Sentences with phrase «who strikes out»

- Kirkus «Colgan's latest shares many themes with her popular Little Beach Street Bakery (2015) and Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery (2016): a heroine who strikes out on her own, a picturesque setting, and charming small - town dalliances.

Emily Browning is the (suspiciously perky) depressive who strikes out as a singer; Olly Alexander the geeky guitarist prepared to ride on her coat - tails.

Or a teen who strikes out in baseball may think, «I can't ever do anything right.»

St. Louis will win the division with a 1 - 0 shutout by Jose DeLeon, who strikes out Delino DeShields, clear favorite for DeRookie of DeYear honors, with two down and the bases loaded.

What if they can't take a hitter who strikes out in a third of his plate appearances and five times for every walk, then turn him into a long - term asset?

Myers is a.250 hitter with some pop who strikes out a lot who has spent a lot of time on the DL, and needs a mind coach to keep his ADD in check while in the game.

Most of us can recognize and even identify with the characters — the younger son who strikes out on his own and makes costly mistakes, the responsible elder son who always does what is expected of...

The characteristics of a successful entrepreneur are much deeper than that, but there are a few qualities that are universal to all people who strike out to achieve their own financial independence.

Peter is the one who struck out violently to defend Jesus when He was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The Astros are loaded with players who strike out at alarming rates!

But from here, it looks like the Diamondbacks traded a defensive marvel and solid hitter so they could start a positionless hacker who struck out over six times as much as he walked.

Sanford, who struck out 188 batters, throws a fast ball that looks about half the size of other men's fast balls.

So manager Sparky Anderson stayed with Pettis, who struck out to kill the rally.

how many MLB players have been productive who struck out at a 30 % clip or higher for their careers.

Henderson's acquisition means the Padres don't have to play Melvin Nieves, who struck out 88 times in 234 at bats last season, in left.

The Cubs got a shutout from Jose Quintana, who struck out 10 Brewers on Sunday, giving Chicago three wins in the four - game weekend series in Milwaukee to basically put the National League Central to bed.

This comes up because of Maeda, who struck out the first batter he faced with a flourish.

Park commissioners, who struck out with a similar request two years ago, presented their most recent plan for the 115 - acre Yunker farmland to a receptive Village Board this week.

This article glosses over (ignores) any negative effect on higher achieving students by having lower achieving students present who strike out behaviourally when confronted with learning environments beyond their capability.

Achievement in math, science, social studies and reading all declined in the first year that students attended voucher schools; that's compared with students who struck out in the lottery and stayed at their low - performing public schools.

Western society has always rewarded those who strike out on their own and take huge risks in order to accomplish huge things.

The majority of our respondents answered somewhere on the spectrum of choosing less job security in favor of more pay — not surprising, considering many FinCon attendees are bloggers and entrepreneurs who struck out on their own!

Not exact matches

I was really struck by the image of Katrina Lake holding her son during her IPO, and there are a number of women entrepreneurs out there who are saying, «I want that to be me too.»

So, there's a balance struck that will make it a worthwhile venture to someone willing to sink in millions but not to a bootstrapping college student, who might be better off starting a bakery or carving out a niche in the exam preparation field.

And they can strike out of the blue, much as it did for NBC correspondent Tim Russert, who died tragically in 2008 when a heart attack gave way to sudden cardiac arrest.

But asking a friend, someone who themselves has never had the courage to strike out themselves, is often fraught with peril.

Israel had been born into fabulous wealth — the scion of a dynasty of commodity traders who hobnobbed with heads of state and captains of industry — but this fund was the chance to strike out on his own, without family baggage, and take his place among the titans of Wall Street.

West points out that while it helped to know that both her agent and publisher are from large, well - known firms, she maintains that if business owners mean what they say, say what they mean and are who they say they are, they can't go wrong striking a deal online.

Governments in the U.S. and Israel are already trying to sidestep responsibility for the damage existing drone strikes are doing, so there needs to be clear rules for who is ultimately responsible for anyone's death if humans are indeed going to be pulled out of the loop, which seems inevitable.

A retired admiral named Michael Hewitt, who was to head up the security services part of the project, struck out on his own in mid-2016.

Last fall Quimby, who'd bought out Shavitz when he retired, struck a deal to sell 80 % of the company to AEA Investors, a private - equity firm, for more than $ 175 million.

«This is very friendly to those on Wall Street who tend to strike out on their own.

But two items on the list strike a considerably less serious tone: Disney's out - of - the - ballpark animated hit Frozen, which tells the tale of two sisters, nabbed the No. 9 spot (not a surprise, if you have kids or know kids or know of anyone who has kids).

If your mission stands out, you are more likely to be able to hire people who understand and share your goal; to find managers and executives who are good leaders and understanding employers; to together agree on a core set of company values that strike a chord with everyone on your team.

Professionals with MBAs and corporate experience are attempting to strike out on their own as never before: Michael Lutz, for example, is a physicist and Stanford MBA who worked at Hughes Aircraft and Raychem for 15 years before he joined up with a Silicon Valley guru to launch a new venture.

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What's certain — that's how we got wind of it — is that Urmson was talking to a number of other top engineers in the space from companies like Uber, Apple and Tesla to join him and could easily attract an A-team of techies who want to strike out on their own.

A striking example is Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, who has spoken out forcefully and passionately against Bill C - 377, a discriminatory, anti-union piece of legislation that would swamp unions (but not corporations and other organizations) with paperwork, and violate the privacy of nearly everyone doing business with them.

The struggle is this: «they» remind me of who I was back then and I hate myself when I look back — and it is hard for me not to strike out and love those who remind me of that which I hate... my past self.

He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.»

Sorry, if this comes off as some super-sensitive defensive reaction, it just struck me really odd as I've only ever heard one person phrase the differences between men and women quite that way before and it was a man who was also an engineer which he kept bringing up to point out that that made him more analytical than any woman was capable of (apparently they don't have women engineers where he comes from).

I like the new pope a lot — I am not even a christian but he strikes me as a gentle caring and honest person who is going to do good for humanity — wish all the religious leaders could take a page out of his book.

In the meantime, check out these cool people I met at BioLogos: Dennis Venema (who strikes me as being both smart and wise), Steve Matheson (who knows how to make just about any conversation more interesting), and Justin Topp (who instantly felt like a friend).

Olson strikes a chord similar to Ken Mehlman, Bush's 2004 campaign manager whose effort was greatly assisted by traditional marriage ballot initiatives in key states like Ohio but who has since come out of the closet to favor the nullification of those results.

They'll have a hard time just striking out on their own in this economy, and not many employers want someone who breaks commitments and challenges authority.

He also struck those who were eating steak after they had complained about the manna and demanded meat (and after He struck them mid-meal, they puked it out their noses).

Is it a shock to our modern sensibilities that the man who wrote the «neither slave nor free» line does not strike out at the institution of slavery when Onesimus is a legal «prisoner» of his master Philemon?

I would submit that much of the scientific and social progress that has transpired since the Dark Ages was driven by those who didn't drink the Kool - Aid of organized religion, but who dared to strike - out on their own spiritual path, without necessarily «tossing out» the concept of a higher power in our lives.

The Servant / Messiah is not only the Victim, who «never said a mumblin» word,» giving his back to those who strike him and his cheeks to those who pluck out his beard, led like a lamb to the slaughter; he is also the Victor in a life - and - death battle.