Sentences with phrase «tread water by»

Valve can tread water by porting its own games to Linux and offering the cross-platform Steam in - home game streaming as a stopgap measure, but it's hard to imagine the SteamOS ecosystem thriving unless Valve exerts some control over the hardware experience to deliver a more streamlined message to consumers about why they should buy Steam Machines.

However, the unexpected political challenges could be starting to exact a toll on investor enthusiasm, which might explain why equities began to tread water by late March.

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MaxLinear did better than all of them, if only by treading water.

While trying to tread the waters of postpartum recovery and infant loss, I became gripped by another fear: losing my marriage.

After we gave Chelski a good spanking last season in probably Conte's fifth or sixth game in charge he immediately re organised them and went through till the new year unbeaten.He had them very solid at the back and scoring goals for fun.And all this with a squad of players he inherited and their top striker Costa wanting Away.They ended up romping to the Premiere League Title scoring loads more goals and conceding far less than Wengers Arsenal.We by the way are treading water at best this season and would not bet on us finishing above Chelski even allowing for the season they are having.

Sitting through the film on Friday, I saw that the Bears were growing into their identity on offense, where play calling was more of an issue than execution, and the Cowboys were trying to tread water on offense where the lack of execution was dooming their reasonable, conservative play calling by Jason Garret.

«While flying the robot feels as if it is treading water; while swimming it feels like it is surrounded by molasses.

This low - key, tightly wound drama may tread familiar waters and expend some of its nuance and grit for the sake of a misguided twist in the final act, but it's an earnest effort fuelled by two brutally sincere performances by Aaron Paul and

Maybe doing this (another historical epic), to be followed by another Alien suggests that Scott is treading water, running on fumes, no longer willing / able to push boundaries / envelopes.

The indie studio, run by CEO and Chairman Ryan Kavanaugh and President Dana Brunetti, formally emerged from Chapter 11 in April but spent most of the past four months treading water with slate financing and a contentious court battle with streaming partner Netflix.

However, he never quite manages to maintain the necessary levels of suspense, and, by the time the excitement should be peaking in the final act, the film feels like it is treading water.

Misjudged by financiers and shoehorned into a double bill with Isao Takahata's much - anticipated Grave of the Fireflies, Totoro trod water until slowly, surely, it became one of the most beloved animated feature films of all time.

The political drama written and directed by «The Daily Show» host is treading water early in box office run

By the time we've stopped running it's unfortunately all too apparent that The Scorch Trials is a tread - water sequel, offering too many action set pieces and too few character enriching moments.

While MGM is treading water to keep from sinking, the creditors are attempting to fend off a take over bid by Time Warner, whose offer they feel is way too low.

That means for every 20 hours of principals» time a new change requires, it needs to improve their performance by one percent just to tread water; for teachers, it's more.

Teachers who wait for a half - day inservice provided by the district once a year aren't even treading water.

These tires are better able to handle heavy rainstorms and slushy snowfall by actively pushing water out to the sides of the tread area as the tire rolls forward, minimizing the risk of hydroplaning at high road speeds in heavy rain.

This new system works by incorporating an extra channel that is moulded throughout the tyre's tread block to allow water to quickly drain - helping to reduce braking distances on icy and slushy roads.

Performance tires generally have aggressive tread designs and are distinguished by large, solid tread blocks separated by open channels to promote water drainage and prevent hydroplaning

To the north on terraced hillsides, bent Filipino farmers trod behind carts hauled by scrawny carabao, water buffaloes.

It has yet to be defined by a truly successful product and the various entrants so far are treading water at best.

Even after a year that saw major stock market indexes simply tread water, equities are by many accounts considered expensive, challenged by rising interest rates and a less - than - stellar outlook for corporate earnings.

So today, for all of you who are feeling discouraged by your earning potential and are treading water, I want to talk about the power of a side business.

For example, «The Trainers from the Dark Side» recommend teaching a dog not to jump up by shouting at the dog; squirting him in the face with water or lemon juice; swatting him on the nose with a rolled - up newspaper; yanking on the dog's leash; hanging the dog by his choke - collar; squeezing the dog's front paws; treading on his hind paws; kneeing the dog in the chest; or flipping the dog over backwards.

