Sentences with phrase «under the gun»

People are really under the gun for all this debt load that they've got and their looking for some help.

He knew I was under the gun with vary little time to get all the paper work complete.

Families who aren't under the gun to file quickly might be able to boost their chances by considering how their assets will be measured in aid calculations.

Doctors are always under the gun when it comes to medical diagnoses and dealing with insurance companies and patients.

We received the new car early this year and my entire team was put under the gun to make things happen.

Upon landing the publishing deal he felt under the gun to get more sales and not just rely on the publisher to account for all of his sales.

I hate to admit it but I too work better under the gun of a party or company.

Because, obviously, you and many other elected officials in this community are constantly under the gun about property taxes.

It provides a taste of the tools in action when under the gun.

But you can pull a homeowner permit and still be under the gun by the man.

That means that schools under the gun to raise test scores increasingly rely on strategies that get immediate, but short - lived results.

And manufactures wouldn't be under the gun so much to put out the updates.

If you lost many of your personal belongings in your apartment, you would be under the gun trying to replace it all with no money to do it with.

He knew I was under the gun with very little time to get all the paper work complete.

I've been on the road and under the gun for several days, so my apologies for the radio silence here.

When you're not under the gun to make a decision, you can think from a viewpoint that, in my experience, leads to the best solution.

Always under the gun, we got it done!

Sales leadership is a role constantly under the gun.

The «pilot» districts are really under a gun.

Already under the gun because of an anticipated $ 80 million budget overrun and scheduling delays, NSF decided last summer to descope the project, dropping a long - term stream experiment and seven urban sites.

It was renewed again for one year in December 2014, just as DWA was under the gun on Wall Street after a series of box - office misses.

Already under the gun because of high - stakes testing, as well as time and budget constraints, some educators flinch at the thought of creating such ambitious real - world projects or coordinating new partnerships with people outside the school.

Honda, long the darling of Consumer Reports has come under the gun as its model line loses favor with the reviewers at CR.

He explained why the opening plenaries of climate talks are so boring (because delegates are just reciting their positions) and how they become more interesting and productive as negotiations break into smaller groups that actually negotiate and then to smaller groups in smaller and smaller rooms, more technological issues come under the gun.

«But you never really know until you put a card in your hand and you're under the gun little bit.

When under the gun at larger agencies like SelectQuote and AccuQuote, agents have sales quotas to hit.

Pharr Texas is simultaneously a city of opportunity and a city under the gun, financially.

It doesn't matter that Motorola's quarterly earnings are breaking records — GC Peter Lawson is still under the gun to cut costs, reports The Lawyer, a UK publication.

Drug price scandals have become a prominent flashpoint in America over the last several years, with companies like Valeant and Mylan under the gun for gigantic list price hikes on old products.

Canned corporate optimism aside, toys - to - life in the style of Infinity and Skylanders is highly complicated, and the casual market on consoles is under the gun more than ever before thanks to mobile games.

«Fishermen are under the gun in many different ways.»

Regulations on mentally ill, those with orders of protection against them, are heightened under the gun control bill.

Then there's the surgical approach, «which lets us actually look into the brain of the AI system,» says Alan Fern, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University, who is leading one of 12 projects funded under Gunning's program.

Researchers under the gun to win a federal grant and facing declining success rates may be tempted to crank out another application.

This savage social satire revels in the brutality and gore and plays it for dark comedy and gallows humor, a teen melodrama gone feral as cliques fall apart under fire and young love is literally under the gun.

Armen Keteyian examines a change in NCAA enforcement that has some elite coaches under the gun for the behavior of their teams.

This one took a mere 15 months to reunite Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and the extraordinarily valuable Kathryn Hahn as the suburban Chicago pals perennially under the gun of peer pressure and familial expectation.

Not saddled with her ho - hum lines from Matthew Vaughn «s First Class script and seemingly more dedicated to this all blue role, Lawrence provides depth to a character that's always been cloaked in mystery, showing off her penchant for ambiguity under the gun.

Even the otherwise chipper Tomorrowland — an ode to eggheads that I enjoyed quite a bit — couldn't resist putting our globe under the gun.

«We stay under the gun a lot, but we get quality kids and this is all a testament to having an all - star team, a stimulating academic curriculum and offering a well - rounded education,» Williams said.

The New York Times has been under the gun lately to produce.

«You want to apply before you're entirely under the gun,» says Steven Bogan, regional managing director for Glendenning Mortgage Corporation in Haddonfield, NJ.

-- and maybe three or four hours of Tearaway, so I'm a little under gunned here Tom.

Also adding a reload button under the gun handle was genius from the ergonomics department.

The EPA is under the gun since the Government Accountability Office uncovered their gross inefficiency at monitoring e-waste.

In earlier years, the forum was a bit more exciting with panels of representatives of legal publishers frequently under the gun as they were asked pointed questions on the legal information issues of the day.

There have been at least 4 separate lawyers or firms representing Mr. Ceglia at various times throughout this ordeal, and all of them are potentially under the gun due to the ethical implications.