Sentences with phrase «was just practicing»

«I thought she was just practicing something.»
Assistant U.S. Atty. Andrew Goldstein told jurors to reject the defense contention that Silver was just practicing politics as usual.
I mistakenly believed that my life couldn't or wouldn't bear fruit until I met that special someone, as if everything I did prior was just practice for the real thing.
They are just practicing ceremonies and customs that have been in their culture for thousands of years.
And just think... this was just a Practice Run.
I guess with me it is just a practice or habit.
Otherwise they're just practicing a farce of cherry - picked, appropriate for the moment, feel - good, reinterpreted, smiley - face platitudes.
Let's stop pretending we're evangelizing when in reality we're just practicing common decency.
Most times, it may be just practicing what you know and doing it day after day, month after month, year after year, like I do with writing this blog twice a week, until I am ready to be a writer.
Now I know this is just a practice, but this is still freaking cool nonetheless.
It's just a practice game for the next one.
Or maybe they're just practicing their ability to cover for each other when one of them fumbles?
We obviously have no idea whether Davis is going to play this year, or whether he is just practicing so that he will be more ready for spring football.
And she claims that everything she's made so far is just practice - she wants to keep tweaking it all.
If she's just fussing and trying to get comfortable and shut out the world, and she settles herself, then it sounds like she's just practicing those skills, which will really come in handy later for her.
That's just my practice perhaps, but I don't see it.
For most us eating snacks is just a practice.
Every session is just practice.
We are all just practicing yoga, aren't we?
I'm sure I have other things to do today, but really, I'm just practicing TLC lyrics in my head until the clock strikes10.
You're just practicing to feel comfortable; to be prepared should you find yourself nervous and grasping for something to say.
When an elementary student falls 20 times while learning to ride a two - wheel bike, has she failed or is she just practicing?
In others words, those of a colleague who sent me this article: «Cuomo's answer to parents who are on the fence about opting out, «oh, it's just practice.»
Don't make math something that's just practiced in school, give it some real world application — measure distances when you travel, count change at the grocery store, divide whole pizzas into fractions (or slices) on family movie night.
I think it's just practice.
«It's just practice,» she told me.
Well, this is just practice, so...) or one of the many very good self - published authors that have taken a big portion of the market share and are holding fast.
With a young puppy who still has his baby teeth this is just a practice exercise, but as soon as those permanent teeth start to grow in it becomes increasingly important.
(Either you were just practicing the emergency sit, or the danger has passed.)
Maybe all of these posed pics are just practice for the big day.
Actually, they are just practicing avoidance of something they have long since learned caused them discomfort.
I just got so bored, that plowing through the last 1/3 to 1/2 of the game was just a practice in tedium.
Exercise mode is just practice.
This is an entirely new frontier for console gaming & for anyone to make any hard assumptions in either direction w / o having the full picture is just practicing futility.
More convincing is demonstrating that there are multiple proxies that all show the same response, but if you reject sample sets that do not support your conclusions in the analysis of each proxy, you are just practicing more faith - based analysis.
I think James Michener said it first, when he said everything you do before 40 is just practice.

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After practice, I would drive to Belmont [a college in Nashville] and listen to Cold War history classes; I just think it's so interesting.»
And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.
I just think about the vastly expanding online world and what it can offer for so many people in so many industries, and I think that one of these would be for people practicing law.
Just last week, Facebook announced that it is banning ads promoting cryptocurrencies in an effort to prevent users from advertising «financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices
While movies are not mandated by the law to adopt sustainability practices, O'Brien says it's just a matter of time.
If you are interviewing yourself, then these same best practices apply, they're just more difficult to implement:
Counting your blessings isn't just good advice from mom or a dippy self - help suggestion; consciously practicing gratitude actually physically changes your brain, science shows.
Just be open - minded, commit to practice and don't be afraid to create your own opportunities for yourself.
Before her tenure as a NASA astronaut, Jemison practiced medicine across the world, and served as a medical officer in the Peace Corps, overseeing care in Sierra Leone and Liberia when she was just 26 - years - old.
The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.
It must be learned, practiced and mastered just like any other skill.
In the press and staff parking lot at just before 6 a.m., a marching band was practicing.
Just like the old joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall, practice and hard work are important.
With just a few days to go until Thanksgiving, I've been practicing my annual tradition of marathon - watching cooking shows as inspiration.
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