For the PADI Scuba Diver course you will show your instructor that you can maintain yourself in water too deep to stand up in for 10 minutes, for example by floating, treading water or paddling around.

You can go on for ages as to why and how the Wii userbase was utterly squandered by companies who are now barely treading water or worse but this article highlights one very real and legitimate reason; they where too blind, ignorant and arrogant to try.

By the time of Xbox One press event and the following E3 presentation, the infant console was already treading water.

2014 will be the year that makes or finally breaks the Wii U. For a long time it feels like Nintendo's home console has been treading water, kept afloat by the odd but brilliant first - party title.

The guys who designed the game seem to be totally blindsided by this; this seems like a case where Chevalier got in over his head, but when he saw the writing on the wall he kept trying to tread water, saying «it'll be okay, it'll be okay» and hoping for a last minute miracle.

Curated by Fairfax Dorn, Treading Water will be on view May 27 through September 18, 2005.

By all accounts, Benezra is the right man to bring focus and stability to a museum that has been treading water for the past year or so.

Canada Booth B4, organized by Katherine Berhardt (2016) Jardin, No. 4 Studio, Brooklyn, NY (2016) Gazing Inland, COOP, Nashville, TN (2016) Family Values, 195 Christie St., curated by Paola Gallio (2016) Tread, Ess Ef Eff at the Living Gallery, curated by Alex Sewell (2016) Your Bad Self, Arts and Leisure, Harlem, NY (2016) Improvised Showboat # 5 curated by Zachary Keeting and Lauren Britton with Ashley Garrett and Brian Wood, Manhattan, NY (2015) Apples Turn to Water at Spring / Break Art Fair, curated by Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow (2015) New Work City curated by Julie Torres, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (2015) The Art of Compassion, Freight and Volume, NY (2014) Family Style, curated by Julie Torres, Formerly Pocket Utopia, NY, NY (2014) Typhoon Haiyan Philippines Relief Benefit, Lodge Gallery, NY, NY (2013) C'est Brooklyn - Paper, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2013) Strange Times, Novella Gallery, NY, NY (2013) Peaces On Earth, Sardine, Brooklyn, NY (Dec 2012) Soft Opening, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY (2012) Hogwarth Worldwide Biannual, Hogwarth Worldwide Inc, New York, NY (Dec 2012) Hunter MFA Thesis Show, Times Square Building, Hunter MFA Building, New York, NY (Dec 2012) Brucennial (Bruce High Quality Foundation Biennial), New York, NY (2012) The Whitney Houston Biennial, Murdertown, Chicago, IL (2012) Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2012) Mic: Check (Occupy), Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2012) Idiot's Delight, Curated by Craig Olson, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2011) Temporary Antumbra Zone, Group Show, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2011) co-curator Purple Nurple, Beta Space, Brooklyn, NY (2011) Espacio Entre Medio, Chemi's Room, Santurce, Puerto Rico (2011) IT»S ALL GOOD, Apocalypse Now, Group show, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2011) Half Invisible, Group show, Beta Space, Brooklyn, NY (2010) Painting Comes Alive!

«At best, you're going to tread water on the carbon issue, and you're probably going to do worse,» said Howard Herzog, a principal research engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of «The Future of Coal,» a voluminous study published in March by M.I.T. «It goes against the whole grain of reducing carbon.»

While the Nixon Mission goes on sale this season as a water - treading debutante and the ASUS ZenWatch 3 evolves the company's commercial philosophy on smartwatches, the Android Wear platform will not be further bolstered by three of its major players this year.

======== And, an example noted by the buyer at Carolyne's Clients Speak, wherein he netted thousands of dollars by following my advice, and another client, a seller, noted that I saved him from making many mistakes (therefore big dollars) and a couple of others who were going through nasty divorce situations, where, as the agent I am often called upon to tread water (btw, should each spouse have their own REALTOR (r)?)