Sentences with phrase «which is dicier»

Behind that, there might be Jorge De La Rosa and a Rule 5 pick, which is dicier on several levels.

Not exact matches

All were delivered in the snow late Monday afternoon which, if a little dicey, was a lot of fun.

That's dicey enough, but right tackle Justin Britt got confused on his blocking assignment which made matters much worse.

That's the point at which the NCAA's governing delays of game start to make it dicey as to whether a suspended game like this one will actually get played.

The two leaders have dicey issues to discuss, including: the new US trade tariffs on steel and aluminum from which France wants to be exempt; whether Trump will recertify the Iran nuclear deal that France wants to preserve; and forging a path forward in Syria to defeat ISIS and prevent chemical weapons attacks.

Frequently people think that there are only two ways address flexibility in a constitution: to legally entrench an entire document and to protect it with strong judicial oversight, or to have a political constitution and a sovereign parliament, which, in the words of A.V. Dicey, «has... the right to make or unmake any law whatever....»

In Albany, governors and legislative leaders have usually tied judicial raises — popular in polls — to raising their own salaries, which has been a politically dicey move for decades.

Notwithstanding the outrageous cost (which ought itself, perhaps, to be the subject of an inquiry), Blair's misapprehension that a report commissioned just as the peace process was bearing fruit would, a dicey twelve years on, bring «closure» was hopelessly naive.

I was there for about four weeks and I spent one of those weeks with the a young group of engineers, and I went back to a couple of the sites I had visited on my first trip, including the Quds power plant which is north of Baghdad; it goes through some kind of dicey neighborhood, so the trip from the Green Zone to Quds is always a bit of hot charger; so we went up there in these Reva vehicles, these heavily armored South African Reva vehicles; and much to my amaze [ment], when I found that they had gotten some of their power plants started; they hadn't been able to run when I was there in 2005.

There's even a SAM / BAM converter for 454 data, which sounds like a dicey prospect given the homopolymer undercalling / overcalling problem.

Crop tops are a dicey proposition after a certain age (quaere: which age would that be?)

The National Weather Service has been reminding everyone that the East Coast / Midwest / Southeast is in the midst of a winter storm of epic proportions today, which has already meant some dicey travel conditions, flight cancelations, tons of snow, ice, scattered power outages, and very cold wind chills.

Some of the humor is pretty dicey (especially the finale, which is a nasty case of just desserts), and even though the murders that begin the film are a little rough, none of this is to be taken seriously.

Now at $ 26.5 m and 11th place on the worldwide rankings, Alex Garland's $ 16.4 m sci - fi thriller must be hitting black some time soon; one place below and currently on $ 10.6 m, it looks more dicey for Madding Crowd, for which no budget is available but which certainly looks glossy enough.

What's interesting about American Sniper, which works from a dicey script by Jason Hall that's always in danger of becoming either a rote action thriller meted out in shootouts or a rote antiwar melodrama about how veterans never quite make it back home, is how obstinately it resists this narrative.

This one would take Vicki and Al into former Soviet bloc countries which today, just two years later, would be a bit dicier to do.

Unfortunately, the ladder is also gone, which makes the exit from the water a bit dicey.

Third - party emulation has always been a dicey issue for hardware and software manufacturers alike as it offers access to content people may not legally own, but that's about to change in the case of Wii emulator Dolphin, which has become so adept at emulating Nintendo's decade - old console that it can access the official Wii Shop Channel and directly purchase games from Nintendo.

Wikipedia can be a handy quick reference for undisputed information, but since it relies on user - supplied material which can change in a heartbeat, it can be trusted for info on dicey issues about as far as anyone can throw it, global warming being among the most controversial.

Yet there are historical records, which can give us far better information than these subjective interpretations of dicey proxy reconstructions.

On paleo data, I think the real problem is two-fold: first of all, there is the flimsy and dicey nature of the proxy data being used and the tiny GH effect that's being read in, which you mention, but then there is the more basic problem that these studies have almost exclusively been «searches for proof» (that «CO2 is the climate control knob», as Richard Alley puts it), rather than objective «searches for the truth».

In the absence of a codified constitution, it is necessary for us to turn to constitutional convention or, as Dicey termed them, the «understandings, habits or practices which, though they may regulate the conduct of... officials, are not in reality laws at all since they are not enforced by the courts» (An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1959) 10th edn, Macmillan, p 24).

We are struggling to reconcile parliamentary sovereignty, which suggests giving effect to legislative attempts to insulate administrative decision - makers from judicial review, and the Rule of Law, which, as Dicey himself suggested, requires courts of justice to apply the law.

It doesn't even touch the creation of fake accounts, and fake pages, which in many ways is the more pervasive and insidious effort, but figuring out a way to legislate around that, that gets dicier.»

But as more and more people have made their home in Center City, we've had to gently shove some of them past the traditional boundaries, which means even the once - dicey «fringe neighborhoods» just beyond the grid are now perfectly livable.