, slashing billions of dollars from food stamps, public health insurance and federal housing vouchers, while trying to tilt the programs in more conservative directions.

I should think I'll be able to withdraw at a higher rate than 3 or 4 % for the first 12 years because after that our State Pensions will turn up, provide a fair whack of our income and take a load off our capital.

The latest budget proposed by the House Republicans whacks the new consumer bureau, by taking away nearly half of the money needed this year to get the office up and running.

When the kids would get rambunctious in the back, he'd take just so much before turning around to give us a good whack.»

If good old Steve had been in the room with me it would have taken a great deal of restraint to keep from whacking him over the head with something handy, like a frying pan or the coffee pot.

Jesus is nothing but Burt Reynold, aka Turd Ferguson, whacked out on mescaline... which I now wish I took instead.

This is my favorite quote of the chapter... maybe even the whole book: «If we're more opposed, for instance, to what we take to be «bad language» and nude scenes and films about gay people than we are to people being blown up, starved to death, deprived of life - saving medicine, or tortured, our offendedness is out of whack.»

While it roasted, I whisked up a sauce of tahini, lemon, garlic, and olive oil, drained a can of chickpeas, and took a few whacks at a bunch of cilantro, and meanwhile, oh my, the house even warmed a little.

You take a pomegranate and you cut it hemi spherically you open it up and then you whack it with a wooden spoon get out all our aggression and spit out the seeds into a little bowl then I added some unsweetened kind of Greek - style almond yogurt with some unsweetened cocoa powder to make kind of a chocolate pudding with the pomegranate added some pumpkin seeds so I had this chocolate pudding pumpkin and the little seeds are like little explosions of juice it was absolutely delicious.

I love taking the back of my spoon and giving it a good whack.

KKR & Co took a $ 3.05 billion whack at Treasury Wine Estates while the company was reeling from the fallout of impairments and mismanagement in its United States business.