Sentences with phrase «whether such shootings»

«In this particular case, we can't really know whether such shootings would have taken place had there not been this recent history of fairly nasty political exchanges in the press.»

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Mt. Gox subsequently shot from obscurity to dominate global trade in bitcoin, but as early as 2012 employees at the Tokyo - based exchange challenged Karpeles on issues such as whether client money was being used to cover costs.

There is also a strong partisan divide on whether stricter gun control laws could have prevented last week's Florida shooting, closely mirroring support for such restrictions.

those also don't account whether he's stepping back or making some other move that would eliminate such a shot from a lesser shooter's arsenal.

Whether you're in the shooting range or out hunting in the woods, the 3M Peltor Tactical Earmuffs is your best protection against dangerous impulse noises such as gunfire.

The flash lamps that pump the initial energy into many lasers must be cooled for minutes or hours between shots, making it hard to carry out research that relies on plenty of data, such as investigating whether, very occasionally, photons transform into particles of the mysterious dark matter thought to make up much of the universe's mass.

There is no universal definition of a mass shooting, which, along with their relative rarity, makes it hard it hard to spot trends, such as whether mass shootings are on the rise.

In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.

To do that, you'll want to go through a rigorous retirement - income planning process that starts with thinking seriously about how you'll live in retirement and then moves on to such tasks as making a retirement budget; assessing different strategies for claiming Social Security benefits; considering whether you want more guaranteed income than Social Security alone offers (which is where an annuity might play a role); and, settling on a withdrawal rate that has a reasonable shot at making your savings last as long as you do.

To get a sense of whether the mix you've decided will give you a decent shot at meeting such goals, you can plug your investments, along with information such as how much you have saved and how many years you expect to live in retirement, into a good retirement income calculator.

Whether you are a new photographer with a point and shoot camera, or the owner of a complete DSLR system, the week will provide you with hands on training in areas such as ambient light use, model photography, macro photography, animal portraits and general compositions.

The concept behind the physics objects is that these objects are spread across the playing field and can be manipulated in various ways, whether it be by simply shooting them or by using one of the new utilities such as telekinesis to move them around the level.

Whether or not that's because it would've made the game unbalanced is unknown, but because all of the other weapons at your disposal are so run - of - the - mill, it's a bummer when you're teased with such an awesome gun, only to have to spend the next couple of chapters using the garden variety armaments third - person shooting fans have grown accustomed to over the years.

Using blueprints you find throughout the campaign, you can craft new weapons with varying levels of damage, accuracy, and other traits such as whether it produces fire after the shot, if it is affected by wind, how much it bounces, etc..

I was skeptical about needing to shake the Wii remote to illuminate darkened passageways with a glow - stick, but I was won over by the wisdom of mapping that to the Remote in such a way that forced me between having to decide whether to shoot in darkness or stop shooting so I could shake more light onto the scene.

While it's difficult to judge whether Knack will be worth purchasing after playing it for such a shot period of time, I'm intrigued.

For Ruff the concept determines whether he needs to shoot the image himself or obtain the material from other sources such as NASA, photography archives or the Internet.

In making the case, this paper is another shot fired in the war over sustainable logging, or «sustainable logging» — the presence of quotes depending on whether you think such a practice is possible.

With the price of oil shooting up and down this year and the instability of the financial world since their lordships» decision in July, one can question whether, commercially, the outcome of The Achilleas does reflect such parties» real expectations in unpredictable times and markets.